Comparison

GoTime vs Span

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

Head to head
About

GoTime

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Take the stress out of bathroom schedules with GoTime – the simple, child-friendly potty training companion for Apple Watch. Designed specifically for intermittent voiding and bowel tracking, GoTime helps children and parents stick to a regular bathroom routine. Features: Recurring Timer: A customizable 2.5-hour countdown timer automatically resets after each bathroom break. Snooze Function: Need 10 more minutes? A quick snooze button helps manage busy moments. Child-Friendly Interface: Big, clear buttons for "Pee" and "Poop" make logging easy for little hands. Complication: Always see the countdown timer directly on your watch face. History Tracking: View the last 7 days of logs directly on the watch. CloudKit Sync: Securely sync logs to iCloud. GoTime operates independently on the Apple Watch, making it perfect for kids at school or on the go.

About

Span

Track upcoming events with live countdowns or elapsed time since past moments. Log daily habits, discover patterns, and explore historical events with rich media. Organize and share your time-related data seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Live second-by-second countdowns
  • Elapsed time tracking
  • Habit and routine logging
  • Historical 'On This Day' events
  • Customizable widgets
  • Shareable event cards
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Your relationship with time, all in one place. Count down to birthdays, trips, and deadlines, or see how long it’s been since a milestone. Log recurring events with Trackers and explore history with On This Day. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. SPANS - Live Countdowns — See years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until or since a date. Date-only spans count calendar days. - Apple Calendar — Choose events to import, review their details, and keep selected events updated or make one-time copies. Span never adds new Calendar events automatically or writes changes back to Calendar. - Smart Emoji Suggestions — Get up to three matching emoji as you type, using on-device Apple Intelligence when available. - Yearly Recurrence — Repeat birthdays and anniversaries, with smart holiday dates that adjust each year. - Holiday Templates — Start with 22 US holidays and cultural events, including Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Chinese New Year. - Weather — Add a US ZIP code for historical weather or a forecast within the next 16 days. - Tags — Give spans and trackers custom tags with optional colors. Read tag names on cards and filter by one or several tags. - Organize — Filter by upcoming, elapsed, or archived; sort by date, name, or custom order. Choose Reorganize to drag rows into place. - Share — Send a styled countdown image or a link that opens in Span. TRACKERS - Log Anything — Tap once to record an event and see the time since your last entry. - Patterns — Frequency statistics show how often you typically do something. - Full History — Add dated entries, edit timestamps, or delete mistakes. - 14 Templates — Workout, Run, Coffee, Meditation, Shower, and more. ON THIS DAY Browse notable historical events for any date, powered by Wikipedia. Open an event to read its description and a related Wikipedia article. Images appear when available. Optional daily notifications bring you a historical event to explore. WIDGETS - Span Widget — Small, medium, or large, plus extra-large portrait on iOS 27. Auto mode follows your Spans tab’s filters, tags, and sort order, or you can choose spans manually. Tap a row to open that span. - On This Day Widget — Daily history on your Home Screen, with an extra-large portrait option on iOS 27. Tap to open the matching event. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Create spans, get countdowns, and log tracker entries with Siri and Shortcuts on iOS 26 and later. NOTIFICATIONS Get notified at a span’s event time or choose an advance reminder in minutes, hours, or days. Enable daily history alerts separately. BACKUP Manually back up and restore your spans and trackers with iCloud Drive. Your backup stays in your own iCloud account. FREE & PRO Track up to 2 spans and 1 tracker for free. Unlock unlimited spans and trackers with a one-time Span Pro purchase. PRIVACY No account, advertising, or analytics. Your spans and trackers stay on your device, with optional backup to your own iCloud Drive.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoTime at none against Span's 1. GoTime also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Span sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GoTime asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GoTime versus Span: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoTimeSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin CohenShamir Wehbe

In-app purchases

None

GoTime

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Span

One-time1
  • Span Pro$1.99

Questions

Is GoTime free?
GoTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GoTime or Span have ads?
Neither GoTime nor Span shows ads.

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