Comparison

UpTimer vs DoBuff

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

Head to head
About

UpTimer

Track your time and link it to your income to understand its value. Use it to reflect on your activities, break negative habits, and make daily journaling and summaries easier. Improve yourself by analyzing your time usage.

Highlights
  • Time tracking with income correlation
  • Activity reflection and interruption
  • Daily journaling and summary tools
  • Self-improvement through time analysis
  • Feedback on time usage
Features
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有任何问题请给我发邮件357116582@qq.com或者通过app左上角的帮助反馈联系我 应用简介 记录时间,获得反馈,然后提升自己。 时间就是金钱。每一次记录时间都会和你的填写的收入挂钩,会根据记录的时间性质和时间长短增加或消耗。 每一次停顿,都可以是一次反思。可以事无巨细记录自己一天的所有活动,积极活动可以通过记录来进行回顾,消极的活动也可以通过记录来打断,进行反思。 有了记录每天写日记、定期做记录总结就会很方便。

About

DoBuff

Enhance your reminders and calendar with powerful tools for time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize your tasks on a timeline, create unique weekly and yearly plans, and utilize focus timers with progress bars. Gain insights with trend statistics and countdowns.

Highlights
  • Timeline view for tasks
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
  • Focus timer with progress bar
  • Trend statistics and heatmaps
  • Countdown timers
  • Calendar integration
  • Widgets
Features
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB

Screenshots

UpTimer4 screens
DoBuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: DoBuff at 39 against UpTimer's 1. DoBuff also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). UpTimer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. UpTimer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

UpTimer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoBuff has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UpTimer ships an update every 4 weeks, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
UpTimer versus DoBuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpTimerDoBuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings139 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer帅 黄宇 李

Customer experience

UpTimer

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

DoBuff

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

UpTimer

One-time4
  • 月会员$0.99
  • 半年会员$4.99
  • 年会员$5.99
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  • 永久会员$12.99
3 purchases

DoBuff

Subscriptions2
  • 月会员$0.991 Month
  • 年会员$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$6.99

Questions

Is UpTimer free?
UpTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DoBuff free?
DoBuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, UpTimer or DoBuff?
UpTimer is rated higher. UpTimer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while DoBuff averages 4.8 from 39 ratings.
Do UpTimer or DoBuff have ads?
Neither UpTimer nor DoBuff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UpTimer or DoBuff?
UpTimer ships an update every 4 weeks, and DoBuff weekly. Most recently, UpTimer was updated on August 31, 2026 and DoBuff on September 5, 2026.

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