Time Atlas vs Pool, the screenshot app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Atlas
This app automatically creates a visual diary of your life by tracking your locations, activities, and photos. It provides a comprehensive snapshot of each day without manual input, allowing you to revisit and curate your memories.
- Automatic location and activity capture
- Visual daily snapshots
- Photo integration into stories
- Effortless travel tracking
- Customizable daily layouts
- Private and encrypted on-device storage
- Import from Apple Journal and Google Timeline
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Life moves fast. Time Atlas helps you remember everything, for FREE (advanced features available with a paid subscription). Time Atlas is an automatic visual diary, which captures your daily life: places you visit, paths you take, activities you participate in and photos you take along the way. The app gives you a snapshot of each day as it really was – in full context. Your story is elegantly curated for you, with no effort whatsoever. Shape it further as you wish! It runs quietly in the background, turning your routine into a clear picture of your day. No manual inputs required, no wearable device needed. You get a private, personal record of your days – so you can revisit any day, recall any moment and rediscover your past. Photos you take during the day appear automatically in your story – curate them freely with elegant results. WHAT TIME ATLAS LETS YOU DO * Automatically capture your location and activity day by day. * View a snapshot of any day in your past – all in full context. * Explore where you went, how you got there and what happened along the way. * Build and curate your daily story, narrated with photos, maps, activity spotlights, place visits and more. * Effortlessly keep track of your travels, vacations and work trips. * Choose what content you want to see of any day and customize how it all is laid out. * Recall any moment in the past easily and at a glance. * Add context when you want to, for example by writing notes. * Keep everything private and encrypted on your device. * Connect to your Apple Health for deeper insights. * Turn on Eco Mode for lower battery use. * Import your diary from Apple Journal app or Day One, or your location history from Google Timeline. * Unlock Time Atlas Plus for advanced features. WHY IT MATTERS * You don't miss out on the important moments and memories in your life. * Recalling that significant day, moment, life event or vacation trip becomes an absolute delight. * A valuable record of your days is stored for the future, archived automatically. AUTOMATIC * Turn "Always" on in your location permissions, so the app can accurately analyze your movements. * Turn "Full" on in your photo permissions, so the app is able to populate your days with appropriate photos. PRIVACY COMES FIRST It’s your data, period. All processing (with the exception of optional AI features) happens privately on your device. Time Atlas stores the data only on your device and in your iCloud backup. When you leave, you leave no trace. PERFECT FOR YOU IF ... * You would like to keep a record of your life, but don't want to put in much effort. * You feel like life moves fast and you don't want to miss out on memories. * You want to keep a diary, so you can reflect and reminisce later. * You wish you had an amazing journal of all your trips and vacations. DOWNLOAD TIME ATLAS AND REMEMBER EVERYTHING Have questions, feedback, or ideas? Contact the team at info@timeatlaslabs.com. Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/timeatlasapp/ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/zwJEYNdsPE TRY OUR MAC APP TO WRITE NOTES! https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761260518 OPEN SOURCE TOOLS TO ACCESS TIME ATLAS DATA https://github.com/timeatlaslabs/oss/
Pool, the screenshot app
Organize and find your iPhone screenshots with powerful search and custom collections. Automatically discover original links behind your captured images. Never lose a moment again.
- Intelligent screenshot search
- Customizable 'Pools' for organization
- Automatic link discovery
- Screenshot management
- Intuitive interface
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Do you take wayyy too many screenshots like us? And then have absolutely no idea what to do with them or where to find them? Pool is for you. Pool is a happy little home for all those moments that mattered on your iPhone screen. 1. Incredible search We built a ridiculously good search engine so you can find any screenshot—even when you barely remember it. 2. Beautiful Pools We reinvented albums and called them Pools. Because everything is better in a Pool. 3. Smart actions Pool finds the original links behind your screenshots, like magic. Screenshot everything. Throw it in Pool. Find it whenever you want. Privacy Policy: https://pool.day/privacy Terms of Service: https://pool.day/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pool, the screenshot app at none against Time Atlas's 3. Pool, the screenshot app also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Time Atlas's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 52%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Time Atlas sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Pool, the screenshot app asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Atlas holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Time Atlas's written reviews are positive against 52% of Pool, the screenshot app's.
Time Atlas ships an update every 6 days, Pool, the screenshot app every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Atlas | Pool, the screenshot app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (85 ratings) — better | 4.6 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 52.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Time Atlas Labs Oy | Random Access Memories |
Customer experience
Time Atlas
Pool, the screenshot app
In-app purchases
Time Atlas
- Time Atlas Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Time Atlas Plus - Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Time Atlas Plus - Lifetime$199.99
Pool, the screenshot app
No in-app purchases
Questions
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