RescueTime vs HomeCheck Ltd
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.
HomeCheck Ltd
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We lost a deposit dispute because we had no proof whatsoever. Our word against theirs, and theirs won because they had a story and we had nothing. No photos worth looking at. No dates. No record either of us could point to. That is the entire reason HomeCheck exists. HomeCheck is a video walkthrough app that turns a ten-minute recording into a timestamped, tamper-proof condition report. Record a property when you move in. Record it again when you move out. HomeCheck compares the two and shows exactly what changed, when, and what it is worth. We are a small team building this because we lived the problem, two people who got burned once and decided nobody else should have to argue without proof. How it works Walk through the property, room by room. HomeCheck guides you, every room, every angle, nothing missed. Once you are done, the recording is sealed. Nobody can edit it afterwards. Not the landlord, not the tenant, not us. Every item in the video gets matched, priced, and logged automatically. A blue vase becomes "Blue decorative vase, good condition, £20." A monitor becomes a monitor, with a value attached. No typing out an inventory by hand. When it is time to move out, record again. HomeCheck lays the two recordings side by side and flags what is different. Fair wear and tear gets separated from actual damage. The report that comes out the other end is formatted for UK deposit scheme submissions and Irish RTB standards, ready to send. You can either see the report in our dedicated portal or in the app. What is in the report - A sealed, timestamped video record for every room. - A cryptographic hash on every clip, so nothing can be swapped or altered after the fact. - Automatic item matching and condition scoring. - A side-by-side comparison between check-in and check-out with depreciation values per item. - A running timeline of every inspection across every tenancy at that property. - An export ready for deposit scheme and RTB submissions. Who it is for - Tenants get a record of what the property looked like before they moved a single box in, so if a dispute happens, the evidence already exists. - Landlords get a documented condition history for every property, every tenancy, without relying on memory or a notepad. - Property managers get one consistent process across a whole portfolio, instead of every inspection looking different depending on who did it. One report reaches all of them at once. That is the point. Nobody has to take anyone's word for anything, because the record already says what happened. Why sealed matters A report you can edit is not evidence. It is a claim. HomeCheck reports are sealed the moment they are complete, verified, timestamped, and locked. If it says the ceiling was undamaged on the 14th of July 2025, that is because it was, and there is a video that proves it. Pricing - Starter is $19 a month, for up to three properties, with full comparison reports and RTB-ready exports. - Professional is $49 a month, for up to fifteen properties, with priority support. - Agency is $149 a month, for unlimited properties, team access, and portfolio-level reporting. No long-term contract. Cancel any time. We built HomeCheck because we needed it and it did not exist. If you have ever lost an argument you should have won because you had no proof, this is for you. We hope you like it and use it! Thanks. Miguel & Irena
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RescueTime at every 4 weeks against HomeCheck Ltd's every 2 months. HomeCheck Ltd's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). 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 HomeCheck Ltd sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RescueTime ships an update every 4 weeks, HomeCheck Ltd every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RescueTime | HomeCheck Ltd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RescueTime | HomeCheck Ltd |
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
HomeCheck Ltd
- HomeCheck Starter$19.001 Month
- HomeCheck Professional$49.001 Month
- HomeCheck Agency$149.001 Month
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- Starter Annual$190.001 Year
- Professional Annual$490.001 Year
- One tenancy$9.00
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