Less Doing Peak Time vs RescueTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Less Doing Peak Time
This app uses neuroscience to help you discover your most productive times of day. By tapping a button repeatedly, you can generate a statistical map revealing your personal "magic hour" for maximum efficiency.
- Neuroscience-based productivity analysis
- Personalized peak time discovery
- Interactive tapping sessions
- Statistical results map
- Hand dominance selection
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Neuroscience is the key to your productivity and now there’s an app for that. No, it’s not a To-Do List, a supportive affirmation or an alarm that reminds you to get back to work. It’s a tool that allows you to uncover when you are most likely to get things done. Peak Time is the long-kept secret of successful entrepreneurs and dynamic over-achievers. It’s your body’s “magic hour”—the time of day when you’re 2-100x times more productive than any other time of day. • Some people call it a “flow state”. I call it awesome. It’s when you can plow through 50 emails in 30 minutes… • Write 2,000 words without batting an eye… • Handle an important sales call while driving through rush-hour traffic with a crying toddler in the back seat… You get the point. And all it takes to reach insane levels of productivity is a few taps of your finger. Yup, you read that right. How it works • Download and open the Peak Time App • Select either right or left hand • When prompted, start tapping the “Start Session” button as quickly as you can • Stop when indicated • Allow the screen to reload to “Start Session” and then start tapping again as quickly as possible, taking care to use the same hand • Stop when indicated • Select the opposite hand—if you chose “Left” first, now choose “Right”, if you chose “Right” first, now chose “Left” • Repeat steps 3 through 6 again. Repeat this process several times throughout the day, for no less than a full week. At the conclusion of the week, look at the statistical map of your results and discover your Peak Time!
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 rating: RescueTime at 4.3 against Less Doing Peak Time's 3.3. RescueTime also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 18 months). Less Doing Peak Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (44% vs 21%). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. RescueTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Less Doing Peak Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
RescueTime holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Less Doing Peak Time'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.
Less Doing Peak Time ships an update every 18 months, RescueTime monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Less Doing Peak Time | RescueTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (10 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARI MEISEL | RescueTime |
Customer experience
Less Doing Peak Time
RescueTime
In-app purchases
Less Doing Peak Time
No in-app purchases
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
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