Comparison

Workflowy vs Added Time

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

Head to head
About

Workflowy

Capture ideas, manage tasks, and organize your thoughts with an infinitely nestable system. This app offers AI assistance for summarization and brainstorming, along with collaborative features and robust search capabilities. It syncs across devices and works offline, making it a powerful tool for personal and team productivity.

Highlights
  • Infinitely nested lists
  • AI summarization and brainstorming
  • Kanban boards for task management
  • Real-time collaboration and sharing
  • Global search and filtering
  • Offline access and cross-device sync
  • Tagging and mentions
Features
Read full description

Workflowy is a simple, distraction-free app for capturing notes, managing tasks, and organizing your thinking. Infinitely nestable, surprisingly powerful - it helps you manage all the information in your life. With Workflowy you can: • Capture notes and ideas in an instant • Organize complex thinking with infinite nesting • Ask AI to summarize, rewrite, or brainstorm with your notes • Plan and manage tasks with kanban boards • #Tag and @assign items to stay on top of things • Link items across lists - edit once, update everywhere • Share and collaborate in real-time • Upload photos, files, and embed videos • Search and filter your entire Workflowy in seconds Workflowy syncs across all your devices and auto-saves everything. No more missing notes or lost files. Trusted by teams and thinkers at: Atlassian, Slack, The New York Times, and thousands of entrepreneurs, writers, engineers, scientists, and students worldwide. Feature highlights: • Infinitely nested lists • Workflowy AI (chat with notes, AI nodes, quick actions) • Calendar • Kanban boards • Mirrors (live synced copies) • #Tags and @mentions • Date organization with /date shortcuts • Global text search and filtering • Simple sharing and permissions • Works offline • Syncs with desktop and web • One-swipe task completion • File uploads and image attachments • Highlight text and color tags • Item starring • YouTube and X embeds • MFA (Multi-factor authentication) • Expand and collapse lists • Mobile keyboard shortcuts Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/

About

Added Time

This app helps you focus on your goals with an honest timer that accounts for pauses. It tracks your progress and can block distracting apps to ensure you dedicate your time effectively. Achieve your study, work, or craft objectives with a clear record of your achievements.

Highlights
  • Honest match clock timer with pause accounting
  • App blocker to prevent distractions
  • Detailed progress ledger for goals and habits
  • Customizable timer lengths
  • Lock screen and Dynamic Island controls
  • Siri integration for starting sessions
Features
Read full description

Added Time is for the hours you promised yourself — the exam you're studying toward, the degree you're earning, the craft you're putting real hours into. It's a match clock for those hours: a timer that treats your pauses honestly, a ledger that keeps what you did in ink, and a doorkeeper that asks other apps to step aside while you work. Named after stoppage time — the minutes added back after the game stops. Because a paused minute wasn't a minute toward the goal, the clock adds it back on — the goal gets its full measure, and the count stays true. THE MATCH Pick a subject and a length — 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes. The clock counts up. When life interrupts, hit the whistle: the clock holds, and the pause is added on. +7′ means the match ran seven minutes longer. No penalty, no "why did you stop?" prompt. The clock never judges; it just refuses to lie. Full time is a milestone, not a wall — keep playing and the extra time counts, up to four more hours. End early and every minute still banks. The whistle works from the lock screen and the Dynamic Island, and Siri can kick off a block without opening the app. THE LEDGER — FREE FOREVER Name what you're working toward and what it asks of you: hours a day, hours a week, or a habit on the days it applies — an entrance exam, a degree, hours of practice at your craft. Focused time draws itself as tally marks: a slash for thirty minutes, a cross for sixty, partly-done marks staying honestly part-drawn. Today is the page you keep. The Week holds the plan as ghost marks and reads back as the record in ink. Habits are a tap — kept, or simply still a ghost. Counts are of what was kept; the app has no word for "missed." Step back, and the same ledger holds still: THE RECORD shows this week, this month, or every hour since your first block — total hours, focus, clean sheets, and days active, which is a total, never a streak. A quiet band shows when your ink usually lands. Each subject keeps its own line and the date it started; a finished one keeps its line too, its dates closed. Every subject, goal, habit, the Record, and all of History: free, uncapped, forever. Not a trial. THE DOORMAN During a block, the apps you name step aside until the whistle — pause your work and the wall pauses with you. That's free too, along with one standing window, kept forever. Added Time Plus is the doorman working the whole week, including days you never open the app: • Standing windows — deep work, classes, wind-down, across the week • Daily limits — one cap across the apps you pick, not a clock • Screen-time goals — up to three, including a quiet morning • The doorman's ledger — QUIET HOURS · HELD 6 OF 7 NIGHTS, on the record Plus also unlocks four more kits — Midnight, Almanac, Forest, Altitude — and a firmer hold on the way out, if you want one. Plus is optional: a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly starts with a 7-day free trial), or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app. Family Sharing is on for all three. Breaks and exits are never behind the paywall — every door has a handle. IF YOU STOP, NOTHING BREAKS Miss a week and the page is simply today's again — no backlog, nothing owed. Let Plus lapse, and nothing is deleted: extra windows remain where they are and pick up exactly where they left off if you come back. PRIVATE, BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No servers of ours — nothing about you is ever sent to us. Your record lives on your iPhone, and when iCloud is on, Added Time keeps a copy in your own iCloud (not the doorman's ledger) so it can come back if you delete the app or move to a new iPhone. We can't see it, and you can turn it off. App blocking uses Apple's Screen Time framework on the phone; we never see which apps you use. Purchases live with your Apple ID. Added Time is in English and Spanish, and requires iOS 18 or later. Support: https://addedtime.app/support.html Privacy: https://addedtime.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Workflowy4 screens
Added Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Workflowy at 8.2K against Added Time's 2. Workflowy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Added Time's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, rating, 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. Workflowy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Added Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Added Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workflowy has 8.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Workflowy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Added Time's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workflowy ships an update weekly, Added Time every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Workflowy versus Added Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkflowyAdded Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8.2K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.2K — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFunRoutine INCMathias Jacobson

Customer experience

Workflowy

All ratings8,240 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews1,074 reviews
Positive88.1%
Neutral4.7%
Negative7.2%

Added Time

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Workflowy

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cursor sometimes gets stuck
  • Syncing issues between web and mobile versions
  • Inability to delete items consistently

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to attach files and documents
  • Improve mobile app experience
  • Implement better notification and reminder system
  • Add more formatting options (e.g., font styles, colors)

Added Time

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Workflowy

Subscriptions2
  • Workflowy Pro - Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Workflowy Pro - Yearly$79.991 Year
3 purchases

Added Time

Subscriptions2
  • Plus$4.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Plus Lifetime$129.99

Questions

Is Workflowy free?
Workflowy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Added Time free?
Added Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Workflowy or Added Time?
Added Time is rated higher. Workflowy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8.2K ratings, while Added Time averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Workflowy or Added Time have ads?
Neither Workflowy nor Added Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workflowy or Added Time?
Workflowy ships an update weekly, and Added Time every 11 days. Most recently, Workflowy was updated on October 25, 2026 and Added Time on October 17, 2026.

Other comparisons