Comparison

Flowton vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

Flowton

This app gamifies time tracking to help you focus and build habits. It uses a unique system of "flowtons" generated by productive time, which you can bank into "cores" or discard into a "black hole." Visualize your progress and improve your productivity ratio.

Highlights
  • Gamified time tracking
  • Countdown and Count Up timers
  • Core and Black Hole time banking
  • Productivity ratio monitoring
  • Customizable boards
  • Offline functionality
  • Streak maintenance
Features
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Discover Flowton - a quantum leap in productivity. Flowton is a gamified time tracker that helps you focus, build habits, and visualize your day. Rethink your time around objectives ("cores"). Productive time goes up. Unproductive time goes down. How it works: ◦ Banked time generates flowtons — a productivity particle that only exists when you measure it. ◦ Run Countdown or Count Up timers to deposit time into your Core, or discard it into the Black Hole. ◦ Productive time builds up orbits around the Core. Unproductive time gets ejected into the Black Hole. Monitor and improve your ratio. ◦ Create boards with a multitude of Cores, find the perfect daily setup to achieve your goals. ◦ Visualize your time history, view stats and set objectives. Features: ∘ Sci-fi gamified time tracking. ∘ Multiple time-keeping tools to help you make it your own. ∘ Finish the day strong and store your Core into your productivity history. ∘ Bank Cores daily or over longer periods - you decide how time works for you. ∘ Maintain a streak to stay on track. ∘ Full offline functionality. ∘ Upgrade to Flowton Prime to create (theme) multiple boards, and view more historic day cells. All else is base game. Time is finite. Use it wisely.

About

Tally

This app helps you understand where your time goes by gently prompting you to log activities throughout the day. It provides visual breakdowns of your time, allowing you to identify patterns and achieve a better balance between productivity and rest.

Highlights
  • Gentle daily prompts for logging
  • Quick-log from notifications
  • Customizable categories with icons
  • Visual daily timeline
  • Balance bars for productivity and rest
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights
  • Offline functionality
Features
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You know the feeling. It's 9 PM and you're wondering where the day went. You were busy — but doing what, exactly? Tally answers that question. Not with timers or complicated tracking. Just a gentle nudge throughout the day: "What did you just do?" Tap a category and you're done. Three seconds, tops. Do this for a few days and something shifts. You stop guessing and start seeing. The afternoon you thought was productive? Mostly phone. The evening you felt was wasted? Actually a solid mix of cooking and reading. Tally doesn't judge. It just shows you the picture. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE Your daily timeline is a visual map of how your hours were spent, color-coded by category. At a glance, you see the shape of your day — what you did, and what slipped by unlogged. LOG WITHOUT THINKING - A gentle nudge at the interval you choose - Quick-log directly from the notification — no need to open the app - Pick from your most-used categories with a single tap - Only active during your waking hours — you set the schedule CATEGORIES THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Tally comes with 10 default categories: Work, Rest, Exercise, Social Media, Reading, Commute, Cooking, Entertainment, Social, and Other. Add your own — unlimited, with custom icons and colors. Your categories should reflect how you actually spend time, not how you wish you did. BALANCE, NOT JUST DATA Tally tracks four dimensions of a well-spent day through balance bars: - Create: time spent on focused, productive work - Recharge: rest, exercise, cooking — recovery that actually counts - Focus: your day minus the distractions - Awareness: how much of your day you've accounted for Each bar has a personal target. When all four close, you've had a balanced day — by your own definition, not anyone else's. SEE THE PATTERNS The Insights tab breaks down your time across four views: - Daily: where today's hours went, charted by category - Weekly: seven days side by side — spot the rhythm of your week - Monthly: trends that only emerge over longer stretches - Yearly: the full picture of how your time adds up No scores designed to guilt you. Just clean data about your own life. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY - iCloud sync keeps your data across all your devices - Dark mode that follows your system setting - Works offline — your data is local first, always - No account required. No sign-up. No analytics tracking you. Tally is completely free. Every feature, every insight, every category — no paywalls, no limits, no "upgrade to unlock" screens. WHAT TALLY IS NOT Tally is not a Pomodoro tool. There are no work/break cycles. Tally is not a billing tracker. There are no projects or clients. Tally is a mirror. It shows you where your time goes. What you do with that information is entirely up to you. Terms of Use: https://www.theblackholecompany.com/termsConditions.html

Screenshots

Flowton4 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Tally at free against Flowton's free with in-app purchases. Flowton's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Flowton sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tally sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Flowton against 4.8 for Tally. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flowton ships an update monthly, Tally every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flowton versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowtonTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings45 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlowton LLCYoussef Ismaili

Customer experience

Flowton

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tally

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Flowton

One-time1
  • Flowton Prime (lifetime unlock)$14.99
5 purchases

Tally

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
Show 2 more
  • Generous Tip$9.99
  • Crazy Tip$49.99

Questions

Is Flowton free?
Flowton is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flowton or Tally?
Tally is rated higher. Flowton averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Tally averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Flowton or Tally have ads?
Neither Flowton nor Tally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flowton or Tally?
Flowton ships an update monthly, and Tally every 6 weeks. Most recently, Flowton was updated on October 30, 2026 and Tally on October 31, 2026.

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