Comparison

Cadence vs TimeTurtle

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

Head to head
About

Cadence

This app helps you quietly track recurring tasks without push notifications. It displays what needs to be done on your home screen widget, allowing for quick completion and customization. It also tracks your task completion history to help you understand your patterns.

Highlights
  • Widget-based task display
  • No push notifications
  • Customizable appearance
  • Streak and completion tracking
  • On-device data storage
  • Task grouping by relevance
Features
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Cadence is the recurring task tracker that doesn't nag. Water the plants. Change the sheets. Call your mum. Cadence keeps the rhythm of recurring life quietly on your home screen, so you can see what's due without a single push notification. Every household task, on a gentle loop. Set up a task once, choose how often it repeats, and Cadence takes it from there. When it's time, it shows up. When it's not, it stays out of the way. Your week, quietly organized. See today, this week, and later at a glance. Cadence groups tasks by when they actually matter, so you can scan the week ahead without scrolling through a wall of checkboxes. See it on your home screen. The widget is the whole point. One glance tells you what needs doing. Tap to open, mark things done in a single action. No badge to clear, no inbox feeling, no opening yet another app just to remember what you were supposed to be doing. Make it yours. Forty colours, dozens of icons, one tap to pick. Give "water plants" a leaf. Give "rent day" red. Your widget ends up looking like you, not like a productivity app. See your rhythm. Cadence tracks streaks, completions, and how far you've drifted over time, so you can notice the patterns without obsessing over them. The gym tasks you always skip. The weekly ones you nail every Sunday. A quiet record of what your week actually looks like. Stop worrying. Start doing. No push spam. No daily summary emails. No reminders piling up in Notification Center. Cadence shows you the right task at the right time, in the one place you already look, and otherwise stays silent. Your data, your device. No account required. No cloud sync you didn't ask for. Your tasks live on your device, full stop. Export anytime to back them up, import anytime to move them over. Cadence is for the stuff that comes back around. The gentle, unglamorous, every-few-days tasks that keep a life running. Set them up once, glance at the widget, carry on.

About

TimeTurtle

Features
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TimeTurtle is an ADHD task timer and visual day planner. Every task shows real clock times, and time's up rings even on silent. Free, with no account, no ads, and no streaks. Made for time blindness, by someone with ADHD, for ADHD and other neurodivergent brains. List what you want to do, give each task a few minutes, and tap play. Tochi, a little turtle, walks with you while your time runs down. TimeTurtle keeps track of time, so you don't have to. RINGS EVEN ON SILENT With alarms allowed, TimeTurtle rings when time's up, even on silent or in a Focus. Tap Done when you're finished, or Stop to quiet it. If you're still in the zone, it checks in again every 5 minutes until you're ready. TOCHI WALKS WITH YOU Tochi walks along a calm shoreline while your time runs down, the sand drifting past, and when time's up Tochi walks up onto a rock and sits to wait. A bar empties as time passes, so you can see your time at a glance. Every task you time for 2 minutes or more earns pebbles, one for every 5 minutes on the timer, up to 12. Pebbles level Tochi up through twelve ranks with new shell colors, and levels never go down. Pick easy, medium, or hard for how fast Tochi levels up, and chase a new best day. Timed tasks add to Tochi's long walk too: the next place grows closer on your horizon, with new places to reach as you go, each with a friend to meet and something to discover. Earning pebbles, reaching a new place or level, or setting a record gets a big, loud celebration. NO ACCOUNT. NO STREAKS. NOTHING PILES UP. There's nothing to sign up for, no streaks to keep, and no red badges. At zero, TimeTurtle waits and counts up. It never jumps ahead or makes you feel bad, and nothing moves without you. A VISUAL DAY PLANNER "15 minutes" is abstract. "until 4:06" is real. Every task shows its clock times, and your whole list shows when you'll be all done. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN, LOCK SCREEN, AND WRIST Your timer lives on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and on your Apple Watch. Tap Done, +5 min, or Pause without opening the app, from the Lock Screen, a Control Center control, or the Action Button. Add TimeTurtle to your watch face to see your task and its time all day. TAKE A BREAK WITH TOCHI Tochi's 5, 10, or 15 minute breaks rest your eyes, guide your breathing, and show gentle desk stretches, then bring you back to your task. Breaks earn pebbles too. BUILT FOR REAL DAYS - Type "Laundry 15" and you have a 15-minute task. - Swipe right to save a task for Later. Swipe left to delete, with undo. - Save tasks you repeat, like a morning routine, and load them all onto Today at once. Start with ten ready-made routines, pin your favorites, and set a time to finish by. - Give tasks a color to group them your way. - Did it while doing something else? Mark it done, no timer needed. - Back after a few days away? One tap moves Today's list to Later. - Not sure where to start? Let TimeTurtle pick for you. - Recap shows planned vs. spent time, without judgment. EASY ON THE EYES Calm colors in light and dark (or pick one), support for large text, and gentle motion that respects Reduce Motion. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your progress syncs through your own iCloud, so it follows you to a new phone, and you can save a backup file. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. Privacy Policy: https://timeturtle.app/privacy

Screenshots

Cadence4 screens
TimeTurtle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cadence at 16.4 against TimeTurtle's 26.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Cadence versus TimeTurtle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCadenceTimeTurtle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKadi KramanSatyawrat Janghu

In-app purchases

None

Cadence

No in-app purchases

None

TimeTurtle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimeTurtle free?
TimeTurtle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cadence or TimeTurtle have ads?
Neither Cadence nor TimeTurtle shows ads.

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