Comparison

Liqua vs Be Timeful

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

Head to head
About

Liqua

Visually track important dates and events with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Create unlimited countdowns, personalize their appearance, and receive timely reminders for moments that matter.

Highlights
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Unlimited countdowns
  • Customizable colors and icons
  • Event reminders
  • Import from Apple Calendar
  • Count down and count up
  • Cloud Sync (Premium)
Features
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Make every day count with Liqua. Liqua brings a smooth Liquid Glass countdown experience to your Home Screen and Lock Screen, helping you track birthdays, trips, launches, milestones, and memories with clarity and style. Create unlimited countdowns, customize colors and icons, and watch time flow toward—or away from—the moments that matter most. Whether it is a big event or a small joy, Liqua keeps it beautiful. FREE FEATURES • Lock Screen and single-event widgets • Unlimited countdowns • No ads and a clean, distraction-free experience • Sort upcoming, past, or alphabetical events • Reminders on the day (9 a.m. for all-day events) • Import from Apple Calendar • Liquid Glass design for iOS 26 with adjustable opacity • Custom colors and text contrast • All-day or timed events • Personal notes for every event • Custom emoji icons • Two free wallpapers • Count down and count up • Built-in feature requests PREMIUM FEATURES — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Extra widgets with 3- and 6-event lists • Reminders 24 hours before an event • Automatic daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly repeats • Built-in and custom tags • iCloud sync across all your devices Lifetime access with one simple payment. No subscriptions. Designed for iOS 26 with smooth glass effects. Liqua — countdown made beautiful. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Be Timeful

Features
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Most time trackers tell you where your hours went. Be Timeful shows you what's left. Your day is a fixed budget - from the moment you wake to the moment you sleep. Be Timeful draws it as three rings that drain as the day passes: your week, your waking hours, and today. Watch the last hour turn red and you start to feel the day differently. FREE, FOREVER - Rings that count down, not up. Time remaining is the number that changes what you do next. - A day that runs wake to sleep. Set your hours once, adjust any single day. Late nights past midnight still belong to the day they started. - Log in seconds. Fill the last 15 minutes, half hour, or hour with one tap - or backfill any block later. - See the gaps. Your timeline shows the unlogged stretches instead of hiding them. That's where the time actually goes. - Close out the day. Rate how it felt, add a line about it, and look back over your last week. BE TIMEFUL+ One subscription unlocks the hindsight layer: - Insights. Weekly completion, streaks, category breakdowns, and how your hours line up with how your days felt. - Your full journal. The 60-day look-back, not just the last week. Nothing you log is ever deleted either way. - Apple Health suggestions. A later wake time on mornings you slept in, or a workout you already recorded, added with one tap. It only ever suggests - and nothing from Health ever leaves your iPhone. - Your Lock Screen. A widget keeps today's ring one glance away, and a wind-down Live Activity counts the evening down on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. - Custom categories. Name your time your way. - Backup & Sync. Your history on every device you own, via Sign in with Apple. $2.99/month, or $19.99/year with 7 days free. Auto-renews until cancelled in your App Store settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Be Timeful works fully without an account, and everything stays on your device. There are no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking in the app at all. Payments are handled by Apple - we never see them. Backup & Sync is optional, exists only to move your history between your own devices, and can be deleted permanently from Settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://betimeful.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://betimeful.app/privacy Requires iOS 26.2 or later.

Screenshots

Liqua4 screens
Be Timeful3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Be Timeful at every 3 days against Liqua's every 9 days. Liqua's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Liqua sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Be Timeful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liqua ships an update every 9 days, Be Timeful every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Liqua versus Be Timeful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquaBe Timeful
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSzymon TadrzakAJP Studios LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Liqua

One-time3
  • Lifetime Access$2.99
  • Lifetime Access$4.99
  • Lifetime Access$9.99
2 purchases

Be Timeful

Subscriptions2
  • Be Timeful+ Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Be Timeful+ Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Liqua free?
Liqua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Be Timeful free?
Be Timeful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Liqua or Be Timeful have ads?
Neither Liqua nor Be Timeful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Liqua or Be Timeful?
Liqua ships an update every 9 days, and Be Timeful every 3 days. Most recently, Liqua was updated on October 8, 2026 and Be Timeful on October 4, 2026.

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