TimeEcho vs JotDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeEcho
This app helps you understand how you spend your time by tracking daily activities, habits, and focused tasks. It offers visual timelines, habit heatmaps, and journaling to provide deeper self-insights and improve productivity.
- Timeline of daily activities
- Habit dedication tracking
- Focus timers with continuation
- Journaling for private thoughts
- Visual habit heatmap
- Book reading milestones
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Time gets spent. It is not always easy to say where it went. TimeEcho helps you keep a record of your focus sessions, habits, journal notes, and daily timeline. After a while, you can look back and see what you kept showing up for, and what quietly took more time than you expected. You can use TimeEcho to record things like: - How much time you spent studying, working, exercising, or reading today - How many days you have kept a habit going, and how many hours you have put into it - When a focus session started, when it ended, and what happened during it - How much of your day was actually spent in focus - How long a book, project, or personal milestone really took - Private notes, thoughts, and journal entries that are only for you TimeEcho is not trying to turn your life into a spreadsheet. It is closer to a daily notebook that quietly organizes your time. 【Daily timeline】 The records page shows your day as a timeline. You can see what you focused on, how long it took, and add notes when you want more context. When you come back to a past day, you see more than a list of numbers. You see what that day felt like. If you only want the summary, switch to concise mode and check how much time each activity took. 【Habit tracking and time totals】 Create habits for study, work, exercise, reading, writing, or anything else you want to keep track of. TimeEcho shows how much time you have spent on each habit, along with its daily history. The heatmap makes consistency easier to read. You can quickly see which days you showed up, which days you missed, and when you put in more time. 【Countdown, stopwatch, and Pomodoro】 Use a countdown when you want a fixed block of time. Use the stopwatch when you just want to start and record naturally. Use Pomodoro when you prefer a steady rhythm. If the countdown ends and you are still focused, you can keep timing. If you forget to save, you can correct the end time later. Tracking should not interrupt the work itself. 【Private journal and notes】 Write a daily journal, or add notes to any focus session. When time records and written notes stay together, it becomes much easier to remember what actually happened. None of this needs to be posted anywhere. It can simply be your own record. 【Goals and milestones】 Set goals under a habit, such as a book, a project, or a stage of study. When you finish a goal, TimeEcho keeps the time you spent on the way there. Over time, you get a clearer sense of how long meaningful things really take. 【Small details】 - Pause habits you are not using, and restore them later - Set a daily focus goal - Correct time records when you forgot to save - Mark habits as good or bad habits - Review trends, heatmaps, and history TimeEcho was inspired by Lyubishchev's time tracking method, Atomic Habits, the Pomodoro Technique, the 10,000 hour idea, and The 100-Year Life. You do not need to follow any method perfectly. The point is simpler: when time becomes visible, it becomes easier to treat it with care. 【Auto-renewable subscription】 We do not show ads. A lifetime purchase option is available for a limited time and includes future updates. If you choose a subscription, you can cancel it anytime in Settings - Apple ID - Subscriptions, then select this app and follow the instructions. Subscriptions renew automatically. After confirmation, the subscription is charged to your Apple ID. Your account will be charged within 24 hours before the current period ends, and the subscription will renew for the next period. Subscriptions are linked to your Apple ID. 【Contact】 Feedback email: mark_labs@163.com Terms of Use: https://www.lovetime.life/UserAgreement Privacy Policy: https://www.lovetime.life/privacy
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JotDay at 4.7 against TimeEcho's 4.2. JotDay also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 50%) and ratings volume (21 vs 5). TimeEcho's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. TimeEcho sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month 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.
JotDay holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of TimeEcho's written reviews are positive against 85% of JotDay's.
TimeEcho ships an update weekly, JotDay monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeEcho | JotDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 浩 张 | Remix Design Studio |
Customer experience
TimeEcho
JotDay
In-app purchases
TimeEcho
- 月度会员$1.991 Month
- Annual Membership$14.991 Year
- 终生会员$17.99
- 终生会员$19.99
JotDay
- JotDay Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- JotDay Pro Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- JotDay Pro Annual to Lifetime$5.99
- JotDay Pro Lifetime$9.99









