Comparison

Chronicling vs calmdocs

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

Head to head
About

Chronicling

This app provides a flexible way to monitor habits, health, mood, and daily activities. It offers customizable tracking options, quick logging methods, and insightful data visualization to help users identify patterns and maintain consistency. Secure syncing and data export are also available.

Highlights
  • All-in-one habit and health tracking
  • Fully customizable categories
  • Fast and effortless logging
  • Smart reminders for goals
  • Detailed data logging (notes, numbers)
  • Visual insights and trends
  • Private and secure iCloud sync
Features
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Keep track of anything you want to keep an eye on, from habits and chores to symptoms. Chronicling shows how long it's been, how often things happen, and which days and times they tend to happen. Some things happen every day, like coffee, a walk or your medication. Others come and go: changing the bed sheets, a headache, calling home. Chronicling handles both, so it all lives in one place. "If you're looking for a flexible approach to tracking events in your life and want to try an app with an excellent, modern design that supports the latest iOS and iPadOS technologies, be sure to give Chronicling a try." - MacStories LOG IT IN A TAP - Add events from your Apple Watch, widgets, Control Center, the Lock Screen, Siri and Shortcuts - Record a number or a note too, such as cups, miles, pages or how you felt - Automate logging with Shortcuts, from workouts to arriving home SEE HOW OFTEN, AND WHEN - Time since last logged, average gap and longest gap for every category - Heatmaps, charts and trends over weeks, months and years - Spot patterns by weekday and time of day - An annual Wrapped to look back at your year GENTLE REMINDERS - Time Since Last Event: get a nudge when it's been too long since you last logged something, from a few hours to a few months - Daily Goal: pick a time of day, and you'll only be notified if you haven't hit that day's goal - Rolling Goal: aim for a number over the last few days or weeks, with a daily check that only notifies you if you're falling short YOUR CATEGORIES, YOUR WAY - Create your own categories with emoji or symbols and your own colors - Choose the period each category's stats cover - Organize them into groups and filter by Focus ON ALL YOUR DEVICES - iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro - Private iCloud sync between your devices - Export to CSV or a single-file backup at any time - your data is yours If you have questions, suggestions or any other feedback, please contact me at support@chroniclingapp.com. Subscriptions to Chronicling Premium will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see https://chroniclingapp.com/terms-of-use/ and https://chroniclingapp.com/privacy-policy/.

About

calmdocs

Features
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calmdocs is file storage you control. Every save is kept and restorable, every deleted file recoverable, and everything comes back out whenever you want it — a folder as a single zip, or the whole account through a documented API. Files live in named groups on Mac, iPhone, iPad and the web, and photographs can be browsed by date, by place, or at random. No subscription, no advertising, and nothing collected that the app does not need to work. GROUPS Separate libraries, each with its own folder tree: Photos, Work, the scans, the house. You work in one group at a time rather than in a single combined drive. VERSION HISTORY Every save is kept. Open a file's history and restore any earlier version. Restoring does not discard the current one. DELETED FILES Deleting moves a file to the group's bin, not off the server. Restore it at any time. A group can also empty its own bin automatically after a set number of days. PHOTO VIEWS A group can show you: • a random photograph • the most recent • one taken on this day in an earlier year • one from this month • one taken near your current location A slideshow runs any of these full screen and keeps the display awake. PHOTO FILTERING Screenshots, photographs of documents, and blurred or badly exposed shots are excluded from the random, recent and slideshow views. This is always on and applies to every photo view. WIDGETS Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets show photographs from a group you choose. Long-press and choose Edit Widget to change the group; two widgets can show two different groups. Tapping one opens the slideshow. A widget can read only the group it shows, and never has your sign-in. Signing out stops them. FILES OF EVERY KIND Photographs, video, audio and PDFs open in the app. Large video is converted for streaming rather than downloaded whole. Any folder can be downloaded as a single zip, and a link to that zip works for someone without the app. SEARCH By name and path, within a group. You can also browse the folder tree or list what changed most recently. ON THE MAC A menu bar app, downloaded from calmdocs.com rather than the App Store, syncs chosen folders on your disk with a group and updates itself. It is not sandboxed, which is what lets it sync folders you choose. ON THE WEB, AND FROM YOUR OWN CODE Everything is also at calmdocs.com in a browser, on the same account. There is a documented HTTP API with an OpenAPI description at calmdocs.com/api/docs. SIGNING IN An email address and a six-digit code. There is no password to reuse, leak or reset. WHAT WE HOLD Your email address, the files you upload, and what those files say about themselves: size, type, when they were taken, and for photographs the position the camera recorded. That is what the service runs on. We do not sell it and we do not track you between apps. The full policy is at calmdocs.com/privacy.

Screenshots

Chronicling4 screens
calmdocs3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: calmdocs at none against Chronicling's 3. Chronicling's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Chronicling sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. calmdocs asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chronicling ships an update weekly, calmdocs every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Chronicling versus calmdocs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChroniclingcalmdocs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (186 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings186 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.417.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRebecca OwenElaine Bevington

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Chronicling

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium Annual14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$39.99
None

calmdocs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chronicling free?
Chronicling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is calmdocs free?
calmdocs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chronicling or calmdocs have ads?
Neither Chronicling nor calmdocs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chronicling or calmdocs?
Chronicling ships an update weekly, and calmdocs every 9 days. Most recently, Chronicling was updated on October 20, 2026 and calmdocs on October 11, 2026.

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