Comparison

Timely vs Little Things

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

Head to head
About

Timely

Easily create personalized countdowns for all your important events, from birthdays to vacations. Stay updated with real-time widgets and customize your countdowns with icons and colors. Never miss a moment with helpful reminders.

Highlights
  • Custom countdown creation
  • Home screen widgets
  • Vibrant customization
  • Event reminders
  • Track days, hours, and seconds
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Timely – Count Down to Life’s Big Moments! Make every moment count with Timely, the ultimate countdown app. Whether it’s a birthday, vacation, anniversary, or any special event, Timely helps you track the days, hours, and seconds until the big day. Features: • Custom Countdown Creation: Easily create personalized countdowns for all your important events. • Widgets for Your Home Screen: Stay updated at a glance with sleek, real-time updating widgets. • Vibrant Customization: Add icons, colors, and notes to make your countdowns truly yours. • Never Miss a Moment: Set reminders for key milestones, so you’re always prepared. Start building excitement for every occasion—download Timely today and let the countdown begin!

About

Little Things

This app helps you remember important details about the people in your life, like birthdays, preferences, and memories. Create profiles for loved ones and categorize notes for easy recall when buying gifts or planning events. Your personal information is kept private and secure on your device.

Highlights
  • Personalized profiles for friends and family
  • Categorized notes for preferences and memories
  • Birthday and gift idea tracking
  • Secure on-device storage
  • Export and share contact cards
Features
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Little Things is your private, thoughtful notebook for the people you care about most. We all want to be better friends, partners, and family members, but remembering the small details can be hard. Little Things helps you easily keep track of birthdays, favorite meals, coffee orders, clothing sizes, gift ideas, and meaningful memories in one private place. In Little Things, you can create dedicated profiles for your friends and family, and categorize your notes by favorites, gift ideas, go-to orders, hobbies, and memories, and more. Instantly recall details when buying a gift, planning a dinner, or catching up. Create an encrypted sharing link for a friend's card so others can remember too. Little Things is private by design. Your notes stay securely on your device or in your private iCloud unless you choose to share them. New sharing links expire after 30 days. Your friendships are personal, and your data should be too.

Screenshots

Timely4 screens
Little Things4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Timely at none against Little Things's shown. Timely also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Timely sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Little Things sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Timely against 5.0 for Little Things. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timely ships an update every 4 months, Little Things every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Timely versus Little Things: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelyLittle Things
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlassFlag LLCETHAN PERCIVAL

Customer experience

Timely

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Little Things

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Timely

One-time3
  • Coffee Tip$2.99
  • Pizza Supporter$4.99
  • Super Supporter$9.99
1 purchases

Little Things

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$5.99

Questions

Is Timely free?
Timely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Little Things free?
Little Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timely or Little Things?
Timely and Little Things are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Timely or Little Things have ads?
Little Things shows ads; Timely does not.
Which is updated more often, Timely or Little Things?
Timely ships an update every 4 months, and Little Things every 2 months. Most recently, Timely was updated on October 24, 2026 and Little Things on October 8, 2026.

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