Heartbeat vs 1Task
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.
1Task
This productivity tool helps you concentrate on a single task at a time. Log your activities, track your focus sessions, and reflect on how different tasks impact your energy levels. Analyze your progress and identify what truly energizes you.
- Single-task focus timer
- Activity logging
- Session reflection
- Streak tracking
- Energy impact analysis
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A focus timer that only lets you work on one thing at a time. Type what you're doing. A timer starts. When you're done, rate how it felt and add a note. Your reflections build up over time. Look back at your streaks, focus time, and figure out which tasks leave you energized or drained.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heartbeat at none against 1Task's 3. Heartbeat also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.5). 1Task's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. 1Task sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Heartbeat asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Heartbeat against 5.0 for 1Task. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Heartbeat ships an update every 2 months, 1Task every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heartbeat | 1Task |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Rosenthal | Brekky Labs, LLC |
In-app purchases
Heartbeat
No in-app purchases
1Task
- A kind tip$1.99
- A generous tip$4.99
- A lavish tip$9.99
