Comparison

Intervals vs Pinlet

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

Head to head
About

Intervals

This app helps you track recurring tasks and habits by counting the time elapsed since you last completed an activity. It's designed to free your mind from remembering when you last did something, offering a simple way to monitor daily life activities.

Highlights
  • Elapsed time tracking
  • Habit monitoring
  • Recurring task management
  • Customizable trackers
  • Simple interface
Features
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Track habits without the pressure How long has it been since you last watered the plants? Changed your car's oil? Called your parents? Or washed the bed sheets? Intervals is a beautifully simple elapsed-time tracker designed to help you keep tabs on the recurring tasks and habits in your daily life. Instead of counting down to a deadline, Intervals counts up—showing you exactly how many days, hours, and minutes have passed since you last completed an activity. Free your mind from trying to remember when you last did something. Just create a tracker, tap it when you finish the task, and let Intervals do the remembering for you. Perfect for Tracking: Home Maintenance: Changing water filters, washing bedding, deep cleaning rooms. Car Care: Oil changes, tire pressure checks, renewing registration. Health & Personal: Haircuts, replacing your toothbrush, taking medication. Pets: Flea and tick medication, grooming, vet visits. Habits: Tracking streaks, monitoring time between coffee breaks, or maintaining "inbox zero."

About

Pinlet

This app allows you to pin short text snippets to your iPhone's Dynamic Island and Lock Screen as Live Activities. It can extract text from screenshots, supports manual input, and keeps a history of your pinned items. Your data is private by default, with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Pin text to Dynamic Island and Lock Screen
  • Extract text from screenshots
  • Manual text input up to 120 characters
  • History of pinned text with favorites
  • Quick Input and Shortcuts integration
  • Private by default, no ads or analytics
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Keep what matters right where you can see it. Pinlet turns a short piece of text into a Live Activity, so it can stay visible on Dynamic Island and your Lock Screen while you move through your day. Add a deadline, a pickup code, a short intention, or anything else you do not want to lose in a list. PULL TEXT FROM ANY SCREENSHOT Circle any part of a screenshot or photo and Pinlet reads the text for you. Fine-tune the result word by word or character by character, then pin exactly what you need — no retyping. WRITE AND PIN Enter up to 120 characters and pin them in one tap. Update the text whenever the important thing changes, or unpin it when you are done. STAY VISIBLE On supported iPhone models, pinned text appears on Dynamic Island. It also appears as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen. iOS controls Live Activity availability and may end an activity according to system policy. START FROM ANYWHERE Long-press the Pinlet icon for Quick Input, or use Shortcuts to pin text, unpin, or open a screenshot in Pinlet from anywhere on your phone. RETURN TO WHAT MATTERED Pinlet keeps a history of successfully pinned text. Mark useful entries as favorites, reuse them as a new draft, delete individual entries, or automatically clean up older nonfavorite history. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your content and any text recognition happen on your iPhone by default. Pinlet has no account system, advertising, third-party analytics, or custom server. OPTIONAL ICLOUD SYNC If you choose to enable iCloud sync, your history, favorites, and recent activity times are stored in your private CloudKit database and synced to devices using the same Apple Account. iCloud sync is off by default. Requires iOS 17 or later. Pinlet is designed for iPhone.

Screenshots

Intervals4 screens
Pinlet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervals at none against Pinlet's 1. Intervals also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Pinlet's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 116 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pinlet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Intervals asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Intervals against 5.0 for Pinlet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Intervals ships an update every 116 months, Pinlet weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Intervals versus Pinlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntervalsPinlet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 116 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorithm LLC文峰 黄

Customer experience

Intervals

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

Pinlet

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Intervals

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pinlet

One-time1
  • Coffee$1.99

Questions

Is Intervals free?
Intervals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pinlet free?
Pinlet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Intervals or Pinlet?
Intervals and Pinlet are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Intervals or Pinlet have ads?
Neither Intervals nor Pinlet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Intervals or Pinlet?
Intervals ships an update every 116 months, and Pinlet weekly. Most recently, Intervals was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pinlet on November 10, 2026.

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