Comparison

iWorkUntil vs Afterward

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

Head to head
About

iWorkUntil

This app transforms remaining time into a visual representation, using a grid that fills as time passes. It's designed for individuals who benefit from seeing time progress, particularly for focus sessions, study periods, or managing workdays.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown timer
  • Time represented as a filling grid
  • Customizable duration or time range
  • Multiple themes available
  • Minimalist overlay design
  • No notifications or ads
Features
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iWorkUntil turns the time you have left into something you can actually see — every minute is a visible block, the grid fills as time passes, and one glance tells you where you stand in the day, the session, or the workday. Built for anyone who'd rather see time than read it. Especially good for ADHD focus sessions, deep-work blocks, study time, and any moment where "how long left?" is the question that matters. No accounts. No ads. No notifications. No streaks to break. No AI nagging. Just time, made visible. WHAT IT DOES • Visual countdown — your time as a grid of blocks that fills as it passes • Pick a duration (e.g. 25 minutes) or a range (e.g. 9 to 5) • Each block represents a slice of your time — at a glance, you know where you are • Choose a theme that fits your screen • Lives in the corner — never in the way WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who loses track of time when they're focused • Visual thinkers who do better with shapes than with numbers • Pomodoro and deep-work sessions that need a clear stop signal • Workdays, homework, study breaks, screen-time wind-down • Cooking, exercise, meetings, presentations — anything time-boxed WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No notifications. No dings. No dopamine traps. • No accounts, no logins, no data collection. • No ads, no subscriptions, no upsells. • No AI, no streaks, no guilt. A visual countdown that shows you time, instead of telling you about it. Available in 11 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Slovenian.

About

Afterward

Features
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Afterward is a daily planner built around one observation: the hard part usually isn't deciding what to do. It's the gap between deciding and doing. Whether you have ADHD or just a lot on your plate, it is built for the way a day actually goes rather than the way it was planned. IF-THEN TRIGGERS Anchor a task to an event instead of a clock: "when dinner is done, put the laundry on." Move the anchor and everything chained behind it moves too, so a late start doesn't mean rebuilding the rest of the day by hand. A QUEUE, NOT A PILE Whatever you didn't get to does not jump to tomorrow, and it does not quietly disappear. It waits in a queue showing how many days it has been there, and after two weeks Afterward asks what you want to do with it. Today, tomorrow, or let it go — your call. ROUTINES WITH TWO TIERS Every routine has a full version and a minimum version. Do the minimum and the day counts. Six are ready on first launch — Morning, Wind Down, Leaving House, Reset Room, Start Work, Admin Hour — and every step is editable. FOCUS Pick one task, pick a length between 5 and 60 minutes, and the rest of the app gets out of the way. The countdown is optional, because a clock ticking down does not help everyone. REMINDERS THAT TELL YOU THE TRUTH A card on the Today screen shows how many reminders are actually scheduled, when the next one fires, and — when something is wrong — exactly what: notification permission missing, or iOS having reached its cap of 64 pending notifications. No silent failures. NO SCORES, NO STREAKS There is no streak to break, no completion percentage, and no red. Insights shows which days you did something over the past twelve weeks, and stops there. Missing a day costs you nothing. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no sync. Afterward contains no networking code at all — not switched off, absent — and an automated test fails the build if anyone adds any. It runs in airplane mode because it has no other mode. PRICE Free for a full year from the day you install it, with everything unlocked. After that, a single payment unlocks it for good. It is not a subscription and nothing renews. LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Arabic, Hebrew, Vietnamese and Indonesian. Afterward is a planner, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or assess any condition, and it is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.

Screenshots

iWorkUntil4 screens
Afterward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iWorkUntil at none against Afterward's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Afterward sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iWorkUntil asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
iWorkUntil versus Afterward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWorkUntilAfterward
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid Klausznguyen van sang

In-app purchases

None

iWorkUntil

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Afterward

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$9.99

Questions

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

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