Comparison

InstantLog vs Chronolog

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

Head to head
About

InstantLog

Effortlessly capture important moments with a single tap. Log time for work, study, or routines, add notes, and organize entries with custom tags. Offers smart auto-fill and history viewing for easy management.

Highlights
  • One-tap time logging
  • Custom time entry
  • Quick tags for categorization
  • Smart auto-fill notes
  • History view with search and filters
  • CSV export (Premium)
  • Backup and restore (Premium)
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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InstantLog helps you capture a moment before it slips away. Save the time with one tap, hold to record an idea, or mark where you parked. No InstantLog account is required. THREE QUICK ACTIONS • Stamp: save the current time, with an optional note and smart auto-fill. • Recording: press and hold to create a stamp and record audio. Release to save, or slide up to cancel only the audio. • Parking: save a parking spot, then find your car with a map, distance, parking details, and Apple Maps walking directions. ON YOUR WRIST Record directly on Apple Watch. Stamps and recordings are saved locally when the phone is unavailable and sync to your paired iPhone later. Check pending/synced status and listen to your Watch recordings. MAKE IT YOURS Set iPhone and Apple Watch button positions independently from iPhone Settings. Add text or more recordings to existing stamps. Use quick tags, smart suggestions, time-based rules, history search and filters, flexible time entry, and Home Screen widgets. FREE CORE FEATURES Recording, playback, Watch audio sync, button customization, and basic parking save/retrieval are free. Your stamps, notes, and recordings are stored on device; Watch recordings transfer to the paired iPhone. Transcription and translation are not included. PREMIUM — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Add GPS to regular iPhone stamps, unlock the advanced find-car direction arrow on iPhone and Apple Watch, export CSV, back up and restore your data including recordings saved on iPhone, and remove banner ads. Backups do not include recordings still waiting on Watch. No subscription.

About

Chronolog

Easily mark and record moments in time with custom text notes. Organize entries into multiple lists, edit dates and times, and view time differences between notes. Offers different display modes for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Save time-stamped moments
  • Add and edit text notes
  • Organize into multiple lists
  • Edit note date and time
  • Display time differences
  • Customizable time resolution
  • Copy lists to plaintext
Features
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Note the time with Chronolog! Press the big plus button to save that moment in time! Add a text entry to a note either before or after saving, and edit it at will! Delete or duplicate a note (now with handy swipe controls)! You can even edit a note's date and time (to the nearest minute)! That's pretty much the gist of it. Multiple lists are at your disposal. Make a new one and give it a name to remember. And your most recently used list gets automagically opened on app launch! You can even copy your list to plaintext, to paste somewhere else, if you dare. New settings allow for novel functionality. Tired of tracking ticking seconds? Switch to "Minutes" time resolution to hide them! Have a love–hate relationship with counting? Let the app count for you by enabling "Note Index" display! And of course, who could forget "Time Diffs" to show the span between notes next to the time. And for a radically different experience, switch the clock mode to "Relative" for all times to display as the span since the first note — or the last!

Screenshots

InstantLog4 screens
Chronolog3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chronolog at none against InstantLog's 1. Chronolog also leads on ads (none vs shown). InstantLog's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. InstantLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chronolog asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for InstantLog against 5.0 for Chronolog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
InstantLog versus Chronolog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInstantLogChronolog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWEI-LUN HUANGGregory Toprak

Customer experience

InstantLog

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chronolog

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

InstantLog

One-time1
  • InstantLog - Quick Timestamp$1.99
None

Chronolog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InstantLog free?
InstantLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chronolog free?
Chronolog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, InstantLog or Chronolog?
InstantLog and Chronolog are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do InstantLog or Chronolog have ads?
InstantLog shows ads; Chronolog does not.

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