Comparison

Time Spiral vs Obius

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

Head to head
About

Time Spiral

Features
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You plan your day the night before. Careful, optimistic. Then morning comes, life happens, and your calendar just sits there, frozen, unable to adapt. Every planner assumes you're perfect. Every time tracker only looks backward. You end up juggling multiple apps just to get through a single morning, and none of them talk to each other. Time Spiral is different. It's a realistic planner that combines scheduling, prioritization, and time tracking into one beautiful spiral, and it reshapes your day in real time when things don't go as planned. HOW IT WORKS Create tasks in 2 taps. Set your priorities and pin your fixed events (meetings, classes, appointments). Time Spiral automatically fills your free time around your obligations, scheduling your most important tasks first. As your day unfolds, the spiral adapts. Fall behind? It reshuffles. Something runs long? The rest of your day adjusts. No guilt, no manual reorganizing, just a plan that moves with you. FEATURES Spiral Day View - See your entire day at a glance on a stunning spiral graph. Your whole active schedule on a single clock-like view, showing your tasks, events, and free time in one place. Priority Queue - Order your tasks by importance and pin your events at specific times. The spiral automatically schedules your tasks around your obligations, filling your free time with what matters most. Seamless Time Tracking - Background tracking records your actual time on tasks. See what you really did, not what you planned to do. Rollover - Didn't finish everything? At the end of the day, unfinished tasks automatically postpone to the next day. Statistics and Insights - Track streaks, discover your most productive hours, see category breakdowns, and compare your estimates to actual time spent. Privacy First - No data is stored in the app or ever leaves your device. THE PHILOSOPHY Time Spiral is built on five principles: You cannot change the past. Track what you actually did, not what you planned. Focus on one task at a time. Multitasking is a myth. Do things you actually want to do. Your priorities define who you become. Adapt to your mistakes with insight. Statistics reveal your patterns. Look forward to work, look forward to rest. A clear plan removes anxiety. You are your time. You will become your priorities. --- Terms Of Service: https://timespiral.app/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://timespiral.app/privacy/

About

Obius

This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Visual workspace for notes and ideas
  • Reusable content blocks (Loops)
  • Color-coded sections by intent
  • AI-powered content generation and search
  • Version history and snapshots
  • Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
Features
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub

Screenshots

Time Spiral4 screens
Obius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Obius at weekly against Time Spiral's monthly. Time Spiral's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time Spiral sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Spiral ships an update monthly, Obius weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Time Spiral versus Obius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime SpiralObius
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsmail MujanovicDemetri Hodges

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Time Spiral

Subscriptions2
  • Time Spiral Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Time Spiral Pro Annual$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Time Spiral Pro Lifetime$34.99
4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Time Spiral free?
Time Spiral is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Spiral or Obius have ads?
Neither Time Spiral nor Obius shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Spiral or Obius?
Time Spiral ships an update monthly, and Obius weekly. Most recently, Time Spiral was updated on September 19, 2026 and Obius on July 29, 2026.

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