KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker vs Halftime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker
Easily record, track, and receive reminders for significant events like birthdays, anniversaries, and exams. This app offers beautiful widgets for your home and lock screens, keeping important dates always in view. It focuses on simplicity and a clutter-free experience.
- Event recording and tracking
- Customizable reminders
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Lightweight and simple design
- Focus on important dates
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KeyDays is a beautifully designed app that helps you record, track, and remind you of important events such as: ◎ Birthdays of loved ones ◎ Anniversaries ◎ Exam dates ◎ And more It also offers stunning home screen and lock screen widgets, so you're always reminded of your upcoming events! KeyDays is lightweight, simple, and compact, with no cluttered features or ads — just focus on your important days. Privacy Policy: https://dominich.notion.site/KeyDays-0038bfe6065d4d9c84045cda525d50b7 Terms of Service: https://dominich.notion.site/KeyDays-6c3cc138e320407e84684c8b58bd765f
Halftime
Visualize your life's progress and remaining time through a unique dot-based matrix. Track days, weeks, years, and significant events with focus timers and shareable progress cards. Designed for mindful living and intentional time management.
- Visual Time Matrix
- Life Progress Visualization
- Focus Timer
- Special Day Trackers
- Home and Lock Screen Widgets
- Apple Watch Support
- Shareable Timeline Cards
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How much time do you actually have left? Halftime helps you see time clearly, from the next hour to the shape of your entire life. Instead of hiding time inside lists, charts, or abstract numbers, Halftime turns your day, week, month, year, and life into a quiet matrix of dots. Each dot is a moment. Some have passed. Some are still ahead. Some can still be filled with focus, meaning, and intention. Halftime is not a traditional to-do list, habit tracker, or productivity system. It is a visual time tracker designed to help you understand where you are, what matters, and how you want to spend the time you still have. Key Features • Visual Time Matrix See your Day, Week, Month, Year, and Life as clean dot-based timelines. Zoom from the micro view of today to the macro view of your life. • Life Progress Set your birthday and expected lifespan to visualize your life progress in weeks and years. A simple, powerful reminder to make the present count. • Focus Timer Start a focused session with a simple gesture. Turn passing time into visible progress and transform grey dots into colorful records of attention. • Special Days Track birthdays, anniversaries, trips, deadlines, goals, and meaningful moments with countdowns and progress views. • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets Keep your Life, Day, Week, Month, Year, and Special Days progress visible without opening the app. • Apple Watch Support Check your time progress from your wrist. Add Halftime complications to your watch face for Life, Year, Month, Week, Day, and selected Special Days. • Visual Heatmap Your effort is more than a number. Watch your timeline light up as you focus, build routines, and create a visual record of how your time is spent. • Shareable Timeline Cards Create clean visual cards for your time progress and share your Day, Month, Year, or Life timeline. Why Halftime? Halftime is for people who want to: • Feel the passage of time more clearly • Track life progress without anxiety or clutter • Build focus with a minimal timer • Visualize habits, effort, and attention • Remember important dates and countdowns • Use widgets and Apple Watch complications as gentle reminders • Spend less time scrolling and more time living Design Philosophy Halftime is intentionally simple. No ads. No noisy social features. No complicated project systems. No endless settings. Just a calm, visual way to understand time and make better choices with it. Time does not become longer when you track it. But when you can see it, you can choose it more deliberately. Stop scrolling. Start living. Welcome to Halftime. Take control of your second half. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://limxfx.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-21528332de66804d9c3fcacd01e709b1
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker at every 4 days against Halftime's fortnightly. KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker also leads on ratings volume (63 vs 4). 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
Both are free to download. KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Halftime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker against 5.0 for Halftime. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker has 63 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Halftime's.
KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker ships an update every 4 days, Halftime fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker | Halftime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 炜东 黄 | 虎 伏 |
Customer experience
KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker
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In-app purchases
KeyDays:Day Counter & Tracker
- Annual$4.991 Year
- Coffee$2.99
- Lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime +$14.99
Halftime
- Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$8.99
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