Super Productivity vs Tie Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Super Productivity
This app helps you plan, focus, and complete your work with a to-do list, time tracker, and integrations. It offers features for deep work, privacy, and seamless connection with project management tools.
- Fast to-do list
- Precise time tracking
- Pomodoro and focus timers
- Drag-and-drop planner
- Jira, GitHub, GitLab integration
- Focus mode and break reminders
- Keyboard shortcuts
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Plan. Focus. Ship work. Super Productivity combines a fast to-do list, precise time tracking, and smart integrations in one local-first app for macOS. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Capture and prioritize tasks without friction • Track time per task (Pomodoro and focus timers included) • Plan your day and week with a clear, drag-and-drop planner • Export clean timesheets and work reports INTEGRATED, NOT INTRUSIVE • Connect Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and OpenProject • Import issues, filter what matters, and stay updated without noise BUILT FOR DEEP WORK • Focus mode, break reminders, and lightweight self-reviews • Wide keyboard shortcut coverage for a fast workflow PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST • Open source, no accounts, no data collection • Your data stays on your device; backups and exports are always available WHO IT’S FOR Developers, freelancers, and teams who care about clarity, speed, and privacy.
Tie Tracker
This application helps you monitor your work hours and billable time across various projects. It offers simple tracking, client and project assignment, and the ability to mark entries as billed. Generate weekly summaries and daily activity lists, with options to export timesheets to XLSX and PDF formats.
- Simple work hours tracking
- Assign time to clients and projects
- Mark entries as billed
- Weekly work summary
- Daily list of activities
- Export timesheets to XLSX and PDF
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Tie Tracker is a free and open source, local-first time tracking app. It's simple and lets you track working hours across projects and clients. » Features * Work hours tracking * Assign time to clients and projects * Define budget per projects * Mark entries as billed * Backup and restore all your data through Zip files » Reporting * Weekly work summary * Daily list of tasks * Export open invoices to XLSX timesheets
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Super Productivity at weekly against Tie Tracker's every 6 weeks. Super Productivity also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 2). Tie Tracker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tie Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Productivity has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Super Productivity's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tie Tracker's.
Super Productivity ships an update weekly, Tie Tracker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Super Productivity | Tie Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johannes Millan | David Dal Busco |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Super Productivity
No in-app purchases
Tie Tracker
No in-app purchases
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