Comparison

Timetracker vs Mastery Timer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Mastery Timer

Features
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Mastery Timer turns the time you spend getting good at something into visible progress. Pick the skills you want to master. Writing, reading, an instrument, a language, a sport, meditation, anything. Give each one a daily goal, and fill its bar a little more every day. Every minute counts toward the bigger picture: the path to 10,000 hours of mastery. As your hours add up you rise through 25 ranks, from your very first session to true mastery, and the app tells you something new at every single hour. Not only at the milestones, every hour. What is shifting in your craft, what you have unlocked, how far you have come. No points to lose. No guilt. No streaks that punish you for a missed day. Lifetime hours and ranks only ever go up. If you skip a day, a streak simply starts again, quietly. Mastery Timer is built for years of use, not for a quick hit. Features - Create as many skills as you want, each with its own daily goal - A clean bar you fill each day, with a gentle gong when you reach your goal - A lifetime mastery view: your hours, your current rank, and encouragement that changes every hour - Tailored progress for each kind of skill, from writing to music to fitness - Fully offline and private. Your practice stays on your device. No account, no data collected - A calm, distraction free design The work is the point. Mastery Timer just makes the hours add up where you can see them.

Screenshots

Timetracker4 screens
Mastery Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timetracker at none against Mastery Timer's 1. Timetracker also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Mastery Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timetracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timetracker ships an update every 4 days, Mastery Timer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Timetracker versus Mastery Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimetrackerMastery Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan BezdenezhnykhArjun Gupte

In-app purchases

None

Timetracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Mastery Timer

One-time1
  • Friends$1.99

Questions

Is Timetracker free?
Timetracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mastery Timer free?
Mastery Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Timetracker or Mastery Timer have ads?
Neither Timetracker nor Mastery Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timetracker or Mastery Timer?
Timetracker ships an update every 4 days, and Mastery Timer every 2 days. Most recently, Timetracker was updated on September 30, 2026 and Mastery Timer on September 27, 2026.

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