RescueTime vs ADVCT
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.
ADVCT
Easily record important conversations with professionals and get clear, plain-language summaries. Automatically generates to-do lists for follow-ups, ensuring tasks are assigned and tracked within your family. Designed for privacy, all data stays on your device.
- One-button recording
- Automatic transcription
- Plain-language summaries
- Actionable to-do lists
- Private iCloud storage
- Offline functionality
- Family task sharing
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ADVCT helps you capture the conversations that matter most — with a doctor, a lawyer, a banker — and turn them into a clear, plain-language summary you and your family can actually use. You press one big button to record. ADVCT writes down what was said, then gives you a short summary, the key points, and a to-do list of the follow-ups — who needs to do what, and by when. No typing. No setup. No account. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recording, transcription, and summaries all happen on your iPhone — no account, no setup. Your audio stays on your device. Your transcripts and summaries are kept in your own private iCloud, synced across your devices and visible only to you and the family you invite — never on a server we operate. Your conversations are never uploaded to us, and we never see them. The privacy label is simple: Data Not Collected. ONE BUTTON TO RECORD Open the app and tap the big red button. ADVCT keeps recording even if a call comes in or the screen locks, so you can set the phone down and focus on the conversation. Tap Stop when you're done — that's the whole job. CLEAR SUMMARIES, NOT JUST A WALL OF TEXT A few seconds after you stop, you get three things: • Summary — a short, plain-language recap and the key points • Transcript — the full written version of what was said • Audio — play the recording back any time A SHARED TO-DO LIST FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Every recording surfaces its follow-ups automatically — "Schedule the MRI," "Pick up the prescription," "Call the office Monday" — with dates and a suggestion of who should handle each one. Family members can claim an item with one tap so everyone knows it's covered, and send it straight to their own Calendar or Reminders. No more tasks lost in a group text. SHARING IS A CHOICE, NEVER A DEFAULT Keep a visit private, or tap Share with family. Choose people from your Contacts, and ADVCT writes each one a message with an invite link. They accept once and see every visit in the record, including new ones. Each person can help with to-dos or only read, and Who sees your visits lists everyone and what they can do. Remove someone or stop sharing at any time. Or choose Just this visit: they get a readable copy by Messages or email, with no app needed. Audio stays on the device that recorded it and is never shared. MORE THAN A RECORDER • Visit prep — one page before the next visit: what's open, what changed, what to ask • The week's update — what happened and what got done, in one message • Separate records — your own, your mother's, your father's • Face ID lock — ask for Face ID every time ADVCT opens • ADVCT for Mac — included in the same purchase BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Large text and buttons, full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support • Works offline — record and transcribe with no signal • Nothing is ever lost: recordings are saved as you go, so a dead battery or a dropped call won't cost you the appointment • Audio is removed automatically after 90 days to save space (your summary and transcript are always kept) — and you can change this any time, or keep any recording forever WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who walks out of an appointment trying to remember half of what was said — and the families who help them. Built first for aging parents and the adult children coordinating their care, but useful for anyone juggling important medical, legal, or financial conversations. Helping a parent who won't set up an app themselves? Create and manage their record from your own iPhone, and share it with the rest of the family. A NOTE ON DEVICES Every supported iPhone records, transcribes, and summarizes entirely on-device. On iPhone 15 Pro and newer, Apple Intelligence writes richer plain-language summaries; other iPhones get a simpler summary and the full transcript — and nothing leaves your phone either way. ADVCT doesn't replace your memory of a conversation — it makes sure your whole family can stand behind you in the room, even when they can't be there.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RescueTime at Free against ADVCT's $7.99. RescueTime also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). ADVCT's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence, 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
RescueTime is free to download; ADVCT costs $7.99 up front. RescueTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. ADVCT asks for nothing beyond the download.
ADVCT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
RescueTime ships an update monthly, ADVCT every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.
| Parameter | RescueTime | ADVCT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RescueTime | JASON ROBERT O'DONNELL |
Customer experience
RescueTime
ADVCT
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
ADVCT
No in-app purchases









