Comparison

InkSpace vs TimeProgress

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

Head to head
About

InkSpace

This digital notebook app offers complete creative freedom for note-taking, brainstorming, sketching, and journaling. Customize notebooks with various templates, page styles, and colors. Organize and access notes seamlessly across devices, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom notebooks
  • Write, draw, and sketch with stylus support
  • Insert custom shapes, text, and media
  • Searchable tags and bookmarks
  • Sync across all devices
  • Offline functionality
Features
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The all-in-one notebook for handwriting, typing, PDFs, math, diagrams, and more. Built for students who want to learn faster and professionals who want to work smarter. Take handwritten notes, mark up PDFs, solve equations, and record lectures, all in one organized space that keeps your work together and in sync across your devices. Write and draw naturally Capture notes in your own handwriting with smooth, responsive ink. Prefer to type? Switch to the keyboard anytime, with a full font picker and control over size, color, bold, italic, underline, and alignment. Add horizontal and vertical rulers to keep everything precise. Choose the perfect page Start on college ruled, wide ruled, graph, dotted, or blank paper in A4, A5, B5, or custom sizes, portrait or landscape. Personalize everything with custom notebook and page colors, backgrounds, and tints. Templates for every purpose Jump into ready-made template packs for real life: • Planner templates for daily planning and scheduling • Journal templates for reflection and journaling • Fitness templates for workouts and tracking • Teaching templates for lesson planning and classes • Finance and trading templates for money and markets • Handwriting and calendar templates for practice and organization Or build and save your own so your favorite layouts are always one tap away. Study and remember more Turn any subject into a quiz set, a deck of flip cards you can shuffle, grade, and drill yourself with until it sticks. Perfect for exam prep, vocabulary, and quick daily review. Find anything instantly InkSpace reads your handwriting and makes it searchable. Search across every notebook to surface handwritten notes, typed text, sticky notes, code, lists, and tags in seconds. Spotlight finds notes right from the Home Screen, and Siri Shortcuts let you create, open, and search notes hands-free. Work smarter with rich, interactive objects Drop live tools onto your page and move them anywhere: • Math equations with automatic formatting from everyday notation • Calculator with named variables, unit and currency conversion, and financial functions like PMT, FV, and PV • Charts with a built-in data editor and multiple chart types • Function graphs for visualizing equations • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for Swift, Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, and many more • Audio recordings to capture lectures and meetings alongside your notes • Images, maps, and 3D models embedded directly on your pages • Tables and grids with fully editable cells and real formulas • Checklists and lists with bullets, numbers, and checkboxes • Sticky notes and shapes to structure and highlight your thinking Build diagrams and connect ideas Create flowcharts, mind maps, and org-style diagrams by linking shapes, text, and sticky notes with connectors and arrows. Explore without limits using infinite zoom and fractal canvas modes that give you endless room to think. Write papers that are ready to hand in Draft a full essay with proper margins, then let InkSpace build your entire bibliography from your sources in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. Export to PDF or Word, formatted and ready to submit. Organize everything your way Group your notebooks, papers, and quiz sets together into backpacks. Bookmark notebooks and pages, tag pages for fast filtering, connect notes with cross-notebook page links that preview inline, and add hyperlinks to jump anywhere. Import PDFs to reference, attach files, and export pages to share. Sync securely with iCloud Your notebooks stay up to date on every device with iCloud, so your notes are always with you. Perfect for • Students: lecture notes, study guides, math and science homework, searchable revision, recorded classes, quiz sets, and notebooks for every subject • Professionals: meeting notes, project planning, diagrams, referenced PDFs, quick calculations, and reusable templates

About

TimeProgress

Visualize your time with colorful progress rings for the day, week, month, and year. Customize your view, set reminders, and use built-in timers. Live Activities and widgets offer at-a-glance progress and event countdowns.

Highlights
  • Progress rings for day, week, month, year
  • Customizable ring colors and presets
  • Focus and Break timer
  • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support
  • Custom countdown rings for events
  • iCloud sync for preferences
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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TimeProgress turns the passage of time into clear, colorful progress rings. See how far you are through the current day, week, month, year, and hour at a glance. Make it yours: • Choose individual ring colors or apply a coordinated color preset • Show only the rings you care about • Reverse percentages to focus on time remaining • Use the built-in 30-minute Focus / 15-minute Break timer • Follow the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with a Live Activity • Create custom countdown rings for events • Sync custom rings and supported appearance preferences across your devices with iCloud • Set optional milestone and event reminders • Add configurable Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets Widget options include Single Ring, All Rings, Progress Overview, and a circular Lock Screen progress ring. Supported Home Screen sizes range from small through large, plus extra-large on supported iPads. Progress calculations use your device's system date, time, calendar, and time-zone settings. No TimeProgress account is required, and core progress features work without an internet connection. iCloud sync requires the same Apple Account and iCloud access. Remote Focus / Break Live Activity phase updates require an internet connection and use a limited timer service. TimeProgress contains no advertising or cross-app tracking.

Screenshots

InkSpace4 screens
TimeProgress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: InkSpace at Free against TimeProgress's $0.99. InkSpace also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1). TimeProgress's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

InkSpace is free to download; TimeProgress costs $0.99 up front. InkSpace sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. TimeProgress asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TimeProgress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InkSpace has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InkSpace ships an update every 10 days, TimeProgress every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
InkSpace versus TimeProgress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkSpaceTimeProgress
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler ShermanAaron Uballe

Customer experience

InkSpace

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TimeProgress

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

InkSpace

One-time6
  • Fitness Pack$0.99
  • Finance Pack$0.99
  • Handwriting Pack$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Planner Pack$0.99
  • Teaching Pack$0.99
  • Journal Pack$0.99
None

TimeProgress

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InkSpace free?
InkSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeProgress free?
TimeProgress costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, InkSpace or TimeProgress?
TimeProgress is rated higher. InkSpace averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while TimeProgress averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do InkSpace or TimeProgress have ads?
Neither InkSpace nor TimeProgress shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InkSpace or TimeProgress?
InkSpace ships an update every 10 days, and TimeProgress every 2 weeks. Most recently, InkSpace was updated on October 8, 2026 and TimeProgress on October 10, 2026.

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