Comparison

Pips! vs Trackalot

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

Head to head
About

Pips!

Generate custom tone sequences for time synchronization, inspired by global broadcast signals. Control frequency, duration, and volume to create unique 'pips' for personal or professional use. Includes presets from international broadcasters.

Highlights
  • Build custom pip sequences
  • Control frequency, duration, and volume
  • Use built-in presets
  • Recreate historical time signals
  • Generate new tone combinations
Features
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Pips is a tone sequence generator inspired by the alluring & mysterious Greenwich Time Signal and its countless friends broadcast around the world. Both amateur and professional pip connoisseurs have the power to recreate time signals of yore or innovate new combinations of boops that will delight the world's radio lovers and keep things in sync. Become time by becoming boop. This is your goal. Features! - Build a sequence of one or more custom pips and play them through your device. - Control the frequency, duration, and volume of your pips so people of all ages can keep their clocks on time. - Use our built in presets to kickstart your new pip-filled existence. Includes time signals used by international broadcasters like the BBC & CBC as well as time stations like NIST's WWV. Pips will give you the power to tame time by delineating it in your own personal style. Synchronize yourself, your family, your life. You control time now. Congratulations.

About

Trackalot

Log repeatable events instantly with one tap. Organize trackers into folders and add optional notes or values for context. Visualize patterns with per-tracker charts and export your data for analysis.

Highlights
  • One-tap event logging
  • Optional notes and values
  • Folder organization
  • Per-tracker charts
  • Data export (CSV, JSON)
  • Home screen widgets
  • Manual backup and restore
Features
Currently charting
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Stop wondering, “Did I do that?” Trackalot is an outboard memory for the small, repeatable events life makes easy to forget. Log the moment you take medication, feed the dog, drink water, finish a workout, complete a chore, notice a symptom, or do anything else worth remembering. One tap creates a timestamped record, so the answer is waiting when your memory isn’t. Capture it in the moment Start quickly with an editable Health, Habits, or Pets TrackPack, or create folders and trackers from scratch. Tap to log instantly. Touch and hold to add an optional note or change the timestamp, or set a tracker to always open its optional note field on in-app taps. Swipe right to edit a tracker, swipe left to open its report, or shake your iPhone to undo the latest tap. Choose how trackers are arranged in All Folders and in each individual folder: alphabetical A–Z or Z–A, newest or oldest recent activity first, or your own Custom order. Set a separate order for Apple Watch from iPhone Settings. Turn taps into insight Review one tracker, one folder, or everything together. Switch between rolling 1-day, 7-day, 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year views. Follow charts, totals, today and this week counts, streaks, and chronological history. Edit or delete individual entries whenever you need to correct the record. Log from wherever you are Add a one-tap Home Screen widget or log from Apple Watch with the companion app and complication. Ask Siri or use Shortcuts to log a chosen tracker or open Trackalot from your own automations. Folder names appear in widget selection and on the widget itself, while the Watch groups trackers by folder. Hide trackers you do not need on your wrist to keep the list focused. Built to prevent mistakes Velocity Check helps block accidental repeat taps across iPhone, Home Screen widgets, and Apple Watch. It is on by default, uses a separate cooldown for each tracker, and can be set from 1 to 60 seconds or turned off. Optional Count Warnings help with habit building or reduction without blocking a log. Set a maximum for custom rolling hours, rolling 24 hours, or a calendar day, week, or month. Trackalot warns as you approach the maximum, at the limit, and on every tap beyond it across iPhone, widgets, Apple Watch, and Shortcuts. Automatic backups target a four-hour schedule. Trackalot uses iCloud when available, falls back to local storage when needed, keeps the newest 100 backups, and can offer to restore your history when an empty reinstall finds a previous backup. Your data, your way Export the report you are viewing as CSV or a print-ready PDF. Export your complete archive as CSV or JSON, send an individual tracker’s entries to Calendar, or create and restore backups manually whenever you choose. No account. No ads. No subscription. No user tracking. Trackalot includes: - Fast one-tap timestamped logging - Optional notes and custom timestamps - Editable Health, Habits, and Pets TrackPacks - Folders and folder-aware tracker labels - Global, per-folder, and Apple Watch sorting - Optional per-tracker Count Warnings - Individual, folder, and all-tracker reports - Rolling views from 1 day to 1 year - Charts, totals, streaks, and editable history - Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch logging - Siri and Shortcuts actions - Adjustable duplicate-tap protection - Shake to undo the latest tap - Automatic and manual backup and restore - CSV, JSON, PDF, print, and Calendar export - Light, dark, and system appearance - Optional haptics and sounds For habits, routines, symptoms, medication, pet care, focus sessions, meals, hydration, chores, workouts, mood checks, or your own completely specific thing: if it happens repeatedly and you want to remember it, Trackalot is ready to tap.

Screenshots

Pips!3 screens
Trackalot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pips! at Free against Trackalot's $2.99. Trackalot's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 25 months). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Pips! is free to download; Trackalot costs $2.99 up front. Pips! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trackalot asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pips! against 5.0 for Trackalot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trackalot has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pips! ships an update every 25 months, Trackalot every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Pips! versus Trackalot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPips!Trackalot
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#151 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason ThompsonJASON PETER DEFILLIPPO

Customer experience

Pips!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Trackalot

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pips!

One-time1
  • Tip Jar$4.99
None

Trackalot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pips! free?
Pips! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trackalot free?
Trackalot costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pips! or Trackalot?
Pips! and Trackalot are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Pips! or Trackalot have ads?
Neither Pips! nor Trackalot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pips! or Trackalot?
Pips! ships an update every 25 months, and Trackalot every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pips! was updated on September 30, 2026 and Trackalot on October 9, 2026.

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