SimpleTime vs Cishan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Instant time tracking
- Structured tasks and subtasks
- Daily view and timeline
- Automatic statistics and charts
- iCloud backup
- CSV export
- Private and secure data
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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.
Cishan
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Turn study and reading time into mountain landscapes. Your real records shape a view of what you gave your time to. Cishan combines a study timer, time tracker and reading journal for learning, work and everyday life. Your recorded minutes shape daily and weekly mountain landscapes you can revisit. Start a timer, keep a record, then look back at where your time went. Basic timers and unlimited historical records are free. TIMERS, TASKS AND REFLECTION Start, pause, resume and finish activity timers. Organize tasks, schedules and tags, and keep notes alongside your records. Explore dates, rotate and zoom your mountains, or share a landscape. Review daily, weekly and monthly statistics to understand where your time goes. JOURNAL AND WINDOW SPACES · PRO Keep everyday moments with journal templates, quick notes and a free canvas. Arrange text, drawings, paper and stickers, and link pages to your time records. Creating and editing journals requires Pro. Stickers use your inventory; adding an image sticker consumes a general sticker. Earn resources through real records to redeem buildings and decorations. Pro enables decorating and window views in supported buildings you have redeemed and placed. Choose sounds and weather moods. Pro does not grant every decoration. FREE, PLUS AND PRO Free download with in-app purchases. Free includes 5 active activities and unlimited historical timer records; archived activities do not use an active slot. Plus lifetime expands the limit to 199 and unlocks the Taoyuan ink style. Pro includes Plus, journals, canvases, stickers, advanced markers, decorating and supported windows. YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR RECORDS Choose from 45 interface languages. No account registration is required. Records are saved locally by default, with manual import and export backups. Plus and Pro can opt into private iCloud sync using your own storage; sync is off by default. Changing language preserves the text you entered. PURCHASES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro monthly, quarterly, yearly and lifetime plans provide the same current Pro features for different periods. Subscriptions renew every 1, 3 or 12 months. Eligible users may receive a 7-day trial only when shown on the purchase page and confirmed with Apple. One introductory offer per person per subscription group; the selected plan charges automatically after the trial. Prices, offers and periods are shown in the app and on Apple's confirmation screen. Cancel in your Apple account's subscription settings at least 24 hours before a trial or current period ends. Deleting the app or buying lifetime access does not cancel an existing subscription. The app provides Restore Purchases and subscription management; purchases and restoration need Apple services. After Pro expires, records and existing journals remain readable and exportable while Pro editing and redemption pause. A valid Plus lifetime purchase remains; otherwise Free applies. You choose which excess activities to archive. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://cishanapp.cn/privacy.html Support: https://cishanapp.cn/support.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SimpleTime at 4 against Cishan's 2. Cishan's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. SimpleTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Cishan sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, Cishan every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTime | Cishan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Efinger | 相之 于 |
In-app purchases
SimpleTime
- SimpleTime Pro – Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- SimpleTime Pro – Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- SimpleTime Pro – Lifetime$44.99
Cishan
- Cishan Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Cishan Pro Quarterly7 Days trial$1.993 Months
- Cishan Pro Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Cishan Plus Lifetime$3.99
- Cishan Plus to Pro Lifetime$8.99
- Cishan Pro Lifetime$12.99








