Cronicle vs TimeDots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cronicle
Document life's significant moments week by week with this straightforward tool. It offers a low-effort way to record important events and reflect on your journey.
- Existential life calendar
- Weekly event documentation
- Low effort journaling
- Life event tracking
- Personal reflection tool
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Cronicle is an existential life calendar. A low effort tool for documenting the important things that happen in your life, week by week. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TimeDots
Visualize your time with a unique dot-based calendar. Track days, months, years, or your entire life to gain perspective on progress and urgency. Customizable widgets and themes keep your important moments visible.
- Visual time representation with dots
- Countdown tracking for events
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable themes and styles
- Privacy-focused, on-device data
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Time is the one thing you can't get back. TimeDots turns your year, your month and every countdown into a calm grid of dots, one dot per day, so you can see exactly how much time is left. Every day a dot fills in. It's a quiet daily nudge to make today count. SEE YOUR TIME AT A GLANCE • Your whole year as dots, filling in as the days pass • Days left front and center: in the year, the month, or until your next event • Year by month: a calendar of dots that shows where each month starts and where today sits • Hold and drag across the dots to explore any day COUNT DOWN TO WHAT MATTERS • Trips, birthdays, exams, weddings, launches and deadlines • Every event gets its own grid with live progress • Recurring events roll forward automatically • A small celebration when a countdown reaches its day HOW WAS TODAY? • A 5‑second daily check‑in: pick one of five moods • Your dots take on the colors of your days, so your year becomes a mood map • Add a short note to any day you want to remember • An optional morning reminder with how many days are left • Hide the check‑in once you've answered, if you prefer a cleaner screen ON YOUR WRIST, LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN • Home Screen widgets in every size • Lock Screen widgets • Live Activities and Dynamic Island • A redesigned Apple Watch app: next event first, check in from your wrist, turn the Digital Crown to move through the days, and complications that show up in the Smart Stack when they matter MAKE IT YOURS • 24 themes, from Midnight to Aurora • Alternate app icons • "Life in Weeks": your whole life, one dot per week • Share cards made for your story • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch • Built for iPad, with full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and Increase Contrast support Free to download. Upgrade to Pro to unlock every theme, widget and feature. Stop letting the days blur together. Make every dot count.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cronicle at every 4 days against TimeDots's every 2 weeks. TimeDots's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cronicle sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and TimeDots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cronicle ships an update every 4 days, TimeDots every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Cronicle | TimeDots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joe Czepil | Ademola Mayowa Olatunji |
Customer experience
Cronicle
TimeDots
In-app purchases
Cronicle
- Cronicle Pro$3.991 Month
TimeDots
- TimeDots Pro$2.99









