Comparison

Chronicling vs brrrrr

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

brrrrr

This app helps you track various aspects of your life, from daily habits and streaks to game dice rolls and chore rotations. It offers customizable trackers with features like automatic advancement and iCloud sync for seamless use across devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable tallies for one-tap counting
  • Dice roller from d2 to d100
  • List shuffling and selection
  • Date-since streak tracking
  • Automatic schedule advancement
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Count anything. Track everything. brrrrr is the friendly little app for life's small counts: cups of coffee, days since the gym, the next d20 roll, whose turn it is to do the dishes. Four trackers, infinite uses. TALLIES — One tap, one count. Press and hold to fly through hundreds. DICE — Roll d2 through d100. Perfect for game night, decision-making, or breaking a tie. LISTS — Shuffle for tonight's dinner. Advance through a chore rota. Pick a name out of the hat. DATE-SINCE — Days since you started, quit, ran, called. Watch the streak compound. SCHEDULES — Tallies and lists can advance, reset, or shuffle on their own, daily or weekly. Set it once and forget the upkeep. ICLOUD SYNC — Sync trackers and values across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS — Glance, tap, count from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Spotlight.

Screenshots

Chronicling4 screens
brrrrr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chronicling at 79% against brrrrr's 0%. Chronicling also leads on price (Free vs $7.99) and ratings volume (186 vs 1). brrrrr's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads 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

Chronicling is free to download; brrrrr costs $7.99 up front. Chronicling sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. brrrrr asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

brrrrr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chronicling has 186 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Chronicling's written reviews are positive against 0% of brrrrr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chronicling versus brrrrr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChroniclingbrrrrr
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating4.8 (186 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings186 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRebecca OwenDan Eden

Customer experience

Chronicling

All ratings186 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral6.9%
Negative13.8%

brrrrr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

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

brrrrr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chronicling free?
Chronicling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is brrrrr free?
brrrrr costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chronicling or brrrrr?
brrrrr is rated higher. Chronicling averages 4.8 out of 5 from 186 ratings, while brrrrr averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Chronicling or brrrrr have ads?
Neither Chronicling nor brrrrr shows ads.

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