Comparison

Pins for Pinboard vs Time Stream

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

Head to head
About

Pins for Pinboard

Access and manage your Pinboard.in bookmarks on iOS devices. Organize links with smart collections, revisit past saves, and easily share new content. Offers a modern interface with adaptive layouts for various Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Browse bookmarks, tags, and sites
  • Create Smart Collections for filtering
  • Revisit bookmarks saved on this day historically
  • Save links via share extension and Shortcuts
  • Home Screen widget for link rediscovery
  • Spotlight search for bookmarks
  • Drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, Handoff support
Features
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Pins brings your Pinboard.in bookmarks to iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. • Browse your bookmarks, tags, and sites in one place. • Create Smart Collections to filter bookmarks by title, description, tags, or URL. • Revisit bookmarks you saved on this day in previous years. • Save links from browsers and other apps with the share extension or Shortcuts. • Rediscover saved links with a Home Screen widget. • Find bookmarks through Spotlight. • Use drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and Handoff. • Choose separate accent colours for light and dark appearances. Built for iOS 27 and later, with Liquid Glass controls and layouts that adapt to iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo displays. A Pinboard.in account is required. Additional features are available through in-app purchases.

About

Time Stream

Visualize your daily routines and calendar events on a single timeline. This app helps establish consistent habits, manage complex schedules, and understand how your time flows with real-time estimates and conflict warnings.

Highlights
  • Visual timeline of routines and calendar events
  • Customizable morning, evening, and custom routines
  • Real-time dynamic completion estimates
  • Calendar integration
  • Conflict warnings for time thresholds and sleep schedules
  • ADHD-friendly interface
  • Local-first data storage
Features
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Take Control of your routines, no matter how your day flows Time Stream allows you to see how your routines and their activities flow with and around your calendar events, sleep schedule, and important times throughout the day in a single, visual timeline. Especially great if, like the developer team, you could use some help with time perception, establishing consistent routines, or balancing complex schedules. Establish consistent routines that stick * Create customizable morning, evening, and custom routines * Sequence activities with estimated durations * Mark activities complete, skip non-essential tasks, or reset progress * Pause and resume routines when interruptions occur See how your time flows * View dynamic completion estimates that update in real-time * Track progress with intuitive visual indicators * Receive warnings when activities exceed estimated duration * Understand exactly how your day is progressing at a glance * Monitor time between activities with buffer visualization Harmonize all of your time commitments * Integrate with your device calendars * Visualize how routines fit around existing calendar events * Set critical time thresholds with visual conflict warnings * Define wake and bed times * Get warnings if your routines might interfere with your planned sleep schedule Designed with accessibility in mind * Multiple colour themes and appearance options * Light/dark mode support * Reduced cognitive load through visual cues * ADHD-friendly interface with clear sequential progress * Privacy-focused with local-first data storage Built to provide the structure and visual clarity needed to transform how you interact with your time, your most precious resource. (And if you’re a Beeminder user, you can sync your activity completions to your Beeminder goals)

Screenshots

Pins for Pinboard4 screens
Time Stream4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pins for Pinboard at Free against Time Stream's $7.99. Pins for Pinboard also leads on ratings volume (327 vs 2) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Time Stream's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). On ads 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

Pins for Pinboard is free to download; Time Stream costs $7.99 up front. Pins for Pinboard sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Time Stream asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pins for Pinboard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pins for Pinboard has 327 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Pins for Pinboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Time Stream's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, Time Stream every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pins for Pinboard versus Time Stream: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPins for PinboardTime Stream
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating4.8 (327 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings327 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.018.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperQuang Anh DoWellman Micro(chip)managed Systems Inc.

Customer experience

Pins for Pinboard

All ratings327 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative14.7%

Time Stream

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

Bugs and requests

Pins for Pinboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Search not working
  • App crashing when selecting channels
  • Tags not refreshing accurately
  • Odd URLs being queried on launch

Requested features

4 requests
  • Tag autocomplete on Mac
  • Reader mode for articles
  • Advanced search and filtering options
  • Custom lists or collections

Time Stream

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pins for Pinboard

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
Show 1 more
  • Unlock All Features2 variants$14.99
None

Time Stream

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pins for Pinboard free?
Pins for Pinboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Stream free?
Time Stream costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pins for Pinboard or Time Stream?
Pins for Pinboard is rated higher. Pins for Pinboard averages 4.8 out of 5 from 327 ratings, while Time Stream averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Pins for Pinboard or Time Stream have ads?
Neither Pins for Pinboard nor Time Stream shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pins for Pinboard or Time Stream?
Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, and Time Stream every 3 days. Most recently, Pins for Pinboard was updated on November 3, 2026 and Time Stream on October 30, 2026.

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