choclift vs Squares
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
choclift
Control your Mac from your iPhone with custom shortcuts, app launches, website access, and emoji input. Streamline your workflow with intuitive gestures and drag-and-drop functionality. Unlock advanced features with an optional subscription or one-time purchase.
- iPhone control for Mac
- Customizable app and website shortcuts
- Emoji input bar
- Apple Shortcuts integration
- Finger gestures for window control
- Drag and drop file transfer
- App Time Travel for recent apps
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Access apps, Apple Shortcuts, websites and emojis on your Mac using your iPhone or iPad. choclift is the third input device you didn't know you needed in your Mac setup. It turns an iPhone or iPad into a touch (chocolate) bar that makes working with your Mac more intuitive, productive, accessible and, most of all, more fun. That last part is important, so it features a beautiful design, a satisfying user experience and plenty of chocolate references. Customize up to eight pages in your choclift bar with your favorite apps, Apple Shortcuts or website bookmarks you'd like to have just one tap away. See how tapping an app not only feels great, but also lets you perform actions like drag and drop faster and switch between apps in an instant. With "App Time Travel," you even get a new smart dock that shows you your recently opened apps, so it always adapts to your current workflow. Deliciously easy: Install choclift on both your iPhone/iPad and Mac, make sure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network, and connect once. That’s it. With choclift’s incredibly sweet recipe, you can even connect multiple devices at the same time. Your taste, your layout: Choose the Mac apps, Shortcuts and websites your workflow can’t get enough of and arrange them in a layout that fits your needs. With the optional “Added Sugar” subscription or one-time purchase, you can unlock additional pages for your setup. Introducing Emoji Bar: Add emojis to any text on your Mac with a simple tap on your iPhone/iPad, and customize up to eight slides with your favorite emojis. Apple Shortcuts Support: Create simple to advanced Shortcuts with the Apple Shortcuts app, add them to your choclift bar, and top them with custom emojis. Add Website Bookmarks: Your favorite URLs are just one tap away. Finger Gestures: Minimize and maximize windows with two fingers or trigger actions like copy and paste in a fast and intuitive way. Gestures are executed locally through the Mac app. App Time Travel: Scroll through a timeline of your recently opened Mac apps and pin your favorites to quickly jump between workflows. Available with the optional “Added Sugar” upgrade. Pricing is shown in-app. Drag & Drop, sweetly upgraded: Use your mouse to drag files on your Mac and use choclift to quickly access the target app, no matter which desktop it’s on. Portrait or landscape: Use choclift the way you like. Rotate your iPhone/iPad and place it wherever it fits best into your setup. Every workflow is different, so we hope many people will discover new ways to lift their productivity to new heights with our little tasty treat. Important: choclift requires the companion Mac app to function. All actions are executed locally on your Mac. To unlock the full choclift experience, choclift offers an optional auto-renewing subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Added Sugar (choclift Premium) It includes: • Multiple pages for your choclift Bar (up to 8) • App Time Travel • 8 customizable slides in your Emoji Bar to pick from up to 64 emojis • Future premium features as they are released Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. The lifetime purchase is a one-time payment that unlocks Premium permanently and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://www.choclift.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Squares
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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: choclift at Free against Squares's $2.99. choclift also leads on device support and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
choclift is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. choclift sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | choclift | Squares |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency | Amaury Gau |
In-app purchases
choclift
- Flexible$0.997 Days
- Added Sugar7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- lifetime-subscription-v3$24.99
- Lifetime$29.99
- Lifetime$39.99
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- Lifetime Fullprice$79.99
Squares
No in-app purchases









