Comparison

Productivity System vs IdeaTamer

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

Head to head
About

Productivity System

This app helps you track your time and manage goals with an always-running timer. Add checklists to your goals for routines like morning or evening tasks, work, or exercises. Adapt it to your personal life to control your time effectively.

Highlights
  • Goal-based timers
  • 24/7 continuous timing
  • Goal checklists
  • Routine management
  • Time control
Features
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I built this app to manage my productivity. Here, I will SHARE my productivity system and how I use the app. My system IS ALL ABOUT achieving my REAL-LIFE goals. For example: - I DO NOT care how much time I waste, - but I CARE if I read a book every day, - I CARE if I exercise every day, - I CARE if I don't forget anything, - I CARE if I constantly follow my long-term goals. Now I will show MY PERSONAL app setup with REAL-LIFE scenarios. --- Activities The first thing you have to do is SET UP ACTIVITIES. MY ACTIVITIES in the morning, right after I wake up look empty. During the day, I have to turn them as completed. Now I'll show how I use each activity. --- Morning Right after waking up, I tap the Morning activity. Once I finish the checklist, Morning will be marked as complete. --- Workout I DO NOT care about tracking every single step, but I CARE I do workout every day. --- Small Tasks We all have plenty of non-urgent tasks that we constantly postpone. Every day, I FORCE MYSELF to spend 30 minutes for that. --- Work Working as a developer, I have to track my working hours, there are a set of features for that. Total Stopwatch makes the timer display TOTAL TIME spent on work FOR TODAY. This way, I can always see how much time I've spent on work today. Another feature is adding notes to the current task. You can see how much time you spent on each task. I use a POMODORO-LIKE technique. --- Reading Some people set a goal to read for a hour a day. I like to read a fixed number of chapters per day. It works like a counter. --- Free Time I use Free Time for activities I don't need to track, like eating, walking, meeting, etc. --- Sleep I prefer to use a stopwatch and check in the morning how long I slept. --- Conclusion By default, the app comes with almost the same activities and settings. You can use this setup. I want to give you THREE TIPS dealing with activities that are extremely important to me: PROCRASTINATION, PRIORITIES, and FLEXIBILITY. --- Procrastination I solve it simply: I open the app, see uncompleted activity, and tap on it without thinking. Tapping the activity feels like you've made the first step. If you start thinking, you will continue procrastinating. --- Priorities We usually start the day with the most urgent tasks and SACRIFICE long-term goals, because long-term goals are not usually urgent. NO MATTER what happens, I try to start my day focusing only on what really MATTERS TO ME. --- Flexibility Unexpected things happen every day. We have to accept this fact. It's ABSOLUTELY OKAY if we can't do some activity today. KEEP IN MIND: the most important is REAL-LIFE and PRACTICAL VALUE. --- DO NOT RUSH I believe we do more when we don't rush. Stay calm and start slowly. Let's move to other features. --- Timer Timer is running ALL THE TIME. There is NO STOP OPTION! To stop the current activity, you have to start the next one. This way I always remember what I have to do. Also, it provides 24/7 data on how long everything takes. --- TASKS is a big part of the app. NEVER KEEP ANYTHING IN MIND! As soon as a task or idea comes to mind, leave it to the list. We get really tired when we try to keep everything in mind. TRY TO EXPERIENCE the feeling when you don't need to remember anything. EVERYTHING in the task list. --- Task Folders TODAY: Tasks you need to do today. TOMORROW: Tasks that will be moved to TODAY folder tomorrow. CUSTOM FOLDERS: I use a few folders. --- Repeating Tasks There are many repeating tasks or events that we have to remember. Like birthdays, recurring payments, special dates, etc. You can create any kind of repeating task: - Every Day; - Every N Days; - Days of the Week; - Days of the Month; - Days of the Year. --- Calendar A regular calendar where you can schedule tasks. As I mentioned, repeating tasks are also here. --- Widgets --- I hope my app will lead you to what matters to you the most in your life. Best regards, Ivan.

About

IdeaTamer

Features
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You don't have a creativity problem. You have a finishing problem. And the real obstacle? It's you. IdeaTamer turns your scattered ideas into a focused quest system — with a twist. Every week, you duel your own past performance. Beat yourself in XP earned, milestones hit, ideas captured, and streak days. Win the week. Level up. Share your victory. HOW IT WORKS Capture ideas in seconds (+5 XP). Score them on Impact, Effort, and Alignment. Activate your best one as a Quest. Break it into milestones (+75 XP each). Ship it (+500 XP). Then pick the next one. The constraint is the superpower: only ONE active quest at a time. COMPETE WITH YOURSELF Every Monday, your last week becomes your rival. Four rounds. Blue vs red. Beat 3 to win the week and earn bonus XP. GAMIFICATION THAT WORKS • XP for every action — capture, score, complete • Level up from Spark to Legend • Streaks that reward daily consistency • 7 badges to unlock • Hall of Fame for every shipped quest SHARE YOUR WINS Generate branded achievement cards and share to Twitter, LinkedIn, or Discord. Prove you're shipping. PRIVACY FIRST 100% offline. Your data stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. 100% free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Productivity System4 screens
IdeaTamer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Productivity System at 18 against IdeaTamer's 26.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Productivity System versus IdeaTamer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProductivity SystemIdeaTamer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan MedvedevFiqhro Dedhen Supatmo

In-app purchases

None

Productivity System

No in-app purchases

None

IdeaTamer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Productivity System free?
Productivity System is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IdeaTamer free?
IdeaTamer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Productivity System or IdeaTamer have ads?
Neither Productivity System nor IdeaTamer shows ads.

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