Collections Database vs Everytime App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collections Database
Organize anything with a personal database app. It offers over 20 field types, customizable layouts, and pre-built templates for common uses like books or expenses. Advanced features and iCloud sync are available.
- 20+ field types (text, number, picture, barcode, etc.)
- Customizable fields and display styles
- Pre-built templates (books, contacts, expenses, etc.)
- Organize with collections and subcollections
- Password, Face ID, and Touch ID protection
- iCloud synchronization across devices
- Advanced fields and calculations (Pro version)
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Collections is a personal database app to organize anything. 1. A field for every use Collections supports over 20+ field types: • Text, Number • Boolean • Picture • Select • Email, URL, Phone • Password • Date, Time • Color • Barcode And with the Pro version you can use even more advanced fields. • Document reference - Link documents together • Group - Add multiple values for a field • Formula - Create a formula for calculated values. Powerful formula editor with full support to math functions like SUM, AVG • Sources - Import documents from external APIs with Javascript 2. Customizable • Add and reorder fields • Add a separator between fields to better visualize them • Fields have different display styles like primary, secondary, thumbnail • Filter and sort data 3. Templates Collections includes basic templates to get started: • Books • Contacts • Expenses • Subscriptions • Credentials • Inventory • School 5. Advanced management Collections has different tools to help you creating the data model. SUBCOLLECTIONS Organize data into collections and subcollections. Simply said, they are like folders. LISTS A list contains items used in documents and it's very flexible. It could represent a Genre for a book or a Status like 'Available', 'Out of stock' for an object in the inventory. 6. Security • Protect collections using a password, Face ID or Touch ID • Sensitive data such as passwords are encrypted by default 7. iCloud Sync Data is synced automatically between devices through iCloud. 8. Apple's Shortcuts support Expand the app capabilities with Apple's Shortcuts support. 9. Pro version features • Add unlimited documents (free version is limited to 100 documents) • Add files to documents • Add advanced fields • Views • Grid • Use Summary to perform calculations across documents
Everytime App
Log and track any event or activity for personal use, family, or teams. Organize tasks, monitor habits, and manage projects with detailed history and statistics. Never lose track of important events again with this versatile digital logbook.
- Create custom activities
- Log events with history
- View activity statistics
- Set reminders
- Export logs to CSV
- Team and family tracking
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Everytime is an extremely flexible event or activity tracker for you, your team or your family. For work, for your family or just for yourself - think of it as your little log book. Create any Activity (eg. car maintenance, gardening, health habits, household or team tasks), save the Events for it, and you will be able to access to that Activity's history in one place, with statistics about when things happened, who did them, set reminders, export them to csv, and many more features. No more lost notes, conflicting stories or needing a superhuman memory! All your logs in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Collections Database at 187 against Everytime App's 3. Collections Database also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Collections Database sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Everytime App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $18.00 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Collections Database against 4.7 for Everytime App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collections Database has 187 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Collections Database ships an update fortnightly, Everytime App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Collections Database | Everytime App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (187 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matteo D'Ignazio | NW Lights, LLC. |
Customer experience
Collections Database
Everytime App
Bugs and requests
Collections Database
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard issues when using search
- Inconsistent behavior between iOS and macOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Collaborative features for sharing databases
- More advanced reporting and visualization options
- Improved import/export functionality
- Ability to customize the appearance and layout
Everytime App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Collections Database
- Collections Ultra (Upgrade)$1.99
- Collections Pro$7.99
- Collections Ultra$9.99
Everytime App
- Premium 6 Months$18.006 Months
- Premium Year$25.001 Year
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