Comparison

My Year in Pixels vs Squares

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

Head to head
About

My Year in Pixels

Track your daily moods, habits, and challenges with a visual, color-coded calendar. Start your tracking year on any day and receive gentle reminders. Save and share your progress with friends.

Highlights
  • Mood and habit tracking
  • Visual color-coded calendar
  • Customizable tracking start date
  • Gentle, non-nagging reminders
  • Short daily notes
  • Pre-set and custom trackers
  • Shareable progress cards
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Mark your mood, the habits you're building, the ones you're quitting and the challenges you take on. One tap a day colors in your activity as a month, a quarter or a whole year, whichever view you choose. Start your year whenever you want: on your birthday, at the start of any week or today. Turn off "Linked to Calendar" in a tracker's settings, and Tintle counts your year from the day you start, so you don't have to wait for January 1 and you won't see empty months before it. It also works for milestones, for example 100 days of guitar practice. Reading before bed, daily vitamins, a month without sugar, days without spending: make a tracker for each activity you want to follow and watch it fill with color. If you miss a day, pick up the next one. Tintle has no streak counter to reset, and that's on purpose: studies show that a broken streak makes people more likely to give up. REMINDERS THAT DON'T NAG Choose a time and the days of the week. Tintle sends one gentle reminder and skips it on days you have already logged. A SHORT NOTE FOR ANY DAY Write a line about what happened, so later you remember why a day turned out bright or heavy. TRACKERS READY IN SECONDS Pick one of 9 templates: Anxiety, Movement, Water, Breathing, Relationship, Energy, Connection, Outside and Reflection. Or build your own with an emoji or icon, a palette and square or round cells. 31 COLOR PALETTES 16 soft paper palettes, 13 dark palettes with gradients and glow, such as Aurora, Neon Nights and Ocean Deep, and 2 special palettes that come with the Relationship and Energy templates. Each palette has a light and a dark version. SHARE YOUR YEAR Turn a month, quarter or year into a card for Instagram Stories, or save it to your photos. TINTLE PRO The free version includes up to 3 trackers, 4 palettes and 4 templates. PRO adds unlimited trackers, all 31 palettes, all 9 templates and 7 extra app icons. • Yearly plan with a 7-day free trial • Monthly plan with no free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The price for your country is shown in the App Store and again before you confirm. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You don't need an account. Your days and notes are stored on your device. Terms of Use: https://tintle.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://tintle.app/privacy

About

Squares

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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy

Screenshots

My Year in Pixels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Year in Pixels at Free against Squares's $2.99. Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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

My Year in Pixels is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. My Year in Pixels sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
My Year in Pixels versus Squares: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Year in PixelsSquares
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone — better—
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIARHEI HALYNSKIAmaury Gau

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Year in Pixels

Subscriptions2
  • Tintle PRO Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Tintle PRO Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Squares

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Year in Pixels free?
My Year in Pixels is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Squares free?
Squares costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.

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