Comparison

TimeEcho vs Material

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

Head to head
About

TimeEcho

This app helps you track your focus sessions, habits, and journal entries to understand how you spend your time. It provides visual timelines and habit heatmaps to reveal your productivity patterns and the true duration of your projects. Organize your day with built-in timers and private notes.

Highlights
  • Focus session tracking
  • Habit tracking with heatmaps
  • Daily timeline view
  • Private journal and notes
  • Countdown, stopwatch, and Pomodoro timers
  • Goal and milestone setting
Features
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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

About

Material

Features
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Material — a personal library for you and your AI. A place for the remarkably curious to collect what interests them, cultivate their digital garden, and create with the things they’ve collected. Save links, images, videos, and ideas as you find them. Keep collecting without stopping to organize. When you’re ready, bring things together in spaces and explore connections on an infinite canvas on the web. INTERESTING THINGS COME FROM INTERESTING PEOPLE Explore other people’s public libraries, follow their curiosity, and save discoveries into your own. Share what you’re collecting, or keep it private. MAKE MORE OF WHAT YOU COLLECT Return to something you saved, connect it to a new idea, or bring your library into the AI tools you use. Material keeps your information accessible, so collecting can become the beginning of something new. CAPTURE AS YOU GO Save from your iPhone’s share sheet, the Material browser extension, or Material on the web. Add a note to a save, or write a note of your own. Your library stays with you across iPhone and the web. A LIBRARY THAT REFLECTS YOUR CURIOSITY • Organize saves into spaces for an interest, topic, or project. • Explore public profiles and spaces, and follow people whose interests you enjoy. • See new-save counts from people you follow, then visit their libraries. • Save discoveries into your own library with attribution to their source. • Connect compatible AI tools through the Material plugin or MCP. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SHARE New saves and new spaces default to Public. Choose Private before saving or creating a space to keep it private. When you select spaces, their privacy determines the save’s visibility: any public space makes it public. Public saves and their attached notes can be accessed by other people and AI tools. Existing saves remain private unless you change their privacy or add them to a public space. A Material account is required. The free plan includes up to 200 saved cards. Access your library on iPhone and at material.sc. Infinite canvas is available on the web. AI integrations require a connection to a compatible third-party tool. Privacy Policy: https://material.sc/privacy Terms of Use: https://material.sc/terms

Screenshots

TimeEcho4 screens
Material4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Material at none against TimeEcho's 4. TimeEcho's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. TimeEcho sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Material asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeEcho ships an update weekly, Material every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TimeEcho versus Material: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeEchoMaterial
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB58 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer浩 张Ting-Han Tseng

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TimeEcho

Subscriptions2
  • 月度会员$1.991 Month
  • Annual Membership$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • 终生会员$17.99
  • 终生会员$19.99
None

Material

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeEcho free?
TimeEcho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Material free?
Material is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeEcho or Material have ads?
Neither TimeEcho nor Material shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeEcho or Material?
TimeEcho ships an update weekly, and Material every 5 days. Most recently, TimeEcho was updated on November 3, 2026 and Material on November 6, 2026.

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