Comparison

SimpleTime vs Track Anything Journal

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

Head to head
About

SimpleTime

Effortlessly track your daily activities, from work and studies to personal projects. Organize tasks, view your day at a glance, and gain insights with automatic statistics. Securely back up your data and export it for further analysis.

Highlights
  • Instant time tracking
  • Structured tasks and subtasks
  • Daily view and timeline
  • Automatic statistics and charts
  • iCloud backup
  • CSV export
  • Private and secure data
Features
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SimpleTime tracks where your time goes. One tap starts it, one tap stops it. No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your hours stay on your device and in your iCloud. TRACKING • One tap starts and stops – in the app, from the Home Screen, from Control Center, from iPhone search, or with Siri • Tasks with subtasks, nested as deeply as your work is • Forgot to start? Add time afterwards and edit it whenever you like • Colour, symbol, favourites, and an order you set yourself YOUR DAY • A list or a timeline from 0 to 24, with a marker for the current time • Notes on any entry • How today compares to yesterday, right at the top INSIGHTS • Pie charts by task and by productivity • Day, week, month, year • Statistics: comparison with the previous period, trend, spread across the day, longest and shortest entry • Every task with its own numbers – first entry, longest, this week, this year • Share any chart as an image REPORTS AND EXPORT • A PDF report whose sections you choose and arrange yourself • CSV for Excel and Numbers • Backups in iCloud Drive, automatic and password-encrypted if you want WIDGETS AND SIRI • Today, running task, and week on your Home Screen • The running time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • A switch in Control Center that starts and stops tracking • Siri and Shortcuts: start, stop, or ask what’s running ON EVERY DEVICE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac, kept in sync through iCloud • 41 languages, independent of your device language • VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout YOUR DATA • App lock with Face ID, Touch ID, or a code of your own • Privacy on one page: every permission and all your data at a glance • No accounts, no servers of ours, no ads, no tracking • Erase everything at once – on the device, in iCloud, and in the backups SIMPLETIME PRO Everything above stays free. Pro adds: • Apple Watch: start and stop from your wrist, start earlier, keep an eye on your day, week and goals – with the running time on your watch face • Reviews: your week, month and year as cards – to page through and share • Places: tasks start on their own when you arrive – after a waiting time, if you like • Year at a glance: every day of the year as one picture, with your streaks • Goals per task – for the day, the week, or the month • Focus filter: your work focus turns on, the list shows only work, the clock is already running • A quick-start widget you fill yourself • Seven accent colours or one of your own, plus sixteen app icons • Extra sections in the PDF report: trend, daily spread, comparison, goals Pro comes monthly, yearly, or once and for good. New subscribers get a free week, and with Family Sharing up to six people can use Pro. Prices are shown in the app. Monthly and yearly renew automatically until you cancel, which you can do at any time in your App Store settings. Whatever comes later is included. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://simple-time.app/privacy/ Made for anyone who wants to know where their time actually goes – at work, at university, in training, or for themselves.

About

Track Anything Journal

Features
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Track Anything is a custom tracker you build yourself: you name the thing, choose the fields, and set the rhythm. A habit. Hours of sleep. A mood record for Thursday's appointment. A reading log, a page count, a plant. Then your projects, tasks and goals live in the same day. Build the tracker each thing needs A tracker is a small form you design in three steps. Seven field types: Number, Text, Rating, Yes / no, Choice, Multiple choice, Date. Number fields take a unit; number and rating fields take a range, an increment, a direction that counts as progress, and a success target. Start from Build my own, one of three ready-made setups (Sleep notes, Plant journal, Reading nook), or a copy of a tracker you already keep. Rhythms, not rules Every day, some days, monthly or annual, at an interval like every two weeks, with an end date if the thing has one. Streaks count only the days you asked for, so a Tuesday off never breaks a Monday, Wednesday, Friday run, and a today that is still open does not end it. One capture a day, or as many as the day holds if you set the tracker to Event mode. Capture in one screen Quick capture opens from the tracker card with the fields you marked required. Repeat last capture and Use safe defaults fill it in when today looks like yesterday. A capture you make is undoable, and the confirmation says whether it reached the server or is waiting on this device. Catch up missed days closes a gap in one pass. Look back without flattery Summary, Trends and Entries across 35 days, 90 days, 6 months, a year or all time, and Trends compares a period with the one before. Sparklines you can drag to read a single day, your target marked behind the line, and real date spacing, so gaps look like gaps. A dot calendar you page back month by month; tap a day to fill it in. The share of due days you kept. Possible relationships puts two numeric fields side by side and says how closely they moved together, never that one caused the other. Export a tracker as a CSV report, or paste a CSV in and older history comes too. The rest of the day Today opens on a swipeable week strip, the day grouped into Morning, Anytime, Afternoon and Evening. Home gathers what is still due, plus the habits you keep with a tap; Inbox holds the undated, Late what slipped, Upcoming what has not arrived. Projects carry tasks, progress drawn from those tasks, and a drag-and-drop board whose stages you rename, reorder and remove. Tasks, events, meetings, milestones and goals sit in the same days as the trackers, and a repeating one can be edited for a single day or the whole series. Swipe to complete or delete, undo either, and search reaches everything. Yours, and portable Captures made without a signal wait in an outbox and upload themselves later, each with an id, so nothing is written twice. When a change collides with the server, the Sync centre shows your version beside the server copy and you decide. The local cache is encrypted on the device, App lock puts Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode in front of everything, and reminders are local. Two-factor sign-in with recovery codes, sign out everywhere, a full JSON export, and account deletion that takes the data with it. Sharing, if you want it Choose a friend, then choose what they may see; sharing is read-only, and nothing is shared until both people confirm. A tracker you share exposes its setup, never its captures, and a template you send arrives with an empty history. Blocking is available from any friend or request. Light and dark follow the system, the week starts where you say, the clock reads 12 or 24 hours. Text is contrast-checked and layouts grow with the system font, on iPhone and iPad. An account keeps your history with you rather than with one phone, and opens in a browser at trackanything.cloud too. One tap loads sample data if you would rather look around first. Privacy policy: https://trackanything.cloud/privacy Support: https://trackanything.cloud/support

Screenshots

SimpleTime4 screens
Track Anything Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Track Anything Journal at none against SimpleTime's 3. Track Anything Journal also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). SimpleTime's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SimpleTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Track Anything Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, Track Anything Journal monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SimpleTime versus Track Anything Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimpleTimeTrack Anything Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca EfingerJulia Afonso

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SimpleTime

Subscriptions2
  • SimpleTime Pro – Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • SimpleTime Pro – Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • SimpleTime Pro – Lifetime$44.99
None

Track Anything Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimpleTime free?
SimpleTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Track Anything Journal free?
Track Anything Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimpleTime or Track Anything Journal have ads?
Neither SimpleTime nor Track Anything Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimpleTime or Track Anything Journal?
SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, and Track Anything Journal monthly. Most recently, SimpleTime was updated on October 24, 2026 and Track Anything Journal on October 29, 2026.

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