Things take time vs Desktop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Things take time
This app helps you track small, consistent actions to visualize compounding progress over time. Monitor habits, routines, and personal metrics with detailed analytics and a unique side-by-side view of multiple trackers. Designed for ease of use and privacy, it makes invisible progress visible.
- Track any habit or metric
- View multiple trackers side-by-side
- Monthly progress overview
- Intuitive and fast interface
- Detailed analytics for patterns
- On-device and iCloud privacy
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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://thingstaketime.app/terms-privacy
Desktop
This app allows you to save any content you find online, from social media posts to videos and links. It then organizes your saved items for easy retrieval and allows you to revisit them later.
- Save content from any app via Share Sheet
- Browse all saved items in one place
- Automatic organization by source and topic
- Search your personal library
- Revisit recent saves
- Open saved content in original app
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Desktop is a save-for-later app for everything you find online. Save posts, videos, links, photos, and more from your favorite social apps, browsers, and photo library. Desktop organizes what you save so you can actually find it again later. • Save from your favorite apps with the Share Sheet • Browse everything you've saved in one place • Automatically organize saves by source and topic • Search your personal library • Revisit recent saves quickly • Customize your Desktop • Open saved content back in its original app • Sync your library across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Organize saves in folders, and share a folder with anyone as a private link Instead of sending things to yourself, leaving tabs open, or losing posts in different apps, save them to Desktop. Privacy Policy: https://arkive.tech/desktop/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Things take time at 9 against Desktop's 2. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Things take time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Desktop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 Things take time against 5.0 for Desktop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Things take time | Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chester How | VRKIVE LLC |
Customer experience
Things take time
Desktop
In-app purchases
Things take time
- Things take time + Monthly$2.991 Month
- Things take time + Lifetime$34.99
Desktop
- Desktop Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month









