Comparison

Log your Work vs Margina

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

Head to head
About

Log your Work

Easily track time spent on tasks with a single running timer. Features include Siri shortcuts, background notifications, and CSV export. Integrates with Apple Watch for on-the-go control.

Highlights
  • Single timer with color-coded progress bar
  • Siri Shortcuts for starting/stopping timers
  • Background notifications for running timers
  • CSV export of work logs
  • Apple Watch app for timer control
  • Customizable settings
Features
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With Log your work you easily control the time you have invested in your tasks. It also runs on your Apple Watch. +++ What's new? +++ It's all about seconds. The work log finally has seconds to show. Siri Shortcuts are available for starting and stopping your work log. Haptic Feedback and better user interface handling. Refined Gestures. +++ Features +++ You can start exactly one timer at a time. The running timer is represented by a circular progress bar with three colors: - Seconds are in purple - Minutes have the color blue - Hours are presented with yellow Use Siri shortcuts to start or stop a work log. It integrates perfectly with Apples Shortcuts app. When you locked your device or Log your work runs in the background you can receive notifications about running timers. You can stop the timer by a tap on the notification. Export your WorkLogs in csv format. Just press on the appearing 'export' Button and the share sheet appears. ++ Settings ++ You can adjust the Log your Work settings: just go to system settings and search for Log Work app. Customize the settings as you wish. +++ Apple Watch +++ With your Apple Watch you can start and stop timers directly on your whrist. Notifications of active timers get delivered directly to the Apple Watch.

About

Margina

This app provides a private, distraction-free reading environment for various document types. Organize, highlight, and annotate your readings, with options to export your notes. It prioritizes user privacy by keeping all data on the device.

Highlights
  • Supports PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, and text
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • Highlight and annotate with notes
  • Organize library with folders
  • Search across documents and annotations
  • Export highlights and notes
  • Offline reading
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Margina is a calm, private home for everything you read. Send yourself a PDF, EPUB, Word doc, Markdown file, or plain text. Margina opens them all in one distraction-free reader that remembers exactly where you left off. No account, no cloud requirement, no clutter: just you and the page. A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE Your documents live on a clean shelf of covers, each showing its format and how far you have read. Prefer rows? Switch to list view with one tap. Filter by what you are reading now, what is new, and what you have finished, and pin the book you keep coming back to. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE Mark passages in five colors, attach a note in the margin, and drop bookmarks anywhere. Drag across a PDF page to select and highlight in one motion. Every annotation is gathered in one place, ready to browse, filter, and revisit. Tap any highlight to jump straight back to its page. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search across titles, authors, highlights, and notes at once. Matches light up inside the results exactly like highlights on a page, grouped by document so you always know where a passage came from. STAY ORGANIZED Sort your library into color-coded folders for work, study, research, or that stack of essays you have been meaning to get to. Jump back into any book at the exact spot, or the exact highlight, you were last at. MADE FOR LONG READING A reading experience designed like a well-set book: quiet paper tones, generous margins, and your progress drawn as a thin rule in the margin itself. Choose paper, sepia, or dark. Tune font, size, line spacing, and margins right in the reader. Includes a dyslexia-friendly typeface option and respects your system accessibility settings, from Dynamic Type to VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and Reduce Transparency. EVERY FORMAT YOU ACTUALLY USE PDF reader, EPUB reader, Word document viewer, Markdown reader, and plain text, all in one app. Import from the share sheet, the Files app, email attachments, or anywhere else you can tap Share. Everything works offline, on the train, on a plane, or at the cabin with no signal. EXPORT AND SHARE Turn your highlights and notes into a clean Markdown file or a formatted PDF and send them to your notes app, your research workflow, or a friend. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your library lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, nothing to set up. Margina hosts nothing about you. Reading is personal; your reading data should be too. MARGINA PRO Upgrade to back up your library to your OWN iCloud, unlock the sepia reading theme, export your annotations, and add unlimited documents. Available monthly, annually, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Your backup stays in your iCloud, never on our servers, so even Pro keeps your data yours. WHO MARGINA IS FOR Students annotating readings and lecture notes. Researchers working through papers. Book club readers who argue in the margins. Writers collecting passages. Anyone who sends themselves things to read later and actually wants to read them, without ads, feeds, or noise. Read anything. Mark it up. Keep it yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://margina.app/privacy Margina Pro is offered as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

Screenshots

Log your Work4 screens
Margina4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Margina at 100% against Log your Work's 40%. Margina also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). Log your Work's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. Margina sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Log your Work asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Margina holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Log your Work has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Log your Work's written reviews are positive against 100% of Margina's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Log your Work ships an update every 2 weeks, Margina every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Log your Work versus Margina: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLog your WorkMargina
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.3 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLars BeierEcho Persona LLC

Customer experience

Log your Work

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

Margina

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

In-app purchases

None

Log your Work

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Margina

Subscriptions2
  • Margina Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Margina Pro Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Margina Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Log your Work free?
Log your Work is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Margina free?
Margina is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Log your Work or Margina?
Margina is rated higher. Log your Work averages 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Margina averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Log your Work or Margina have ads?
Neither Log your Work nor Margina shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Log your Work or Margina?
Log your Work ships an update every 2 weeks, and Margina every 3 weeks. Most recently, Log your Work was updated on November 6, 2026 and Margina on October 31, 2026.

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