72 Microseasons vs Time Vessel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | 72 Microseasons | Time Vessel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 473 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杨 黄 | 梓华 宋 |
Customer experience
72 Microseasons
Time Vessel
In-app purchases
72 Microseasons
- Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$2.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$7.99
Time Vessel
- monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- YEAR7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- lifetime$24.99









