RescueTime vs AisleUp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RescueTime
Understand and manage your time automatically. This app helps you block distractions, track activities on your mobile and desktop, and set productivity goals. Gain insights into your workday and improve focus.
- Automatic time tracking
- Distraction blocking (Focus Sessions)
- Activity categorization
- Task timers
- Offline activity logging
- Home screen widgets
- Productivity goals and alerts
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RescueTime helps you track time, block distractions, manage goals, and understand your full workday across phone and desktop. Together this gives you a clear view of your habits and the tools to improve them. Understand where your time goes, stay focused when it matters, and build better workdays without extra effort. One subscription works across all your devices, syncing your data to give you a complete picture of your time on mobile and desktop. **Created For iOS** RescueTime for iOS brings powerful, simple focus tools to your phone: • Automatic app tracking: see app activity with productivity ratings and daily and weekly summaries (optional Screen Time permission). • Focus Sessions with optional app blocking: stay on task with time-boxing, optionally grant permission to block distractions in real time. • Project tracking: log time to specific projects and track progress across sessions and timers. • Offline time: add meetings, calls, and other offline activities to complete your day. • Reporting: View and manage your time across all your devices in the app. • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian. **Focus Sessions** Start a Focus Session when you need uninterrupted time to work. RescueTime blocks distractions, tracks your progress, and delivers a summary when you're done. Use timers for time boxing or to track open-ended tasks. Sessions and timers can be linked to projects, so your focused time always counts toward something meaningful. **Full Workday Perspective** Install RescueTime on your desktop to see the full picture. Your activity, focus sessions, and progress sync seamlessly across devices. Please note that RescueTime for desktop is only available in English. **Goals And Insights** Set daily goals for focused work, screen-free time, or better online habits. RescueTime tracks your progress automatically and shows how your behavior aligns with your goals. Weekly summaries highlight trends over time, so you can see what's working and what's not. **Permissions** Several optional features require elevated permissions. Reporting: tracking phone app activity requires Screen Time permission, and you can choose to use this feature or not. Focus Sessions: using the optional app blocking part of sessions requires Screen Time permission in order to offer real-time intervention. **Plans** Solo Focus includes automatic tracking with full history, Focus Sessions with real-time app blocking, offline activity logging, goals with daily targets, alerts and automations, advanced filtering, and integrations. Solo+ includes everything in Solo Focus, plus automated project and task tracking with RescueTime Timesheets. Link activities and timers to projects to automatically generate timesheets or track progress across work and personal goals. Free includes automatic basic tracking, daily and weekly reports, the Productivity Pulse, and two weeks of activity history. Offline time logging, project tracking, and distraction blocking require a subscription. **For Teams** RescueTime also offers team plans with shared projects, team dashboards, manager insights, and centralized settings. Team plans are only available at rescuetime.com. **Privacy** RescueTime does not record keystrokes, capture screenshots, or read message and website content. You control what is tracked, can pause tracking at any time, and can export or delete your data whenever you choose.
AisleUp
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AisleUp is a shopping list for the people you live with. Add what you need, anytime. When someone in the household arrives at a store, their list opens — and everyone else gets a quiet ping that says "Priya is at Trader Joe's." Last chance to add the cilantro. Free to start. One subscription covers up to six members of your household. No ads, no tracking. WHAT MAKES AISLEUP DIFFERENT The list opens when you arrive. Add a store once. The next time you walk through the door, your list is already open. No tap, no search, no "where did I put that note." Built on Apple's region monitoring, so it works even when AisleUp isn't running. A quiet ping for the household. The moment one of you arrives at a registered store, everyone else gets a calm, single-line notification — "Maya is at Whole Foods. List has 7 items." It's the last-chance window to add the cilantro you forgot. You're always in control of your own arrivals — broadcast them or mute the pings, anytime. Small moments. Big together. This isn't another shopping list with a sharing feature. It's a list designed for people who actually live and shop together — partners, families, roommates, caregivers. The product fades into the background and shows up exactly when you need it. ONE SUBSCRIPTION, THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Free includes everything that makes the experience real: • Up to six household members • Your shared list, real-time sync across every device • One store, and the full arrival broadcast at that store • Up to twenty items in your household catalog • "Buy again" — every item you've bought, with where and how often • No ads, ever AisleUp Plus removes the household-scale ceiling: • Unlimited stores — save as many as your household shops at • Unlimited catalog items — no cap on what your household keeps • Photos on items — attach a picture so the right brand makes it home 14-day free trial when available. Cancel anytime. (App Store shows current pricing for your region next to the subscription product.) Apple Family Sharing is enabled — one Plus subscription covers everyone in your household, on every device. PRIVACY, SPECIFICALLY AisleUp watches for your registered stores. Nothing else. We use region monitoring — a geofence around each store you choose — so we know you've arrived without ever following you anywhere else. Arrival events are kept for thirty days, then deleted. No advertisers. No analytics SDKs. No third-party tracking. You're in control: pause broadcasts for the day, switch your own arrival broadcasts off, or revoke location access entirely — anytime. Read the full policy at aisleup.app/privacy. DESIGNED FOR • Couples coordinating the weekly grocery run. • Families with two parents who shop on different schedules. • Roommates who keep a shared kitchen. • Caregivers running errands for someone they love. • Anyone tired of duplicate trips and forgotten cilantro. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17 or later • iPhone and iPad • Sign in with Apple • Location permission set to "Always" for arrival detection (you can disable it any time) QUESTIONS Email hello@aisleup.app — we read every message. Made with care by Loud Noise Inc. Terms of Use: https://aisleup.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://aisleup.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AisleUp at every 9 days against RescueTime's monthly. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. RescueTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and AisleUp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RescueTime ships an update monthly, AisleUp every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RescueTime | AisleUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RescueTime | Loud Noise |
In-app purchases
RescueTime
- Solo Monthly14 Days trial$9.001 Month
- Solo+ Monthly14 Days trial$15.001 Month
- Solo Yearly14 Days trial$84.001 Year
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- Solo+ Yearly14 Days trial$143.991 Year
AisleUp
- AisleUp Plus14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- AisleUp Plus14 Days trial$19.991 Year









