GlobeJotter vs Jelly Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GlobeJotter
This app helps you remember and rate places you visit, from restaurants and hotels to business meetings and personal outings. It allows you to add notes, photos, and even share your experiences with friends. Easily find nearby locations or create your own, and get directions using integrated map services.
- Rate restaurants, meals, and hotels
- Document projects with notes and photos
- Remember business meeting details
- Save and search memories with hashtags
- View places on a map or list
- Integrated map and ride-sharing services
- Export notes to PDF
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Business and World Travelers! Flight Attendants! Fun Seekers! Contractors! Wedding Planners! Students! Folks who wine and dine! Everyone! Globejotter is for you! Rate your favorite restaurants, meals and hotels worldwide and remember what you liked/disliked about them. Document phases of a real estate development project with detailed notes and pictures. Remember business meeting topics, discussions, important people you met and where different events were held. Visit a museum for a class project and remember paintings, artists and important facts. Stray from your hotel in a foreign city and get back there in a pinch with integrated Waze, Google/Apple Maps or direct connect Ride Sharing services. Or just plain capture a crazy night out with friends and family. Globejotter is your personal assistant, scrap book, and life journal! GlobeJotter shows you the locations you visited nearest to your current location. Find new places near you or create your own places based upon location coordinates or address. High level reviews of places are often fraught with conflicting information and hyperbole. What should you do knowing 3 people had a great time and 2 an abysmal one? What does that mean to you? Should you visit there? Most places are not all good or all bad but have good and bad elements. GlobeJotter lets you rate these individually (or not at all) and gives you an overall rating based upon YOUR experiences. All memories are saved locally on your phone for you. You can share these with your friends if you choose to but your data is yours. FEATURES -Save your notes and photos with hashtags and easily search them! -Save the names of important people you were with or staff at your favorite location so you call recall them the next time you are there! You’ll be a hero! -View all your places in list or map format: hotels, bars, restaurants, theaters, museums, companies, etc -Want to know where you had that glass of wine before and if you liked it? View and search all your notes across all places. -Use expanded photo viewer to quickly search all photos related to a specific event/location. -Set a reminder when you want to try a place out next time you are there. -Export a PDF file of your notes -Export a GlobeJotter file to shared drive or email that a friend can import to their GlobeJotter -Remember your top rated places when you travel from city to city
Jelly Timer
This app helps you manage goals, plan your day, and track time using a Pomodoro technique. It features a smart calendar and prioritizes user privacy by storing data locally or on iCloud.
- Goal management with projects and tasks
- Daily planning and focus goal setting
- Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions
- Time tracking automatically recorded
- Integrated smart calendar for scheduling
- Privacy-focused with local/iCloud storage
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Jelly Timer: Your Personal Focus & Productivity Companion • Goal Management: Break your dreams into sectors, projects, tasks and steps. Keep everything organized in one place. • Daily Planning: Set focus goals, schedule tasks, and achieve your objectives—then enjoy your well-earned free time. • Time Tracking: Use the Pomodoro to stay on track. Every focus session is automatically recorded across tasks, projects, and sectors. • Smart Calendar: Plan, manage, and visualize your schedule with an integrated calendar. Track your progress and stay aligned with your goals. • Privacy First: Your data stays yours. We collect nothing—everything is securely stored on your device or in iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Jelly Timer at every 9 days against GlobeJotter's every 25 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GlobeJotter against 5.0 for Jelly Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
GlobeJotter ships an update every 25 months, Jelly Timer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GlobeJotter | Jelly Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Newman | JELLYDOT TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
GlobeJotter
Jelly Timer
In-app purchases
GlobeJotter
No in-app purchases
Jelly Timer
No in-app purchases
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