Comparison

Time Note vs Off Day

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

Head to head
About

Time Note

Track and manage life events, from travel and work to family moments, all organized chronologically. Each entry includes a date, icon, details, and an optional photo, displayed on a single, easy-to-navigate timeline. Export your timeline as a photo to share with others.

Highlights
  • Event management by time
  • Add icons and photos to events
  • Single timeline display
  • Export timeline to photo
  • Share event timelines
Features
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Use time to manage your event ,travel,working,family that any thing can be connected by time. Each event has a time date, an icon, a event detail and a photo. Easy to use, there is no calendar grid, all thing will display on a single time line. All the timeline can be export to the 'photo' and share to anyone you like.

About

Off Day

This app helps you determine if a specific date is a workday or a day off. It integrates with Shortcuts to control alarms and focus modes, and offers holiday templates for various regions up to 2027. You can customize your schedule and view day-off status on your Lock Screen.

Highlights
  • Workday/day off determination
  • Shortcuts automation integration
  • Holiday templates up to 2027
  • Customizable weekly patterns
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Multilingual holiday names
Features
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Off Day is an open-source project. You can build it yourself, or purchase the app to support its development. Keep your days off quiet Off Day helps you decide whether a date is a day off or a workday. Use its date checks in your own Shortcuts automations to control alarms, Focus modes, and reminders. Alarm control requires you to set up Shortcuts automation. Holiday templates through 2027 Choose built-in templates for mainland China and selected regions, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand's financial institutions, and U.S. federal holidays. Some 2027 local holidays in China's regional templates are still pending. Adjust dates to your local or employer's arrangements. Your schedule, your decision Set a standard week, a repeating weekly pattern, or a work/rest day cycle. Manually mark special days and add notes. Your own marks take priority over holiday templates and the base calendar. Today and tomorrow on your Lock Screen The rectangular widget shows both days' off/work status and holiday names. Compact circular widgets show the status for today or tomorrow. Open the app once to sync your calendar before adding widgets. Holiday names in your preferred language For templates with translations, choose original names or an available language. Your choice is saved separately for each template. Custom template imports, exports, copies, and subscription updates preserve multilingual names. This is a paid app. Before purchasing, make sure a holiday-aware tool that works with Shortcuts fits your needs. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Time Note3 screens
Off Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Off Day at 95% against Time Note's 36%. Off Day also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.2). Time Note's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Off Day is free to download; Time Note costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Off Day holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Time Note's written reviews are positive against 95% of Off Day's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Note ships an update every 2 months, Off Day every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Time Note versus Off Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime NoteOff Day
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.2 (14 ratings)5.0 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1433 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer子浩 张ZIZICICI LIMITED

Customer experience

Time Note

All ratings14 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral28.6%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral30.3%
Negative33.3%

Off Day

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

None

Time Note

No in-app purchases

None

Off Day

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Note free?
Time Note costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Off Day free?
Off Day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Time Note or Off Day?
Off Day is rated higher. Time Note averages 3.2 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Off Day averages 5.0 from 33 ratings.
Do Time Note or Off Day have ads?
Neither Time Note nor Off Day shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Note or Off Day?
Time Note ships an update every 2 months, and Off Day every 2 weeks. Most recently, Time Note was updated on November 6, 2026 and Off Day on November 8, 2026.

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