Comparison

TimeMeter vs Catchly

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

Head to head
About

TimeMeter

This app offers a unique way to visualize time progression with a retro CRT monitor aesthetic. It displays daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly progress with elegant animations and customizable widget layouts. Designed for time management enthusiasts and fans of vintage design.

Highlights
  • Time progress visualization
  • Retro CRT display style
  • Customizable widget order
  • Elegant animation effects
  • Dark mode support
  • Multiple widget sizes
Features
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TimeMeter 是一款独特的时间进度展示工具,采用复古 CRT 显示器风格设计,为您优雅地呈现时间流逝。 主要特点: • 精确展示今日、本周、本月、本年的时间进度 • 独特的复古 CRT 显示效果,带来视觉享受 • 支持自定义小组件显示顺序 • 优雅的动画过渡效果 • 精心设计的进度条动画 • 深色模式专属设计 小组件功能: • 支持多种尺寸的小组件 • 可自定义显示顺序 • 实时更新进度 • 优雅的视觉效果 无论您是时间管理爱好者,还是喜欢复古设计的用户,TimeMeter 都能为您带来独特的时间体验。让时间的流逝不再单调,而是充满视觉美感。

About

Catchly

Quickly capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and potential actions without the pressure of immediate organization. This lightweight tool provides a safe space for inspiration, allowing you to refine and act on them later. It prioritizes speed and privacy, keeping your ideas on your devices.

Highlights
  • Fast idea capture
  • Chronological timeline
  • Search and filters
  • Open, completed, archived states
  • Importance and urgency markers
  • Apple Reminders integration
  • Home Screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Catchly is a fast, lightweight place to capture ideas, thoughts, and possible next actions. Ideas can appear and disappear in seconds: a sentence that suddenly comes to mind, an unfinished plan, something to handle later, or an insight from work or reading. Catchly gives each one a safe place to land. Catchly does not force every thought to become a heavy task. Capture it first, organize it later, and decide when—or whether—it deserves action. WHY CATCHLY WORKS - Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Catchly reduces the friction between a thought appearing and storing it somewhere you trust. - An idea does not need to be complete. Save the first trace now and refine it when you are ready. - Unfinished thoughts occupy attention. Writing them down helps clear mental space without creating a complicated to-do system. - Important and urgent are not the same. Lightweight importance and urgency markers help you decide what deserves attention. - Low-friction capture builds a lasting habit. Input, reminders, filters, widgets, and shortcuts are designed to stay out of your way. - Your ideas remain yours. Catchly requires no account, uses no advertising trackers, and keeps your content on your devices and in iCloud rather than on developer-operated servers. HOW TO USE IT - Tap the capture button and write down your idea. - Add a date when timing matters, with the option to create an Apple Reminder. - Mark an idea as important or urgent to make it easier to find later. - Complete ideas you have acted on, or archive those you no longer need in view. - Search and filter by status, importance, or urgency. - Add Catchly widgets to your Home Screen so earlier ideas can resurface. - Use shortcuts and system integrations to capture ideas with minimal interruption. MADE FOR REAL LIFE - Work: follow-up actions, product ideas, copy, and investigation notes. - Learning: reading notes, course insights, questions, and concepts to revisit. - Life: shopping ideas, travel plans, temporary tasks, gifts, and loose ends. - Creativity: titles, paragraphs, scenes, story concepts, and fragments of inspiration. - Reflection: review your timeline and rediscover directions worth pursuing. FEATURES - Fast capture without forcing ideas into a complex task structure - A chronological timeline for browsing and reflection - Search and filters for keywords, status, importance, and urgency - Open, completed, and archived states - Lightweight importance and urgency matrix - Apple Reminders integration - Home Screen widgets that resurface captured ideas - iCloud and CloudKit sync across your Apple devices - No Catchly account required - Privacy-friendly design with no advertising tracking or sale of personal data CATCHLY MAY BE FOR YOU IF - You collect scattered thoughts but do not want to turn them into projects immediately. - You want something more focused than a general notes app and lighter than a task manager. - You want ideas, possible actions, reminders, and review in one simple flow. - You have ADHD—or simply a busy, fast-moving mind—and want an external inbox for your thoughts. - You often lose ideas while switching tasks and want a lower-friction way to preserve them. - You prefer to capture first and decide what matters later. CONTACT Questions, feedback, or suggestions for new capture methods are always welcome. Support: freemind.dev.workshop@gmail.com EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glib-march-c73.notion.site/375a6a5d5d23806393f5dece27445693

Screenshots

TimeMeter4 screens
Catchly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Catchly at 50% against TimeMeter's 0%. Catchly also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months). TimeMeter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Catchly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TimeMeter asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeMeter ships an update every 13 months, Catchly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeMeter versus Catchly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeMeterCatchly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer坤 倪晓江 苏

Customer experience

TimeMeter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Catchly

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

TimeMeter

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Catchly

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$1.00

Questions

Is TimeMeter free?
TimeMeter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catchly free?
Catchly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeMeter or Catchly have ads?
Neither TimeMeter nor Catchly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeMeter or Catchly?
TimeMeter ships an update every 13 months, and Catchly weekly. Most recently, TimeMeter was updated on October 12, 2026 and Catchly on October 7, 2026.

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