Comparison

Calendar Planner CircleTime vs Focus Timer

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Planner CircleTime

This app reimagines your schedule as a flowing circle, syncing with natural rhythms like sunrise, sunset, and moon phases. It offers a clear, clutter-free visual representation of your day, integrating with your activity data for a holistic view of time and movement.

Highlights
  • Circular daily timeline visualization
  • Syncs with sun, moon, and weather
  • Integrates Apple Activity Rings
  • ADHD-friendly visual clarity
  • Customizable routines and reminders
  • Widgets and Apple Watch support
Features
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UNDERSTAND TIME AS A WHOLE Most calendars organize time into boxes. But time unfolds through rhythms and cycles. CircleTime is a visual calendar that reflects that reality. Plan your day, week, and month with a clear visual calendar that helps you understand time as a connected whole. Events, reminders, tasks, weather, daylight, moon phases, and activity come together in one connected view. The circular view gives clarity at a glance. You see when the day begins, when light fades, when routines fit, and when rest comes. Less overwhelm, more focus. Discover patterns that traditional calendars often hide. Understand how your plans, movement, and natural rhythms fit together throughout the day. Instead of switching between apps, lists, and trackers, everything is organized in a single timeline that helps you stay focused, reduce overwhelm, and plan with greater clarity. FEATURES • See your entire day, week, and month at a glance • Never lose track of events, reminders, or tasks • Plan with daylight, weather, and lunar awareness • Understand when your activity happens, not just how much • Stay focused with a visual timeline that reduces overwhelm • Keep your schedule close with widgets and Apple Watch PRIVACY FIRST Your data stays private on your device. No tracking. No ads. Just clarity. INTEGRATIONS Works seamlessly with Apple Calendar, Apple Weather, HealthKit, and iCloud. Follow your schedule, your activity, and the natural cycles around you. A calendar that finally feels like time itself. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Focus Timer

Features
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Every session from now on is a step toward a more mindful life. Focus Timer is a simple way to see where your time actually goes. Make a handful of categories for anything you want to measure, good or bad: Work, Reading, Studying, Meditation… or Gaming and Scrolling, if you're up for it. Then start a timer with a default track and break time whenever you start one of them. That's the whole habit. After a few days the numbers start talking, and most people are surprised by what they hear. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a category, tap Start. • Pause when life gets in the way. Pauses are saved too, so your history stays honest. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Your day as a timeline, in each category's colour. Pinch to zoom in, all the way down to the minute. • Every past day and week is there too. • Filter by category to see just your Work, or just your Gaming. ON YOUR WRIST • The Apple Watch app runs sessions on its own. Turn off your iPhone, leave it in another room, and keep tracking from your wrist. • Start on your iPhone, pause on your Watch. They stay in sync. JUST TELL SIRI • "Start Work in Focus Timer." Any category works, no setup needed. • Pause, resume, stop, take a break, or ask for today's summary without touching a thing. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • Everything syncs between your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch through your own iCloud. • Export your whole history to CSV or SQL anytime, with a README that explains every column. Hand it to your spreadsheet, your analytics app or your AI and ask things like "Which hour of the day do I get the most tracked time, and is it different on weekends?" • Import it back whenever you like. • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. We never see your data. OUR PROMISE Create a handful of categories and keep tracking your sessions through the week. This one simple change will save you hours of your life, every week. We know from our testing that this works for most people, but certainly not everyone. If the experiment doesn't save you real time after a few days, please feel free to delete the app.

Screenshots

Calendar Planner CircleTime4 screens
Focus Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Calendar Planner CircleTime at fortnightly against Focus Timer's monthly. Calendar Planner CircleTime also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Calendar Planner CircleTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Focus Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, Focus Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Calendar Planner CircleTime versus Focus Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar Planner CircleTimeFocus Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (339 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings339 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGalilea, d.o.o.Cododev Technology Inc.

Bugs and requests

Calendar Planner CircleTime

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Occasional syncing delays
  • Padlock screen locks app
  • No 'cancel' button on lock screen
  • Force-quit required to escape lock
  • Color dots not working
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  • Outer rings for month/date in English (when app is in Spanish)
  • Home icon doesn't show date/number of events
  • App doesn't work on iPhone 6+
  • Event created in app doesn't appear in app
  • App doesn't start
  • Crashes every time it's opened
  • Operates like a beta version
  • Lag in displaying when switching views
  • Control points are too small

Requested features

16 requests
  • Add widgets
  • Add tasks to calendar
  • More alarms
  • Widgets for Home Screen
  • Moon phase widget
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  • Day/week/month widgets
  • Ability to control notifications
  • Add other calendars
  • Choose week start day (Sunday/Monday)
  • Shared calendar integration (Google Calendar)
  • More integration
  • iPad version
  • Make June at bottom, December at top
  • 12hr time option
  • Legend for colors
  • Improved labeling and documentation

Focus Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Calendar Planner CircleTime

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Half-Yearly Premium7 Days trial$20.006 Months
  • Yearly Premium Family7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium Family$119.00
2 purchases

Focus Timer

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Full Version$7.99

Questions

Is Calendar Planner CircleTime free?
Calendar Planner CircleTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Timer free?
Focus Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Calendar Planner CircleTime or Focus Timer have ads?
Neither Calendar Planner CircleTime nor Focus Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Planner CircleTime or Focus Timer?
Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, and Focus Timer monthly. Most recently, Calendar Planner CircleTime was updated on October 23, 2026 and Focus Timer on October 28, 2026.

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