Comparison

Polaroid TimeZero iT vs Quell

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

Head to head
About

Polaroid TimeZero iT

This health and wellness app allows users to track key body metrics like weight, body fat, and blood pressure. It syncs wirelessly with compatible health products and integrates with Apple Health for comprehensive monitoring. View your progress through intuitive charts and historical data.

Highlights
  • Track weight, body fat, muscle mass
  • Monitor water weight, bone density, temperature
  • Record blood pressure
  • Wireless Bluetooth syncing
  • Intuitive charts and graphs
  • Measurement history
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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The Future of Health and Wellness The Polaroid TimeZero iT2020 Health app provides the easiest way to track and monitor your health. It can accurately record your weight, body fat, muscle mass, water weight, bone density, temperature, and blood pressure when used with our line of Polaroid TimeZero iT2020 health products, which wirelessly sync to your Bluetooth enabled iOS device. Our user friendly app provides intuitive charts and graphs, along with a history function showing your measurements over time. The Polaroid TimeZero iT2020 Health app integrates with the Apple Health app.

About

Quell

Features
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Quell is a deep-focus app with one job: help you sit down and do one undivided thing. No streaks. No badges. No feed. You tap Begin, a calm arctic ring starts counting up, and a 40 Hz binaural beat plays underneath. When you are done, you end. That is the whole ritual. WHY 40 Hz 40 Hz is the gamma band — the brain rhythm tied to attention and memory, and the most-studied frequency in sound-based focus research. Quell generates it live: two pure tones, one slightly different in each ear, that your brain fuses into a single 40 Hz pulse. WHAT IT DOES - A 40 Hz binaural beat, generated live on your device. Two pure tones on a deep, warm carrier (130 Hz left, 170 Hz right). It needs stereo headphones to create the beat. - An optional coach voice. Short, grounded lines, spaced minutes apart, that nudge you back when your attention drifts. It is sports-psychology self-talk, not generic meditation, and it is a natural recorded voice, not a robotic one. - Optional music under the beat. Four moods of original, AI-generated tracks (lofi days, lofi night, global beats, ambient) that sit quietly beneath everything. Off by default. - A count-up timer. No fixed length, no pressure. The session lasts as long as you stay. THE SCIENCE, HONESTLY We lead with 40 Hz because the research is real — it is the gamma approach popularized on the Huberman Lab podcast. A 2022 meta-analysis found binaural beats gave a small but significant lift to attention and memory, and a 2025 study confirmed that a 40 Hz beat measurably entrains the brain while improving attention. But we will not oversell it: not every study agrees, and the effect varies from person to person. Treat the 40 Hz tone as a low-risk way to settle into deep work, not a guarantee. DESIGNED TO DISAPPEAR Quell is dark, still, and quiet on purpose. The only bright thing is the ring. It keeps playing while your screen is off, with controls on the lock screen, so you can put the phone down and work. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics, no servers. Your settings stay on your phone. FREE AND PAID The 40 Hz beat and the timer are free, forever. A single one-time purchase unlocks the music moods and the coach voice. Pay once, it is yours. No subscription. Quell. Quiet the noise.

Screenshots

Polaroid TimeZero iT3 screens
Quell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Polaroid TimeZero iT at none against Quell's 1. Polaroid TimeZero iT also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). 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. Quell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Polaroid TimeZero iT asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Polaroid TimeZero iT versus Quell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolaroid TimeZero iTQuell
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS7.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSakar International, Inc.Oleksandr Pavlov

In-app purchases

None

Polaroid TimeZero iT

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Quell

One-time1
  • Quell Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Polaroid TimeZero iT free?
Polaroid TimeZero iT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quell free?
Quell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Polaroid TimeZero iT or Quell have ads?
Neither Polaroid TimeZero iT nor Quell shows ads.

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