Comparison

EARLY vs EaseWake

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

Head to head
About

EARLY

This app offers a streamlined approach to time tracking, helping users understand how they spend their hours. It provides insightful reports and customizable features to boost productivity and improve work-life balance.

Highlights
  • One-tap time tracking
  • Real-time productivity data
  • Customizable reports and charts
  • Easy entry editing
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Calendar view for reviews
  • Integrations with popular tools
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Discover a better way to track your time with EARLY. EARLY will help you own your time and maximise your productivity at work. Instantly start tracking your activities within the EARLY app and unlock actionable insights to optimise your workflow, improve work-life balance, and achieve your goals. What is EARLY? Effortless Tracking • Track time with one tap — spend 90% less time logging your hours. Boosted Productivity • Get precise, real-time data on how you allocate your time to improve focus and reduce distractions. Reports • Visualise and analyse time distribution with customisable charts and reports that reveal trends, patterns, and opportunities for easy improvement. Easy Editing • Quickly adjust, add, or delete entries so that your logs are always accurate. Cross-Device Sync • Seamlessly track time across your devices for consistent, updated logs wherever you are. Calendar • View time entries in a calendar format for easy daily and weekly reviews, where time tracking becomes key to your routine. Integrations • Sync with JIRA, Toggl, Harvest, Zapier, and many more to streamline time tracking within your existing workflow.

About

EaseWake

Features
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You set 4 alarms every night because you don't trust morning-you. 6:10, 6:20, 6:30, 6:40 — and tomorrow morning you'll move all four. EaseWake fixes that. Instead of stacking individual alarms in Apple Clock, you build one Nudge Chain — gentle alarms before your main wake, safety nets after, all configured once when you're awake and rational. Then your schedule changes. Move the main wake to 7:00, and the whole chain shifts with it automatically. No rebuilding. No resetting individual alarms. No math at 11 PM. There is no snooze button. By design. The chain IS the snooze replacement — pre-committed by rational-you, not negotiated by half-asleep-you at 6:32 AM. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY DO THIS BY HAND — Career professionals who rebuild four alarms every time their schedule shifts — ADHD users whose medication routine moves with every appointment — Heavy sleepers who actually need to wake up — not negotiate with themselves — Anyone done re-doing their morning every night RELIABILITY FIRST EaseWake uses Apple's AlarmKit framework — the only iOS framework that breaks through Silent Mode, Focus, and Do Not Disturb at system level. The alarms WILL fire. That's not negotiable. PRIVACY BY DESIGN — Zero data collection. We don't have a server. — No accounts, no email, no password. — No analytics SDK, no advertising, no cloud. — Everything stays on your iPhone. Forever. This isn't a privacy section in our policy — it's the architecture. NATIVE iOS, NO COMPROMISES — AlarmKit for system-level alarm reliability — Dynamic Type, SF Symbols, haptics — Six accent themes: warm, coral, orchid, sky, mint, slate — Portrait-optimized for nighttime use — Designed for the 2 AM use case: dark room, half-asleep fingers, no margin for error REQUIRES — iOS 26.1 or later — iPhone (iPad not supported) EaseWake is engineered in Austria. Free in v1.0 — no in-app purchases, no paywall, no trial-ending anxiety. Future versions may introduce premium features. Questions? Feedback? support@easewake.com

Screenshots

EARLY4 screens
EaseWake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EaseWake at none against EARLY's 2. EaseWake also leads on ads (none vs shown). EARLY's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). On price 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. EARLY sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. EaseWake asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
EARLY versus EaseWake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEARLYEaseWake
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (146 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings146 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimeular GmbHMario Welte

In-app purchases

2 purchases

EARLY

Subscriptions2
  • Personal Pro$14.001 Month
  • Personal Pro$139.001 Year
None

EaseWake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EARLY free?
EARLY is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EaseWake free?
EaseWake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EARLY or EaseWake have ads?
EARLY shows ads; EaseWake does not.

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