Real Hourglass vs Dot It Down
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Hourglass
A minimalist sand timer app that offers a realistic hourglass animation for focus, relaxation, and time management. It's designed to provide a distraction-free experience for various daily activities.
- Realistic hourglass animation
- Intuitive interface
- Focus sessions
- Meditation aid
- Daily routine timer
- Distraction-free design
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Experience the calm and clarity of a traditional hourglass, reimagined for your smartphone. This app offers a beautifully animated sand timer that helps you stay focused, relax your mind, or manage your daily activities with ease. Whether you're studying, meditating, cooking, or taking a short break, the hourglass provides a gentle and distraction-free way to keep track of time. Features - Smooth and realistic hourglass animation - Simple and intuitive interface - Perfect for focus sessions, meditation, stretching, or daily routines Bring a touch of calm to your day with this minimalist hourglass timer. Enhance your productivity with a clean and distraction-free hourglass timer designed for focus, study sessions, meditation, and daily routines. This simple sand timer app provides a realistic hourglass animation, making it perfect for Pomodoro-style focus, mindfulness, relaxation, and time management. Use it as a study timer, focus timer, meditation timer, or a calming visual timer to help you stay on track. Its minimalist design ensures a smooth experience whether you're working, reading, stretching, or taking a break.
Dot It Down
This task management app helps you organize everyday chores and habits without overwhelming you with overdue reminders. It automatically carries forward incomplete tasks and allows for flexible rescheduling, designed to reduce mental load and work offline.
- Automatic task carry-forward
- Flexible future date resetting
- Customizable reminders
- Quick task addition
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-focused, local data storage
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DiD is a simple task app built for those who don't want a whole system to manage their everyday. It's built around a simple idea: your task list should work the way your mind does. Not a graveyard of overdue reminders, but a running list that moves forward with you. Designed for home managers, busy parents, and scattered thinkers, use it for: ... The bill you nearly forgot. ... The wet laundry in the washer. ... The habit you’re TRYING to build. ... A book you were recommended. ... The detergent you need to buy. Key Features: ... Incomplete tasks from today are automatically carried forward to tomorrow if "Push if incomplete" is on for the task. No overdue or RED notifications. Life is random, and you shouldn't feel guilty about not being able to keep up ALL THE TIME. DiD keeps up with you! ... "Reset future dates on completion" for pushed repeating tasks to adjust the future dates based on when you actually complete it. Some days you need a break from routine and want to jump back in without resetting the whole system. ... Only set reminders for the tasks you want so you're not bombarded with notifications. DiD is designed to free up your mental load, not add to it. ... Had a random chore pop into your head. Don't break the flow. Add a task quickly on the homepage without getting sucked in. DiD is designed for quick use, not to maximize your time in the app. ... Privacy first. Your data lives on your phone. No data collection or selling. You have total ownership over your data. ...That means it works completely offline. On a hike. In a plane. In that corner of your home the WIFI doesn't reach. ... No subscription. Just a one time payment to buy the offline app, and use it for life. Over time, you’ll notice patterns in your one-off tasks and turn them into routines. Changing towels. Watering plants. Swapping toothbrushes. All the small things bouncing around in your mind finally have a place to live. DID helps you stop juggling tasks in your head and start living in the present.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Real Hourglass at free against Dot It Down's paid. Dot It Down's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Real Hourglass sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dot It Down sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Real Hourglass against 5.0 for Dot It Down. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Real Hourglass ships an update weekly, Dot It Down every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Hourglass | Dot It Down |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | akira ohmachi | Ammani Nair |
Customer experience
Real Hourglass
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In-app purchases
Real Hourglass
- Remove Ads$1.99
Dot It Down
- Lifetime Access$14.99
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