Comparison

SkillTracker One vs Synap.ing

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

Head to head
About

SkillTracker One

Log your progress in hobbies and skills to gain insights and unlock achievements. This app offers a gamified experience to help you improve and reach mastery. Back up your data seamlessly with iCloud.

Highlights
  • Track any hobby or skill
  • Automated insights and charts
  • Earn achievements and level up
  • iCloud backups for seamless syncing
  • Gamified progress tracking
  • Personal goal setting
Features
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Track all your skills in one place, view automated insights and charts for the hobbies you love, and earn yours and our achievements as you progress to mastery. - Track anything - Hobbies, skills, anything you do over time. - Easy to use - Just tap in hours for the day towards skills you've worked on. The app does the rest for you. - No account creation - Backups are uploaded to iCloud, so you can continue where you left off when you switch devices. - Learn better - Improve the things you love, while finding the things that hold you back, so you can adapt giving you your best chance at success. - Gamified - Level up your skills to 100+, earn achievements, find collectibles, and accomplish personal goals and milestones. - Other hidden features waiting for your discovery. What will you track?

About

Synap.ing

Organize your thoughts, decisions, and patterns into a dynamic knowledge graph. Search by meaning, visualize connections in 3D, and gain insights with AI. Capture information seamlessly from any app or device.

Highlights
  • Living knowledge graph
  • AI chat with multiple models
  • 3D interactive knowledge visualization
  • Semantic search by meaning
  • AI blind spot detection
  • Cognitive archetype discovery
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Synap is your memory, externalized. Everything you know, carried outside your head, connected, and yours. Your mind was never meant to hold all of this. Keep a thought in Synap and it stays exactly as you wrote it, on the day you wrote it. Synap connects it to what you already kept, on its own. Nothing to file, nothing to tag. Ask for it back in your own words and the answer comes from your own entries, each one cited. Synap works with or without AI. Keeping, search and the record all run on your iPhone. Bring an assistant when you want one, or do not. Either way the record is yours, on your own device. KEEP ANYTHING, IN SECONDS Type it, say it, share it from any app, or speak it into your Apple Watch. Workouts you record with Apple Watch or any app that saves to Health land in your memory on their own, route included. FIND IT BY MEANING Search understands what you meant, not just the words you used. It runs on your phone, so it works with no signal. ASK YOUR OWN MEMORY Ask a question and get an answer drawn from your own entries, with the exact entries it came from. Use Apple Intelligence on a supported iPhone, sign in with your Claude account, or connect ChatGPT or Gemini. Your entries stay on your phone until you ask. SEE WHAT YOU MISSED Insights reads across everything you kept and shows the patterns, the contradictions and the blind spots. Reflect shows the shape of a season of your thinking. Open the whole record as a map you can move through. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Import your ChatGPT and Claude history and it becomes part of the record the moment it lands. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND YOUR WRIST Widgets for today, the record, recent entries and your body. Live Activities while something is being kept. A watch app that leads with one Speak button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Synap is local first. Your entries, your search and your voice transcription run on your device. Cloud sync is optional and off until you turn it on. Names can be hidden before anything is sent to an AI you connect. FREE Keeping, search and the record on your phone, import of your ChatGPT, Claude and Obsidian history, new entries connected to what you already kept, and a cloud account with sync for up to 1,500 entries. PRO Chat that draws on your whole memory. Patterns, contradictions and blind spots, read for you. An evening digest of what was kept and what connected. Sync in the background, even with the app closed. No cap on what you keep. Know more. Carry less. Terms of Use: https://synap.ing/terms Privacy Policy: https://synap.ing/privacy

Screenshots

SkillTracker One4 screens
Synap.ing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Synap.ing at 5.0 against SkillTracker One's 4.0. Synap.ing also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). SkillTracker One's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.4 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SkillTracker One sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Synap.ing sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Synap.ing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SkillTracker One has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SkillTracker One ships an update every 3 weeks, Synap.ing every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SkillTracker One versus Synap.ing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkillTracker OneSynap.ing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB214 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven SullivanRobb Dixon

Customer experience

SkillTracker One

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Synap.ing

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

SkillTracker One

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Access$6.991 Month
  • Annual Access – Save 53%$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Monthly Access$6.99
  • Annual Access – Save 53%$39.99
  • Lifetime Unlock$249.99
2 purchases

Synap.ing

Subscriptions2
  • Synap Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Synap Pro Yearly$199.991 Year

Questions

Is SkillTracker One free?
SkillTracker One is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Synap.ing free?
Synap.ing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SkillTracker One or Synap.ing?
Synap.ing is rated higher. SkillTracker One averages 4.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Synap.ing averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SkillTracker One or Synap.ing have ads?
Neither SkillTracker One nor Synap.ing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SkillTracker One or Synap.ing?
SkillTracker One ships an update every 3 weeks, and Synap.ing every 3 days. Most recently, SkillTracker One was updated on September 29, 2026 and Synap.ing on October 1, 2026.

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