Comparison

New Year's Resolutions Tracker vs Finger Strings

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

Head to head
About

New Year's Resolutions Tracker

Easily track your New Year's resolutions for 2025 and stay accountable. Visualize your progress with graphs and calendars, and set helpful reminders to keep you on track. Optionally protect your goals with a passcode.

Highlights
  • Track daily, weekly, monthly progress
  • Visualize progress with graphs
  • Set reminder notifications
  • Passcode protect resolutions
  • Reset resolution progress
Features
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Do you have 2025 New Year's resolutions in mind, but not sure how to keep yourself accountable? With this app you can easily: - Track daily, weekly and monthly progress - Visualize your progress with graphs and calendars - Easily set reminder notifications to help you stay on track! - Passcode protect your resolutions to keep them private (optional) - Easily reset your resolution progress for 2025! Make 2025 your best year yet!

About

Finger Strings

Features
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Finger Strings ties a virtual string around your finger — so you actually remember. It uses alarms that demand acknowledgment and stand out from notification noise. Most reminders fail at the worst moment. You set one, it fires, you swipe it away, and an hour later you're still late, still unprepared, still kicking yourself. Finger Strings works differently. Instead of one notification you'll ignore, it fires a series of escalating alarms in the lead-up to your event — giving you time to actually act. How it works Create a reminder with a deadline. Finger Strings works backwards from that moment and schedules a sequence of alarms — months, days, hours, then every minute in the final stretch — each one requiring an explicit acknowledgment. By the time the deadline arrives, you've had every chance to be ready. Capture the five W's for any reminder: What, When, Who, Where, and Why. The extra context means you're not just alerted — you're informed and ready. Export active Strings to a Calendar you choose, while Finger Strings remains the source of truth for the reminder and its alarms. What you get - Layered alarms: monthly, daily, hourly, and every minute through the final hour. Turn on only the layers you want — or pick a ready-made intensity profile from Gentle to Nuclear. - Alarm sounds rated mellow-to-obnoxious, with favorites and curation so the picker shows the sounds you want. - High-stakes reminders can require a deliberate confirmation to stop — hold-to-stop, a keyword, or a clear "I am doing this now" tap. - Repeating reminders for weekly and monthly events. - Quiet Hours, with a per-reminder choice to respect them, ignore them, or wait until they end. - A Lock Screen widget showing your next two alarms and live countdowns on every reminder card. - Full reminder history, archiving, and an optional automatic archive for expired reminders. - Your choice of app color, including Orange, plus dark and light mode. Simple by design No categories. No tags. No priority levels. No subscription either — Finger Strings is a one-time purchase. Finger Strings does one thing and does it relentlessly: makes sure you don't forget. Note: Finger Strings needs permission to schedule alarms. Without it, reminders can't alert you the way the Clock app does.

Screenshots

New Year's Resolutions Tracker4 screens
Finger Strings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Finger Strings at every 2 weeks against New Year's Resolutions Tracker's every 2 months. Finger Strings also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). New Year's Resolutions Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On 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

New Year's Resolutions Tracker costs $2.99 and Finger Strings $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Year's Resolutions Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Finger Strings every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
New Year's Resolutions Tracker versus Finger Strings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew Year's Resolutions TrackerFinger Strings
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (776 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings776 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLW Brands, LLCChainbreaker Technology LLC

Bugs and requests

New Year's Resolutions Tracker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add notes for each resolution
  • Weekly and monthly options
  • Option to adjust goals to be daily, monthly, weekly

Finger Strings

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

New Year's Resolutions Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Finger Strings

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New Year's Resolutions Tracker free?
New Year's Resolutions Tracker costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Finger Strings free?
Finger Strings costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do New Year's Resolutions Tracker or Finger Strings have ads?
Neither New Year's Resolutions Tracker nor Finger Strings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Year's Resolutions Tracker or Finger Strings?
New Year's Resolutions Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Finger Strings every 2 weeks. Most recently, New Year's Resolutions Tracker was updated on November 13, 2026 and Finger Strings on November 13, 2026.

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