Comparison

Smart Counter vs Rubato

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

Head to head
About

Smart Counter

Easily track and monitor anything with an unlimited number of customizable counters. Organize your tallies into groups, visualize your progress with charts, and receive audio or haptic feedback. Perfect for habit tracking, inventory, or scorekeeping.

Highlights
  • Unlimited counters and custom groups
  • Pie and bar charts for visual feedback
  • Customizable increments and limit alerts
  • Sound, vibration, and voice feedback
  • Dark and light themes
  • Offline use
Features
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Count smarter and stay organized. Smart Counter is a powerful multi-counter app that makes tracking anything simple and efficient. Use it to log workouts, inventory, habits, game scores, or event attendance — anything you want to count or monitor. Create unlimited counters and arrange them into custom groups for clarity and control. Each counter can be personalized with a name, color, and increment/decrement steps. View detailed count history and visual charts to see how your numbers change over time. **Key Features** • Unlimited counters and custom groups • Pie and bar charts for clear visual feedback • Drag & drop sorting and multi-select bulk counting • Custom increments, start values, and limit alerts • Sound, vibration, and voice feedback • Dark and light themes • Portrait and landscape support • Offline use — no account required • Quick sharing via clipboard or email **Perfect for** Habit tracking, inventory control, scorekeeping, survey tallies, attendance checks, event management, and anything else that needs accurate counting. Smart Counter helps you count smarter — not harder. Download now and take control of your counts today!

About

Rubato

Features
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. • A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. • Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. • Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. • Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. • Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. • Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). • All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. • iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. • Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a ¥0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (¥2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.

Screenshots

Smart Counter4 screens
Rubato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Rubato at none against Smart Counter's shown. Rubato also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Smart Counter's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Smart Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Counter ships an update weekly, Rubato daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smart Counter versus Rubato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart CounterRubato
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (311 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings311 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperL.droid AppsYujiro Yonetsu

Bugs and requests

Smart Counter

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes when tapping 'Remove Ads'
  • App crashes with large counts (e.g., 6000)
  • App freezes iPad
  • App skips counts for odd numbers
  • Sound/video playback stops when launching app
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  • Cannot rename groups from 'New Group 1'
  • Total group counter doesn't always total correctly
  • App crashes when trying to remove ads

Requested features

4 requests
  • Make sound/video playback not stop when launching app
  • Add iCloud support
  • More color options
  • Allow unlimited free counters

Rubato

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smart Counter

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade$3.99
2 purchases

Rubato

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99

Questions

Is Smart Counter free?
Smart Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rubato free?
Rubato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smart Counter or Rubato have ads?
Smart Counter shows ads; Rubato does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Counter or Rubato?
Smart Counter ships an update weekly, and Rubato daily. Most recently, Smart Counter was updated on October 25, 2026 and Rubato on October 23, 2026.

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