Comparison

Span (Did I?) vs Things take time

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

Head to head
About

Span (Did I?)

This app helps you manage recurring tasks and daily routines with a clean, intuitive interface. Set custom reminders for chores, personal care, and more, with interactive widgets for easy completion.

Highlights
  • Track recurring tasks
  • Interactive home screen widgets
  • Customizable task names and icons
  • Automatic task reset
  • Clean and intuitive design
Features
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Span is the simplest way to keep track of your recurring tasks and never forget your daily routines. Whether it’s watering your plants, changing bed sheets, or checking the mailbox - Span helps you remember and stay organised. Features: • Track recurring tasks like home chores, personal care, and reminders. • Interactive widgets to complete tasks right from your Home Screen. • Customise task names, icons, and reset times. • Automatic task reset based on your chosen schedule. • Clean and intuitive design - focus on what matters. Perfect for anyone who wants to simplify their daily life and build healthy habits without complicated apps.

About

Things take time

This app helps you track habits, routines, and personal metrics to visualize compounding progress over time. It displays multiple trackers simultaneously to reveal patterns and understand your growth. Designed for ease of use, it focuses on making tracking effortless and insightful.

Highlights
  • Track any habit, routine, or metric
  • View multiple trackers side-by-side
  • Visualize monthly progress at a glance
  • Intuitive and effortless tracking design
  • Detailed analytics for pattern recognition
  • Privacy-focused with on-device data storage
Features
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Good things take time. Real progress is built through small things done consistently — it won’t feel like much, until it does. Things take time is an app for tracking what matters, the small things, and seeing how they compound over time. KEY FEATURES • Track anything From habits and routines to personal metrics, notes, and daily actions — build trackers that fit your life, not the other way around. • See everything side by side Most apps show one tracker at a time, which hides the bigger picture. This one shows them all together so you can see patterns across your month. • Your month at a glance See how small things add up across your month, so you can stay consistent and notice real progress. • Built for ease of use Tracking should feel effortless. Everything is designed to be fast, simple, and intuitive. • Understand your patterns Detailed analytics for every tracker to help you uncover trends and better understand your progress over time. • Privacy first Your data stays on your device or in your iCloud. Nothing is collected, and nothing is tracked. Progress is often invisible in the moment. Things take time was built to make it visible — by showing how small things add up over time. Terms & Privacy: https://github.com/chesterhow/things-take-time/blob/main/terms-privacy.md

Screenshots

Span (Did I?)4 screens
Things take time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Things take time at weekly against Span (Did I?)'s every 2 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Span (Did I?) sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Things take time sells 2 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Span (Did I?) against 5.0 for Things take time. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Span (Did I?) ships an update every 2 months, Things take time weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Span (Did I?) versus Things take time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpan (Did I?)Things take time
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings48 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnna SadnovaChester How

Customer experience

Span (Did I?)

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Things take time

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Span (Did I?)

One-time2
  • Just two$2.99
  • Full – Unlimited Tasks$18.99
2 purchases

Things take time

Subscriptions1
  • Things take time + Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Things take time + Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Span (Did I?) free?
Span (Did I?) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Things take time free?
Things take time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Span (Did I?) or Things take time?
Span (Did I?) and Things take time are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Span (Did I?) or Things take time have ads?
Neither Span (Did I?) nor Things take time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Span (Did I?) or Things take time?
Span (Did I?) ships an update every 2 months, and Things take time weekly. Most recently, Span (Did I?) was updated on October 1, 2026 and Things take time on October 8, 2026.

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