Comparison

Ticking vs DoBuff

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ticking

This app helps you manage your time and boost productivity with features like task tracking, focus timers, and study rooms. It offers detailed time statistics and personalized settings to optimize your workflow. Ideal for students and professionals seeking better time management.

Highlights
  • Study room feature for collaborative learning
  • Detailed time statistics and charts
  • Swipe to complete/cancel to-do items
  • Flexible task management with drag-and-drop
  • Multiple focus timer modes (e.g., Pomodoro)
  • Personalized settings for timers and tasks
  • Weekly overview of tasks
Features
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Ticking 计时软件是一款专为时间管理和效率提升而设计的应用程序。它不仅帮助你规划和跟踪日常任务,还提供了丰富的功能来优化你的学习和工作流程。 主要功能: 自习室功能: 加入或创建自习室,与志同道合的人一起学习,互相激励,共同进步。 时间统计与图表展示: 提供详细的时间统计和图表化展示,帮助你清晰地了解时间分配,优化时间管理。 待办事项管理: 滑动待办事项快速完成或取消,点击进行自由计时、番茄计时、重命名、回收等操作。 一次性添加多个待办事项,提高工作效率。 灵活的任务管理: 长按待办事项轻松拖动至其他列表,方便管理和重新组织任务。 专注计时器: 提供多种计时模式,如自由计时、番茄计时等,帮助你保持专注,提高工作和学习效率。 个性化设置: 自定义计时器和待办事项,根据个人需求调整设置,打造专属的学习和工作时间表。 周纵览: 查看一周的任务安排,合理规划每天的时间,确保任务按时完成。 激励与社区支持: 通过自习室和排行榜功能,与他人比较进度,获取激励,增强学习动力。 无论你是学生、职场人士还是自由职业者,Ticking 计时软件都能帮助你更高效地管理时间,提升学习和工作效率。立即下载,开启你的高效生活! EULA: 【自动续费会员】 - 会员权益:创建自习室、查看完整年视图等豪华特权,以及其他增值权益。 - 订阅周期:1个月(会员连续包月产品)6个月(会员连续包季产品),12个月(会员连续包年产品) - 订阅价格:以IAP申请信息为准,例如连续包月产品每月3元,连续包季产品每季9元,连续包年产品每年18元。 - 付款:用户确认购买并付款后记人iTunes账户。 - 取消续订:如需取消续订,请在当前订阅周期到期前 24小时以前,手动在iTunes/Apple ID设置管理中关闭自动续订功能。 - 续订:苹果 iTunes 账户会在到期前 24小时内扣费,扣费成功后订阅周期顺延一个订阅周期。 - 隐私政策:http://todocdn.i99yun.com/doc/private_license.html - 自动续费会员服务协议:http://todocdn.i99yun.com/doc/autorenewagreement.html

About

DoBuff

Enhance your reminders and calendar with powerful tools for time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize your tasks on a timeline, create unique weekly and yearly plans, and utilize focus timers with progress bars. Gain insights with trend statistics and countdowns.

Highlights
  • Timeline view for tasks
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
  • Focus timer with progress bar
  • Trend statistics and heatmaps
  • Countdown timers
  • Calendar integration
  • Widgets
Features
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB

Screenshots

Ticking4 screens
DoBuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DoBuff at 100% against Ticking's 80%. DoBuff also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and ratings volume (39 vs 7). Ticking's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ticking sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DoBuff holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoBuff has 39 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Ticking's written reviews are positive against 100% of DoBuff's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ticking ships an update every 5 days, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ticking versus DoBuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickingDoBuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings)4.8 (39 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings739 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB20 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer九九云科技宇 李

Customer experience

Ticking

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

DoBuff

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Ticking

Subscriptions4
  • 单月订阅$0.991 Month
  • 季度会员$1.993 Months
  • 半年会员$2.996 Months
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  • 年度订阅$3.991 Year
3 purchases

DoBuff

Subscriptions2
  • 月会员$0.991 Month
  • 年会员$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$6.99

Questions

Is Ticking free?
Ticking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DoBuff free?
DoBuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ticking or DoBuff?
DoBuff is rated higher. Ticking averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while DoBuff averages 4.8 from 39 ratings.
Do Ticking or DoBuff have ads?
Neither Ticking nor DoBuff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ticking or DoBuff?
Ticking ships an update every 5 days, and DoBuff weekly. Most recently, Ticking was updated on September 24, 2026 and DoBuff on September 5, 2026.

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