Comparison

Lightning Project Tracker vs Desktop Journey

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

Head to head
About

Lightning Project Tracker

This app streamlines operations for roofing crews, enabling easy clock-in/clock-out, job management, and real-time approvals. It helps supervisors and foremen track crew activity and job status efficiently.

Highlights
  • Crew clock in/clock out
  • Job and crew list management
  • GPS tracking
  • Real-time clock out approvals
  • Transaction history maintenance
  • Notifications for clock events
Features
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Roofing Southwest application helps Roofing Southwest users (Superintendent/Foreman) to perform operations like crew clock in/clock out, receive notifications related to clock in/clock out, maintains list of jobs and crew associated etc. Roofing Southwest App is designed to ease the process of crew clock in/clock out, GPS tracking, job status, maintaining transaction history and real time clock out approvals.

About

Desktop Journey

Transform your phone into a useful desk companion. It displays your calendar and reminders at a glance, and features a gamified element where you complete small tasks to defeat enemies during your workday. An optional subscription unlocks weather information.

Highlights
  • At-a-glance calendar and reminders
  • Time and date display
  • Gamified task completion
  • Customizable tasks
  • Optional weather display
  • Ad-free experience
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The perfect app to run while your phone is in its charging stand at your desk! Aside from an optional subscription to additionally show the current temperature and weather (to help cover the app author's cost of access to a weather API), Desktop Journey is completely free, and ad-free! Make your phone's screen useful while you're working on other things by having it show a dashboard of at-a-glance views of the current time and date, and current and upcoming items from your iOS calendar and reminders. At the bottom of the screen, a hero accompanies you, walking along through various biomes as you journey through your own work day. A few times a day, an enemy character will confront the hero. You can defeat the enemy by doing a task, from a set that you customize, such as doing a few push-ups, standing up and stretching, or tidying your workspace. Or, just skip the encounter if it's not a convenient time. Enjoy your Desktop Journey!

Screenshots

Lightning Project Tracker4 screens
Desktop Journey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Desktop Journey at 5.0 against Lightning Project Tracker's 3.9. Desktop Journey also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). Lightning Project Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Desktop Journey sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Lightning Project Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Desktop Journey holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightning Project Tracker has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightning Project Tracker ships an update every 6 weeks, Desktop Journey every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Lightning Project Tracker versus Desktop Journey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightning Project TrackerDesktop Journey
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developer88bullsJonathan Schneider

Customer experience

Lightning Project Tracker

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%

Desktop Journey

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lightning Project Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Desktop Journey

Subscriptions1
  • Full Unlock1 Month trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Lightning Project Tracker free?
Lightning Project Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Desktop Journey free?
Desktop Journey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lightning Project Tracker or Desktop Journey?
Desktop Journey is rated higher. Lightning Project Tracker averages 3.9 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Desktop Journey averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Lightning Project Tracker or Desktop Journey have ads?
Neither Lightning Project Tracker nor Desktop Journey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightning Project Tracker or Desktop Journey?
Lightning Project Tracker ships an update every 6 weeks, and Desktop Journey every 8 days. Most recently, Lightning Project Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Desktop Journey on October 13, 2026.

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