Timemator vs GRIT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timemator
Effortlessly track work hours and tasks, organizing them by project or client. Visualize your productivity with insightful reports and automatically calculate revenue based on defined hourly rates. Sync data across devices and work offline.
- Effortless time tracking
- Organize tasks by project/client
- Timeline management
- Insightful productivity reports
- Automatic revenue calculation
- Offline functionality
- iCloud sync
Read full descriptionHide full description
Track your work hours in one tap, see what you earned, and send clients a clean PDF report. Timemator is a simple time tracker for freelancers and anyone who bills by the hour. Pay once. No subscription. ONE-TAP TIME TRACKING • Start and stop timers for tasks and projects with a single tap • Organize tasks into folders by client or project, with colors • Add notes to sessions so you remember what you worked on • Keep an eye on the running timer in Live Activities and the Dynamic Island HOURS AND EARNINGS AT A GLANCE • Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports with clear charts • Set hourly rates and see your revenue calculated automatically • Breakdown by task and folder, plus your average hours per day CLIENT-READY REPORTS • Export professional PDF reports with time and revenue totals • Export CSV for spreadsheets, invoicing and accounting tools TIMELINE • See every work session of your day on a timeline • Add time you forgot to track, or fix a session in seconds WORKS WHERE YOU WORK • Home Screen widgets for timers, hours and revenue • Apple Watch app to start and stop timers from your wrist • Shortcuts: create a task and start its timer hands-free • Runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch PAIRS WITH TIMEMATOR FOR MAC Sync everything through iCloud with Timemator for Mac, which can track your time automatically based on the files, websites and apps you work with. The Mac app is sold separately. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No data collected: no analytics, no tracking • No account or sign-up needed • Works offline • Your data stays on your devices and syncs through your own iCloud SIMPLE PRICING Try every feature free for 30 days. Then unlock Timemator with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. Questions or ideas? Write to support@timemator.com. We read every message.
GRIT
This app helps you build self-discipline and achieve long-term personal goals by setting daily and weekly targets. You can commit money as an incentive, earning a reward for completion or losing funds for missed deadlines. It also includes a to-do list for non-goal-related tasks.
- Set daily and weekly goals
- Commit money as incentive
- Earn rewards for completion
- Track progress
- Add to-do list items
- Create repeating tasks
- Weekly time allocation goals
Read full descriptionHide full description
GRIT app augments your self discipline and helps you to follow through with your long term personal goals such as finishing an online course or exercising more. For this you can set daily and weekly goals and track your progress. In addition you can commit money to each goal as an incentive to not give up. It's easy to get started with a new goal, but many fail to follow through long enough in order to reach their potential. With GRIT app you can turn an abstract new years resolution into 365 tangible daily tasks with a defined deadline and incentive. Incentives You can define how much money will be deducted from your account for missing a certain goal. For completing a goal you receive a reward of 10% of the committed credits. To allow new users to familiarize themselves with the app features, there is a free starting balance of 5 credits. After the credit balance becomes negative, you have to top up the balance within 3 days otherwise the app will be disabled. After trying out different amounts of credits as incentive, you may realise that some goals require a higher amount of credits. For example "No smoking" may require 10 credits to offset the temptation and for "clean apartment" 0.1 credits may be sufficient. For all tasks, you have to evaluate yourself whether it was completed on time. Tasks In the home screen, you can add new tasks with a due date and an amount of credits to motivate you to follow through. You can also add to-do's here, which are not connected to any long term goals so that you do not have to maintain multiple to do lists. Examples for tasks are: - Submit Job Application - Buy groceries If you complete the task before the due date or on the due date, then it should be evaluated to "done", then the credit balance will not be changed. If you complete the task after the due date or don't complete it at all then it should be evaluated to "not done", then the specified amount of credits will be deducted from the balance. If tasks are overdue and "pending" (i.e. not yet evaluated), then they will be displayed in red font. Once tasks are evaluated to "done" or "not done" you can view them in the history, which can be accessed by clicking on the menu icon on the top left. Habits When adding a new task, you can specify whether the task should repeat and define on which weekdays it should be scheduled. Examples for repeating tasks are: - Leave home by 9 AM for Monday to Friday - Take vitamin supplements These tasks can be viewed and edited under the Repeating tasks section in the Dashboard. When you open the app on a new day, all corresponding repeating tasks will be scheduled for that day and also for the days in which you did not open the app. When you edit a repeating tasks, the changes will only be applied from the next day onwards. Instances of repeating tasks for the current day or past days cannot be edited. Time allocation With weekly time allocation goals you can make sure that you spend a certain amount of time every week on a specific activity. Examples are: - Do 30 minutes of running every week - Spend 2 hours every week studying for an online course There are two main differences between activity goals and repeating tasks: 1. It does not matter on which day of the week you do the weekly activity as long as you do it before the end of the week. In contrast tasks always have a specific due date. 2. Even if you only manage to complete a small part of a weekly activity goal, this will have an effect on your credits balance so every minute of activity counts. In contrast tasks can only be either completed or not completed which will result in either no credits deducted or the full amount of credits defined in the tasks deducted. Time Tracking With the time tracking section you can keep track of your weekly goals and other activities. For every tracked hour you receive a 0.01 credit reward. Data export Your data can be exported in CSV format from the settings menu.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GRIT at 100% against Timemator's 63%. GRIT also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Timemator's advantage is ratings volume (172 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Timemator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GRIT sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GRIT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timemator has 172 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Timemator's written reviews are positive against 100% of GRIT's.
Timemator ships an update every 2 months, GRIT every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timemator | GRIT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (172 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 172 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catforce Studio | Rix Data GmbH |
Customer experience
Timemator
GRIT
In-app purchases
Timemator
- Full License$7.99
GRIT
- 1 credit$0.99
- 3 credits$2.99
- 5 credits$4.99
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- 10 credits$9.99









