UnProductive vs Tessera 168
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UnProductive
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UnProductive offers three ways to overcome UnProductive-ness. - First, figure out what it is that you want by creating a simple Yes/No poll. See how your answer changes over time with the minimalistic heat map calendar. Personal Polls will provide you with clarity so you can focus on becoming productive. - Secondly, once you are on a mission, like "Leaving the house in the morning" or "Buying a new toy", use the simple Go/No-Go checklist. When your "Mission Is GO!" then you can launch without hesitation. The list of criteria auto resets at specified intervals so you can use it over and over again for reoccurring mini missions. - And lastly, sometimes it's helpful to have little reminders of what "NOT To-Do", especially if that moment of weakness would be really unproductive or goes against your convictions. That's where the "(Not) To-Do" list comes in handy. Small mental sticky notes that keep you on track. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ App T&Cs: https://palomino.co.nz/unproductive/tc#
Tessera 168
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A week is 168 hours. You only get it once. Tessera 168 is a board of 168 squares — one square for every hour of your week. Tap an hour, pick a purpose, and the hour takes that colour. Sweep across a run of hours to fill a whole morning at once. By Sunday the board is a picture of where your week actually went, not where you meant it to go. It plays like a puzzle and it reads like a mirror. THE BOARD • All 168 hours on one screen, no scrolling to see your week • Fourteen purposes to start with — Sleep, Work, Commute, Food, Exercise, Family, Myself, Upkeep, Study, Own work, Health, Friends, Fun and Rest — and the grey of hours you have not answered for yet • Add your own purposes, with your own names and colours • Grey squares are the point: they are the hours you cannot account for THE DAY • Turn the board to a single day and read it as a timeline • Write a note on any hour, or (with Pro) say it out loud and let the phone write it down • Keep side tasks inside the hour they belong to, and tick them off there • Set a sound for an hour that comes back every week • Count the small habits with one tap, right under the board WHAT IT ADDS UP TO • How the week divided, hour by hour, ranked • The change against last week at the same point, so a Wednesday is compared to a Wednesday • Hours of sleep a night, and the other things a full week can say PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no sign-in, no server of ours, no analytics and no advertising. Your week is one file on your iPhone, with a copy in your own iCloud that we cannot read — switch it off whenever you like. Voice notes are transcribed on the device itself — the app refuses a language whose on-device model is missing rather than sending your voice anywhere. Export a copy or delete everything, permanently, from inside the app. FREE, AND STAYS FREE The full 168-hour week, all fourteen built-in purposes, written notes on any hour, habits, every Insights page, sharing your week as an image, the iCloud copy, forty app icons earned as you go, and no ads or tracking, ever. TESSERA PRO Your own purposes with your own names and colours, voice notes written down for you, symbol and icon board styles, and every feature added next. Monthly, yearly, or one payment for life. Shareable with your whole family. Made for iPhone, in English, Tiếng Việt, Deutsch, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, 日本語, 한국어. Terms of Use: https://ioniclabs.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ioniclabs.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tessera 168 at Free against UnProductive's $0.99. UnProductive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Tessera 168 is free to download; UnProductive costs $0.99 up front. Tessera 168 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. UnProductive asks for nothing beyond the download.
UnProductive ships an update every 5 days, Tessera 168 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UnProductive | Tessera 168 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Palomino Software Limited | Tong Then Hung |
In-app purchases
UnProductive
No in-app purchases
Tessera 168
- Tessera Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Tessera Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Tessera Pro Lifetime$29.99









