Comparison

Things take time vs Forkboard

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

Head to head
About

Things take time

This app helps you track habits, routines, and personal metrics to visualize compounding progress over time. It displays multiple trackers simultaneously to reveal patterns and understand your growth. Designed for ease of use, it focuses on making tracking effortless and insightful.

Highlights
  • Track any habit, routine, or metric
  • View multiple trackers side-by-side
  • Visualize monthly progress at a glance
  • Intuitive and effortless tracking design
  • Detailed analytics for pattern recognition
  • Privacy-focused with on-device data storage
Features
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Good things take time. Real progress is built through small things done consistently — it won’t feel like much, until it does. Things take time is an app for tracking what matters, the small things, and seeing how they compound over time. KEY FEATURES • Track anything From habits and routines to personal metrics, notes, and daily actions — build trackers that fit your life, not the other way around. • See everything side by side Most apps show one tracker at a time, which hides the bigger picture. This one shows them all together so you can see patterns across your month. • Your month at a glance See how small things add up across your month, so you can stay consistent and notice real progress. • Built for ease of use Tracking should feel effortless. Everything is designed to be fast, simple, and intuitive. • Understand your patterns Detailed analytics for every tracker to help you uncover trends and better understand your progress over time. • Privacy first Your data stays on your device or in your iCloud. Nothing is collected, and nothing is tracked. Progress is often invisible in the moment. Things take time was built to make it visible — by showing how small things add up over time. Terms & Privacy: https://github.com/chesterhow/things-take-time/blob/main/terms-privacy.md

About

Forkboard

This app helps you plan your entire week's dinners on a single board, adapting to your tastes, schedule, and existing ingredients. It learns your preferences, suggests meals based on what you have, and generates a smart grocery list.

Highlights
  • Weekly dinner planning board
  • Personalized meal suggestions
  • Ingredient-based meal creation
  • Leftover meal integration
  • Household taste blending
  • Automated grocery list generation
Features
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Your whole week of dinners, planned on one board. Forkboard answers "what's for dinner?" for the entire week at once — a calm planning board instead of an endless recipe feed. Tell it a little about how you eat, and it plans seven nights around your tastes, your schedule, and what's already in your kitchen. The more you rate, the sharper it gets. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Plan the whole week, not one meal. Seven dinners land on one board, decided together — every night chosen knowing the other six, so cuisines vary from one night to the next. • Change one night, not the whole week. Swap a dinner you're not feeling and a new one takes its place. Pin the ones you love and replan the rest around them. • Effort that fits the night. Set your weeknight and weekend time budgets once — a 15-minute Tuesday, up to a two-hour Sunday — and Forkboard plans to them. Pin a night and tag it quick, standard or a proper project, and its next swap comes back in kind. • It learns your taste. Thumbs up the wins, thumbs down the misses. No long quiz to begin; it just gets better as you go. • Every dinner opens to a real recipe. Ingredients in the right quantities, numbered steps, and — where we have them — estimated per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat. • Cook what you already have. Snap a photo of your fridge, a pantry shelf or a single label, or scan a barcode, and Forkboard leans the week toward what's already in it. Put an expiry date on the perishables and it tries to land each one on a night before it turns. • Leftover intelligence. Monday's roast chicken can become Thursday's tacos — the board sees the whole week. • One board for the whole household. On Family, everyone's tastes blend into a single week — and on every plan, every allergen you set is a hard rule, respected on every plate. • A grocery list that writes itself. Grouped by aisle, quantities merged into one line, and whatever's already in your pantry checked off. Share it out from your phone in a tap. • Sized for your table. Say how many you're cooking for — two on Solo, up to six on Family — and the recipes, and the grocery list, scale to match. • Marks for the cook. Kitchen stamps stack up as the weeks do: First Service, To Market, A Season of Sundays. ON EVERY SCREEN, IN SYNC Plan on your iPhone, spread out on iPad, or bring up the big board on the web — it's the same plan everywhere, always up to date. Start a week, lock your phone and come back: it keeps building without you. BUILT FOR REAL WEEKNIGHTS Set your cuisines, dietary needs, allergens, skill and time budgets once, then let Forkboard do the deciding. Allergens are a hard rule, never a suggestion: an allergen you've set simply never reaches the board. Sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email, or with Apple or Google — no password to invent. MEMBERSHIP Forkboard is free to start — four plans a month, one seat, no card required. Every new account also starts with 7 free days on Solo — the same full-quality planning, with 15 plans to get a feel for it. That trial is not a subscription and never turns into one: when it ends you simply drop to the free plan, and your boards stay put. A membership opens up the full board: • Solo — 30 plans a month for one cook. • Family — one board, up to six taste profiles, 60 plans a month pooled across the house. Add kids and partners as taste profiles without them needing an account of their own. Monthly and yearly memberships are available for both; the price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. Forkboard memberships are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically at the price shown unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://forkboard.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://forkboard.app/terms

Screenshots

Things take time4 screens
Forkboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Things take time at weekly against Forkboard's every 4 weeks. Forkboard's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Things take time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Forkboard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Things take time against 5.0 for Forkboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Things take time ships an update weekly, Forkboard every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Things take time versus Forkboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings take timeForkboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChester HowForkboard LLC

Customer experience

Things take time

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Forkboard

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Things take time

Subscriptions1
  • Things take time + Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Things take time + Lifetime$34.99
4 purchases

Forkboard

Subscriptions4
  • Solo Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Family Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Solo Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Things take time free?
Things take time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forkboard free?
Forkboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Things take time or Forkboard?
Things take time and Forkboard are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Things take time or Forkboard have ads?
Neither Things take time nor Forkboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things take time or Forkboard?
Things take time ships an update weekly, and Forkboard every 4 weeks. Most recently, Things take time was updated on October 19, 2026 and Forkboard on October 5, 2026.

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