Heartbeat vs SOL Galaxy
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.
SOL Galaxy
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SOL Galaxy — Focus Timer A focus timer where your time powers a galaxy. Travel between planets, manage alien relations, and build your influence—one study session at a time. SOL Galaxy is a galaxy-traversing study timer game that transforms your time and focus into meaningful progress across a vast, interconnected universe. At its core, the experience blends productivity with exploration, strategy, and puzzle mechanics. Every action you take in real life—studying, working, or concentrating—generates fuel, the single most important resource in the game. Fuel is what allows you to move through space, interact with planets, send delegations, build embassies, collect resources, and expand your presence across the galaxy. By leaving the app when the timer is on, you will have 10 seconds to come back to the app or your fuel is wasted. The game is structured around long-term progression and discovery. Players are free to travel between planets, but access is not always straightforward. Many planets require specific items before you can land, while others demand specialized safety equipment such as thermal suits or dive rebreathers to survive their environments. This creates a layered puzzle system where exploration depends on preparation, planning, and resource management rather than simple progression. Each planet is inhabited by a unique species with its own disposition toward you. Some civilizations are open to your arrival, but most are resistant or hostile at first. In order to gain access to their resources, you must build relationships over time. This is done by sending delegations, which gradually improve how that species perceives you. Once relations reach a certain level, you gain the ability to establish an embassy on that planet. Embassies serve as your foothold, allowing you to collect that planet’s resources and integrate it into your expanding network. However, resource extraction is not without consequence. Taking resources lowers your standing with that species, introducing a constant strategic tension. If relations fall too low, the inhabitants may retaliate and destroy your embassy, forcing you to rebuild trust and start again. This system creates a balance between expansion and diplomacy, requiring careful decision-making at every stage. Progression in SOL Galaxy is intentionally extensive, offering over 800 hours of gameplay. There are 115 unique resources scattered across the galaxy, each tied to different planets and conditions. Fully completing the game requires visiting every planet, unlocking access through items and preparation, building relationships, and successfully collecting all available resources. The ultimate objective is to reach the Singularity. This endgame event only becomes available once all resources have been collected and every major objective has been completed. The Singularity represents the final destination of your journey, serving as both a culmination of your efforts and the conclusion of the galaxy’s progression system. SOL Galaxy is designed as more than just a timer. It is a system where productivity directly fuels exploration, where time becomes a currency, and where consistent focus leads to tangible, long-term achievement.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Heartbeat at none against SOL Galaxy's shown. Heartbeat also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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, SOL Galaxy every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heartbeat | SOL Galaxy |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Rosenthal | MadePure Media Corp. |
In-app purchases
Heartbeat
No in-app purchases
SOL Galaxy
No in-app purchases









