Comparison

CreateMore vs Timely

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

Head to head
About

CreateMore

This app helps you understand how you spend your time, distinguishing between creative activities and passive consumption. It provides insights into your habits, allows you to organize your creative work into projects, and encourages intentional living.

Highlights
  • Track creative vs. consumption time
  • Visualize time balance and trends
  • Organize creative work with projects
  • Build a portfolio of time invested
  • GitHub-style activity calendar
  • Privacy-first, on-device data
Features
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How much of your life are you actually creating? We all know the feeling—hours disappear into our phones, but what do we have to show for it? CreateMore reveals where your time really goes and helps you reclaim it for what matters. Track Your Creative Hours - Build awareness with simple, honest tracking: Creating: Building, writing, coding, designing, making, learning Consuming: Scrolling, watching, browsing, drifting One tap to start. Beautiful insights about how you spend your day. No judgment, just clarity. See Your Balance, Find Your Rhythm - Your create vs. consume ratio tells the real story: Track trends and discover when you create best Build consistency with visual progress tracking Celebrate wins with GitHub-style activity calendars Watch your creative hours grow week by week Organize Your Creative Work with Projects Give your creative time meaning and direction: Assign sessions to specific projects See where your creative energy flows Build a portfolio of time invested Track progress on what matters to you Designed for Intentional Living Clean, focused interface that respects your attention Privacy-first: your data stays on your device Smart Screen Time integration shows hidden potential Dark mode for late-night creating Insights that inspire, not overwhelm Transform How You Spend Your Hours CreateMore isn't about productivity—it's about living on purpose. Whether you're an artist, writer, developer, or anyone who wants to build more than browse, this is your companion for intentional days. Start tracking. Build awareness. Create more. Your time. Your choice. Your life.

About

Timely

This app transforms your calendar into powerful, unmissable alarms for important events. It ensures you're always on time by providing system-level alerts that ring through silent mode and can be set for any date or time. Features include heads-up notifications, lock screen countdowns, and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • System alarms that ring through silent mode
  • One-tap event alarms
  • Heads-up alarms with countdowns
  • Lock Screen countdowns and Dynamic Island integration
  • Custom standalone alarms
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • iCloud backup for alarms
Features
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Timely — Turn your calendar into can't-miss alarms Meetings, flights, classes, medication—your calendar is full of moments that matter, and a notification is easy to miss. Timely turns your events into real system alarms that take over the screen and ring loud, so you show up on time. Alarms that actually ring - Rings through Silent mode and Focus. These are system alarms, not notifications. - Nothing to keep open. Set an alarm and close the app. It still rings. - No ads. No account to create. No subscription. - Any date, weeks ahead: arm an event on your calendar, or set your own alarm for any day and time. What Timely does - One-tap event alarms: Browse your upcoming events grouped by calendar and arm an alarm with one tap. - Heads-up alarms (Pro): A second alarm rings ahead of an event—5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or a day before. It says when the event really starts, and a countdown runs on your Lock Screen until then. The alarm at the start always stays, so dismissing a heads-up can never cost you the event. - Custom alarms: Standalone alarms for anything, one-off or repeating on the days you choose, with optional snooze. - Lock Screen countdown: Have any alarm count down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, from 5 minutes to an hour before it rings. - Live countdowns: See how long is left in the event you're in, and how long until the next one. - Send an alarm in Messages: Share an alarm or an event countdown in a conversation. The other person adds it to their own Timely with a tap, and it rings on their phone for real. Sharing is free. - Make an alarm from any text: Select something like "Dentist Thursday at 2:30pm" in Notes or any app that shares text, share it to Timely, and get a filled-in alarm to confirm. Works best with English dates and times. - Your alarms come back: Reinstall the app or set up a new phone and your alarms are still there, restored through your own iCloud. - Siri & Shortcuts: Say "Set an alarm in Timely" or "Show my alarms in Timely"—full phrase list in Settings. - Smart search: Find events by title, calendar, or date. - Nine languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. - Your calendar stays yours: Timely has no account to sign up for, and your events are read on your device and never uploaded to us. Free - Alarms on as many calendar events as you like - Filter to one calendar, or use them all - Up to 14 days of upcoming events - Up to 3 custom alarms - Lock Screen countdowns, sharing in Messages, alarms from text, Siri, and iCloud backup Pro (one-time purchase, yours for life) - Heads-up alarms before your events - Combine as many calendars as you want - Up to 365 days ahead - Unlimited custom alarms

Screenshots

CreateMore4 screens
Timely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CreateMore at none against Timely's 1. CreateMore also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Timely's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Timely sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CreateMore asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CreateMore against 5.0 for Timely. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CreateMore ships an update fortnightly, Timely every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CreateMore versus Timely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreateMoreTimely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaximilian GuilbertMarc Aupont

In-app purchases

None

CreateMore

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Timely

One-time1
  • Pro Access$4.99

Questions

Is CreateMore free?
CreateMore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timely free?
Timely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CreateMore or Timely?
CreateMore and Timely are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do CreateMore or Timely have ads?
Neither CreateMore nor Timely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CreateMore or Timely?
CreateMore ships an update fortnightly, and Timely every 5 weeks. Most recently, CreateMore was updated on October 28, 2026 and Timely on October 28, 2026.

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