Comparison

Hot House Eltham vs Boring Tracker

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

Head to head
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Hot House Eltham

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Download the Hot House Eltham Yoga & Pilates App today to plan and schedule your classes! From this mobile App you can view class schedules, sign-up for classes, as well as view the studio’s location information. Optimize your time and maximize the convenience of signing up for classes from your device! Download this App today!

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Boring Tracker

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Boring Tracker is an app for writing down numbers. Free, open source, no ads, no accounts, no subscription, no server, no feature bloat. Type a number, done. Most other macro trackers want you to scan a barcode for every ingredient of a dish you cooked yourself. It takes a lot of time for no benefit. This one just lets you write down "600 calories, 40 protein" and done, as fast as possible, minimum clicks, minimum wait/lag. You can also use it to track anything you want: your cat's weight, pushups, blood glucose, the last time you changed a filter. A tracker is either a daily total, which adds entries up over the day and starts again at the day boundary, or a measurement, which is a standalone reading. Trackers you log at the same time share a group, so one sheet takes both numbers at once. The + opens whatever you logged last, with the number pad already up. You can name what you logged β€” the food, not the tracker β€” and then log it again later with one tap. The time defaults to now and is tappable, so you can log dinner the next morning. History holds everything you have logged, grouped by day and searchable by name. Graphs draw daily totals as bars and measurements as a line with a moving average, over a week, a month, a year, or all of it. Export the lot as JSON or CSV, and import it back. What it does not do: no ads, no subscription, no pro tier, no account, no server, no analytics, no streaks, no badges, no notifications. The app collects no data. It contains no networking code at all, so nothing you type into it can leave your phone by itself, and it asks for no permissions β€” not the camera, not your health data, not notifications. The whole app is open source under the MIT licence. You can read it, build it, or ship your own: https://github.com/novoselov-ab/boring-tracker My goal with it is to behave like a built-in iOS app (e.g. the calculator). It is boring, but does its job, hence the name.

Screenshots

Hot House Eltham3 screens
Boring Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Boring Tracker at none against Hot House Eltham's shown. Hot House Eltham's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hot House Eltham ships an update every 5 weeks, Boring Tracker monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Hot House Eltham versus Boring Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHot House ElthamBoring Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly β€” better
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size130 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaddy & Cashou Pty LtdANTON NOVOSELOV

In-app purchases

None

Hot House Eltham

No in-app purchases

None

Boring Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hot House Eltham free?
Hot House Eltham is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boring Tracker free?
Boring Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hot House Eltham or Boring Tracker have ads?
Hot House Eltham shows ads; Boring Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Hot House Eltham or Boring Tracker?
Hot House Eltham ships an update every 5 weeks, and Boring Tracker monthly. Most recently, Hot House Eltham was updated on November 2, 2026 and Boring Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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