Comparison

Span vs Last Time Tracker

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

Head to head
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. - Tracker Widget — Choose one tracker for a small Home Screen widget. See time since your last event and its date and time, tap Log now to record an entry, or tap elsewhere to open that tracker’s details. - 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.

About

Last Time Tracker

This app helps you track when you last completed a recurring task. Log completions with a single tap and see how many days have passed since. It offers optional reminders and organizes tasks by due date, with no guilt-inducing streaks or notifications.

Highlights
  • Track anything with a day counter
  • Organize trackers by due date
  • One-tap completion logging
  • View completion history and averages
  • Optional reminder cadence
  • Customizable emoji icons
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Last Time answers a simple question: When did I last do that? Water the fig tree. Change the air filter. Call your sister. Rotate the tires. Wash the sheets. Take the dog to the vet. Last Time keeps track of how many days it’s been since you last did each thing. Tap Done to log it, and the counter resets. Set a target rhythm if you want — every two weeks, every month, every six months — and Last Time will quietly show when something is overdue. No streaks. No guilt. No nagging notifications. Just a clear answer when you open the app. Features • Track anything with a simple day counter • Organize trackers by Due Soon, Overdue, and Recent • Log completion with one tap • See details including day count, average interval, on-time streak, and history • View recent intervals at a glance • Remove accidental log entries anytime • Optional reminder cadence for each tracker • Built-in categories including Home, Car, Family, Pets, and Me • Choose your own emoji icons • Home screen widgets for single trackers, up-next lists, and overdue items Privacy Last Time stores your data locally on your device. No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No ads. Try it with the things you always mean to remember — the plant, the filter, the vet visit, the phone call.

Screenshots

Span4 screens
Last Time Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Last Time Tracker at none against Span's 1. Last Time Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Span's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Last Time Tracker 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 Span against 5.0 for Last Time Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Span has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Span ships an update every 2 weeks, Last Time Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Span versus Last Time Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpanLast Time Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShamir WehbeZaffles

Customer experience

Span

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

Last Time Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Span

One-time1
  • Span Pro$1.99
None

Last Time Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Last Time Tracker free?
Last Time Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Span or Last Time Tracker?
Span and Last Time Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Span or Last Time Tracker have ads?
Neither Span nor Last Time Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Span or Last Time Tracker?
Span ships an update every 2 weeks, and Last Time Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, Span was updated on October 15, 2026 and Last Time Tracker on October 12, 2026.

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