Comparison

Ideas Jar vs Time Vessel

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

Head to head
About

Ideas Jar

This app helps you make decisions by creating themed jars of ideas. You can add custom options, share them with others via iCloud, and randomly select one when you can't decide. It's perfect for planning dates, meals, trips, and creative projects.

Highlights
  • Create custom themed jars
  • Personalize jar backgrounds and fonts
  • Share jars securely via iCloud
  • Collaborate on ideas with others
  • Attach links, notes, and photos
  • Randomly pick one idea with a tap
Features
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Save every possibility, share it with your favorite people, and let Ideas Jar pick what comes next. Ideas Jar is a beautiful random picker and decision maker for date nights, meals, trips, activities, creative projects, bucket lists, and everyday plans. Create themed jars, fill them with ideas, invite others with an iCloud link, and draw one at random whenever you cannot decide. CREATE AND ORGANIZE • Create custom jars for any theme or occasion • Personalize each jar with a background and font • Organize date ideas, meals, travel plans, activities, projects, and more • Keep every possibility in one beautiful place SHARE AND COLLABORATE • Share a jar securely through iCloud • Invite friends, family, partners, or teammates • Add and update ideas together across devices • Manage what guests can access and change • Easily find jars you host or have joined ADD USEFUL DETAILS • Attach links to websites, documents, itineraries, wish lists, and more • Add a custom title and description to each link • Write notes so you never forget important details • Add photos to make every idea instantly recognizable LET IDEAS CHOOSE • Pick one idea at random with a single tap • Shake your iPhone when you cannot decide • Draw again whenever you want another option • Turn indecision into something fun PERFECT FOR • Date night ideas for couples • Restaurants and meal planning • Weekend activities and family plans • Travel inspiration and bucket lists • Creative projects and brainstorming • Books, movies, games, and gift ideas • Team activities and shared challenges PRIVATE BY DESIGN Shared jars use iCloud, and the developer does not collect your personal data. No separate Ideas account is required. Start with your first jar for free. Unlock unlimited jars and all premium features with an optional one-time Lifetime purchase. Create a jar. Share your ideas. Let Ideas choose. SUPPORT https://devcros4.github.io/Ideas-support/support.html PRIVACY POLICY https://devcros4.github.io/Ideas-support/privacy.html TERMS OF USE https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Time Vessel

Visualize your day's time as physical materials like liquid, jelly, and solid glass. This app offers an intuitive way to manage your schedule without anxiety-inducing deadlines or complex settings. It helps you understand your time's capacity and encourages rest when your day is full.

Highlights
  • Time physics visualization
  • Liquid, jelly, and solid time materials
  • Intuitive schedule management
  • No anxiety-inducing deadlines
  • Daily task completion feedback
  • Clear all option for fresh start
Features
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Your day only has 24 hours. It is a beaker with an absolutely fixed capacity, not an infinitely stretchable to-do list. Time Vessel provides a brand-new "time physics" perspective. We abandoned complex settings and anxiety-inducing deadlines, visualizing all schedules and external disturbances into the three most intuitive physical materials, allowing you to truly "see" and "touch" the volume of time: Free Liquid: Can be freely manipulated and dragged, but just like real hydraulic principles, it cannot be compressed. Represents tasks that you can arrange flexibly but must guarantee the full duration of focus.
 Elastic Jelly: Excellent extensibility. It can be squeezed and have its compression rate set, but cannot be shifted freely. Represents daily routines with flexible time boundaries that can be adapted at any time.
 Solid Glass: Hard and its position is absolutely locked. It cannot be compressed, nor can it be shifted by other tasks. Represents the sacred and inviolable fixed schedules in your life (e.g., important meetings, force majeure, deep sleep).
 Whether you use it to plan your day in advance or just to record the "occupation" of today by completed tasks, Time Vessel allows you to intuitively perceive: when solid glass and free liquid fill the beaker, there is no extra space left for today. It gently reminds you through physical laws—when the cup is full, it's time to rest. Here, there are no weekly plans, no monthly views, and no automatically generated repeating templates. Because life cannot be accurately predicted, and anxiety often comes from excessive attempts to control the future. Every day is a brand-new day. No red overdue warnings, no mountains of guilt. With a simple swipe or long press, you can truly feel the physical feedback as tasks are completed and dissipated. Whether you swipe away the last arrangement of the day, or choose "Clear All" in the menu at any time to start fresh—no matter how today went, when you wake up tomorrow, you will still be greeted by a clean, translucent vessel. [Pricing & Developer Program] We believe in extreme transparency and sincerity. Time management is a long-term habit. To let you fully and completely experience the physical resistance and settling sound of Time Vessel before deciding to pay, we offer a 7-day free trial. After the trial ends, you can flexibly choose a short-term subscription plan based on your needs; to maintain the purity of the product and indie development, we also retain the most traditional and simple one-time purchase "Lifetime" option. We absolutely do not set sneaky hidden charges, giving the choice entirely back to you.

Screenshots

Ideas Jar4 screens
Time Vessel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Time Vessel at 4.0 against Ideas Jar's 3.0. Time Vessel also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Ideas Jar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Time Vessel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Vessel holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ideas Jar ships an update every 3 months, Time Vessel every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ideas Jar versus Time Vessel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeas JarTime Vessel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.117.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjean-baptiste delcros梓华 宋

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ideas Jar

One-time1
  • Lifetime$9.99
3 purchases

Time Vessel

Subscriptions2
  • monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • YEAR7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Ideas Jar free?
Ideas Jar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Vessel free?
Time Vessel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ideas Jar or Time Vessel?
Time Vessel is rated higher. Ideas Jar averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Time Vessel averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ideas Jar or Time Vessel have ads?
Neither Ideas Jar nor Time Vessel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ideas Jar or Time Vessel?
Ideas Jar ships an update every 3 months, and Time Vessel every 10 days. Most recently, Ideas Jar was updated on October 30, 2026 and Time Vessel on October 31, 2026.

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