Comparison

Time Caps vs 岁记

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

岁记

Features
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岁记,不只是闹钟,更懂中国人的作息。 还在为大小周、轮休调闹钟烦恼吗?系统闹钟只有简单的"周一到周五",现实却是法定假日要休息、调休要上班、大小周交替轮换……岁记帮你一次搞定。 【智能闹钟 — 核心功能】 ▸ 工作日模式 — 自动识别法定假日和调休 ▸ 大小周模式 — 自动交替,不用手动改闹钟 ▸ 轮休模式 — 自定义上班/休息天数,按周期循环 ▸ 每天 / 单次模式 【节假日日历 — 完全免费】 ▸ 法定节假日与调休一目了然 ▸ 农历、24 节气、十二生肖 【岁事记录】 ▸ 生日、纪念日倒计时,农历阳历自由切换 零广告,纯净体验。试试岁记。 服务条款:https://huangshouqing.github.io/almanac-holidays/terms.html 隐私政策:https://huangshouqing.github.io/almanac-holidays/privacy.html

Screenshots

Time Caps4 screens
岁记4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Time Caps at 3 against 岁记's 1. Time Caps also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 and 岁记 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Caps versus 岁记: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime Caps岁记
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (156 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings156 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer灿海 陈道军 黄

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

岁记

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
3 purchases

岁记

Subscriptions2
  • 岁记 Pro 月度会员$0.991 Month
  • 岁记 Pro 年度会员$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • 岁记 Pro 永久会员$9.99

Questions

Is Time Caps free?
Time Caps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 岁记 free?
岁记 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Caps or 岁记 have ads?
Neither Time Caps nor 岁记 shows ads.

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