Then vs ago
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Then
This app helps you understand and improve your daily habits by tracking your activities and mood. Gain insights into how you spend your time, identify patterns, and monitor your mental state to boost focus and well-being. Features include personalized activity tracking, focus timers, and data export.
- Activity and mood tracking
- Focus timer with widgets
- Mental health monitoring
- Detailed statistics and trends
- Data export (CSV)
- Password protection
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"Lost time is never found again" - Benjamin Franklin. To improve your productivity, you need to first understand your current behaviors and where you have room for improvement. This is where Then comes in - a time tracking app that helps you record your activities, understand how well you spend your time, and improve your focus, productivity, and overall well-being. With Then, it takes just seconds to start tracking your activities, and within a few days, you'll start to uncover patterns and gain insights into your daily life. You'll be able to see how much time you're spending on each activity and how it influences your mood, so you can make changes that lead to improved focus and productivity. But it's not just about tracking your time - Then also helps you avoid burnout by monitoring your mental state. You can see what makes you happy, stressed, or tired, and adjust your habits to improve your overall well-being. And, with the option to export your data, you can even analyze it yourself to gain even deeper insights. And, with its minimalistic and distraction-free design, Then makes time tracking a breeze. So, say goodbye to scattered thoughts, procrastination, and burnout, and hello to improved focus, productivity, and well-being. Download Then today and start building better time habits! With Then, you'll be able to: TRACK HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME - Quickly track your activities and emotions to get a better understanding of how you're spending your time. - Capture anything from focused work to leisure, exercise, and downtime. - Choose from over 120 icons to personalize your activities. - Easily make edits to past entries, so your data stays up-to-date. STAY FOCUSED & PRODUCTIVE - Keep a journal of all your daily activities and reflect on your timeline. - Stay focused on the task at hand with a Lock Screen widget and Live Activity focus timer. - Get reminders to keep up with your tracking, so you don't fall behind. - At-a-glance view of your current activity with a home screen widget. MONITOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH - Record your mood alongside your activities to see the impact they have on your emotions. - Identify the positive and negative influences in your life. - Monitor your work hours to avoid overworking and receive notifications when your planned activity is finished. DISCOVER STATS, INSIGHTS & TRENDS - Analyze how much time you spend on each activity daily, weekly, or in total. - Get a visual breakdown of your day or week with a pie chart. - Compare trends across days, weeks, and months to understand your habits. - Get a clear picture of your productivity with detailed statistics. KEEP YOUR DATA SAFE & PRIVATE - Export your data as a CSV file for further analysis. - Rest easy knowing your data is stored securely on your device and in your iCloud. - Set a password to keep your entries private. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Then is free to download and use. Paid subscription gives you access to detailed insights, iCloud sync, passcode protection, data export, and priority support. Should you choose to upgrade to a paid subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Auto-renewal may be turned off in your Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. You can also manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. GET IN TOUCH Privacy Policy: https://timestwelve.xyz/policies#privacy Terms of Use: https://timestwelve.xyz/policies#terms Contact us: hi@timestwelve.xyz
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Some things aren't daily habits and aren't on a calendar. Call Mum. Water the plants. Service the boiler. Change the toothbrush head. You mean to do them now and then, and you find out you haven't when something reminds you the hard way. ago is a list of those things and how long it has been. Mark one when you do it. That's all it asks. NO STREAKS. NOTHING TO BREAK. A streak counter turns a missed fortnight into a failure. But going five weeks between haircuts instead of four isn't a failure — it's information, and most of the time it's fine. ago doesn't score you. IT LEARNS THE GAP Every mark tells ago how long it had been. After three marks it has a median — your usual — and from then on it watches for the one that stretches past it. Not a target you set once in an optimistic mood, but the interval you actually keep. Change how often you do something and the app changes with you. A WORD WHEN SOMETHING DRIFTS One notification, sent only when a thing has gone longer than its usual gap. Never a daily reminder, never a badge, never a red number. Off until you turn it on, and switchable per thing. ON YOUR WRIST The whole watch app is a list and a button, because that is what a watch is for: you're standing in front of the plant you've just remembered to water. Mark it there and the phone has it a second later. A complication keeps the one you've left longest on your face all day. WIDGETS THAT ANSWER WITHOUT BEING OPENED One thing you choose, or a whole group summed up in a sentence — "Water the plants needs you, 12 days, against your usual 7." Home Screen and Lock Screen, in the app's own words rather than a dashboard of numbers. ALSO INSIDE Backdating — did it on Tuesday and forgot? Mark it on Tuesday. Notes on a mark — "small filling, bottom left". The detail you'll want in a year. Groups and search — home, the car, people. Filter the board down to one part of your life. iCloud sync — your own private database. New phone, same history. Archive — take something off the board without throwing its history away. Export — everything you've tracked, out of the app, whenever you want it. PRIVACY No account. No analytics. No servers of ours. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing tracking you between apps, and no advertising. What you track lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud account, which we have no way to read. FREE FOR THREE THINGS Not a trial that expires and not a crippled version — a free copy of ago tracks three things properly, forever, with widgets, notifications, the watch app, iCloud sync and export all included. ago+ removes the limit and adds the calendar, statistics across everything you track, warning days before something slips, all 47 themes, and the app's own colour and icon. It is a yearly subscription with a seven-day free trial, a weekly plan if you want it briefly, or a one-off lifetime purchase. ago+ is offered as auto-renewing subscriptions (Weekly, Annual) or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://sirekapps.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://sirekapps.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Then at 16.0 against ago's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Then sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ago sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Then ships an update every 2 weeks, ago every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Then | ago |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | times twelve OU | Piotr Sirek |
In-app purchases
Then
- Then Pro: Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Then Pro: Annual3 Days trial$22.991 Year
ago
- ago+ Weekly$2.997 Days
- ago+ Yearly$12.991 Year
- ago+ Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- ago+ Forever$49.99









