Comparison

Time Caps vs 失败的艺术

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

Head to head
About

Time Caps

Capture your thoughts and memories in digital time capsules to send to your future self. Organize your entries by mood and revisit past moments with unique features like 'Old Time' and 'Time Fortunes'.

Highlights
  • Daily mood-based journal entries
  • Send messages to your future self
  • Organize entries by timeline or calendar
  • Collect 'Time Fortunes' for writing
  • Voice message recording
  • Shake to reveal past entries
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
Features
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***Featured on App Store*** Features: * Daily Caps: One day one cap, different colors for your different moods. * Today Card: Today's cap, On This Day, Old Time and fortune in one place. * Flow & Grid: Display journals in a timeline or a calendar. Fill your lovely life with colorful daily caps. * Years: Revisit each year from the sidebar, with all its caps and moods. * Time Fortunes: Collect fortunes by writing daily caps. Share in your mood color. * Future Caps: Write to your next birthday, to next Christmas, to the time after the exam/enrollment/entry, to the dear future you. * Echo Caps: Send yourself a piece of voice from the present. * Old Time: Shake your phone like a jar full of caps and meet your old days by serendipity. * Workshop: Regain cap pieces every day to craft more future caps. * Widgets: Meet your lovely widgets, glanceable anytime on your device. * Siri & Shortcuts: Write and open caps with Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts. * iPad: Better on big screens, with multiple windows. * Account System: No more worry about accidentally removing the app or switching to a new phone. * Privacy Protection: Secure your journals with passcode lock or Touch ID/Face ID. * Daily Reminder: One day one cap! * Offline Use: Everything works well under no network connection. * Export & Share: Export your favorite caps to your albums or share them with your friends. * Time Traveler Pro: Subscribe to unlock exclusive features, enhance Daily Caps, double regaining Pieces, and enjoy premium sync. Your lovely designer and developer (same person :D) is working hard to explore and create more cool and useful features. Thanks for your liking and support! If you like it, don’t forget to come back for rating, encouraging your developer and helping Time Caps become better. Ideas or feedback are always welcome. Please email us at: hi.pol.chen@gmail.com. Crafted with love by Pol Terms of Use: https://timecaps.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://timecaps.app/privacy

About

失败的艺术

Features
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失败并不可怕,可怕的是我们看待失败的方式。 Failosophy(失败的艺术)是一款帮助你重新理解失败的卡片式互动应用。我们精心设计了207个真实的人生失败场景——从面试被拒、项目翻车,到感情受挫、创业失败——每一张卡片都呈现一个你可能经历过的瞬间。 【玩法简单】 面对每一个场景,向左或向右滑动卡片,探索不同的应对态度。无论你的选择是什么,每张卡片都会揭示一句精心打磨的智慧金句,帮你从全新的角度重新看待这次"失败"。 【207种视角】 涵盖20+人生主题: • 工作职场 — 被裁员、提案被否、同事冲突 • 学习教育 — 考试挂科、论文被拒、学不进去 • 创业商业 — 项目失败、资金耗尽、合伙人分歧 • 家庭亲子 — 教育焦虑、亲子冲突、代际差异 • 社交关系 — 友情破裂、被人误解、社交恐惧 • 人生哲理 — 中年危机、方向迷失、自我怀疑 • 更多主题持续更新中... 【成长体系】 每探索一张新卡片,即解锁一种新视角。每累计解锁10种视角,你将获得晋级——从Lv.0「失败小白」到Lv.20「终极觉醒者」,共21个独特等级,伴随你的每一步成长。晋级时刻有撒花庆祝动画和专属音效,仪式感满满。 【分享成就】 晋级后可以一键保存成就卡片到相册,或分享给朋友。每一次晋级都值得被记录。 【设计理念】 • 温暖而不说教 — 每句金句都经过反复打磨,力求触动而非说教 • 简洁而不简单 — 左右滑动的交互直觉自然,却蕴含丰富的思考空间 • 轻松而有深度 — 在卡片翻转间,完成一次与自己的对话 Failosophy 相信:失败不是终点,而是换个角度看世界的起点。

Screenshots

Time Caps4 screens
失败的艺术4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 失败的艺术 at none against Time Caps's 6. Time Caps's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Time Caps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. 失败的艺术 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Time Caps versus 失败的艺术: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime Caps失败的艺术
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (156 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings156 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer灿海 陈笑天 刘

Bugs and requests

Time Caps

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • 🐛 Interface issues with updates
  • 🐛 Face ID issues reported

Requested features

9 requests
  • Ability to export previous posts
  • Lower gem prices for capsules
  • More options for describing the day
  • Add template feature
  • Support dark mode
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  • Ability to add photos to daily journal entries
  • Option to get one future cap a week
  • Allow editing of old time caps without currency
  • More descriptive options for daily mood

失败的艺术

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Time Caps

Subscriptions2
  • Time Traveler Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Time Traveler Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • 1200 Cap Pieces$0.99
  • 2888 Cap Pieces$1.99
  • 3600 Cap Pieces$2.99
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  • 5000 Cap Pieces$3.99
None

失败的艺术

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Caps free?
Time Caps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 失败的艺术 free?
失败的艺术 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Caps or 失败的艺术 have ads?
Neither Time Caps nor 失败的艺术 shows ads.

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