Comparison

Exocus vs ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats

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

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About

Exocus

This app transforms focus sessions into a gamified experience, visualizing your concentration as a planet's evolution. Earn rewards, unlock new designs, and overcome procrastination with engaging, pixel-art visuals and a unique reward system.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus timer
  • Planet evolution visualization
  • Pixel art design
  • Stage-based incentives
  • Unlockable planet designs
  • Hardcore Mode for increased stakes
Features
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Exocus is a pixel-art, gamified focus timer app. Here, your focus is no longer boring, repetitive, or meaningless because every moment of your focus will transform your very own planet. Do you struggle with staying motivated when you commit to doing something valuable in the long run, like learning new words, practicing an instrument, working out, or mastering a new language? Initially, you're full of enthusiasm, but soon, your passion wanes. Memorizing words becomes a chore, the instrument is neglected, workouts turn into a burden, and progress in the new language stalls... You start doubting yourself: “Maybe I just don’t have what it takes to stick with long-term commitments.” That’s not true! Let us explain the real reasons. ● Lack of Immediate Rewards: You understand the long-term value of these tasks, but how much does this half-hour of focus matter right now? ● Repetition Leads to Boredom: When the initial novelty wears off, the repetitive nature of the task can make you feel bored and tired. ● Overly Negative Focus: Focusing on what you haven't accomplished rather than acknowledging what you have done can lead to negative self-evaluation and loss of motivation. Let Exocus Help You! ====== Exocus Solutions ====== Exocus is a gamified focus timer that visualizes your concentration as a planet's evolution, helping you achieve long-term, pain-free focus. ● Emotional Design and Sense of Meaning After each focus session, you’ll see the story of what happened to your planet during that time. Even five minutes of focus equals 38.53 million years of evolution for your planet, so your focus is crucial. Want to raise the stakes? You can enable “Hardcore Mode,” where failing to focus might cause your planet to be destroyed! ● Stage-Based Incentives Short-term Incentives: After each focus session, the planet’s landscape changes and tells you its story. Medium-term Incentives: After several hours of focus, the planet undergoes more significant transformations, like forming magma, oceans, and land. Long-term Incentives: After around ten hours of focus, the planet completes its evolution. You can then add it to your star system, with each project corresponding to a star system, showcasing your long-term accumulation in that project. ● Continuous Freshness We offer hundreds of unique planet designs, satisfying your curiosity and desire to collect with constant surprises. See a planet's full appearance only after evolving it through focused efforts. Earn Stardust coins by focusing to unlock new planet seeds, motivating continuous concentration. ====== What Makes Exocus Special? ====== ● Meticulously Crafted Design Exocus uses a unique pixel art style, maintaining simplicity while incorporating delightful little Easter eggs for you to discover. We believe the beauty of Exocus can bring joy, which will ultimately translate into more focused time. ● Fun Game Elements Exocus embraces gamified design in a bold yet restrained and professional manner. We hope the game elements help you enjoy focusing, and we also care deeply about your ability to truly focus. We’ve eliminated anything that could distract you because we genuinely want to focus on achieving long-term goals with you. ● Flexible Focus Modes Exocus supports countdown timers, stopwatch mode, and the Pomodoro technique. In the Pomodoro technique, you can flexibly set focus and break durations and specify longer breaks after several focus cycles. ● Convenient Project Management Each project corresponds to a planet. You can track different categories of focus time with projects and quickly switch between projects on the home screen by swiping left or right. ● Personalized Statistics Based on your focus data, we provide personalized charts to help you understand your focus patterns and stay motivated to maintain consistent focus. Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html Support: exocus@byland.work

About

ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats

Track your work hours with a cute cat companion. This app helps you record time spent on freelance work, creative projects, or studying. Set daily goals and watch your progress visualized as a walking pixel art cat.

Highlights
  • One-tap time recording (work, break, commute)
  • Categorize work activities
  • Pixel art cat visualizes daily goals
  • Weekly and monthly progress calendar
  • Save/transfer work hours for rest days
  • Personalize cat's name
Features
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Track your time, meow! ねこ勤怠 is an app for tracking time on the activities you choose for yourself, like work, creative projects, or study, together with pixel-art cats. Tap Clock in, and your cat starts walking. Break and Clock out are just a tap away. Play background music when you want to focus. Stroll along leisurely with your cat toward your own goals. ▼ Features - Clock in, Break, and Clock out with a single tap. - Switch categories and rearrange them as you like. - Your pixel-art cat strolls toward your daily goal. - Includes background music to help you focus. - 15 companion cats. Name them and sort them your way. - Enjoy plenty of cat dialogue that changes with the situation. - Look back on your days with weekly goals and a monthly calendar. - Time tracked on days off goes into your Good Job Savings. - Celebrate with your cat when you meet your weekly goal. - All logs stay on your device. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Work or study, every hour you track adds up, little by little, as proof of what you did. ▼ In-App Purchases - Support plan: 300 yen/month. Support our development each month. While you're subscribed, you can choose rainbow shorthair and longhair cats as a thank you. - The Support plan auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage purchases and cancellations in your Apple ID settings. - Check the store price on the purchase screen for the actual amount billed. Privacy Policy: https://nekokintai.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Exocus4 screens
ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats at every 2 days against Exocus's every 3 weeks. ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Exocus's advantage is ratings volume (131 vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Exocus sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Exocus against 5.0 for ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exocus has 131 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Exocus's written reviews are positive against 100% of ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exocus ships an update every 3 weeks, ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Exocus versus ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExocusねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (131 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings131 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperByland Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.rikuto nishioka

Customer experience

Exocus

All ratings131 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews214 reviews
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.9%

ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Exocus

One-time7
  • Newcomer Pack$0.29
  • Cosmoney x 5$0.99
  • Cosmoney x 30$4.99
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  • Cosmoney x 100$13.99
  • Exopass$15.99
  • Exopass + Cosmoney x 200$34.99
  • Exopass$34.99
1 purchases

ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats

Subscriptions1
  • Support plan$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Exocus free?
Exocus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats free?
ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Exocus or ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats?
ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats is rated higher. Exocus averages 4.9 out of 5 from 131 ratings, while ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Exocus or ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats have ads?
Neither Exocus nor ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exocus or ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats?
Exocus ships an update every 3 weeks, and ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats every 2 days. Most recently, Exocus was updated on October 17, 2026 and ねこ勤怠 Track Time with Cats on October 19, 2026.

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