Comparison

TimeLine vs Focus Ally

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

Head to head
About

TimeLine

Enhance your focus and productivity with a time-tracking tool that integrates the Pomodoro technique, countdown timers, and detailed notes. Visualize your progress, track your mood, and sync data across devices.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro Focus Timer
  • Count-Up/Down Timers
  • Rich Note-Taking (Text, Video, Images, Location, Mood)
  • Timeline and List Views
  • Widgets and Live Activities
  • iCloud Data Sync
  • Calendar Sync
Features
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"TimeLine" is a time-tracking tool that seamlessly integrates the Pomodoro with your daily routine, fostering a balance between work and rest, enhancing productivity, and enabling you to better focus on the present moment. App Features and Highlights: - Pomodoro Focus, Count-Up Timer, Count-Down Timer and White Noise (Helping you stay focused, track time) - Multiple View Modes Including Timeline, Weekly View, and List (Visualizing your daily time, allowing add notes, categorization, and tagging for each record) - Support for Widgets and Live Activities - iCloud Data Sync - Sync your Focus Sessions to the System Calendar - Support to create reminders when adding future records - Fullscreen Wallpaper Clock and Flip Clock - Support for Focus Notes and Global Search - Text (with Markdown syntax support) - Video (Add videos to your records) - Images (In addition to documents, you can certainly include images) - Location (Record the location of your current focus record and view it on a map) - Mood (Tracking your emotional changes) - Tags (Facilitating filtering and management) - Data Statistics, viewable by "Day/Week/Month/Year" - Set Daily Focus Duration and Mood Goals - Customizable Theme Colors (Traditional Colors, etc.) to configure your preferred hues Every ordinary day, is a precious miracle. [Subscription Details] - After confirming the subscription, the corresponding fees will be charged to your App Store account. - This subscription is billed annually or monthly and will automatically renew after the free trial ends. - Within 24 hours before the subscription expires, the system will automatically deduct the payment and extend a subscription cycle. - If you wish to cancel your subscription, you need to take action within 24 hours before the subscription expires through App Store. Privacy Policy: https://efv6plkvmp.feishu.cn/docx/TQLFdu5DFoIlVjxB31AcLHqQnUu Terms of Service: https://efv6plkvmp.feishu.cn/docx/FfBVdDdH2ovLJoxaUSfcvRa5nDc

About

Focus Ally

Features
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Work runs in parallel. Your attention doesn't. Focus Ally shows what your day was actually made of: the hours you spent inside your own attention, and the hours your AI agents worked next to you. Most productivity tools count tasks. Focus Ally counts attention. One app across your devices: iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. THE DAY IN ONE VIEW An hourly timeline with session blocks and a live now line. Your calendar sits beside it in two columns, planned intention on one side and what actually happened on the other, read from your real calendars. A SEPARATE LANE FOR AI SESSIONS When coding agents run beside you, that work is real, but it is not your attention. Focus Ally gives parallel AI sessions their own lane, so delegated work is visible without being mistaken for focus. FOCUS SESSIONS THAT DO NOT CUT YOU OFF 10, 25, 50 or 90 minutes, or open ended. At zero it does not stop. It counts up, so a session that is going well is never ended by an alarm. REST AS PART OF THE SYSTEM Choose a break, walk the rest ladder, and log how the session felt: sluggish, ok or sharp. Rest is human life, not dead time. STATISTICS AND INSIGHTS A daily goal, core metrics, time by tag and a history strip. Insights adds daily, weekly and monthly reflections written back to you. TASKS, KEPT SIMPLE ToDo, Backlog, Done, Dropped. Tags are the only taxonomy. No folders, no projects, no ceremony. CONNECT YOUR AI ASSISTANT An MCP connection lets an AI assistant read and set your priorities and sessions, with explicit scopes that you control. ALSO Theming and seven interface languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Korean. FOCUS ALLY PRO Free includes the day timeline, calendar, focus and rest sessions, tasks, and statistics for today and yesterday. Pro unlocks Insights, full statistics, full history, and smart priority reminders. Focus Ally Pro Monthly: $9.99 per month, with a 7 day free trial. Focus Ally Pro Annual: $59.99 per year, with a 7 day free trial. Save 50%. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://focus.withally.app/legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://focus.withally.app/legal/terms Support: https://focus.withally.app/legal/support

Screenshots

TimeLine4 screens
Focus Ally4 screens

Verdict

The call

TimeLine and Focus Ally are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TimeLine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Focus Ally sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeLine ships an update monthly, Focus Ally every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TimeLine versus Focus Ally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeLineFocus Ally
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer权 肖Aleksandr Senin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TimeLine

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$2.99
2 purchases

Focus Ally

Subscriptions2
  • Focus with Ally Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Focus with Ally Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is TimeLine free?
TimeLine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Ally free?
Focus Ally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeLine or Focus Ally have ads?
Neither TimeLine nor Focus Ally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeLine or Focus Ally?
TimeLine ships an update monthly, and Focus Ally every 3 weeks. Most recently, TimeLine was updated on November 3, 2026 and Focus Ally on October 31, 2026.

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