Time Tracker vs Anchor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Tracker
This app helps you understand where your time goes by combining time tracking with goal setting. Monitor activities, set targets, and gain insights through reports and statistics to build better habits and align your time with what's important.
- Track work, study, exercise, and more
- Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
- Utilize stopwatch, countdown, or Pomodoro timers
- View time patterns with charts and reports
- Organize activities into categories and tasks
- Home screen widgets and Live Activity support
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Track your time. Set goals. Build better habits. Timelog combines time tracking and goal tracking in one app — so you can see exactly where your time goes and make sure it aligns with what matters to you. TRACK ANYTHING Whether it's work, study, exercise, reading, music, or side projects — start a timer, log your hours, and see your patterns over time. Use a stopwatch, countdown, or Pomodoro timer depending on how you work best. SET MEANINGFUL GOALS Set daily, weekly, or monthly targets and limits for any activity. Track your streaks. Get predictions on whether you'll hit your goals based on your current pace. Stay motivated with reminders. GET CLEAR INSIGHTS See where your time actually goes with charts, statistics, trends, and weekly/monthly reports. Activity patterns, mood tracking, and task breakdowns help you understand not just how much time you spend — but how you spend it. STAY ORGANIZED Group activities into categories. Break them into tasks. Add notes and track your mood. Use it your way — Timelog adapts to how you work, study, or live. DESIGNED FOR YOU - Light, dark, and true black (OLED) modes - Home screen widgets - Live Activity with Dynamic Island - Available in multiple languages WHY TIMELOG? Most habit trackers just count checkmarks. Timelog tracks the time behind the habit — because spending 5 hours a week reading matters more than checking a box. You have more time than you think. Timelog helps you find it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Anchor
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Some apps were designed to trap you. The feed doesn't end, and "five more minutes" always seems to turn into forty. That's not a willpower problem, it's the design working as intended. Anchor blocks the apps that do this by default, so opening one is always something you decided, never a doomscroll you fell into. THE IDEA Screen Time is built to be turned on. Anchor is built to already be on. There's no timer to start and no "focus mode" to remember. The apps you choose are blocked from the moment setup finishes, permanently, as the baseline state of your phone. The difference isn't less time in these apps. It's who decides when you get it. Want in? You ask for it. Open Anchor, set how long you actually need — five minutes, twenty, whatever the moment calls for — and access is granted for exactly that long. When it runs out, blocking resumes. This is the anchor that prevents you from losing your days to doomscrolling. RECLAIMED TIME, NOT WILLPOWER Anchor isn't a fast to survive. It doesn't track streaks or shame a slip. It tracks one thing: how much of the time you used to lose is coming back to you, every day, measured against the baseline you set for yourself in onboarding. Give it your age, and it shows you how much of your life you get back without these apps quietly eating it. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps and websites you drift into without deciding to. • From then on, every one of them is blocked, all the time. • Reach for one anyway, and the block screen meets you instead. • Want it? Open Anchor, set a duration, and go. One deliberate ask, no lecture. • When the time's up, the block returns on its own. Set a new intent whenever you want back in. BUILT TO GET OUT OF YOUR WAY • A Home Screen widget and Control Center button to drop anchor without hunting for the app. • Ask Siri to start or check a session. • A Live Activity keeps the countdown visible in your Dynamic Island while a session runs. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Anchor runs on Apple's Screen Time framework entirely on-device. The apps you block, the time you spend, and the breaks you take never leave your phone. There's no account, no server, and nothing to opt out of, because nothing is collected in the first place. Anchor doesn't ask you to want less. It makes sure that whenever you reach for one of these apps, it's because you decided to — not because your thumb got there first.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anchor at none against Time Tracker's 5. Time Tracker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Time Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Anchor asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Time Tracker | Anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (89 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C.G CodeGamma Software Technologies LTD | Niklas Buehler |
In-app purchases
Time Tracker
- Timelog Plus monthly$1.991 Month
- Timelog Plus yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Timelog Plus yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Timelog Plus$17.99
- Timelog Plus (Lifetime)$35.99
Anchor
No in-app purchases









