Comparison

Basic Logs vs Time Lines.

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

Head to head
About

Basic Logs

Easily track anything with customizable logs for food, habits, budgeting, and more. Visualize data with charts and statistics, and use shortcuts for automatic entry. Collaborate with others and store data locally or in iCloud.

Highlights
  • Customizable log types (text, numbers, currency, duration)
  • Data visualization (charts, statistics, calendar)
  • Entry tagging and flagging
  • Quick entry duplication
  • Location, NFC, and task-based shortcuts
  • Log sharing and collaboration
  • Local and optional iCloud data storage
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Basic Logs makes it quick and easy to track anything of interest to you. From food diaries to habit streaks to budgeting to time spent on activities. Simply create a log, add entries, and get insights with just a few taps. • Text, numbers, currencies, durations, notes, tags, flags. Use one or all of them. No setup required. • Browse entries in a list, visualize them in a calendar, or analyze them with charts and statistics. • Track hours and minutes, or whole days. • Flag entries of significance, tag entries to categorize them. • Add similar entries again with a quick swipe. • Easily search and filter entries and get all information of a particular moment. • Shortcuts! Automatically add an entry whenever you arrive at a location, tap an NFC tag, or complete a task in another app. The possibilities are endless. • Share logs and collaborate with friends and family. • No account creation. All data is stored locally on your device and, optionally, in your iCloud. And this is just the beginning. Basic Logs will only become richer in functionality while remaining simple and easy to use. I hope you’ll get as much joy and use out of this app as I do every single day. Happy logging!

About

Time Lines.

Create a personalized, visual representation of time. Draw your own unique timeline and watch a marker move along it to indicate the current moment. This app offers an intuitive and observational approach to timekeeping.

Highlights
  • Draw custom timeline shapes
  • Visual representation of time
  • Intuitive timekeeping
  • Observational approach
  • Personalized timepiece
Features
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Draw your own timeline. Every scribble you make becomes your intuitive timepiece, and a red dot moves along it, marking the present moment. Time is observation and calibration. Before hours and minutes, humans observed time in the world around them—the stretch of a shadow, the bloom of a flower, the quiet drift of the stars. We expand that timekeeping tradition. You create your own timeline—an arc, a wave, a winding trail—and watch time trace it. Time Lines is a chronological investigation by Shashwath Santosh and Nithin Eluvathingal.

Screenshots

Basic Logs4 screens
Time Lines.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Time Lines. at 7 against Basic Logs's 1. On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Basic Logs against 5.0 for Time Lines.. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Lines. has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Basic Logs versus Time Lines.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic LogsTime Lines.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAllan JuenemannShashwath Santosh

Customer experience

Basic Logs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Time Lines.

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Basic Logs

No in-app purchases

None

Time Lines.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Basic Logs free?
Basic Logs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Lines. free?
Time Lines. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Basic Logs or Time Lines.?
Basic Logs and Time Lines. are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Basic Logs or Time Lines. have ads?
Neither Basic Logs nor Time Lines. shows ads.

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