Comparison

SimpleTime vs Daybearing

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, if you want. 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 • Backup plans: automatically to iCloud Drive, a folder in the Files app such as Dropbox or Google Drive, your own server, or the device – 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 • You choose where your data lives: only on this device or in your iCloud • Privacy on one page: every permission and all your data at a glance • No account, no ads, no selling of your data – all we receive are anonymous crash reports and usage statistics, and you can turn them off • 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

Daybearing

Features
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New in 1.2: iCloud Sync, encrypted on your device. Your day, the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac — plus keyboard control, Undo, and Clear List for when the day changes. ‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧. Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you're doing and how long you think it will take. Each task becomes an arc on the clock, in the hour where it will actually happen. Run over and the arc keeps growing, in orange. One glance tells you if you're on pace. HOW IT WORKS Type a task name and set its duration with the time ruler. Tap Start. When you finish, tap Complete and the next task begins in the same instant, so no time slips away between them. You can also paste in a list of tasks to quickly add tasks from other apps. Daybearing recognizes numbers at the end of a task name as the duration for that task, so you can quickly edit a task list and paste it in. The pace chip says how far ahead or behind your plan the day is. You can save tasks for later in the Plan tab, and view and export your history in the Past tab. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • iCloud Sync, off by default. Start a task on your iPhone, and your iPad and Mac show it running. • Private by design. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a key only your devices hold. No account to make, and Remove Data from iCloud deletes the copy whenever you like. • On iPad, the dial sits beside your task list. On Mac, and on iPad with a keyboard, you can do it all from the keys. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against real time, and real time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop, Set Down ends the session, logs the part you did, and puts the rest back in the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising. One time purchase. MORE FEATURES: • A Live Activity for the running task, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a Complete button so you can finish without opening the app. • Home Screen widgets • Lock Screen widgets • Siri and Shortcuts: automate and connect your other work with Daybearing. • Notifications – Act on your tasks when their time is up. • Desk Mode: set the phone down and see the task and the dial from across the desk. • Undo: ten seconds to take back a task you finished by mistake. • Routines: save tasks to your Plan and copy them into today with one tap. • Batch entry for repeated work: set a pace for large volumes of similar tasks. • An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. • CSV export • Six themes, light and dark. • VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing.

Screenshots

SimpleTime4 screens
Daybearing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SimpleTime at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. SimpleTime also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On ads 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

SimpleTime is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. SimpleTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, Daybearing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SimpleTime versus Daybearing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimpleTimeDaybearing
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca EfingerDustin Glendinning

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

Daybearing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimpleTime free?
SimpleTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daybearing free?
Daybearing costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimpleTime or Daybearing have ads?
Neither SimpleTime nor Daybearing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimpleTime or Daybearing?
SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, and Daybearing every 3 weeks. Most recently, SimpleTime was updated on November 9, 2026 and Daybearing on November 6, 2026.

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