Comparison

Jelly Timer vs BlockDay

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

Head to head
About

Jelly Timer

This app helps you manage goals, plan your day, and track time using a Pomodoro technique. It features a smart calendar and prioritizes user privacy by storing data locally or on iCloud.

Highlights
  • Goal management with projects and tasks
  • Daily planning and focus goal setting
  • Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions
  • Time tracking automatically recorded
  • Integrated smart calendar for scheduling
  • Privacy-focused with local/iCloud storage
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Jelly Timer: Your Personal Focus & Productivity Companion • Goal Management: Break your dreams into sectors, projects, tasks and steps. Keep everything organized in one place. • Daily Planning: Set focus goals, schedule tasks, and achieve your objectives—then enjoy your well-earned free time. • Time Tracking: Use the Pomodoro to stay on track. Every focus session is automatically recorded across tasks, projects, and sectors. • Smart Calendar: Plan, manage, and visualize your schedule with an integrated calendar. Track your progress and stay aligned with your goals. • Privacy First: Your data stays yours. We collect nothing—everything is securely stored on your device or in iCloud.

About

BlockDay

Features
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Plan tomorrow in blocks tonight, then live it. BlockDay turns a pile of to-dos into a real schedule. You lay blocks on a paper-style day canvas, drag them to size, and give each one a start time, an end time, and a category. Then you live the day one focus block at a time and see how close you stayed to the plan. What you can do: - Build a day on a paper-style canvas. Drag a block to move it, drag the handle to resize it. Blocks snap to five minutes. - Fill a day in seconds from a built-in template library: deep work, admin, breaks, meetings, health, learning, personal, and errands. - Run the nightly planning ritual. Name one intention, pick a day shape, and set a reminder to plan tomorrow while today is fresh. - Start a focus block timer, count it down, and mark the block done. - Review plan vs actual. Mark each block done, partly, or skipped for a kept-time score, per block and per category. - See where the day goes with category time totals on every screen. - Read weekly patterns: planned hours by day and your category mix for the week. - Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. Free and Pro: - Free covers up to seven planned days, the day canvas, the template library, the focus timer, plan vs actual review, and this week's insights. - Pro unlocks unlimited days and your full history, weekly trend charts for hours and follow-through, saving your own custom blocks, and exporting a day plan PDF or a CSV of every block. Private by design. No account of ours and no tracking. Your plans live on your device and in your private iCloud. Subscription details. BlockDay Pro is offered as a monthly subscription at $3.99 USD and a yearly subscription at $24.99 USD, or a one-time Lifetime unlock at $59.99 USD. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Jelly Timer4 screens
BlockDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jelly Timer at none against BlockDay's 3. Jelly Timer also leads on iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). 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. BlockDay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Jelly Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Jelly Timer versus BlockDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJelly TimerBlockDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJELLYDOT TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.InnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

Jelly Timer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

BlockDay

Subscriptions2
  • BlockDay Pro1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • BlockDay Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • BlockDay Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Jelly Timer free?
Jelly Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BlockDay free?
BlockDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jelly Timer or BlockDay have ads?
Neither Jelly Timer nor BlockDay shows ads.

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