Timetracker vs Flows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timetracker
This app helps you understand how you spend your entire day, not just work hours. Track activities like sleep, exercise, and family time, and visualize your life-area balance with detailed statistics and flexible goals.
- Full 24-hour life activity tracking
- Life-area balance visualization
- Hierarchical activity categorization
- Flexible time-based goals
- Easy time entry corrections
- Daily, weekly, and monthly statistics
- Built-in Pomodoro timer
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Most time trackers are built for freelancers and billing. Timetracker is built for your whole life. Track everything you do — work, sleep, exercise, cooking, family time, reading — and see how your time is actually distributed across the categories of your life that matter to you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Define your categories — Work, Health, Family, Learning, Leisure, or whatever matters to you 2. Create activities and map them to categories — "Morning run" → Health, "Reading" → Learning + Rest 3. Tap to start tracking. Tap to switch. That's it. 4. Open your dashboard — category breakdown is calculated automatically You do the living. The app does the math. KEY FEATURES • Full 24-hour tracking — not just work hours. Sleep, exercise, commute, cooking, everything counts • Category breakdown — automatic percentage breakdown across your life domains • Hierarchical activities — nest "Work → Meetings → Standups" instead of a flat list • Flexible goals — set minimum, maximum, or exact time targets per day, workday, weekend, or custom schedule • Easy corrections — forgot to switch? Drag the boundary between entries to fix it in seconds • Daily, weekly & monthly statistics — trends reveal what single days hide • Built-in pomodoro — run focus sessions without leaving the app; every session is logged as a real time entry • Real-time sync — switch between iPhone, iPad, and web seamlessly • Dark mode — full support throughout the app WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Unlike Toggl or Clockify, this isn't a work timer — it's a life picture. Unlike RescueTime, it tracks offline activities too — sport, cooking, family time. Unlike habit trackers, it measures duration — not just "did I do it?" No judgment. No productivity scores. No streaks. Just an honest picture of how you spend your time. FREE TO USE No ads. No credit card. No limits on core tracking. Every time-tracking feature you need is available for free. WORKS EVERYWHERE Your account syncs across all platforms and devices. START IN 5 MINUTES Create an account, set up your categories and activities, and start tracking. Your data gets more valuable with every day you track.
Flows
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Most time trackers are built for billing. Flows is built for understanding your day. Tap a card to start tracking. Tap another to switch. That's it. No projects, no timers to manage, no descriptions to fill in. Create your own flows: broad categories like Deep Work, Meetings, Admin, Resting, whatever matches how you actually spend your time. Flows records it and shows it back to you in a way that makes sense at a glance. Because work isn't just what was on screen. And your day is more than a timesheet. DRIFTING Not every minute gets deliberately assigned. Step away. Forget to tap. Take a break. Lose half an hour. Flows doesn't treat that as a gap or a failure. It becomes Drifting, a built-in flow that quietly catches the time you didn't claim. Move it later if you want. Leave it if it belongs there. Most trackers punish missing time. Flows treats it as part of the day. (One reason it sits well with ADHD brains, and anyone who forgets to tap.) SEE YOUR WHOLE DAY AT ONCE The day-bar is a coloured ribbon showing every minute of your day in the flow it belongs to. No spreadsheets. No reports to decode. Just the shape of the day, visible at a glance. MEET DROPLET Droplet is the small companion who lives in your timeline. No dashboards to read — Droplet notices the shape of your week and reflects it back in a sentence or two: which flows carried the days, when the drifting clustered, how the rhythm moved. Curious about something? Just ask. Ask Droplet answers from your own tracked time — "how much did I flow this week?", "where did my time go?" — in plain, warm language. Never a score. Never advice you didn't ask for. REFLECTIONS Zoom out to a week or a month and Flows shows its shape at a glance: a simple bar for each day, your flows laid out by rhythm, and a short reflection up top. Not "was this a good week?" Just "what kind of week was this?" FIX THINGS WITHOUT BREAKING ANYTHING Forgot to switch? Long-press a flow card to move time from one flow to another after the fact. Long-press any segment in the day-bar to see its history: what it was, what changed, and how it got there. Nothing is destructive. Corrections add clarity, they don't erase the past. FEATURES * One-tap tracking. Start and switch instantly. * Drifting. Built-in time for the moments you didn't claim. * The day-bar. See your whole day as a single timeline. * Droplet, a companion who reflects your week back to you. * Ask Droplet questions about your own time, in plain language. * Weekly and monthly Reflections that show the shape of your time. * Move time between flows after the fact. * Per-segment history and corrections. * Bridges. Flows asks what to do with gaps in your day. * A grace period for accidental taps. * No streaks. No guilt. Nothing to maintain. Ask Droplet and AI-written reflections need a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Everything else works on any supported device. WHAT FLOWS IS NOT * Not a productivity scoreboard. * Not a focus app that locks you out of things. * Not a billing tool with clients, invoices and hourly rates. * Not an automatic activity logger watching your screen. Flows is for people who finish the day and wonder where it went. A calmer way to track your time. Time flows. Know where. Privacy Policy: https://flowsapp.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timetracker at none against Flows's 3. Timetracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Flows sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Timetracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Timetracker ships an update every 4 days, Flows every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timetracker | Flows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Bezdenezhnykh | Paul Stanton |
In-app purchases
Timetracker
No in-app purchases
Flows
- Flows+ Monthly$9.991 Month
- Flows+ Annual$29.991 Year
- Flows+ Lifetime$69.99









