Comparison

Time Atlas vs Blur!

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

Head to head
About

Time Atlas

This app automatically records your daily activities, locations, and photos to create a comprehensive, private journal of your life. Effortlessly revisit past moments and rediscover your history with a curated visual timeline.

Highlights
  • Automatic location and activity capture
  • Daily life snapshots with full context
  • Explore past journeys and events
  • Curated daily stories with photos and maps
  • Private and encrypted on-device storage
  • Optional note-taking for added context
Features
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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/

About

Blur!

Features
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Blur is a journal where your life is the exhibition. Most days blur together. Blur helps you keep the ones worth remembering, then lets you walk back through them like a visitor in your own museum. YOUR MUSEUM OPENS FULL You already have years of photographs on your phone. Blur catalogues them for you when you first open it, reads the date each one was taken, and hangs them in wings by year. Your museum has a history before you write a single word. THREE WAYS TO KEEP A DAY Write a line. Say it out loud and let Blur transcribe your words, then tidy the rambling into something clean. Or draw a small doodle with your finger, which hangs itself in your Doodles wing. It all happens on your device. BUILD YOUR MUSEUM Every memory becomes an exhibit. Place them into rooms like Best Meals, People You Love, or Summer 2026. Watch each room warm up as it fills, and see little visitors wander in to look around. WALK BACK THROUGH YOUR LIFE Browse a wing as a gallery wall, a shelf, a set of pedestals, or a scrapbook page, with the whole room on one screen and the animals wandering below. Each exhibit opens like an artifact, with a wall label giving the day, the hour, and the place. A WING FOR EVERYONE WHO MATTERS Give the people in your life a face and a name. Every entry that mentions someone hangs in their own wing, so you can walk through years of one person. Their names are taught to the microphone too, so even the tricky ones come out spelled right. COLLECT YOUR VISITORS Cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, snails, birds and butterflies wander your halls, and 21 different breeds arrive as your museum grows. The Guest Book shows who has visited and what will bring the rest. FIND ANYTHING The Archive searches every word, person and place you have ever kept. Filter by favorites, food, trips and more. Open the calendar to write for any day in the past, so nothing is lost just because you were busy. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNAL Already keep a journal somewhere else? Import your exported file and the entries arrive dated, tagged, and placed in your museum. You can also paste in older entries one at a time. GENTLE, NEVER PUSHY Soft daily prompts ask for one small thing, never your whole day. Stamps and quiet milestones mark how far you have come. There are no streaks, no guilt, and no pressure. Blur is warm and a little playful, and never another thing to keep up with. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing is ever sent away to be read. Your journal lives on your iPhone. Lock it with Face ID, back it up to your own iCloud, and export everything whenever you want. Your memories are yours alone. Start with one small thing you noticed today. Before it blurs, keep it here.

Screenshots

Time Atlas4 screens
Blur!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blur! at none against Time Atlas's 3. Blur! also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Time Atlas sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Blur! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Atlas ships an update every 5 days, Blur! weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Atlas versus Blur!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime AtlasBlur!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (62 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings62 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB3 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTime Atlas Labs OyAustin Shin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Time Atlas

Subscriptions2
  • Time Atlas Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Time Atlas Plus - Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Time Atlas Plus - Lifetime$199.99
None

Blur!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Atlas free?
Time Atlas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blur! free?
Blur! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Atlas or Blur! have ads?
Neither Time Atlas nor Blur! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Atlas or Blur!?
Time Atlas ships an update every 5 days, and Blur! weekly. Most recently, Time Atlas was updated on October 22, 2026 and Blur! on October 17, 2026.

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