Comparison

Fast Time Log vs Cuebird

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

Head to head
About

Fast Time Log

Effortlessly monitor your daily activities with a simple, intuitive interface. Quickly start, stop, and edit time logs with single taps or drag-and-drop gestures. Utilize widgets for seamless timer management without opening the application.

Highlights
  • One-tap timer changes
  • Tap and drag to edit logs
  • Widget for quick timer switching
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Efficient time management
Features
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Efficiently track how you spend your time: - One tap to change timers. - Tap and drag to edit your time log, or double tap for more options. - Use the Widget to switch timers with a single tap without opening the app. I wrote this app because I was frustrated by how much effort was required for simple operations in other time tracking apps. Hopefully you find my solution useful too!

About

Cuebird

This app helps users manage daily routines with visual and auditory cues, breaking them down into timed, color-coded steps. It supports shared routines for households and adapts to individual timing to ensure tasks are completed on schedule.

Highlights
  • Timed, color-coded routine steps
  • Shared household routines
  • Visual time bar for routine overview
  • Auditory cues and voice recordings
  • Proportional routine compression
  • Real alarms, not notifications
  • Adaptive timing based on actual usage
Features
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See the time, hear your next step, walk out the door on time. Cuebird turns any routine (morning, lunch break, bedtime) into small, timed, color-coded steps and moves you through them automatically. Built for neurodivergent adults. Kind to every brain. HOUSEHOLDS Link the people you live with into a household. Start a routine and everyone gets a gentle offer to jump in, landing where you already are, not back at step one. Joining is one tap, and sitting one out is free: nobody is ever told either way. Be in more than one household at once, your own and the one at your mum's, and every routine says which one it came from. It is all end-to-end encrypted. DO IT TOGETHER In the same room, run a routine in step. Everyone starts on a shared 3, 2, 1, and pause, skip, or a minute back move for the whole group at once, so nobody is left behind. Near each other it is instant. Apart, it stays in sync across your household. Want your own timing? One tap, and your routine keeps going on its own. INVITE BY TEXT, OR BY QR Send someone a link. They tap it and they are in, even if your phone is closed. Together in person? Show the code on your screen for them to scan. Either way, one tap and they are in the household. TIME YOU CAN SEE While a routine runs, the whole screen becomes the current step's color. From across the room, mid-shower, without reading: blue means shower, amber means coffee. A color bar of the steps shows the shape of your time before you start. OUT THE DOOR ON TIME Set when a routine starts and when you have to be done. Cuebird shows the window, adds up your steps, and tells you plainly whether they fit. Running late? One control compresses the routine so you still walk out on time. HEAR YOUR NEXT STEP A chime marks every transition, or let Cuebird speak: "Next: Shower, 10 minutes." A 30-second heads-up warns before longer steps end. Prefer quiet? Silent mode keeps it to haptics. You can also record any step in your own voice. Recordings stay on your device and never sync. REAL ALARMS, NOT NOTIFICATIONS Give a routine a start time and days, and it rings with the system's full-screen alarm: through silent mode, through Focus, even with the app closed. Tap Start and you are already in it. BUILT THE WAY YOUR WEEK ACTUALLY WORKS One routine can ring at several times, each with its own days: weekdays at 7:00, weekends at 9:00. Your list sorts itself around today, and the Schedule view shows everything that will ring this week. IT LEARNS YOUR REAL TIMING Cuebird records every run and shows how long your routine ACTUALLY takes versus what you planned: "Morning really takes 42 minutes, not 35." Then it updates your plan with one tap. STARTING IS ONE TAP Every routine has a play button right on its card, no menus between you and momentum. For the times you do not need a whole routine, Quick Timer and Ring Me At are one tap away. NO SHAME BUILT IN Pause says "no rush." Skipping is a first-class button, and if you skip by mistake you can undo it. Need a minute back? Take one. Finishing celebrates every run, and one missed day never breaks your streak. That is what the habit-formation research actually says. Cuebird never scolds you. EVERYWHERE YOU NEED IT - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity: glance without opening the app - Home Screen widget: start a routine in one tap - Apple Watch: your step and countdown on your wrist; pause, resume or skip from there - Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Morning in Cuebird," or run routines from your automations - Mac: runs on Apple silicon Macs too ONE PURCHASE COVERS YOUR FAMILY Family Sharing is on, so up to six family members get it with one purchase. You can also send any routine as a link, ready for their own times. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Buy it once. No subscription, no ads, no accounts, no analytics, no data collection. Your own routines sync through your private iCloud, no login ever. Households stay end-to-end encrypted, and Cuebird has no servers and cannot read any of it.

Screenshots

Fast Time Log4 screens
Cuebird4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fast Time Log at Free against Cuebird's $0.99. Fast Time Log also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). Cuebird's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 61 months). 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

Fast Time Log is free to download; Cuebird costs $0.99 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 Fast Time Log against 5.0 for Cuebird. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fast Time Log ships an update every 61 months, Cuebird daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fast Time Log versus Cuebird: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFast Time LogCuebird
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 61 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan KummerfeldMichael Petrillo

Customer experience

Fast Time Log

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cuebird

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

In-app purchases

None

Fast Time Log

No in-app purchases

None

Cuebird

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fast Time Log free?
Fast Time Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cuebird free?
Cuebird costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fast Time Log or Cuebird?
Fast Time Log and Cuebird are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Fast Time Log or Cuebird have ads?
Neither Fast Time Log nor Cuebird shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fast Time Log or Cuebird?
Fast Time Log ships an update every 61 months, and Cuebird daily. Most recently, Fast Time Log was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cuebird on October 31, 2026.

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