Time Golden vs The Quantified Self
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Golden
This time management tool uses a unique timestamp tracing mode to help you track every second of your life. It functions as both a to-do list and a hierarchical planner, offering powerful search and statistics to analyze your time usage. Visualize your life's activities with a "Life Tree" feature and protect your data with password protection.
- Timestamp tracing mode
- Hierarchical planning
- Simple to-do list functionality
- Time tracking and statistics
- Life Tree visualization
- Password protection
- Regular/Tomato timer
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To-do is silver but Time is Golden. TimeGolden is a new generation of time management tool which adopts TimeStamp tracing mode, and has virtues of to-do list and mind mapping etc. TimeGolden is for tracking every second of your life. You can use it as a simple to-do list, and you will get crucial data about how your precious time elapses away. You can use it as a careful planning schedule, layering formidable project into hierarchical tasks, by which you can defeat any difficulty if you put them into practice. Features: - Hierarchical Plan but simple To-do list - Seamless and easy time tracking - Due or recurring project/task - Powerful search and statistics - "Life Tree" describe your life - Password Protection - Regular or Tomato timer
The Quantified Self
This app helps you manage recurring tasks and habits, prioritizing them by urgency, due date, or importance. It offers automation based on location or NFC tags, performance tracking, and workload adjustment. Organize habits into projects and review your past activities.
- Recurring task management
- Habit tracking (good and bad)
- Automation via location/NFC
- Habit organization into projects
- Performance tracking over time
- Workload adjustment based on bandwidth
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Manage your recurring tasks and your habits (good and bad), and see your intentions laid out by urgency, due date, or importance. You can also: - Automate your habits based on location, health, or NFC tags - Organize habits into projects - Track your performance over time - Right-size your habit workload by your available bandwidth - Peruse your timeline of past habits Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Time Golden at 94% against The Quantified Self's 0%. Time Golden also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Time Golden sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and The Quantified Self sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time Golden ships an update every 2 months, The Quantified Self every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Golden | The Quantified Self |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 闪 黄 | Jared Clifton-Lee |
Customer experience
Time Golden
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In-app purchases
Time Golden
- A cup of coffee$0.99
- Remove limits!$4.99
The Quantified Self
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Quarterly$5.493 Months
- Pro Biannual$10.496 Months
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- Pro Yearly$20.491 Year
