Comparison

rTracker vs Boring 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

Boring Tracker

Features
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Boring Tracker is an app for writing down numbers. Free, open source, no ads, no accounts, no subscription, no server, no feature bloat. Type a number, done. Most other macro trackers want you to scan a barcode for every ingredient of a dish you cooked yourself. It takes a lot of time for no benefit. This one just lets you write down "600 calories, 40 protein" and done, as fast as possible, minimum clicks, minimum wait/lag. You can also use it to track anything you want: your cat's weight, pushups, blood glucose, the last time you changed a filter. A tracker is either a daily total, which adds entries up over the day and starts again at the day boundary, or a measurement, which is a standalone reading. Trackers you log at the same time share a group, so one sheet takes both numbers at once. The + opens whatever you logged last, with the number pad already up. You can name what you logged — the food, not the tracker — and then log it again later with one tap. The time defaults to now and is tappable, so you can log dinner the next morning. History holds everything you have logged, grouped by day and searchable by name. Graphs draw daily totals as bars and measurements as a line with a moving average, over a week, a month, a year, or all of it. Export the lot as JSON or CSV, and import it back. What it does not do: no ads, no subscription, no pro tier, no account, no server, no analytics, no streaks, no badges, no notifications. The app collects no data. It contains no networking code at all, so nothing you type into it can leave your phone by itself, and it asks for no permissions — not the camera, not your health data, not notifications. The whole app is open source under the MIT licence. You can read it, build it, or ship your own: https://github.com/novoselov-ab/boring-tracker My goal with it is to behave like a built-in iOS app (e.g. the calculator). It is boring, but does its job, hence the name.

Screenshots

rTracker4 screens
Boring Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

rTracker and Boring Tracker are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
rTracker versus Boring Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterrTrackerBoring Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert MillerANTON NOVOSELOV

In-app purchases

None

rTracker

No in-app purchases

None

Boring Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is rTracker free?
rTracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boring Tracker free?
Boring Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do rTracker or Boring Tracker have ads?
Neither rTracker nor Boring Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, rTracker or Boring Tracker?
rTracker ships an update monthly, and Boring Tracker monthly. Most recently, rTracker was updated on October 16, 2026 and Boring Tracker on October 21, 2026.

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