Comparison

ez Parent vs Tiempo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ez Parent

This app allows parents to track their children's school bus in real time, receive notifications about boarding and disembarking, and view estimated arrival times. It supports multiple children and guardians, providing comprehensive route information for a seamless pick-up and drop-off experience.

Highlights
  • Live bus tracking
  • Multiple children support
  • Real-time notifications
  • Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)
  • Route information
  • Guardian enrollment
Features
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ez enRoute is the comprehensive student tracking system based on iBeacon (Bluetooth Low Energy) technology for students, enabling parents to track their children in real time during the routine school pick up and drop offs. ez enRoute offers a loads of features for parents including 1. Live Bus Tracking: Parents can track the bus in real time using the app on the map. You can track multiple routes using the same app if your children take different routes or different buses or even go to different schools. 2. Multiple Kids: You can manage all your kids to the same app, irrespective to which school they go or which route they take, provided, their schools are signed up with ez enRoute. 3. Notifications: Real time notifications as your children board or off board the bus. Notifications are configurable as per your preference. 4. ETA: You will be notified with ETA for your respective stop in advance so that you can save time and avoid unnecessary waiting time on bus stop. 5. Route Information: App also provides you complete route information with all stops, their arrival time etc. This is useful, in case, you miss the bus and wanted to know the next stop where bus will be. 6. Guardians: You can enrol guardians and other family members in the system so that each can track the children if required. Note: Please note, ez enRoute Parent application works in conjunction with the Driver application which resides in the Bus. Student's boarding and boarding off is managed through iBeacons and whole process is completely touch-less. Manual check ins and check outs are allowed only in case the child is not carrying the Beacon.

About

Tiempo

Features
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Watch your focus take shape. Choose a full-screen canvas and start a session. Sand gathers grain by grain, water rises and sways, tiles assemble into a mosaic, and a painting appears stroke by stroke. When the time is up, the picture is complete. CANVASES • Sand, drawn live grain by grain as your session runs • Minimal, a quiet line that traces the time around the screen • Clock and Flip Clock, for timed or untimed sessions • With Tiempo Unlock: Water, Mosaic and Painting, drawn live as your session runs; Meditation, a guided breathing practice with optional sound and gentle haptics; and the Hourglass. Each has a 20-second preview. FOCUS YOUR WAY • Set your own focus and break lengths, pause when you need to, or end early and keep the time you focused • Take the break Tiempo offers when a session ends, or skip it • Soundscapes: white, pink and brown noise, Garden and Zen, and with Tiempo Unlock recorded rain, rain with thunder, ocean and fire • Finish with a completion card, and share or save a picture of a finished canvas • Alarms on iPhone and iPad, and a stopwatch, kept apart from your focus time PLAN AND LOOK BACK, WITH TIEMPO UNLOCK • Plan with reusable topics and time blocks • Keep written or voice notes with your sessions • History and Insights show your days, your rhythm and where your time went • Your sessions keep saving before you unlock, and Export my data is always free EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • iPhone: widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and a Live Activity while a session runs • iPad and Mac: every canvas fills the window, with keyboard shortcuts • Apple Watch: start a session on your wrist, even with your iPhone away, or follow the one on your iPhone; it joins your History • Apple TV: your canvases on the big screen, as channels TIEMPO UNLOCK One payment, no subscription. It adds the Water, Mosaic, Painting, Hourglass and Meditation canvases; Plan, Notes, History and Insights; painting your own photos; four recorded soundscapes; and more looks (Sand colorways, Water palettes, Mosaic designs and frame colors). It works on all your devices, and Family Sharing is on. Sand, Minimal, Clock, Flip Clock, Alarms, the Stopwatch and every timer feature stay free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no advertising and no tracking. Your sessions and notes stay on your devices. Meditation can save to Apple Health as mindful minutes, if you turn it on. Tiempo never reads your Health data. Works with VoiceOver, larger text and Reduce Motion.

Screenshots

ez Parent4 screens
Tiempo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ez Parent at none against Tiempo's 1. ez Parent also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). Tiempo's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tiempo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ez Parent asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ez Parent ships an update every 5 weeks, Tiempo daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ez Parent versus Tiempo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterez ParentTiempo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEZ ENROUTE LTD.Marco Gonzalez

Customer experience

ez Parent

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Tiempo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ez Parent

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiempo

One-time1
  • Tiempo Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is ez Parent free?
ez Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiempo free?
Tiempo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ez Parent or Tiempo have ads?
Neither ez Parent nor Tiempo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ez Parent or Tiempo?
ez Parent ships an update every 5 weeks, and Tiempo daily. Most recently, ez Parent was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tiempo on November 14, 2026.

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