Comparison

TakeMe vs JotDay

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

Head to head
About

TakeMe

This app helps you organize and pack essential items for your journeys. Create personalized checklists, reuse them for future trips, and avoid forgetting important things. It offers a user-friendly interface to streamline your packing process and improve travel efficiency.

Highlights
  • Personalized travel checklists
  • Item organization
  • Efficient luggage packing
  • Reuse previous checklists
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Are you ready for your journey? Are you still frustrated with the frantic packing every time you go out? Worried about forgetting important things? Let the "TakeMe" app help you with this! This iOS application is a must-have for travel! It will assist you in organizing and packing essential items, ensuring you don't forget anything important and improving the efficiency of your luggage packing. The "TakeMe" app has a simple and user-friendly interface, allowing you to easily create your personalized checklists. Simply create a travel checklist, select the items you need to bring, and add them to your list. You can reuse your previous checklists for your next trip. Now, you don't have to endure the inconvenience and frustration of forgetting important items. Download the "TakeMe" app and let it be your reliable assistant for your travels!

About

JotDay

Effortlessly track your time with automatic exercise and sleep data retrieval from Apple HealthKit. Monitor app usage, view your day in a clear timeline, and analyze time distribution with daily, weekly, and monthly views. Includes a minimalist focus timer with Live Activity support.

Highlights
  • Automatic sleep and workout tracking
  • App usage tracking via Shortcuts
  • Minimalist focus timer with Live Activity
  • Concise timeline view
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly time views
  • Data analysis for time distribution
Features
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JotDay is a time tracking app designed to simplify your recording experience and enhance efficiency. It can automatically retrieve your exercise and sleep time, track app usage through Shortcuts, eliminating the need for manual input. The concise timeline, time blocks, weekly view, and monthly view allow you to have a clearer understanding of your time allocation. Key Features: 1. Sleep and Workout Tracking: Automatically fetches sleep and exercise data from the Apple HealthKit health app for convenient daily life statistics. 2. App Tracking: Configure Shortcuts to track app usage. 3. Minimalist Focus Timer: Supports Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and flip timing, allowing you to start timing quickly at any time and check the timing progress. 4. Timeline: Presents your day in an intuitive timeline, allowing you to easily view activity records and add notes. 5. Time Views: Clean day, week, and month views for easy comparison of time 6. Data Analysis: Easily understand the distribution of different types of focused time. Monthly and Annual Membership Subscription Terms: 1. Upon confirmation of purchase and payment, your subscription will automatically renew through your iTunes account.。 2. Your Apple iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, and the subscription period will be extended by one subscription period upon successful payment. 3. To cancel the renewal, please manually disable the auto-renewal feature in the iTunes/AppleID settings management at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. 4. During the trial period, if the iTunes account does not cancel the subscription, the subscription will be automatically activated and billed at the end of the trial period. Any unused trial time will be forfeited upon purchase of the subscription. 5. This service is optional for you to cancel. If you choose not to cancel, the renewal service for the next billing cycle will be activated for you. Privacy Policy: https://jotday.super.site/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TakeMe4 screens
JotDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TakeMe at every 2 days against JotDay's monthly. TakeMe also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). JotDay's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (86% vs 74%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TakeMe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and JotDay sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

JotDay holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of TakeMe's written reviews are positive against 86% of JotDay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TakeMe ships an update every 2 days, JotDay monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TakeMe versus JotDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTakeMeJotDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)4.7 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1021 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuangzhou Xiaorichang Technology Co., Ltd.Remix Design Studio

Customer experience

TakeMe

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative22.2%

JotDay

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative5.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TakeMe

One-time1
  • 永久会员$9.99
4 purchases

JotDay

Subscriptions2
  • JotDay Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • JotDay Pro Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time2
  • JotDay Pro Annual to Lifetime$5.99
  • JotDay Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is TakeMe free?
TakeMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JotDay free?
JotDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TakeMe or JotDay?
JotDay is rated higher. TakeMe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while JotDay averages 4.7 from 21 ratings.
Do TakeMe or JotDay have ads?
Neither TakeMe nor JotDay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TakeMe or JotDay?
TakeMe ships an update every 2 days, and JotDay monthly. Most recently, TakeMe was updated on October 18, 2026 and JotDay on October 20, 2026.

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