Comparison

Tempo Cloud vs Life Oar

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

Head to head
About

Tempo Cloud

Manage your work and track time on the go with seamless Google Calendar integration. Plan tasks, log time entries with a single click, and receive customizable push notifications for approvals and reminders. Stay updated on your team's progress and manage timesheets efficiently from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Google Calendar integration for time entries
  • Create and manage work plans
  • Customizable push notifications
  • Track time against tasks and events
  • Review and approve timesheets
  • Jira Cloud integration
Features
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Plan, track and take action on the go with Tempo and Google Calendar integration! Customize your push notifications for logging time and submitting your timesheet. Track time better and plan your work with Tempo’s mobile app for Jira Cloud. Don’t leave your team waiting - keep track on pending timesheets and plan requests from the team via notifications in your inbox. -- FEATURES in detail: * With Tempo’s mobile app for Jira Cloud you can integrate with Google Calendar to have all your events synced with Tempo to easily create time entries with one click. * Create plans on your mobile and plan your work alongside all your tasks and events in My Work. Quickly turn plans into time entries. You can also request approval of your plans if needed (if Tempo Planner is installed). * Push notifications allow you to quickly log time after a meeting, when your timesheet is due for approval or you can customize notifications to remind you to log time when you need it the most. *Stay up-to-date on your notifications. Just tap the inbox for notifications. You’ll be reminded of when the timesheet is due for an approval from your manager. Managers get reminded of pending timesheet and plan approval. Monitor your real-time progress of tracked versus required work hours for any given period * Accurately log time in My Work and browse your logged work, tasks and calendar events by days, weeks, or monthly views. You can create time entries and trackers wherever. No need to search for issues, re-enter descriptions or manually enter time when creating entries. * Review and approve time entries. Get things done from wherever you are, whenever you want. Take action on your responsibilities of reviewing and approving/rejecting timesheet and plan requests from your team.

About

Life Oar

This app helps enhance happiness by automating tasks and reminders for personal care, mental, and physical health. It offers a social life system with shared tasks, events, and locations among groups, featuring an AI-powered chat bot for assistance.

Highlights
  • Automated task and reminder system
  • Social life system for groups
  • Shared tasks, events, and locations
  • AI-powered group chat bot
  • Personal care and health tracking
  • Journaling with metrics
Features
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We spend up to 75% of our waking time on two things: Task completion and Relationships. The Life Oar vision is to create a Social Life System whose main purpose is to enhance people's happiness by incorporating best practices and automating common tasks and reminders related to personal care, mental and physical health. Life Oar aims to bring order to the overwhelming chaos of our daily lives and facilitate knowledge sharing among friends and family. Life Oar provides perspectives on individual tasks, events, and locations, as well as an innovative Group concept. This concept involves shared tasks, events, and locations among group members. Each group in Life Oar features an advanced bot-enabled chat room, empowered by cutting-edge AI. You can pose questions to your Life Oar Guide or issue commands, and it will do its utmost to paddle a few oar strokes for you! Tasks, Groups, Chat, Events, Calendars, Locations, Social, Reminders, Journal, Journal Metrics

Screenshots

Tempo Cloud4 screens
Life Oar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Life Oar at 5.0 against Tempo Cloud's 4.5. Life Oar also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Tempo Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (241 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Life Oar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tempo Cloud has 241 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tempo Cloud ships an update every 2 months, Life Oar every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tempo Cloud versus Life Oar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempo CloudLife Oar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (241 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings241 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTempo Software ehf.Jonathan McPhail

Customer experience

Tempo Cloud

All ratings228 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral3.5%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative62.5%

Life Oar

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tempo Cloud

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Gmail integration broken for years
  • App crashes on boot up
  • Screen repeatedly goes white
  • Recent versions crash constantly
  • Time entries just spin
Show 9 more
  • Crashes at startup since last update
  • App crashes a lot, needs restarting
  • Total worked time for a day doesn’t update
  • Resolution changed for iPhone 12 Pro Max
  • Wrong day name and date number
  • November 1 missing from calendar
  • Status message covers running timer
  • Network errors are frequent
  • Received html error messages

Requested features

3 requests
  • Office 365 calendar integration
  • Offline functionality
  • Improved native performance

Life Oar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tempo Cloud

No in-app purchases

None

Life Oar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tempo Cloud free?
Tempo Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life Oar free?
Life Oar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tempo Cloud or Life Oar?
Life Oar is rated higher. Tempo Cloud averages 4.5 out of 5 from 241 ratings, while Life Oar averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tempo Cloud or Life Oar have ads?
Neither Tempo Cloud nor Life Oar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tempo Cloud or Life Oar?
Tempo Cloud ships an update every 2 months, and Life Oar every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tempo Cloud was updated on November 2, 2026 and Life Oar on November 3, 2026.

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