Comparison

Things take time vs Potom

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

Potom

This app offers a minimalist approach to task management, allowing users to quickly capture thoughts and to-dos with natural language input. It focuses on presenting only today's tasks to reduce overwhelm and provides a unique companion character for a less stressful experience.

Highlights
  • Fast natural language task capture
  • Focus on today's tasks
  • Separate space for non-task thoughts
  • Companion character for mood tracking
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Minimalist interface
Features
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Potom is for people carrying too much in their heads. You open it, type one line, and close it. That's the whole thing. FAST CAPTURE Write the way you'd say it: "call the dentist Friday at 6", "grab the package tomorrow", "renew subscription in a week". Potom pulls out the date and time and leaves just the task itself. Nothing to pick from a dropdown. TODAY, AND ONLY TODAY The main screen shows a handful of tasks for today — not thirty. Everything else sits quietly until its date comes up. Less on screen, less to dread. THOUGHTS AREN'T TASKS Not every idea is something to do. Links, half-formed plans, things worth thinking about later — they get their own space, where nothing nags at you and no red badge appears. MEET PUZYRIK A small pixel character lives in the app. He has moods, and he notices how things are going. He won't scold you or guilt-trip you for a missed day. He's just there. WIDGETS Today's tasks on your home screen and lock screen. Usually faster than opening the app at all. WHAT'S NOT HERE No projects, tags, subtasks, priorities, kanban boards, team collaboration, or weekly productivity reports. If you want those, there are excellent apps for it — Potom isn't one of them. Potom does one thing: open, type, close, remember at the right moment.

Screenshots

Things take time4 screens
Potom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Potom at none against Things take time's 2. Things take time's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). On price, rating, ads 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

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. Potom asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Potom. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things take time has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Things take time versus Potom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings take timePotom
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChester HowKlimentiy Cheremnyh

Customer experience

Things take time

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

Potom

All ratings1 ratings
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
None

Potom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things take time free?
Things take time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Potom free?
Potom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things take time or Potom?
Things take time and Potom are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Things take time or Potom have ads?
Neither Things take time nor Potom shows ads.

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