Timely vs TimelySelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timely
This tool helps teams manage their work week with clarity and predictability. It facilitates managing presence, assigning tasks, and understanding peer availability to foster collaboration and efficient work delivery.
- Manage presence (office, WFH, vacation)
- Design work sprints for clarity
- Self-assign tasks and activities
- View peer availability and work modes
- Automated daily huddle calls
- Access instant peer support
- Conduct sprint retrospectives
- Monitor peer workload for wellness
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In today’s volatile business environments where teams are agile to the speed of thought, we have predictability often just for a day or utmost a week ahead. Agility is less about going at high speed & more about going with least resistance, embracing the unknown in the moment. What gets done in a week & how, with utmost clarity, simplicity & playfulness is everything. Timely, helps your teams take work one week at a time & succeed. Key features: ● Remotemode Manage your presence at office, WFH status or Vacation status easily from the app with peer consensus. ● Worksprintdesign Gain high clarity on how your week looks like and predict the impact you can create by making your presence work. ● Selfassignment Pull activities you want to own up in your role or cross-functional & take a chance to challenge your potential. ● Peers'availability Get high visibility of your peers' availability, work modes and how occupied they've been. ● Daily huddle calls Receive automated daily huddle calls on your phone to participate in standups with your peer cluster, at a preset time. ● Peerpower Gain access to instant peer support within your peer network or across the org to seek help with work. ● Sprintretro Realign with your peer cluster to review the past sprint & co-created outcomes, along with learnings. ● Wellnesscheck See how occupied each peer has been over the last 12 weeks, to empathize with them for upcoming work. ● Capacity planning Predict the capacity you will have available for the next few weeks based on how your teams are engaged now. I am a project team member working at office or remotely, seeking predictability in my peers’ availability & high clarity in what needs done this week. On Timely, I can: 1. Manage my availability & work mode 2. See my peers’ availability & work mode 3. See how my work week looks like 4. Self-assign work that I want to pick up 5. Pick up cross-functional activities outside my role 6. Give / Get peer consensus on my planned absence I am a project manager / scrum master, driving high clarity in work breakdown every week, ensuring risks are sensed early & resolved, eliminating unnecessary panic. On Timely, I can: 1. Simplify work by breaking-down activities 2. Upload a sprint plan for the coming week 3. Clarify / elaborate on activities 4. Manage huddle calls & outcomes 5. Analyse sprint success week on week I am a team leader, ensuring even distribution of work among teammates & simplifying implementation for peers who need help. On Timely, I can: 1. See where my teammates are stuck 2. Check progress on planned sprint activities 3. Clarify / elaborate on activities 4. Manage huddle calls & outcomes 5. Analyse sprint success week on week I am an operations manager, ensuring predictability of work delivery, ROI metric and studying factors influencing consistency. On Timely, I can: 1. Check active deliveries & sprint success 2. Analyse what work mode is leading to consistent success 3. Analyse what work mode works for various roles 4. Manage people on-boarding & de-boarding, to maintain wellness 5. Manage office infrastructure for predicted demand
TimelySelf
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Working across borders shouldn't require manual timezone math or endless calendar confusion. TimelySelf is a visual workday optimizer and multi-timezone overlap engine designed for remote engineers, freelancers, contractors, and distributed global teams. Instead of basic numeric time converters, TimelySelf provides interactive, flat-design day and night timelines that map multi-client working hours, pinpoint your golden meeting overlap windows across custom split shifts, and effortlessly contextualize scheduled meetings directly in your local time. Key Features: • Interactive Visual Timelines: Instant visual clarity with flat-design celestial daylight, twilight, and night-shift gradients. • Multi-Client Working Hour Mapping: Add clients across any global timezone and visualize their availability against your own schedule. • Split Shift & Custom Hour Support: Set multiple working blocks per day (morning + evening shifts) and instantly calculate shared working hours. • Golden Overlap Engine: Automatically detect and rank the best friction-free meeting windows across all selected timezones. • Meeting Planner & Local Contextualizer: Add meetings with one tap and see exactly where they land across everyone’s local working hours. • Daylight Saving Time (DST) Tracking: Native IANA timezone transition detection alerts you before clock shifts disrupt your team. • Cross-Platform Sync: Securely save your preferences, clients, and meetings for instant access across your devices. Eliminate timezone fatigue and make asynchronous global collaboration seamless with TimelySelf.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Timely at 12.0 against TimelySelf's 15.1. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Timely | TimelySelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Codewave Technologies Private Limited | Neutron LLC |
In-app purchases
Timely
No in-app purchases
TimelySelf
No in-app purchases









