First Timers vs Bored
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First Timers
Document and cherish your life's first experiences, from trying new foods to visiting new places. Capture these moments with photos, notes, and ratings, and organize them by category. Enjoy a private and secure journal with smart calendar views and detailed statistics.
- Log first experiences with photos and notes
- Categorize experiences by type
- Private and secure local storage
- Calendar and list views
- Detailed statistics and insights
- Share experiences and statistics
- Light and dark mode support
Read full descriptionHide full description
First Timers: Your Personal First Experience Journal Celebrate and remember all of life's first experiences with First Timers - the perfect app for tracking every new adventure, big or small. Whether it's trying a new cuisine, visiting a new place, or learning a new skill, FirstTimers helps you capture these special moments. --- FEATURES: Simple Experience Logging Create beautiful entries for each first-time experience with photos, ratings, and personal notes. Flexible Organization Categorize your experiences by type: Food & Drink, Travel, Activities, Skills, and more. Private & Secure All your experiences are stored locally on your device. Choose which experiences to keep private and which to share. Smart Calendar View Browse your experiences in an intuitive calendar or list view to see your journey over time. Detailed Statistics Track your progress and see insights about your favorite categories and ratings. Share Your Journey Share individual experiences or statistics with friends and family. Clean, Modern Design Enjoy a beautiful, easy-to-use interface with both light and dark mode support. ---- Backed by Science A study published in Nature Neuroscience found that new and diverse experiences are linked to enhanced happiness and increased brain activity. Researchers discovered that people who add variety to their daily routines—such as visiting new places or engaging in novel activities—report feeling more positive and energized. MRI scans revealed increased activity in the hippocampus and striatum, brain regions associated with novelty and reward processing. With First Times, you can harness the power of new experiences to boost your well-being and track your personal growth over time. Start documenting your firsts today and create a beautiful timeline of your life's new experiences!
Bored
Read full descriptionHide full description
Bored is the three-tap answer to "there's nothing to do." Tell it your energy, how long you've got and where you are. It hands you one thing to do. You go and do it. There is no feed here, no list to browse, no account to make — because choosing is how you end up scrolling instead of moving. ONE TASK. NOT A LIST. The whole app is built around handing you a single thing. Answer three questions, get one task, do it. Love it and you'll see more like it. Say never again and you'll never see it twice. It learns from two buttons and nothing else. THE RED BUTTON One task, no questions asked, thirty seconds to say no. For the days when even three taps is too much deciding. PHONE DOWN Start a timer, put the phone in your pocket, and it buzzes you back when the time is up. The countdown lives on your Lock Screen so you never have to unlock to check it — and the app quietly notices how many times you picked the phone up anyway. It will tell you afterwards. Gently. EIGHT MORE WAYS IN When a plain suggestion isn't enough: • Mystery Box — one object or one rule. You don't get to choose. • Personas — do the same task as somebody else entirely. • Time Capsule — write a note to whoever you are in a month, and you can't read it before then. • Internet Gems — the parts of the internet that are still worth visiting. • Ambient — listen here, or to a radio station somewhere very far away. • One Stroke, Crowns and Noughts and Crosses — three games, below. THREE GAMES, NEW EVERY DAY • One Stroke — one unbroken line through every square, hitting the numbers in order, with walls in the way. • Crowns — one crown per row, per column and per colour, and no two of them touching. Not even corners. • Noughts and Crosses — against the phone, or against whoever is sitting next to you. The one thing in here you can't do alone. Every board is generated from the calendar date itself. Same puzzle for everybody, same puzzle on any phone, nothing downloaded. IT KEEPS SCORE, QUIETLY Tasks done. Days in a row. Minutes spent away from the phone. Badges you didn't ask for. A twelve-week map of when you actually did something — and an honest line about which hour of the day usually gets you. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No email. No tracking of what you did or when. Your history, your notes, your photos and your streaks stay on the device. There is no server here to leak them. WIDGETS AND THE LOCK SCREEN Put a suggestion on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and it changes through the day, picking things that fit the hour rather than things that don't. Nobody wants "watch the sunrise" at eleven at night. UBSCRIPTION DETAILS Boring Pro is offered as: • Boring Pro Monthly — $7.99 per month, auto-renewing • Boring Pro Yearly — $49.99 per year, auto-renewing • Boring Pro Lifetime — $89.99, a one-off purchase that never renews New subscribers get a 3-day free trial on the yearly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anilk.dev/bored.txt
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: First Timers at none against Bored's 3. First Timers also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price and ads 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. Bored sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. First Timers asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | First Timers | Bored |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KAYJO, LLC | Anil Koylu |
In-app purchases
First Timers
No in-app purchases
Bored
- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lifetime$89.99









