Comparison

Halftime vs Just One

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

Head to head
About

Halftime

Visualize your life's progress and remaining time through a unique dot-based matrix. Track days, weeks, years, and significant events with focus timers and shareable progress cards. Designed for mindful living and intentional time management.

Highlights
  • Visual Time Matrix
  • Life Progress Visualization
  • Focus Timer
  • Special Day Trackers
  • Home and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Apple Watch Support
  • Shareable Timeline Cards
Features
Read full description

How much time do you actually have left? Halftime helps you see time clearly, from the next hour to the shape of your entire life. Instead of hiding time inside lists, charts, or abstract numbers, Halftime turns your day, week, month, year, and life into a quiet matrix of dots. Each dot is a moment. Some have passed. Some are still ahead. Some can still be filled with focus, meaning, and intention. Halftime is not a traditional to-do list, habit tracker, or productivity system. It is a visual time tracker designed to help you understand where you are, what matters, and how you want to spend the time you still have. Key Features • Visual Time Matrix See your Day, Week, Month, Year, and Life as clean dot-based timelines. Zoom from the micro view of today to the macro view of your life. • Life Progress Set your birthday and expected lifespan to visualize your life progress in weeks and years. A simple, powerful reminder to make the present count. • Focus Timer Start a focused session with a simple gesture. Turn passing time into visible progress and transform grey dots into colorful records of attention. • Special Days Track birthdays, anniversaries, trips, deadlines, goals, and meaningful moments with countdowns and progress views. • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets Keep your Life, Day, Week, Month, Year, and Special Days progress visible without opening the app. • Apple Watch Support Check your time progress from your wrist. Add Halftime complications to your watch face for Life, Year, Month, Week, Day, and selected Special Days. • Visual Heatmap Your effort is more than a number. Watch your timeline light up as you focus, build routines, and create a visual record of how your time is spent. • Shareable Timeline Cards Create clean visual cards for your time progress and share your Day, Month, Year, or Life timeline. Why Halftime? Halftime is for people who want to: • Feel the passage of time more clearly • Track life progress without anxiety or clutter • Build focus with a minimal timer • Visualize habits, effort, and attention • Remember important dates and countdowns • Use widgets and Apple Watch complications as gentle reminders • Spend less time scrolling and more time living Design Philosophy Halftime is intentionally simple. No ads. No noisy social features. No complicated project systems. No endless settings. Just a calm, visual way to understand time and make better choices with it. Time does not become longer when you track it. But when you can see it, you can choose it more deliberately. Stop scrolling. Start living. Welcome to Halftime. Take control of your second half. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://limxfx.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-21528332de66804d9c3fcacd01e709b1

About

Just One

Features
Read full description

Just One is a minimalist habit tracker designed around a simple idea: start with one habit, and build from there. Track your daily habits with a clean, visual dashboard. See your consistency at a glance with GitHub-style heatmaps, monitor weekly completion rates, and build streaks that keep you motivated. Track Your Way - Standard habits with flexible frequency (1-7 days per week) - Progressive journeys that level up over time (reading 10 min → 60 min, running 1 mile → 5 miles) - Break habits to track what you're quitting — count clean days and log slip-ups - Affirmations to celebrate internal wins independent of your main goal Stay Consistent - Streak tracking counts consecutive weeks you hit your goal - Streak Savers let you fill in a missed day so one slip doesn't erase weeks of progress - Previous-day catch-up prompts help you log yesterday's habits before moving on - Pause and resume habits anytime without losing your history See Your Progress - Activity heatmaps show weeks of history across all your habits - Drag across dates to see detailed day-by-day breakdowns - Stats for current streak, total completions, and completion rate - Weekly reflection in Settings shows how each habit performed Widgets - Home Screen widgets to check off habits without opening the app - Lock Screen widgets for a quick glance at today's progress Just One Pro - Free: track one habit with full features - Pro: unlimited habits, Streak Savers, previous-day catch-up, and priority support - Weekly, monthly, and yearly plans with free trial available Start with just one habit. Build from there.

Screenshots

Halftime4 screens
Just One4 screens

Verdict

The call

Halftime and Just One are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Halftime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Just One sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Halftime versus Just One: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalftimeJust One
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer虎 伏RYAN MICHAEL ELLIOTT

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Halftime

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$8.99
6 purchases

Just One

Subscriptions4
  • Just One Premium (Weekly)$8.997 Days
  • Just One Premium (Monthly)3 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Unlimited Streak Savers$38.991 Month
Show 1 more
  • Just One Premium (Yearly)3 Days trial$74.901 Year
One-time2
  • 1 Streak Saver$1.99
  • 5 Streak Saver$4.99

Questions

Is Halftime free?
Halftime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Just One free?
Just One is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Halftime or Just One have ads?
Neither Halftime nor Just One shows ads.

Other comparisons