Last Time vs Inkiostro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Last Time
This app helps you track when you last performed various activities, from chores to personal habits. Log events with details, photos, and notes to stop guessing and know exactly how much time has passed. It offers a private and simple way to manage your routines.
- Log activities with title, category, date, notes, and photo
- Organize entries into custom categories
- Search and sort entries
- Edit entries anytime
- Optional photo support
- Face ID / Touch ID protection
- Light and dark mode
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Last Time helps you remember when you last did something — from household chores and routines to habits and personal activities. Stop guessing. Track it once, know it forever. Ever wondered: • When did I last clean the bathroom? • When was the last time I went to the cinema? • How long has it been since I stopped a bad habit? Last Time is a simple and private tracker that lets you log events and instantly see how much time has passed since you last did them. KEY FEATURES • Log activities with a title, category, date, notes, and photo • Organize entries into custom categories • Sort entries by title or category • Search quickly to find any entry • Edit entries anytime — update date, details, or photo • Optional photo support (camera or photo library) • Face ID / Touch ID protection • Light and dark mode • All data stored locally on your device HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a new “Last Time” entry 2. Optionally add notes, a photo, or adjust the date 3. View all entries in one list and see when you last did something 4. Update the entry whenever you repeat the activity Perfect for tracking chores, habits, routines, and everyday activities. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Your data stays on your device and on your Apple private account.
Inkiostro
A distraction-free Markdown editor for Apple devices. Organize files with color labels and tags, and write efficiently with a comprehensive toolbar and live preview. Syncs automatically via iCloud Drive.
- Color Labels for files and folders
- Custom tags for organization
- Complete Markdown toolbar
- Live preview with multiple themes
- Focus and Typewriter modes
- Native iCloud Drive sync
- External folder support
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Inkiostro is a Markdown editor for people who write — notes, documentation, theses, novels. Plain text files that stay yours, a preview that looks like a finished page, and exports ready to hand over. Buy once, no subscription. No account, no tracking. WRITE, SEE, FINISH • A complete Markdown toolbar: headings, lists, tables and code blocks, one tap away. • A side-by-side preview that comes back exactly where you left it. • LaTeX formulas typeset by KaTeX, and Mermaid diagrams drawn as you type. • 27 preview styles, 11 of them free: GitHub, Sepia, Nord, Solarized and more. With Pro, Manuscript, Book, Report, Academic and others set the page like print. • Focus and Typewriter modes, a live word count and a daily writing goal. FROM DRAFT TO BOOK • PDF with selectable text, formulas and diagrams included. Free, with a small credit line in the footer. • A professional ePub: real chapters, a cover, ISBN, series, footnotes that open over the page, and the accessibility declaration Europe requires. The export sheet tells you what a store would reject — before you send it. (Pro) • A book made of many files: one chapter per file, in a folder, in the order you choose. Arranging it is free; exporting it as a single ePub is Pro. • Self-contained HTML, and page setup for PDF: paper, margins, headers and page numbers. (Pro) NEVER LOSE A WORD • Version history: Inkiostro saves versions as you write. Search them, compare them line by line, and bring back a single word or a whole draft. (Pro) • Backups of your whole library: a dated zip archive with your version history inside, offered when one is due, while the app is open, in a folder you pick. Open it in the Files app and your Markdown files are right there. (Pro) YOUR FILES, YOUR RULES • Unlimited documents, as plain .md files you can open anywhere. • Folders, color labels and tags, with search that filters by tag. • iCloud Drive sync between iPhone, iPad and Mac, with no setup. • External folders: work directly inside any folder on your device or in iCloud Drive. (Pro) INKIOSTRO PRO — ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE One purchase unlocks Pro on iPhone, iPad and Mac, forever. Try it free for 7 days. • Version history with search, comparison and a year of versions • Backups of your library • Professional ePub, HTML, and books made of many files • PDF page setup • Focus and Typewriter modes • External folders • 24 app themes, the Pro preview styles and any font installed on your device MADE FOR • Writers: novels and essays in plain text, out as a real ebook • Students and researchers: notes and theses with proper formulas • Developers: READMEs, documentation and technical notes with diagrams • Anyone tired of paying every month for a text editor PRIVACY Your documents stay in your iCloud Drive or on your device. No servers of ours, ever. Inkiostro collects only anonymous, aggregated usage statistics — never personal data, never the content of your documents — and you can turn them off in Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Last Time at free against Inkiostro's free with in-app purchases. Last Time also leads on rating (3.3 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (75% vs 60%). Inkiostro's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Last Time sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Inkiostro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Last Time holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Last Time's written reviews are positive against 60% of Inkiostro's.
Last Time ships an update monthly, Inkiostro weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Last Time | Inkiostro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Diaconu | Carlo Di Giuseppe |
Customer experience
Last Time
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In-app purchases
Last Time
- Small$0.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
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- Extra Large$24.99
Inkiostro
- Inkiostro Pro$19.99









