Chronisle vs IslandNotify

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.

IslandNotify turns the Dynamic Island into your personal hub. Pin the things that matter right now — a pasta timer, a 16:8 fast, today's water habit, a countdown to your trip, a live match score, a quick note — and keep them one glance away, without opening anything. WHAT LIVES ON THE ISLAND • Timers — cooking, workouts, focus sessions and fasts, with a live countdown and progress bar • Habits — water, steps, pages, reps; tap to bump the count and watch it fill • Reminders — due-time tasks with a live “due in” countdown • Countdowns — birthdays, trips, exams, kickoff • Goals — savings and fitness targets with progress • Quick Notes — parking spot, gate and seat, door codes • Sports — manual live scores for any match you're watching or playing YOUR DAY, ASSEMBLED The Today tab builds a timeline automatically from what you track: last night's sleep at your real wake time, step milestones as you cross them, water you've logged, workouts from Health, timers that finished, fasting stages you passed — all above the NOW line — followed by what's coming: due reminders, timer ends, habit close-out, wind-down. SMART PINS Context-aware suggestions for right now — a due reminder, your live step goal, a fasting window after dinner, screen-free time before bed. One tap puts them on the island. PULSE Steps, active energy, resting heart rate, sleep and water from Apple Health, with 14-day trends and plain-language insights. DISCOVER A searchable catalog of dozens of templates across Health & Fitness, Productivity, Cooking, Travel, Finance, Celebrations, Home, Study, Mindfulness and Sports. Or just describe what you want — “pasta timer 12 minutes”, “Warriors vs Lakers”, “save $2000 for vacation” — and IslandNotify drafts it, on-device with Apple Intelligence where available. PRIVACY FIRST Health data is read on your device and never leaves it. No accounts, no tracking. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UNLOCK Everything above is free with 3 island slots. IslandNotify Pro is a single lifetime purchase — no subscription — that unlocks all 5 island slots iOS allows, plus live analysis that keeps updating on the island by itself. The Dynamic Island renders on iPhone 14 Pro and later; on other iPhones the same Live Activities appear on the Lock Screen.