Tally Marks Counter vs Darwin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tally Marks Counter
Easily track your goals and daily habits with intuitive swipe controls. Visualize your progress as marks are engraved on the screen, offering a unique way to monitor your journey. Perfect for both breaking bad habits and building good ones.
- Intuitive swipe controls for recording counts
- Visual progress engraving on screen
- Track habits to quit and goals to keep
- Automatic history management for past challenges
- No complex numerical input required
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This app allows you to easily record your goals and daily habits by simply swiping on the screen. Key Features: Intuitive Controls: Record counts by swiping, as if carving tally marks into stone. Visualize Effort: As your records increase, marks are engraved on the screen, allowing you to see your progress at a glance. Versatile Use: Supports all kinds of challenges, from "habits to quit" like smoking or phone addiction to "goals to keep" like workouts and reading. History Management: Past challenges are automatically saved, letting you review your growth trajectory at any time. No complex numerical input is required. Let's enjoy recording your progress as if carving it into a wall.
Darwin
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Darwin is a digital detox app that turns time away from your phone into "evolution." ■ Grow Just by Putting Your Phone Down Place your device on your desk during a session. As long as you don't move it, you'll earn XP and level up your character. Hit your weekly target for bonus XP. ■ From Microbe to God — 100 Levels of Evolution Start as a Lv.1 microbe. Level up to evolve through fish → animal → human → wizard → god, unlocking new characters and habitats along the way. Conquer all 6 stages, 20 characters, and 21 habitats. ■ Compete as a Team Join a random team of 3–5 people and battle other teams on the weekly leaderboard. When every member hits their personal goal, everyone earns a +2 level bonus. With teammates counting on you, slacking off isn't an option. ■ Build a Rhythm with Weekly Goals Set your own weekly focus-time goal. Hit it for +2 levels; miss it for -1 level and removal from your team. A little pressure goes a long way toward building the habit. ■ Feel Your Teammates' Effort in Real Time Get push notifications for teammates' session results and chat messages. Knowing someone else is grinding right now gives you that extra push. Fully customizable in settings. ■ A Community You Can Trust Built-in reporting for inappropriate messages and user blocking keep your detox safe and focused. ■ Live Activity & Widget Support See your session timer on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Check today's focus time straight from your Home Screen with widgets. ■ Perfect For ・Anyone trying to cut back on phone use ・People who want to boost their focus ・Anyone who wants to build habits with a game-like twist ・People who want to reach goals alongside others With Darwin, turn time away from your phone into time spent evolving. EULA for Premium plans (monthly/annual): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Tally Marks Counter and Darwin are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Tally Marks Counter | Darwin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kana Uchida | Ryohei Horiuchi |
In-app purchases
Tally Marks Counter
No in-app purchases
Darwin
No in-app purchases
Questions
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