Comparison

Tickdays vs PlanetTimer

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

Head to head
About

Tickdays

This app helps you track positive experiences and cultivate beneficial habits. Log your daily mood, check off completed habits, and review your progress over time. It also includes a journaling feature and motivational messages for future reflection.

Highlights
  • Daily check-in
  • Rate your day
  • Add and track habits
  • Track mood over time
  • Journal entries
  • Future self messages
  • Light and dark modes
Features
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Track your good days and build strong habits with Tickdays. - Daily check in - Rate your day - Add habits and tick them off as you go - Track your habits over time - Track your mood over time - Journal field for diary entries - Write a message to your future self for moments of inspiration - Light and dark modes - Notifications to keep you on track

About

PlanetTimer

Customize your timers with cartoon-style planetary themes and fun flying machines. Experience a unique timing process with rotating planets and interactive 3D effects. Track time intervals with simple clicks.

Highlights
  • Cartoon planetary themes
  • Customizable flying machines
  • Rotating planet animations
  • Time tracking by clicks
  • 3D hand tracking effects
  • Multiple planetary patterns
Features
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Cartoon style timers provide various interesting planetary themes, paired with fun flying machines, making the timing process extremely interesting. Users can freely mix and match different planetary themes and aircraft to experience a unique and novel timing experience. ---Main functions--- 1. With a fun planet as the theme, the planet rotates during the timing process and replaces another planet pattern after a certain period of time 2. Provide up to ten planetary patterns with different theme content, and choose from different character flying machines 3. It supports timing by time. During the timing process, clicking on a planet will result in timing by time, and the interval time and total time points between each click will be recorded 4. Swipe the screen with your fingers to experience 3D hand tracking effect, which is fun and interesting

Screenshots

Tickdays4 screens
PlanetTimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tickdays at Free against PlanetTimer's $1.99. Tickdays also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Tickdays is free to download; PlanetTimer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tickdays against 5.0 for PlanetTimer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tickdays ships an update monthly, PlanetTimer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tickdays versus PlanetTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickdaysPlanetTimer
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander Coady仲辉 黄

Customer experience

Tickdays

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PlanetTimer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tickdays

No in-app purchases

None

PlanetTimer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tickdays free?
Tickdays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlanetTimer free?
PlanetTimer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tickdays or PlanetTimer?
Tickdays and PlanetTimer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tickdays or PlanetTimer have ads?
Neither Tickdays nor PlanetTimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tickdays or PlanetTimer?
Tickdays ships an update monthly, and PlanetTimer every 2 months. Most recently, Tickdays was updated on September 23, 2026 and PlanetTimer on September 19, 2026.

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