Comparison

TimeLog vs Rubato

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

Head to head
About

TimeLog

Effortlessly track study, work, or habit durations with a simple tap. Visualize your progress with beautiful charts and analyze your time across daily, weekly, and monthly views to stay focused and motivated.

Highlights
  • Record daily activities and durations
  • Easy tracking with stopwatch
  • Categorize activities
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly charts
  • Analyze category and action time
  • Calendar view for reflection
  • Supports Dark Mode
Features
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Stay motivated by making your progress visible. TimeLog helps you record and analyze your study, work, or habit time effortlessly. Just tap to start the timer, and your daily efforts are automatically organized and visualized with beautiful charts. 【App Features】 • Record daily activities and durations • Easy tracking with stopwatch • Categorize your activities • View daily, weekly, and monthly charts • Analyze each category and action • Calendar view for time reflection • Supports Dark Mode Whether you’re preparing for exams, studying for a certification, managing work hours, or tracking daily habits — TimeLog helps you stay consistent, focused, and motivated. Start recording today, visualize your effort, and make your time work smarter for you. -Term of Use https://equatorial-promise-d20.notion.site/17104c92cfe246f0a2f1b28ce440c7c5?pvs=4 -Privacy Policy https://equatorial-promise-d20.notion.site/c4a7b90aab28457db2a8a3403722d43a?pvs=4

About

Rubato

Features
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. • A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. • Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. • Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. • Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. • Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. • Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). • All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. • iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. • Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a ¥0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (¥2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.

Screenshots

TimeLog4 screens
Rubato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Rubato at none against TimeLog's shown. Rubato also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and device support (3 vs 1). TimeLog's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.5). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TimeLog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeLog ships an update every 4 days, Rubato daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeLog versus Rubato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeLogRubato
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermasashi adachiYujiro Yonetsu

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TimeLog

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly plan1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Annual plan$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$29.99
2 purchases

Rubato

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99

Questions

Is TimeLog free?
TimeLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rubato free?
Rubato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeLog or Rubato have ads?
TimeLog shows ads; Rubato does not.
Which is updated more often, TimeLog or Rubato?
TimeLog ships an update every 4 days, and Rubato daily. Most recently, TimeLog was updated on October 30, 2026 and Rubato on October 31, 2026.

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