Comparison

Time Vis vs HomeStretch Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Time Vis

Visualize the passage of time with elegant progress bars. Add customizable widgets to your Home or Lock Screen to stay mindful of how you spend your time. Track the progress of the current year, month, week, and day at a glance.

Highlights
  • Time flow visualization
  • Progress bars for year, month, week, day
  • Customizable Home Screen widgets
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Multiple widget sizes
Features
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See time at a glance. Time Vis shows how much of the current day, week, month, and year has passed through clean progress bars and percentages. It’s a simple way to pause and see where you are in time. Keep that view close with widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Choose which periods appear in your Home Screen widget, and display labels and percentages or keep it minimal with bars alone. Pick a small or medium Home Screen widget, or a compact Lock Screen widget. Open Time Vis whenever you want a clear view of the bigger picture.

About

HomeStretch Countdown

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The part of the day you actually watch the clock for is the last one. HomeStretch puts that part on your Lock Screen. Make a counter for whatever you are inside of — the school day, the shift, the workday, the workout, the fast — and say when it ends. That is the whole setup. When the end gets close, a Live Activity appears on its own, counts down, and goes away when you have made it. WHAT YOU GET • Six templates to start from: School day, Shift, Workday, Workout, Fast, or your own • Repeating counters on the weekdays you pick, one-off counters, and quick countdowns • Six countdown styles: digits, dots, bar, ring, an LED clock, and a sentence you write yourself • Six palettes, all readable on a bright screen • Dynamic Island, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and wherever iOS mirrors Live Activities: Apple Watch Smart Stack and StandBy • A notification when the home stretch starts, and one when it is over • Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout ONE HONEST LIMIT iOS ends every Live Activity after eight hours, so a home stretch is at most 7 hours 45 minutes long. If the end is days away, a widget carries the countdown until then and the Lock Screen takes over by itself when the home stretch begins. There are no background tricks here: HomeStretch does not run while you are not looking, and it does not need to. HOMESTRETCH PRO Free gives you one counter, the digits and dots styles, three palettes and one widget configuration — enough for the one thing you count down every day. HomeStretch Pro adds: • Unlimited counters • All six styles, including bar, ring, sentence and the LED clock • All six palettes • Your own sentence templates around the countdown • Siri Shortcuts and a Control Center button • Quick countdowns straight from Shortcuts • End a countdown with an alarm that rings through Silent mode and Focus Three plans: Yearly and Monthly are auto-renewing subscriptions — Yearly opens with a 7-day free trial — and Lifetime is a single purchase, not a subscription. The price in your own currency is shown before you buy, and you can restore a purchase on any of your devices. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics beyond purchases. Your counters and your history stay on your device. Notifications are scheduled locally — there is no push and no server of ours. TERMS Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://onygroup.hu/homestretch/privacy/

Screenshots

Time Vis4 screens
HomeStretch Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Time Vis at none against HomeStretch Countdown's 3. Time Vis also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). HomeStretch Countdown's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 21 months). On price, 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. HomeStretch Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Time Vis asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Vis ships an update every 21 months, HomeStretch Countdown daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Time Vis versus HomeStretch Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime VisHomeStretch Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey KruhlikONY Services Group Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag

In-app purchases

None

Time Vis

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

HomeStretch Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • HomeStretch Pro – Monthly$4.991 Month
  • HomeStretch Pro – Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • HomeStretch Pro – Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Time Vis free?
Time Vis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HomeStretch Countdown free?
HomeStretch Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Vis or HomeStretch Countdown have ads?
Neither Time Vis nor HomeStretch Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Vis or HomeStretch Countdown?
Time Vis ships an update every 21 months, and HomeStretch Countdown daily. Most recently, Time Vis was updated on October 24, 2026 and HomeStretch Countdown on October 26, 2026.

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