Comparison

1000 Hours Outside vs CircleMind

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

Head to head
About

1000 Hours Outside

Track your time spent outdoors with an easy-to-use timer that runs in the background. Enhance your experience by journaling adventures, adding photos, and creating profiles for family members. Unlock badges, connect with friends, and visualize your progress.

Highlights
  • Background time tracking
  • Journaling and photo uploads
  • Multiple family profiles
  • Milestone badges
  • Friend connections
  • Color-coded time chart
  • Community map feature
Features
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Effortlessly keep a digital record of your hours spent outside with the Official 1000 Hours Outside app. Easy timer functionality - just open the app and click play to start the timer, then put the phone down and enjoy the outdoors! The app will track your time in the background so you don't have to think about it. Additionally, you can become a member so you can: • Keep a journal of your adventures by jotting down notes • Upload photos for memory keepsakes for any day • Add up to nine additional profiles to track individual hours for members of your family • Unlock hours, place and streak milestone badges to share with friends • Add friends who also use the app to see what they've been up to • Color your own time tracking chart • Use our map feature to see where other 1KHO members have gone on adventures or left reviews - or leave some of your own! Think of this app as your outdoors companion, but one that isn't designed for endless scrolling - just simple, fun utility to help you unlock all the wonderful cognitive, physical, emotional and mental health benefits of prioritizing time outside! EULA agreement can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CircleMind

Features
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Some things you can control. Some you can influence. Most, you can only worry about. CircleMind is built on one idea from Stephen Covey: sort what is on your mind into three circles — Control, Influence, Concern — and spend your energy where it actually changes something. WRITE IT DOWN, THEN PLACE IT Every worry becomes a note on your board. Three questions decide where it belongs: can you decide the outcome? Can you act on it, even if someone else decides? Or is it simply out of your hands? Learning to place a worry yourself is the whole point — the app never does it behind your back. REFLECT, IN FIVE STEPS A guided flow that takes one worry from "this is on my mind" to "here is the one thing I will do about it". YOUR DEVICE THINKS WITH YOU On a note you cannot control, CircleMind can reframe it: what is genuinely out of your hands, what is still yours to act on, and small concrete steps. Accept a step and it files itself in your Circle of Control — which is the move the whole method points at. This runs entirely on your device, on Apple Intelligence. Your notes are never sent to a server. Not to ours, not to anyone's. That is not a setting you switch on; it is the only way the feature works. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR WEEK Insights shows how your notes fall across the three circles. With Pro, your device reads back the week you actually had: what moved, what stalled, and the one thing worth your attention next. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE • 10 notes • One guided reflection a week • Three AI reframes a week • The Circle of Control guide • Your distribution chart • iCloud sync across your devices CIRCLEMIND PRO • Unlimited notes and reflections • Unlimited on-device AI reframing • Your weekly summary, written on your device • Full Insights: trends, emotional intensity, what you completed and what you let go • All three guides CircleMind is a thinking tool. It is not a health app, and it is not a substitute for a professional. If what you write is weighing on you, the app will point you to people who can help. SUBSCRIPTION CircleMind Pro is available monthly, or yearly with one week free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://nativlab.app/circlemind/#privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

1000 Hours Outside4 screens
CircleMind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CircleMind at none against 1000 Hours Outside's shown. 1000 Hours Outside's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. 1000 Hours Outside sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CircleMind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
1000 Hours Outside versus CircleMind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1000 Hours OutsideCircleMind
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeam Yurich LLCAlex Lombry

Bugs and requests

1000 Hours Outside

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Timer stops working when app is in background
  • Issues with logging and syncing data across profiles
  • Inconsistencies in time tracking and reporting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to view and edit individual timer entries
  • Implement weekly/monthly summary views
  • Introduce a widget for quick access on the home screen
  • Allow syncing of data across multiple devices
  • Add more customization options and data visualizations

CircleMind

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

1000 Hours Outside

Subscriptions6
  • Adventure Map (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Membership Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Adventure Map (Yearly)$19.991 Year
  • Premium Subscription Yearly$24.991 Year
  • Membership Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Badge Set 2$0.99
  • Badge Set 3$0.99
  • PDF Journal Export$1.99
2 purchases

CircleMind

Subscriptions2
  • CircleMind Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • CircleMind Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is 1000 Hours Outside free?
1000 Hours Outside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CircleMind free?
CircleMind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 1000 Hours Outside or CircleMind have ads?
1000 Hours Outside shows ads; CircleMind does not.

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