Cronactive vs Selva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cronactive
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CRONACTIVE: It’s Time to Figure Out How You are Currently Spending Your Time. As the famous saying goes: "What is not measured, cannot be improved". With Cronactive get a complete Overview of your day, which allows you to analyze your time investment and help you change your habits to be a more productive person. What would you like to improve? - Morning Routine. - Health and Fitness. - Productivity. - Learning. - Healthy Habits. - Balanced Life. How can Cronactive help you? - Get a clear picture of how you invest your most important resource in your life, which is your Time. - Invest your Time in the Tasks and Activities that will make you more Productive. - Invest your Time in being more productive and creating healthy habits. - Create new Habits and record the time you invest in each of them. - Balance your Life by investing the necessary time in each area of your Life: Work, Study, Health, Social and Leisure. - Assign a Daily Goal for each Category of your Life and Review your progress instantly. - Focus your life by prioritizing and allocating more time to the tasks or activities that bring you closer to your goals. - Minimize the time you invest in activities that take you away from your Goals. - You want to eliminate a bad habit: check the time you invest in it each day until you eliminate it. - You will have more time to invest in the tasks or activities that make you more productive and profitable in the long term. - Correct your Time Investment during the day to achieve your daily goals. Functions: - Stopwatch for Your Day. - Stopwatches for your Tasks or Activities. - Configurable Focus Timer. - Timer with Short Rest and Long Rest. - Graphs and Statistics. - Assign goals to the areas of your Life. Charts: - Time by Category. - Goals by Category. - Multitask Time. - Distribution by Category. - Distribution by Goal. Statistics: - Performance Your Day vs Goal. - Performance Tasks vs Goal. - Performance Tasks vs Your Day. - Performance Multitasking vs Your Day. Cronactive is free to download. A subscription is required to use the app. An optional free trial is included. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Selva
This app helps you pause before acting on urges and build positive habits. It offers a timed breathing exercise to manage cravings and tracks your progress in resisting impulses and maintaining routines. Optional social accountability features are available.
- Impulse tracking with cooldown timer
- Habit building with custom active days
- Resistance rate and progress visualization
- Optional friend accountability (Circle)
- Spending tracker for impulse buys
- Privacy-focused with no sign-up required
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Every impulse is a moment to pause. Every small habit is a chance to grow. Feel the urge to snack, doomscroll or impulse buy? Open Selva, take a breathing pause, then log whether you resisted or gave in. Build daily habits alongside your impulse tracking, with Sprout there to celebrate your progress and encourage your next step. TRACK YOUR IMPULSES Create tiles for the impulses you want to understand, from online shopping to late-night scrolling. Use the adjustable breathing timer to give yourself space before deciding what comes next. Log either outcome without judgement and start noticing your patterns. BUILD DAILY HABITS Make room for the things that matter: walking, reading, meditating or drinking more water. Choose your active days, add a personal description and celebrate your streaks. Scheduled rest days and days you mark as skipped preserve your individual habit streak. GROW WITH SPROUT Small wins deserve recognition. Sprout brings encouragement, personalised coaching moments and celebrations inspired by your habits and impulses. Coming back counts, too. KEEP YOUR PROGRESS CLOSE Add Selva widgets to your Home Screen to keep your habits and streaks in sight throughout the day. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS See the proportion of logged impulses you resisted. With Selva Pro, explore full analytics, progress graphs, calendars and detailed insights for each impulse. Discover patterns in your own activity over time. GROW TOGETHER WITH CIRCLE Connect with friends using a share code. Choose which habits and impulses each friend can see, send emoji reactions and encourage one another. No email or phone number required. SEE YOUR SPENDING Optionally record what you spent when logging an impulse. Selva Pro’s spending insights help you understand how those purchases add up. YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Start without creating an account. Your habit and impulse records are stored on your device. If you activate Circle, a snapshot of your habits and impulses is uploaded to support sharing; your per-friend settings control what each friend sees. Selva also uses usage analytics and advertising measurement, as explained in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell your data. START FREE Track 1 impulse and up to 3 habits, use the breathing timer and connect with friends through Circle. SELVA PRO Unlock unlimited habits, unlimited impulses, full analytics, spending insights and data export. Eligible subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. Choose a monthly or annual subscription. Prices and trial availability are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at purchase confirmation or, where applicable, when your free trial ends. Your subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://selvaapp.io/privacy.html Selva Terms of Use: https://selvaapp.io/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cronactive at none against Selva's shown. Selva's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Cronactive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Selva sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cronactive ships an update every 3 weeks, Selva every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cronactive | Selva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Rivera | OSUAPP LTD |
In-app purchases
Cronactive
- All Access$4.991 Month
- All Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Selva
- Selva Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- Selva Pro Annual$69.991 Year









