RescueTime vs Viriko
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.
Viriko
Effortlessly transform scattered thoughts into organized tasks and plans. Simply speak or type your ideas, and this app automatically sorts them into actionable items with due dates and reminders. Enjoy a calm, private space to manage your to-dos without friction.
- Voice and text input
- Automatic task sorting
- Date and reminder setting
- Recurring tasks
- Priority flagging
- Home screen widgets
- Private by design
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Viriko is the calm to-do app that turns the mess in your head into a clear plan. Just hold to speak, or type a quick line, and Viriko instantly sorts your thoughts into tasks, dates, reminders, and categories. No forms, no fiddly date pickers, no friction HOW IT WORKS Say or type anything, the way it comes out: "call the doctor tomorrow at 9, water the plants every Sunday, rent's due Friday, grab oat milk and bananas", Viriko reads it and lays it all out for you, cleanly. Got it wrong? Every add is one tap to undo WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - Speak or type. Hold to talk, or type a line. Viriko does the organizing - It sorts itself. Tasks, due dates, reminders, and categories, handled for you - Nothing slips. Anything with a time becomes a reminder that reaches you - Repeats and priorities. "Every Monday" recurs; "important" gets flagged - Handy widgets. Choose small, medium, or large, see today and what's next at a glance, and check things off right from your Home Screen - Calm by design. A quiet, friendly space, with a little donkey carrying the load - Truly private. Your words make your tasks, then leave our side FREE TO START Use Viriko free every day. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited daily dumps, longer voice notes, self-evolving categories that tidy and rename themselves to fit your life, custom reminder sounds, and themes and accents to make it yours PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no sign-up. What you type or say is used only to create your tasks, then discarded. It is never stored, sold, or used. No ads, no tracking Dump your thoughts, and let Viriko do the rest — Viriko Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. - Plans: Monthly, Yearly (1-week free trial), and a one-time Lifetime unlock. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase confirmation. - Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ronz.dev/privacy/#viriko
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Viriko at 5.0 against RescueTime's 4.3. Viriko also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). RescueTime's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. RescueTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and Viriko sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Viriko 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, Viriko every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.
| Parameter | RescueTime | Viriko |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| 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 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RescueTime | Ronny Makhoul |
Customer experience
RescueTime
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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
Viriko
- Viriko Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Viriko Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Viriko Premium (Lifetime)$39.99









