Comparison

Timelines Time Tracking vs GRIT

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

Head to head
About

Timelines Time Tracking

Easily track your personal and work hours with this intuitive time tracking app. Visualize your time usage with interactive timelines and charts, set goals, and gain insights to improve efficiency and productivity. Sync across devices and export your data.

Highlights
  • Quick data entry with timers
  • Interactive timeline visualizations
  • Statistics and trend charts
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Daily, weekly, monthly goals
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Detailed PDF and CSV exports
Features
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Timelines is an easy-to-use yet powerful time tracking app that helps you understand how you spend your day, improve your productivity, and build better habits. Track work, personal activities, health routines, and daily habits in one place, then visualize your time with an interactive timeline and charts to uncover patterns and make the most out of your time. I personally wasn't happy with the way I was spending my time, so I decided to build a tool to help myself and others figure out a way to become more efficient. Timelines has been enabling me and other users to understand where our time is actually going, helping us improve our routines, build better habits, increase productivity, and achieve more in our personal and professional lives. I sincerely believe it can do the same for you. – Lukas Petr, founder of Timelines Timelines has been featured by Apple (New Apps We Love, App of the Day), and reviewed on 9To5Mac, MacStories, Tech Crunch, The Verge, Wired, and more. ▶ WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? Timelines can help you track and understand how you spend time across all areas of your life: - Work tasks and projects - Personal activities and daily routines - Habits and self-improvement goals - Workouts, sleep, and health data - Study sessions and learning - Hobbies, side projects, and free time - Family and social activities - Anything you can imagine ▶ QUICK TIME TRACKING - track time spent on work, habits, health, or any activity you want - control tracking with just 1 tap - grid mode of timers - track from Home Screen with powerful widgets - see your current activity on Lock Screen as a Live Activity - easily edit and add past events ▶ POWERFUL VISUALIZATIONS - see how you spend your time on an interactive timeline - playful statistics mode with pie chart - see trends over time using bar chart - subcategories - breakdown of your events - quickly filter categories ▶ SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES - have an always up-to-date backup of your data with Timelines Cloud - sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, in real-time - sign in using your email address or your Apple ID ▶ TIME-BASED GOALS - define daily, weekly, and monthly time-based goals - see your progress and stay on track - periodic reports with rich notifications - get rewarded for reaching a goal with confetti ▶ AUTOMATIONS - build workflows with Siri Shortcuts - use Siri to start and stop timers - import workouts, sleep, and meditation from Apple Health ▶ AND MORE - detailed PDF and CSV exports - timely and customizable reminders - archive unused categories - lots of possible customizations ▶ APPLE WATCH APP - watch face complication for quick access - haptic feedback on start and stop of timers - set event names using dictation or choose from recent - adjust start and end times using the digital crown - see active timer’s duration and category on watch face - real-time sync with iPhone and iPad using Timelines Cloud - see list of past past entries and edit them easily - daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly statistics ▶ WHAT IS FREE? - track up to 3 categories - basic exporting - pie chart - see events on a timeline - events log - reminders ▶ TIMELINES PRO - sync between devices - unlimited categories - bar chart - goals - detailed exports - import from Apple Health - subcategories - support development Timelines has been in active development for over 9 years now. Lots of effort, attention and care went into every detail of the app. Start taking control of your time today. In just a few days, you'll begin to understand your habits, improve your productivity, and make better decisions about how you spend your time. I love working on Timelines, and a big part of my vision is to listen closely to users and incorporate their feedback. If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to me at lukas@timelines.app. – Lukas Petr, founder of Timelines * Privacy policy: https://timelines.app/privacy/ * Terms of Use: https://timelines.app/terms/

About

GRIT

This app helps you build self-discipline and achieve long-term personal goals by setting daily and weekly targets. You can commit money as an incentive, earning a reward for completion or losing funds for missed deadlines. It also includes a to-do list for non-goal-related tasks.

Highlights
  • Set daily and weekly goals
  • Commit money as incentive
  • Earn rewards for completion
  • Track progress
  • Add to-do list items
  • Create repeating tasks
  • Weekly time allocation goals
Features
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GRIT app augments your self discipline and helps you to follow through with your long term personal goals such as finishing an online course or exercising more. For this you can set daily and weekly goals and track your progress. In addition you can commit money to each goal as an incentive to not give up. It's easy to get started with a new goal, but many fail to follow through long enough in order to reach their potential. With GRIT app you can turn an abstract new years resolution into 365 tangible daily tasks with a defined deadline and incentive. Incentives You can define how much money will be deducted from your account for missing a certain goal. For completing a goal you receive a reward of 10% of the committed credits. To allow new users to familiarize themselves with the app features, there is a free starting balance of 5 credits. After the credit balance becomes negative, you have to top up the balance within 3 days otherwise the app will be disabled. After trying out different amounts of credits as incentive, you may realise that some goals require a higher amount of credits. For example "No smoking" may require 10 credits to offset the temptation and for "clean apartment" 0.1 credits may be sufficient. For all tasks, you have to evaluate yourself whether it was completed on time. Tasks In the home screen, you can add new tasks with a due date and an amount of credits to motivate you to follow through. You can also add to-do's here, which are not connected to any long term goals so that you do not have to maintain multiple to do lists. Examples for tasks are: - Submit Job Application - Buy groceries If you complete the task before the due date or on the due date, then it should be evaluated to "done", then the credit balance will not be changed. If you complete the task after the due date or don't complete it at all then it should be evaluated to "not done", then the specified amount of credits will be deducted from the balance. If tasks are overdue and "pending" (i.e. not yet evaluated), then they will be displayed in red font. Once tasks are evaluated to "done" or "not done" you can view them in the history, which can be accessed by clicking on the menu icon on the top left. Habits When adding a new task, you can specify whether the task should repeat and define on which weekdays it should be scheduled. Examples for repeating tasks are: - Leave home by 9 AM for Monday to Friday - Take vitamin supplements These tasks can be viewed and edited under the Repeating tasks section in the Dashboard. When you open the app on a new day, all corresponding repeating tasks will be scheduled for that day and also for the days in which you did not open the app. When you edit a repeating tasks, the changes will only be applied from the next day onwards. Instances of repeating tasks for the current day or past days cannot be edited. Time allocation With weekly time allocation goals you can make sure that you spend a certain amount of time every week on a specific activity. Examples are: - Do 30 minutes of running every week - Spend 2 hours every week studying for an online course There are two main differences between activity goals and repeating tasks: 1. It does not matter on which day of the week you do the weekly activity as long as you do it before the end of the week. In contrast tasks always have a specific due date. 2. Even if you only manage to complete a small part of a weekly activity goal, this will have an effect on your credits balance so every minute of activity counts. In contrast tasks can only be either completed or not completed which will result in either no credits deducted or the full amount of credits defined in the tasks deducted. Time Tracking With the time tracking section you can keep track of your weekly goals and other activities. For every tracked hour you receive a 0.01 credit reward. Data export Your data can be exported in CSV format from the settings menu.

Screenshots

Timelines Time Tracking4 screens
GRIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Timelines Time Tracking at 1.6K against GRIT's 1. Timelines Time Tracking also leads on device support (4 vs 2). GRIT's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timelines Time Tracking sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and GRIT sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GRIT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timelines Time Tracking has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Timelines Time Tracking's written reviews are positive against 100% of GRIT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timelines Time Tracking ships an update monthly, GRIT every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timelines Time Tracking versus GRIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelines Time TrackingGRIT
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukas PetrRix Data GmbH

Customer experience

Timelines Time Tracking

All ratings1,559 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews728 reviews
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.7%

GRIT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Timelines Time Tracking

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional sync issues between devices
  • Rare crashes or data loss after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to create and reuse time tracking templates
  • Option to group timelines into folders or categories
  • Improved iPad and Mac support
  • Reminders and alerts for time limits or goals

GRIT

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Timelines Time Tracking

Subscriptions8
  • Timelines PRO Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Timelines PRO Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Timelines PRO Monthly2 variants$7.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • Timelines PRO Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Timelines PRO Legacy Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Timelines PRO Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Timelines PRO Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Timelines PRO Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Timelines PRO Lifetime$159.99
4 purchases

GRIT

One-time4
  • 1 credit$0.99
  • 3 credits$2.99
  • 5 credits$4.99
Show 1 more
  • 10 credits$9.99

Questions

Is Timelines Time Tracking free?
Timelines Time Tracking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GRIT free?
GRIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timelines Time Tracking or GRIT?
GRIT is rated higher. Timelines Time Tracking averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while GRIT averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Timelines Time Tracking or GRIT have ads?
Neither Timelines Time Tracking nor GRIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timelines Time Tracking or GRIT?
Timelines Time Tracking ships an update monthly, and GRIT every 3 weeks. Most recently, Timelines Time Tracking was updated on October 26, 2026 and GRIT on October 3, 2026.

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