Comparison

Takt vs Chronisle

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

Head to head
About

Takt

Effortlessly track your daily activities with a single tap. Monitor your time usage, review detailed timelines, and export your data in various formats. Unlock advanced features with a one-time purchase or subscription.

Highlights
  • One-tap activity tracking
  • Live Activities integration
  • Detailed timeline review
  • CSV, JSON, PDF export
  • Activity and tag limits (free version)
Features
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Takt is a fresh take on finding your biggest time wasters during your day. Starting, stopping, or switching tracking to another activity is always just one tap. Through simple but effective integration with Live Activities, what you're tracking always remains visible at a glance on your Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island. Using Takt tracking you can manually or semi-automatically keep an underlying Live Activity running that puts tracking access just a tap away, all day. Review your days in as little or as many details as you want with Takt's Timeline, or export your days, weeks, and months to CSV, JSON, or a clean PDF. Takt is free with up to 3 active Activities and 5 Tags. Want more? A lifetime Full version is available, or subscribe monthly and after 12 payments, even non-consecutively, the Full version unlocks permanently. And we're just getting started. Better Mac integration and Tablet optimization, Siri & Shortcuts, Focus Mode integration, and an Apple Watch companion app are all on the way. Takt Terms available at https://taktapp.net/terms

About

Chronisle

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Chronisle — Focus through visual time islands Chronisle is a visual focus timer that transforms your tasks, routines, and goals into customizable time islands. Organize your day, stay focused, and track your progress in a calm, visual workspace. Each island can represent a different task, routine, or goal, helping you build a workspace that feels visual, calm, and easy to understand. **What you can do** - Create multiple focus islands for different tasks - Customize each island with its own name, color, icon, duration, notes, and custom image - Use Countdown or Stopwatch mode - Press and hold a running island to pause or resume - Double-tap an island to reveal its controls - Move and arrange islands freely across your workspace - Automatically save completed sessions in your Activity Log - Save, reuse, and share setups with Template Library - Use Auto Chain to continue from one island to the next - Start and stop timers from the interactive Island Timer Home Screen widget - Cycle through your islands and set a custom duration for the next run directly through the widget and its editor - Track your progress with the small Focus Goal widget - Receive timer-completion notifications with a clear, distinctive alert sound **Live Activities** Follow your running session from the Lock Screen and use Restart, Next, and Stop controls. On supported iPhones, your session and controls can also appear in Dynamic Island. **Why people use Chronisle** - Stay organized without visual clutter - Make focus sessions feel clearer and more motivating - Track progress in a more visual way - Build reusable setups for routines and repeated tasks - Keep important focus tools visible without constantly reopening the app **Privacy-first** No account required. Your islands, sessions, and settings are stored locally on your device and are not automatically uploaded to our servers. Exported template files do not include custom user-selected images.

Screenshots

Takt4 screens
Chronisle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chronisle at none against Takt's 2. Takt's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Takt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Chronisle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Takt ships an update every 2 days, Chronisle weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Takt versus Chronisle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaktChronisle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB83 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPhilip KartinACHILLEFS KALATHAS

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Takt

Subscriptions1
  • Takt Full monthly$1.001 Month
One-time1
  • Takt Full Lifetime$9.00
None

Chronisle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Takt free?
Takt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chronisle free?
Chronisle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Takt or Chronisle have ads?
Neither Takt nor Chronisle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Takt or Chronisle?
Takt ships an update every 2 days, and Chronisle weekly. Most recently, Takt was updated on November 5, 2026 and Chronisle on October 31, 2026.

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