RealizD vs RescueTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RealizD
Monitor your device usage automatically and gain insights into your digital habits. Set limits, track progress with detailed stats and charts, and participate in screen-free challenges to reduce screen time and address phone addiction.
- Automatic device usage tracking
- Set daily screen time limits
- Detailed usage stats and charts
- Visualize usage patterns with heatmap
- Screen-free challenges
- Weekly and monthly summaries
- Backup and restore functionality
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Do you think that you’re spending a lot of time in front of your devices and want to reduce the screen time? Maybe you want to address phone addiction and start a digital diet right now? RealizD is a professionally designed app created specifically for monitoring your iPhone and iPad usage at all times. It’s a high quality tool that delivers a great user experience via controls, alerts, graphics, insights and stats alongside many others. ------------------------------------------------- Featured by BBC documentary "Secrets of Silicon Valley" 2017 Among top 200 productivity apps in 100 countries ------------------------------------------------- User reviews: "An eye-opening app that tells you how much time you spend on your smartphone!" - Geekfence "RealizD always stands out" - Amy Blankson, Author of best-selling book "The Future of Happiness" "I've been looking for something like this for years..." "Super App!! I love that everything’s so intuitive and easy to use." "Asks all the right questions. Reminds me what's important." ------------------------------------------------- What this app does: ◉ Track how much you use your iPhone and iPad automatically. ◉ Force yourself off your device when you're over your limit ◉ Report your usage stats (screen time, no. of pickups, pickup interval and longest session) by day, week and month. ◉ Automatically log your daily stats in activity history to help you track improvements ◉ Calculate the percentage of your day that is fragmented by frequent phone/tablet use. ◉ Utilize heatmap to visualize and highlight your daily usage patterns throughout the day ◉ Deliver meaningful insight into your short term and long term phone habits. ◉ Beautiful and simple charts in multiple time frames to highlight usage trends (screen time & no. of pickup) and to easily compare averages ◉ Backup & Restore - One-touch backup, one-touch restore. Safe and secure with best-in-class cloud services. ◉ Set daily screen time limit, monitor quota and get notified when you reach the threshold. ◉ Play a screen-free challenge to put your newly formed phone habits to the test. ◉ Share your stats, charts or progress on Facebook and Twitter directly from the app. ◉ Weekly & Monthly Summaries - Swipe to see summary stats on your weekly and monthly usage for more convenient monitoring. ◉ Advanced Limits + Notification - Optimize your usage with more threshold options (hourly pickups, single session time…) and daily limit notification ◉ Track certain hours - Choose the best time of the day for tracking your usage and see insights only on these hours. ◉ Unlimited Activity History - See your activity history for more than just the past week. Great for comparing patterns and tracking improvements. ◉ RealizD Widget - Add RealizD to Notification Centre and gain quick and easy access to your daily stats. ◉ More Charts – Realize the full potential of insights dashboard with unrestricted access to month and year charts. ◉ Export Data - Be your own analyst! Export your data and start analysing. RealizD Family Features: ◉ Automatically monitor your family’s iPhone or iPad use 24/7. ◉ Compare and review your family’s usage by day, week or month. ◉ Easily set screen time limits for your children’s devices. ◉ Use the built-in alert and “Force-off” features to enforce time limits if required. ◉ Add family members at no extra cost. RealizD offers a great variety of functionalities meant to give a better insight on your general smartphone usage. You can even use it to increase phone security (anti¬snooping by monitoring no. of pickups), identify patterns and so on, so don’t hesitate and download RealizD right now to take complete advantage of this amazing app. *This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease device battery life.
RescueTime
Understand and manage your time automatically. This app helps you block distractions, track activities on your mobile and desktop, and set productivity goals. Gain insights into your workday and improve focus.
- Automatic time tracking
- Distraction blocking (Focus Sessions)
- Activity categorization
- Task timers
- Offline activity logging
- Home screen widgets
- Productivity goals and alerts
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RescueTime helps you track time, block distractions, manage goals, and understand your full workday across phone and desktop. Together this gives you a clear view of your habits and the tools to improve them. Understand where your time goes, stay focused when it matters, and build better workdays without extra effort. One subscription works across all your devices, syncing your data to give you a complete picture of your time on mobile and desktop. **Created For iOS** RescueTime for iOS brings powerful, simple focus tools to your phone: • Automatic app tracking: see app activity with productivity ratings and daily and weekly summaries (optional Screen Time permission). • Focus Sessions with optional app blocking: stay on task with time-boxing, optionally grant permission to block distractions in real time. • Project tracking: log time to specific projects and track progress across sessions and timers. • Offline time: add meetings, calls, and other offline activities to complete your day. • Reporting: View and manage your time across all your devices in the app. • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian. **Focus Sessions** Start a Focus Session when you need uninterrupted time to work. RescueTime blocks distractions, tracks your progress, and delivers a summary when you're done. Use timers for time boxing or to track open-ended tasks. Sessions and timers can be linked to projects, so your focused time always counts toward something meaningful. **Full Workday Perspective** Install RescueTime on your desktop to see the full picture. Your activity, focus sessions, and progress sync seamlessly across devices. Please note that RescueTime for desktop is only available in English. **Goals And Insights** Set daily goals for focused work, screen-free time, or better online habits. RescueTime tracks your progress automatically and shows how your behavior aligns with your goals. Weekly summaries highlight trends over time, so you can see what's working and what's not. **Permissions** Several optional features require elevated permissions. Reporting: tracking phone app activity requires Screen Time permission, and you can choose to use this feature or not. Focus Sessions: using the optional app blocking part of sessions requires Screen Time permission in order to offer real-time intervention. **Plans** Solo Focus includes automatic tracking with full history, Focus Sessions with real-time app blocking, offline activity logging, goals with daily targets, alerts and automations, advanced filtering, and integrations. Solo+ includes everything in Solo Focus, plus automated project and task tracking with RescueTime Timesheets. Link activities and timers to projects to automatically generate timesheets or track progress across work and personal goals. Free includes automatic basic tracking, daily and weekly reports, the Productivity Pulse, and two weeks of activity history. Offline time logging, project tracking, and distraction blocking require a subscription. **For Teams** RescueTime also offers team plans with shared projects, team dashboards, manager insights, and centralized settings. Team plans are only available at rescuetime.com. **Privacy** RescueTime does not record keystrokes, capture screenshots, or read message and website content. You control what is tracked, can pause tracking at any time, and can export or delete your data whenever you choose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: RealizD at 513 against RescueTime's 4. RealizD also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 21%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.4). RescueTime's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.9). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. RealizD sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and RescueTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RescueTime holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RealizD has 513 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of RealizD's written reviews are positive against 21% of RescueTime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RealizD | RescueTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (513 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 513 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iMobiApp | RescueTime |
Customer experience
RealizD
RescueTime
Bugs and requests
RealizD
Reported bugs
4 issues- Resets points/progress randomly
- Inaccurate tracking, shows very low usage
- Crashes or freezes frequently
- Doesn't work after iOS updates
Requested features
4 requests- Option to exclude certain apps from tracking
- Monthly usage statistics
- Ability to set custom time limits per app
- Improved force-off functionality
RescueTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RealizD
- RealizD 100 Points$0.99
- WEEKLY & MONTHLY SUMMARIES$0.99
- UNLIMITED ACTIVITY HISTORY$0.99
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- TRACK ONLY CERTAIN HOURS$0.99
- MORE CHARTS$0.99
- ADVANCED LIMITS$1.99
- RealizD Pro$2.99
- RealizD 500 Points$3.99
- RealizD 1000 Points$6.99
RescueTime
- Solo Monthly14 Days trial$9.001 Month
- Solo+ Monthly14 Days trial$15.001 Month
- Solo Yearly14 Days trial$84.001 Year
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- Solo+ Yearly14 Days trial$143.991 Year









