Heartbeat vs Daily Task Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heartbeat
Track your daily and weekly progress towards your goals with this simple app. It features an easy-to-use timer that continues even when the app is closed, sending notifications upon completion. Review your activity history with a clear log.
- Set and track goals
- Daily and weekly progress monitoring
- Persistent goal timer
- Completion notifications
- Activity log
- Add, edit, delete activities
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A simple and straightforward goal-tracking app. Heartbeat allows you to set goals and track daily and weekly progress towards them. An easy-to-use goal timer allows you to track your daily goals, and each goal shows how much time is remaining before completing that goal. The timer works even when the app is closed and reopened later. It will send you a notification when the goal timer is running and the goal time is completed. An easy-to-read log of activities makes it simple to view your activity history and add, edit, or delete activities later.
Daily Task Timer
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If you are a supervisor of a person with special needs, or someone with autism or ADHD who can process pictures but not written words very well, then this app will definitely help you. This is a task timer for your phone that relies only on pictures instead of written verbal communication to remind the person you are supervising what they need to do for that given time period. Features include: - Being able to choose from any image on your phone what a task looks like - Setting a time on each individual task. Comes in three different timer styles: Clock, Three-Colored Timer, and Hourglass - Creating a custom task that is pre-set so that pressing "Start Activity" always starts the timer - Simple User Interface Don't forget to rate us on your respective app store. Support is needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Heartbeat at every 2 months against Daily Task Timer's every 5 months. Heartbeat also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Heartbeat ships an update every 2 months, Daily Task Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heartbeat | Daily Task Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Rosenthal | Jordan White |
In-app purchases
Heartbeat
No in-app purchases
Daily Task Timer
No in-app purchases









