Comparison

Time Tracker vs Minimal | Notes

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

Head to head
About

Time Tracker

This app helps you track time spent on personal projects and tasks. It allows for detailed breakdown of work with projects, tasks, and tickets, and helps you manage time goals with quotas. Export your tracked time in CSV or PDF formats.

Highlights
  • Tap On / Tap Off time tracking
  • Projects and Tasks for detailed activity breakdown
  • Tickets for specific work items
  • Quotas for goal setting and progress monitoring
  • Exportable reports in CSV and PDF
Features
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Time Tracker is a time accounting tool, designed for personal use. This app does not connect to any web service, accounts or subscriptions to operate. Just start it up, set up projects, and start tracking time against them. • Tap On / Tap Off Simple Start / Stop action will allow you account for your time to the minute. • Projects and Tasks Got a client who needs billable hours and non-billable hours? Want to track your time spent on proposals separately from the project? or maybe just track how long you weeding on your gardening project? Projects and Tasks allow you to account for the various activities within a project. • Tickets Need to package up your work into smaller parts? or, perhaps you use some other task management system? Tickets allow you to set up a project / task combination, and attach a work description to them. Ticket Identifiers can match your other systems for easy data transfer, if that's what you're in to. You can even just "tick off" a task when its done, and move on to the next. • Quotas Promised that you would put a certain amount of time into something, but never seem to find the time to do it? Need to ensure that you meet a number of billable hours in your week? Quotas can help you here. Quotas are shown on the main dashboard as a progress bar that will help you achieve your goals, or in some cases not go over them. Simply set up a quota with a project and task combination, then you can start and stop time against it to fill the progress bar. Pre-plan your time, using quotas to specify weekly, monthly, or annual goals • Exportable Reports Did we mention that this was a standalone app, for personal use only? Still need to fill in your timesheet somewhere else? All reports have export options that will allow you to send data using common standards such as CSV or PDF. This allows you to communicate what you need want with other apps and web services accurately and quickly. Filtering your reports will also filter the exported data, so if need to send different reports to different places, just filter the information and send it off.

About

Minimal | Notes

This app offers a distraction-free writing environment inspired by meditation. It features collaborative writing, note expiration, and the ability to publish notes as websites. Organize tasks with integrated to-do lists and sync across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Note Lifetime reminders
  • Collaborative writing
  • Publish notes as websites
  • Todo lists sync with Calendar
  • Beautiful formatting
  • Sync across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Features
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Write with focus. Open your mind with Minimal, a meditation-inspired notes and writing app. Minimal combines thoughtful, modern design with powerful features to deliver a spacious, beautiful writing environment. • Note Lifetime • Collaborative writing • Publish notes as websites • Add Todos to the Calendar app • Beautiful formatting • Sync everywhere: Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Minimal is a simple yet powerful notes app. Inspired by meditation, nature, and architectural design, Minimal provides a beautiful space to think, write, and organize projects. NOTE LIFETIME The Note Lifetime keeps your notebook fresh and reflective of the present moment. When a note goes unedited for a duration you choose in settings, you’ll be gently notified. This is an opportunity to review the note, act on it, or let it go. COLLABORATIVE WRITING Share notes with friends, family, and teammates. With a gentle design, writing remains focused and tranquil, even as thoughts merge and ideas multiply. Everyone receives changes as notes evolve, and multiple people can make edits at the same time without conflict. FOCUSED + SPACIOUS DESIGN Minimal is designed so only one element is ever in focus. We love the beauty of a blank page – abundant empty space allows for an ease of creative expression. PUBLISH AS WEBSITE Transform notes into beautifully-formatted websites in microseconds. TODO LISTS Todo lists are an effective way to organize projects and complete tasks. Sync with the Calendar app, get things done, and check everything off. BEAUTIFUL FORMATTING Minimal combines Markdown-style formatting with elegant typography. The result is simple, expressive notes that make it easy to think and write. SYNC EVERYWHERE Bring focus to your favorite devices. Minimal is designed for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Cloud Sync is fast, reliable, and invisible. SHARE, EXPORT, IMPORT You’re in control of your notes. Share directly in iMessage, export as PDF or HTML, and use the system share mechanism to take notes anywhere. Importing links + prose into Minimal is just as easy. CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING The best notebook is personal. We made everything in Minimal customizable, from fonts + themes to sorting notes + note actions. You can also build custom workflows using the Shortcuts app. A LITTLE GIFT Wow, thanks for reading. As a little gift for tuning in, these are our favorite musicians -> Somi, Snarky Puppy, and London Grammar. They’re jazzy and introspective, just how we like it. Enjoy. —— For help, write us at team@minimal.app or on Twitter at @minimalnotesapp. To learn about our terms + approach to privacy, visit https://minimal.app/terms. We offer a long free trial and make cancellation easy. After that, Minimal costs $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. These prices are in USD and may vary by region. Cancel in your iTunes account settings at least 24 hours before renewal.

Screenshots

Time Tracker3 screens
Minimal | Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Minimal | Notes at 81% against Time Tracker's 25%. Minimal | Notes also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.7 vs 1.0). Time Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Minimal | Notes is free to download; Time Tracker costs $1.99 up front. Minimal | Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Time Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Minimal | Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minimal | Notes has 290 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Time Tracker's written reviews are positive against 81% of Minimal | Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Tracker ships an update every 9 months, Minimal | Notes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Time Tracker versus Minimal | Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime TrackerMinimal | Notes
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (3 ratings)4.7 (290 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3290 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher ScottTimeless

Customer experience

Time Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative58.3%

Minimal | Notes

All ratings290 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews375 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.4%
Negative12.3%

Bugs and requests

Time Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Minimal | Notes

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when using certain formatting or pasting content
  • Syncing issues between iOS and macOS versions
  • Incompatibility with older macOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to insert images or attachments
  • Improve iCloud sync reliability
  • Implement a folder-based organization system
  • Add a word/character count feature

In-app purchases

None

Time Tracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Minimal | Notes

Subscriptions3
  • Minimal Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Minimal Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Minimal Family Plan14 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Time Tracker free?
Time Tracker costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minimal | Notes free?
Minimal | Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Time Tracker or Minimal | Notes?
Minimal | Notes is rated higher. Time Tracker averages 1.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Minimal | Notes averages 4.7 from 290 ratings.
Do Time Tracker or Minimal | Notes have ads?
Neither Time Tracker nor Minimal | Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Tracker or Minimal | Notes?
Time Tracker ships an update every 9 months, and Minimal | Notes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Time Tracker was updated on October 1, 2026 and Minimal | Notes on October 12, 2026.

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