Comparison

Simple(Lite) vs The Maya Almanac

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

Head to head
About

Simple(Lite)

Features
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Forget about automatic step counters. What matters here is what you actually do. Simple(Lite) isn't just another fitness tracker โ€” it's a smart daily log for mindful people. You decide what to record: a walk with your dog, a day without sugar, a cycling session, or an important meeting you don't want to forget. Why manual tracking is a game-changer: Algorithms don't know when you've nailed it. But you do. By logging your activities manually, you sharpen your memory and build discipline. It helps you stay on top of your goals โ€” and see the real picture of your life, not some averaged-out sensor data. Here's how it works: โ€” Add any custom activity you like (even "House cleaning" or "Screen-free hour"). โ€” Mark it done with a single tap. โ€” View your stats in the calendar: see exactly what you did and how often โ€” by week, month, or year. Perfect for: โ€” Tracking recurring events (so you never double-book or repeat yourself). โ€” Keeping tabs on personal habits โ€” good or bad. โ€” Building an archive of your achievements over weeks, months, or even years. Simple, lightweight, and completely private. Your data stays yours. Contact: For questions and feedback, please reach out via Telegram: t.me/olly_blinova, email: olekablinova@icloud.com Support the developer: https://boosty.to/olgablinova/donate

About

The Maya Almanac

Features
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The Maya Almanac is a field guide to Maya cosmology, told in 125 cards arranged the way the Maya arranged the world: four realms at the four directions, and a center that holds today. The center is a real calendar. Each day the app computes the true day of the Tzolk'in count, the same 260-day round that daykeepers in highland Guatemala still keep, using the standard scholarly correlation (GMT 584283). It is not a shuffle. Everyone who opens the app sees the same day, because there is only one. The Haab' date, the trecena, and the nine-night cycle appear alongside it, each marked with how firmly it is attested. Around the center sit the four realms: The Sky, The Road Below, The Old Words, and The Green World. Gods and day signs, the Hero Twins, the ceiba, the milpa, the small ones who keep the cornfield. Every card names its sources and says plainly how we know what we claim to know: carved in stone, painted in a codex, recorded by a colonial hand, kept in living practice, or reconstructed by scholars. The honesty goes all the way down. 116 cards carry photographs, scans, or tracings of real artifacts, and every image is credited by author and license on a Sources page inside the app. Nine cards deliberately carry no image at all, because no attested image of those figures survives, and each of the nine says so on the card itself. I would rather show you an empty frame than an invention. One more thing the app says out loud: the Maya are a living people. Around six million Maya are alive today, and the count this app computes is still being kept this morning. Search across all 125 cards. Fully offline. No account, no tracking, no notifications, no streaks. Your time here stays yours. If the almanac becomes part of your days, there are four optional tips in Settings. Nothing in the app is gated behind them. Sixty percent of what is left after costs goes to the Endangered Alphabets Project, which carves the world's vanishing scripts into wood so they are not forgotten, and on every tenth tip all of it does.

Screenshots

Simple(Lite)4 screens
The Maya Almanac4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple(Lite) at none against The Maya Almanac's 4. Simple(Lite) also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). The Maya Almanac's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 78 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. The Maya Almanac sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Simple(Lite) asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple(Lite) ships an update every 78 months, The Maya Almanac every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Simple(Lite) versus The Maya Almanac: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple(Lite)The Maya Almanac
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 78 monthsEvery 5 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size29 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOlga BlinovaDrew Douglass

In-app purchases

None

Simple(Lite)

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

The Maya Almanac

One-time4
  • A pinch of copal$1.99
  • A handful of maize$4.99
  • A cup of cacao$9.99
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  • A bead of jade$19.99

Questions

Is Simple(Lite) free?
Simple(Lite) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Maya Almanac free?
The Maya Almanac is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple(Lite) or The Maya Almanac have ads?
Neither Simple(Lite) nor The Maya Almanac shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple(Lite) or The Maya Almanac?
Simple(Lite) ships an update every 78 months, and The Maya Almanac every 5 days. Most recently, Simple(Lite) was updated on September 13, 2026 and The Maya Almanac on September 12, 2026.

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