Comparison

72 Microseasons vs Time Vessel

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

Head to head
About

72 Microseasons

Discover the subtle shifts in nature throughout the year. This app details 72 distinct microseasons, each lasting about five days, explaining changes in weather, flora, and fauna. It offers a peaceful way to observe the cyclical beauty of the seasons.

Highlights
  • Daily solar term and microseason discovery
  • Year-round timeline of microseasons
  • Observations behind microseason names
  • Focus on weather, plants, and animals
  • Quiet seasonal observation tool
Features
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Traditionally, each of China's 24 solar terms is divided into three microseasons, each lasting roughly five days. These 72 microseasons describe subtle changes in weather, plants, and animals throughout the year. Open 72 Microseasons to discover today's solar term and microseason. Explore the year-round timeline to see when each microseason begins and ends, and learn about the observations behind its name. A quiet way to notice the changing seasons through wind, rain, plants, birds, and animals. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Time Vessel

Visualize your day's time as physical materials like liquid, jelly, and solid glass. This app offers an intuitive way to manage your schedule without anxiety-inducing deadlines or complex settings. It helps you understand your time's capacity and encourages rest when your day is full.

Highlights
  • Time physics visualization
  • Liquid, jelly, and solid time materials
  • Intuitive schedule management
  • No anxiety-inducing deadlines
  • Daily task completion feedback
  • Clear all option for fresh start
Features
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Your day only has 24 hours. It is a beaker with an absolutely fixed capacity, not an infinitely stretchable to-do list. Time Vessel provides a brand-new "time physics" perspective. We abandoned complex settings and anxiety-inducing deadlines, visualizing all schedules and external disturbances into the three most intuitive physical materials, allowing you to truly "see" and "touch" the volume of time: Free Liquid: Can be freely manipulated and dragged, but just like real hydraulic principles, it cannot be compressed. Represents tasks that you can arrange flexibly but must guarantee the full duration of focus.
 Elastic Jelly: Excellent extensibility. It can be squeezed and have its compression rate set, but cannot be shifted freely. Represents daily routines with flexible time boundaries that can be adapted at any time.
 Solid Glass: Hard and its position is absolutely locked. It cannot be compressed, nor can it be shifted by other tasks. Represents the sacred and inviolable fixed schedules in your life (e.g., important meetings, force majeure, deep sleep).
 Whether you use it to plan your day in advance or just to record the "occupation" of today by completed tasks, Time Vessel allows you to intuitively perceive: when solid glass and free liquid fill the beaker, there is no extra space left for today. It gently reminds you through physical laws—when the cup is full, it's time to rest. Here, there are no weekly plans, no monthly views, and no automatically generated repeating templates. Because life cannot be accurately predicted, and anxiety often comes from excessive attempts to control the future. Every day is a brand-new day. No red overdue warnings, no mountains of guilt. With a simple swipe or long press, you can truly feel the physical feedback as tasks are completed and dissipated. Whether you swipe away the last arrangement of the day, or choose "Clear All" in the menu at any time to start fresh—no matter how today went, when you wake up tomorrow, you will still be greeted by a clean, translucent vessel. [Pricing & Developer Program] We believe in extreme transparency and sincerity. Time management is a long-term habit. To let you fully and completely experience the physical resistance and settling sound of Time Vessel before deciding to pay, we offer a 7-day free trial. After the trial ends, you can flexibly choose a short-term subscription plan based on your needs; to maintain the purity of the product and indie development, we also retain the most traditional and simple one-time purchase "Lifetime" option. We absolutely do not set sneaky hidden charges, giving the choice entirely back to you.

Screenshots

72 Microseasons4 screens
Time Vessel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 72 Microseasons at every 5 days against Time Vessel's every 10 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. 72 Microseasons sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Time Vessel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for 72 Microseasons against 4.0 for Time Vessel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

72 Microseasons ships an update every 5 days, Time Vessel every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
72 Microseasons versus Time Vessel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter72 MicroseasonsTime Vessel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size473 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer杨 黄梓华 宋

Customer experience

72 Microseasons

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Time Vessel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

72 Microseasons

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$7.99
3 purchases

Time Vessel

Subscriptions2
  • monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • YEAR7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is 72 Microseasons free?
72 Microseasons is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Vessel free?
Time Vessel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 72 Microseasons or Time Vessel?
72 Microseasons and Time Vessel are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 72 Microseasons or Time Vessel have ads?
Neither 72 Microseasons nor Time Vessel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 72 Microseasons or Time Vessel?
72 Microseasons ships an update every 5 days, and Time Vessel every 10 days. Most recently, 72 Microseasons was updated on November 5, 2026 and Time Vessel on October 31, 2026.

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