Prodify vs Hourglass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prodify
Boost your productivity and organization with this task management tool. It helps you track daily tasks, set timers for work segments, and remove procrastination habits. Features include task scheduling, detailed notes, and recurring task options.
- Add tasks with dates and times
- Detailed notes within tasks
- Manage task status
- Free-form to-do list notes
- Task-specific timers
- Recurring tasks
- Alarms and reminders
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Prodify is here to help you reach your maximum productivity and organization during your busiest days. It will keep track of your day-to-day tasks and notes and allow you to appropriately time each segment of work to motivate you to remove your procrastination habits and push for success. This app integrates several features, including: >> Adding tasks with a date and start and end time >> A notes section within each task for details >> Managing the task's status by editing it's info or marking it as complete >> Adding notes to a to-do list in free form >> Setting a timer according to each task >> Reoccurring tasks >> Notifications: alarms and reminders
Hourglass
This app automatically tracks your productive time by monitoring how your phone is oriented. Place your device face down to enter focus mode and flip it over to log distraction time, providing clear data on your work habits without manual input.
- Automatic focus time tracking
- Distraction time monitoring
- Phone orientation detection
- Real productivity data
- No manual timers
- Simple interface
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Hourglass automatically tracks your productive time. Place your phone face down to start focus mode. When you flip it over, it tracks your time spent distracted. Get real data on your focus vs distraction patterns. No manual timers. No guessing. Just truth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hourglass at every 10 days against Prodify's every 6 weeks. Prodify's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Prodify against 5.0 for Hourglass. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prodify has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Prodify ships an update every 6 weeks, Hourglass every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prodify | Hourglass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hongyun Yang | PASHA MEHRANPOUR |
Customer experience
Prodify
Hourglass
In-app purchases
Prodify
No in-app purchases
Hourglass
No in-app purchases
