Comparison

MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD vs Perch

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

Head to head
About

MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD

This app helps individuals with time blindness and task initiation challenges by providing a flexible timeboxing system. It allows users to plan their day with visual timelines and focus on tasks with distraction-free sessions, offering gentle guidance for better productivity.

Highlights
  • Flexible timeboxing
  • Visual timeline view
  • Distraction-free focus timer
  • Task estimation vs. actual time tracking
  • Routine creation
  • Finish by prediction
  • Calendar and Reminders integration
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Timeboxing for ADHD and Focused Work Finally see where your day goes. MetaTimer is a timeboxing and focus timer app built for people who struggle with time blindness and task initiation. Designed for ADHD minds, students, and freelancers, it gives you structure without rigidity. Unlike rigid Pomodoro timers, MetaTimer lets you build your day like a playlist. Each task gets its own time block, but you stay in control of the flow. Add tasks, hit play, and follow your plan one block at a time. What MetaTimer helps you do - Beat time blindness with a visual timeline of your day - Plan with flexible time blocks - Focus deeply with distraction-free sessions - Track estimated vs actual time - Reduce decision fatigue with routines - Know when you'll be done with a “Finish by” prediction Features - Flexible timeboxing - Visual timeline view - Focus timer with progress ring - Daily stats and weekly reports - Pause and resume without breaking flow - Category tags and project grouping - Siri Shortcuts and voice commands - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island live activities - Calendar and Reminders integration - Billable time reports for freelancers MetaTimer provides just enough structure without feeling overwhelming, helping you stay present and track time honestly. Perfect for students, remote workers, freelancers, creatives, and people with ADHD who need gentle guidance instead of strict rules.

About

Perch

Capture your thoughts effortlessly by speaking them aloud. This app organizes your ideas into a visual map, distinguishing between urgent tasks and those that can wait. It intelligently resurfaces saved information when it's most relevant, helping you manage a busy mind.

Highlights
  • Brain dump thoughts out loud
  • One-tap capture for voice, photo, text, links
  • Visualizes thoughts on a live map
  • Sorts tasks by urgency and relevance
  • Intelligently resurfaces saved ideas
  • No folders or tags required
Features
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Too much in your head? Say it out loud. Open Perch and talk—in any order, half-finished, all over the place. When you’re finished, your thoughts become something you can look at. Brain dumps help make sense of what’s on your mind: recurring themes, things that feel tangled, and a small next move when there’s something worth trying. Some days bring a deeper reflection. Others are simply a moment worth keeping. The rest of life has a place too. Capture a thought, voice recording, photo, screenshot, drawing, or link. Save a video and get the gist. Add your own thoughts whenever something comes to mind. No folders. No tags. No system to set up and immediately abandon. Then, quietly, Perch brings things back. Saved notes resurface over time, and you can choose a date to bring something back yourself. With Perch Pro, related notes find connections, collections form automatically, and weekly recaps help you look back. • Talk it out with brain dumps. • Capture text, voice, photos, drawings, and links. • Keep your original words and recordings. • Find themes and useful next steps with Pro analysis. • Revisit saved thoughts through resurfacing. • Explore automatic collections, connections, and weekly recaps with Pro. Your first onboarding brain dump includes a full analysis. Continue capturing with Free, or choose Perch Pro for ongoing insights. Friendly by design—useful for anyone whose head runs faster than their notes app. Your notes are yours. Terms of Use: https://yourperch.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://yourperch.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD4 screens
Perch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD at none against Perch's 2. MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Perch's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Perch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD against 5.0 for Perch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perch has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD ships an update every 3 weeks, Perch every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD versus Perch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHDPerch
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleh PavlivAnthony Dragone

In-app purchases

None

MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Perch

Subscriptions2
  • Perch Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Perch Pro — Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD free?
MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perch free?
Perch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD or Perch?
MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD and Perch are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD or Perch have ads?
Neither MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD nor Perch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD or Perch?
MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD ships an update every 3 weeks, and Perch every 4 days. Most recently, MetaTimer Timeboxing for ADHD was updated on October 13, 2026 and Perch on October 16, 2026.

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