Focus Timer vs TimelineNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Timer
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Plan your day in time boxes, focus on one block at a time and see where the time went, on iPhone and now on Mac. PLAN THE DAY • Pick up to three priorities for today: your Big 3. • Put tasks into time boxes on a timeline, each with a real start and end. • Unfinished tasks come back to the list with a miss recorded, so the ones you keep dodging rise instead of sinking. FOCUS • Start a box and the session counts down to its end, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island too. • Add at most three new tasks mid-session, so the running block doesn't turn back into an inbox. • Widgets for your Big 3, today's focus progress and a quick way into your tasks. LOOK BACK • A short review after each session: what got done, what went back and how it went. • A monthly calendar shows focus time and finished tasks day by day. • Insights chart your focus by week, month and year. ON IPHONE AND MAC • With Premium, iCloud keeps tasks, time boxes and sessions in sync between your iPhone and your Mac. • FocusMind for Mac adds a floating focus bar and a timer in the menu bar. • Import a TickTick backup or a CSV file, and export your data any time. • A Premium subscription or lifetime unlock covers both iPhone and Mac. FocusMind Premium Includes unlimited daily focus time, history older than 3 days and iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac. • Length: 1 month or 1 year, renewed automatically each period • Price: see in-app pricing for your region • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal turned off in your Account Settings on the App Store Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.pentarab.com/focusmind/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.pentarab.com/focusmind/privacy
TimelineNote
This app organizes your notes and memories on a visual timeline, making it easy to revisit past ideas. Capture text, photos, and voice memos, then explore your data with unique visualizations to discover patterns and connections.
- Visual timeline organization
- Text notes with Markdown
- Photo and voice memo attachments
- Speech-to-text transcription
- Customizable categories and tags
- Insightful data visualizations
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TimelineNote is a personal note-taking and journaling app that organizes notes on a visual timeline. Unlike traditional note apps that use folders or flat lists, TimelineNote displays every note as a card on a scrollable chronological timeline, allowing users to revisit ideas and memories by when they were created. The app solves the problem of losing chronological context in note-taking. Users can capture text notes with Markdown formatting, attach photos, and record voice memos with automatic speech-to-text transcription. Notes are organized by customizable categories and tags. The Insights feature provides six unique visualizations of the user's notes: Mind Map, Data Charts, Word Cloud, Knowledge Graph, Statistics Dashboard, and Markdown Reader — helping users discover patterns and connections in their writing over time. The target audience is individuals who journal, take meeting notes, capture ideas, or keep a personal diary — students, writers, and knowledge workers. This is a single-user productivity app with no social or collaborative features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimelineNote at none against Focus Timer's 4. TimelineNote also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Focus Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Focus Timer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. TimelineNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus Timer ships an update every 5 days, TimelineNote every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Timer | TimelineNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pentarab | Xuchen Sun |
In-app purchases
Focus Timer
- Weekly Premium$2.997 Days
- FocusMind Premium (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- FocusMind Premium (Yearly)$29.991 Year
- FocusMind Premium (Lifetime)$39.99
TimelineNote
No in-app purchases









