Gika vs JotDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gika
Map your time to understand where your hours go. Track activities with multiple timer types, categorize sessions with one-tap labels, and visualize your day or month. Gain insights into your habits and optimize your schedule.
- Multiple timer types (count-up, countdown, Pomodoro)
- One-tap session labeling
- Daily timeline and monthly calendar views
- Deep summaries and insights
- Widgets and Live Activities support
- Customizable themes
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Your time, clearly mapped Build better days by seeing exactly where your hours go. • Track anything, any way. Run count-up, countdown, or Pomodoro timers—or all three at once when you’re multitasking. • One-tap labeling. Every session fits into Thrive, Balanced, or Limit—no messy tag soup. • Daily timeline & Month calendar. Zoom in to a single day’s grid or zoom out to spot patterns across an entire month. • Deep summaries & Insights. Instantly know how much time went to sleep, workouts, meditation, and your top three projects—by day, week, quarter, or year. • Widgets & Live Activities. Start, pause, and glance at progress right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. • Four handcrafted themes. Match Gika to your mood—or your phone. Gika Premium unlocks Pomodoro mode, the timeline grid, rich summaries, and more. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewing plan and help us keep the updates coming. Gika uses Apple’s standard End User License Agreement. For details, visit: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ HealthKit usage. Gika can read your sleep and workout data and display them in the app and app widgets. This feature is entirely optional. Most importantly, your data never leave your devices. Gika does not collect any data from you. All your data stay in your devices and your personal iCloud accounts. We cannot access any of them. Your privacy is secure with us. For details, visit: https://liums.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-131b65eeaa764cb8aa69298a57f89765
JotDay
Effortlessly track your time with automatic exercise and sleep data retrieval from Apple HealthKit. Monitor app usage, view your day in a clear timeline, and analyze time distribution with daily, weekly, and monthly views. Includes a minimalist focus timer with Live Activity support.
- Automatic sleep and workout tracking
- App usage tracking via Shortcuts
- Minimalist focus timer with Live Activity
- Concise timeline view
- Daily, weekly, and monthly time views
- Data analysis for time distribution
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JotDay is a time tracking app designed to simplify your recording experience and enhance efficiency. It can automatically retrieve your exercise and sleep time, track app usage through Shortcuts, eliminating the need for manual input. The concise timeline, time blocks, weekly view, and monthly view allow you to have a clearer understanding of your time allocation. Key Features: 1. Sleep and Workout Tracking: Automatically fetches sleep and exercise data from the Apple HealthKit health app for convenient daily life statistics. 2. App Tracking: Configure Shortcuts to track app usage. 3. Minimalist Focus Timer: Supports Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and flip timing, allowing you to start timing quickly at any time and check the timing progress. 4. Timeline: Presents your day in an intuitive timeline, allowing you to easily view activity records and add notes. 5. Time Views: Clean day, week, and month views for easy comparison of time 6. Data Analysis: Easily understand the distribution of different types of focused time. Monthly and Annual Membership Subscription Terms: 1. Upon confirmation of purchase and payment, your subscription will automatically renew through your iTunes account.。 2. Your Apple iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, and the subscription period will be extended by one subscription period upon successful payment. 3. To cancel the renewal, please manually disable the auto-renewal feature in the iTunes/AppleID settings management at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. 4. During the trial period, if the iTunes account does not cancel the subscription, the subscription will be automatically activated and billed at the end of the trial period. Any unused trial time will be forfeited upon purchase of the subscription. 5. This service is optional for you to cancel. If you choose not to cancel, the renewal service for the next billing cycle will be activated for you. Privacy Policy: https://jotday.super.site/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JotDay at 4.7 against Gika's 3.5. JotDay also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 2). Gika's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). 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
Both are free to download. Gika sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and JotDay sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
JotDay holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: JotDay has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gika ships an update every 6 days, JotDay monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gika | JotDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 84.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hangzhou Hu Di Shen Shan Technology Co., Ltd. | Remix Design Studio |
Customer experience
Gika
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In-app purchases
Gika
- Gika Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Gika Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
JotDay
- JotDay Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- JotDay Pro Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- JotDay Pro Annual to Lifetime$5.99
- JotDay Pro Lifetime$9.99









