Routinely vs Time Captn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Routinely
This app helps you build, monitor, and understand your daily habits and tasks. Set specific goals with target times, track your progress, and receive reminders. Review your history and streaks to stay motivated and mindful of your routine.
- Establish and track daily goals
- Set custom target times for tasks
- Receive completion reminders
- Review history and completion streaks
- Create custom goals or use suggestions
- Utilize 3D Touch for quick actions
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Routinely is a tool to help you establish, track, understand, and be more mindful of your daily routine. Use Routinely to quickly and easily set goals for each of the tasks and habits that make up your day, and then track your completion of those goals. Routinely can send you notifications to remind you to complete your goals, and provides a history view to review past days. Each goal has a name, an abbreviation (you can use emoji to liven up your routine!), and a target time. Goals can also have alternative target times for different days of the week, or target times can be set relative to other goals. Routinely will track your average completion time for each goal, and let you know when you’re on a completion streak. You can create custom goals, or choose from a library of suggestions. Routinely uses 3D Touch (when available) to give you quick access to creating new goals, and completing your ‘most recent’ and ‘next upcoming’ goal. You can swipe to access frequently used features for each goal, use Pop/Peek to quickly review goal information, and search for goals using spotlight. Routinely provides a "Current Goals" widget that shows your most recent and next goals, for quick access.
Time Captn
This tool helps you build new habits and stay focused with a simple timer. Organize your day, manage tasks, and create to-do lists for improved productivity. It offers customizable features and cross-device syncing.
- Habit management
- Focus timer (Pomodoro)
- Task and to-do list creation
- Cross-device syncing
- Customizable features
- Dark mode option
- Todo analytics
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Time Captain is a focus timer & habit management tool to help you make develop new habits in 2023 to get Sh*t Done! Time Captain helps to GTD (get things done) create habits, stay focused with a simple study timer to keep you organized so you can easily manage your day-to-day tasks or todo lists. Make homework lists, checklist app, to do widget, study timer, countdown widget, shopping lists, to-do task lists to be focused & improve productivity with pomodoro focus 30 minute timer bursts. This free countdown app is a great replacement for wunderlist. Create lists of tasks with customizable features, cross device syncing and options for dark mode. Four Basic Steps to developing good daily habits with Time Captain: 1) Create a new lists & to-do focus tasks inside any list 2) Start the Countdown widget or todo Pomodoro timer (Default 30 min pomodoro) 3) Maximize your focus (Stay focused) on the task without distractions in a clean looking countdown app & todo countdown widget 4) Once finished take a long or short break doesnt matter then when ready choose another task and repeat! Time Captain: Focus & Get Things Done (GTD) is 100% free, does not share your data & syncs across all apple devices iOS, iPadOS, MacOS (M1-M2-M3) Whether you need a laundry timer or countdown widget for vacation, work, school, or home, Time Captain offers pomodoro style focus techniques to help you organize and develop good daily habits and track them over time using the new todo analytics widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time Captn at 5.0 against Routinely's 3.3. Routinely's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Time Captn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Routinely has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Routinely ships an update fortnightly, Time Captn monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Routinely | Time Captn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | chris hollander | Inceva Amer |
Customer experience
Routinely
Time Captn
In-app purchases
Routinely
No in-app purchases
Time Captn
No in-app purchases









