Comparison

rTracker vs Changes Life Tracker

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

Head to head
About

rTracker

Create custom trackers for anything you want to monitor, from physique and mood to habits and finances. Integrate with Apple Health, set reminders, and analyze your data with charts and CSV exports. Share trackers with friends for competition or collaboration.

Highlights
  • Create custom trackers
  • Integrate with Apple Health
  • Set custom reminders
  • Analyze data with charts
  • Export data to CSV
  • Share trackers with friends
  • Privacy controls
Features
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Fast and easy tracking just the way you want, with features you'll grow into - including reading Apple Health data and workouts. rTracker is totally free and open source. No ads, no in-app upgrades, just track what you want. Create your own trackers for physique, mood, mileage, sleep quality, eating, shopping, exercise, job hours, patient progress, questionnaires - whatever you like! Each tracker can include multiple values - numbers, searchable notes, sliders, choice buttons, checkboxes - as well as functions on the values and over time. Make a sleep tracker with things you care about - like diet, exercise or medication - and see how they correlate with measured sleep data from Apple Health. Share trackers (data optional) with friends -- compete, compare progress, or use as a distributed questionnaire. Set reminders for your trackers with specific times and days, trigger after a delay from the last save, or randomly over a time window. Motivate yourself to exercise, remind to take your medication, or build a picture of your mood throughout the day. Use the new Charts to analyze your data, or turn your iPhone sideways to graph your tracks; edit past datapoints within rTracker and export to CSV files for deeper analysis as a spreadsheet. Import CSV files with your historical data, configure trackers with CSV files, and get pre-made trackers from https://janerob.com/rTracker/rTracker/iPhone/pages/rTracker-main.html. Want to track your bank balance, habits, moods or something else that's private? rTracker supports hiding individual values or entire trackers with multiple levels of privacy, and there's no central server so everything stays with you. Designed for fast data input and total flexibility, rTracker is the one tracker for you.

About

Changes Life Tracker

This app helps you understand your mood and behavior patterns by tracking your feelings and daily activities. It offers insights through charts, word clouds, and augmented reality, allowing you to identify what truly makes you happy and make positive life changes. Your data is securely stored and exportable.

Highlights
  • Daily mood logging
  • Hashtag support for entries
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Machine learning sentiment analysis
  • Augmented Reality infographics
  • Data export (JSON)
  • iCloud sync
Features
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It’s a struggle to know what really makes you happy. Our primitive brains are fundamentally ill-equipped to compute all our habits, achievements, aspirations and values. By keeping a log of how you feel while you feel it you can go beyond your inner dialogue to discern patterns of mood and behaviour. This app provides evidence-based and non-judgemental insight into what it is that really makes you happy. Mood tracking for busy people: Write your diary every day and say as much as you feel • Hashtag support to add structure or for quicker entries • Apple Watch support for the quickest entries • Dark and light mode support for maximum comfort • Randomised daily reminders • Scheduled reminders if you want to get into a journaling habit • Machine learning does some basic sentiment analysis to give you a gentle tail-wind when discerning your mood • Timeline and search features make it easy to explore your diary, with starred entries always visible for a "condensed narrative" • Sensitive entries can be marked private and will be blurred out and locked on your timeline so you nobody accidentally sees anything over your shoulder • Location can be automatically recorded with every entry • Useful tools to manage and organise your entries and hashtags Insights: As you add more data, more insights are unlocked • At a glance insights in words and charts help you quickly see your progress • Augmented Reality infographics let you deep-dive into large data sets without any pinching, swiping, tapping or scrolling - just move your phone around to explore • When you discover something interesting, take a picture to save to your Photos or share with others • Word clouds let you see what's been on your mind the most • Location map lets you see where you have been happiest • My Story insight lets you see all of your data at once with lanes of hashtags and a detailed day-by-day calendar. Take Action - make a change! • When you have enough data you can try making a change in your life • See how your story unfolds and whether you made your life better or worse You own your data • iCloud sync • Export JSON or your whole database • We don't do analytics without your permission and we tell you exactly what we collect This is the third evolution of my 'happiness app' concept since 2009 (or fifth, depending on how you count it). When I first started tracking my mood I didn't know what to expect. Now I have a pretty good idea of the biggest strengths of this mechanism and I've collected and bundled all of my insights in to this app, just for you. I hope you'll give it a try. Michael Forrest - Founder / Designer / Developer - Good To Hear UK

Screenshots

rTracker4 screens
Changes Life Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Changes Life Tracker at 5.0 against rTracker's 4.0. Changes Life Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). rTracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (58% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Changes Life Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 3 months. rTracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Changes Life Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of rTracker's written reviews are positive against 33% of Changes Life Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

rTracker ships an update monthly, Changes Life Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
rTracker versus Changes Life Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterrTrackerChanges Life Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better3
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert MillerGood To Hear

Customer experience

rTracker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative37.5%

Changes Life Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

rTracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Changes Life Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • 3 Months Premium Updates$3.993 Months
  • 6 Months Premium Updates$4.996 Months
  • 1 Year Premium Updates$6.991 Year

Questions

Is rTracker free?
rTracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Changes Life Tracker free?
Changes Life Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, rTracker or Changes Life Tracker?
Changes Life Tracker is rated higher. rTracker averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Changes Life Tracker averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do rTracker or Changes Life Tracker have ads?
Neither rTracker nor Changes Life Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, rTracker or Changes Life Tracker?
rTracker ships an update monthly, and Changes Life Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, rTracker was updated on September 12, 2026 and Changes Life Tracker on September 19, 2026.

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