Chronicle vs Årshjul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chronicle
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Chronicle is a private planner and time journal. Plan tasks, work one day at a time, track time on a visual Timeline, and review patterns in Statistics. Add Journal, Emotions, and Intention & Reflection when you want them. PLAN WITH INTENT Create tasks for work that gets finished and activities for ongoing work like practice or habits. Add dates, recurrence, expected duration, and colors so each day starts realistic. Planning shows what needs attention: overdue work, unplanned tasks, missing durations, and untagged items. Open Today to see one day's tasks, recurring occurrences, and activities in a single list. Swipe to start tracking, complete, or skip. SEE WHERE TIME GOES Your day on a visual Timeline. Press and hold to start an interval at that exact moment, pinch to zoom, and drag edges to adjust, with instant save and Undo. Attach tasks and tags to recorded time so the day stays easy to review. LEARN FROM PATTERNS Statistics shows tracked time by day, tag, and task, against a daily target, for any range you pick. Tap a bar to see the exact intervals behind it. GET TIMELY PROMPTS Set reminders that repeat by day, by weekday, or by month, at a set time or at the start or end of your day. Wrap-up and still-running alerts keep a forgotten timer from spoiling the record. GO FURTHER, ONE-TIME PURCHASES WITH A FREE 14-DAY TRIAL - Journal: write about any day, or attach a note to an interval so the record carries the reason why. - Emotions: record how you felt, see it on the Timeline, and follow it over time by task and by tag. - Intention & Reflection: open a day, week, or month with an intention and close it by reading back what actually happened. - Calendar Integration: your calendars on the Timeline, and your planned work written into a calendar Chronicle creates. - Integrations: your running interval on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. No subscriptions. Buy only what you use. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything you create stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads, no tracking. The developer does not collect, sell, or share your information. Export your data and settings whenever you like. Chronicle - Time Journal: plan the day, track what happened, understand the patterns, and keep the record yours.
Årshjul
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Plan a whole year, then explain it in ten seconds. Årshjul lays the twelve months out as a wheel, so the shape of the year is visible before anyone has read a word: the quarter that is overloaded, the empty stretch in July, the two campaigns landing in the same week. Built for consultants, project managers, marketing and communications leads, school and nonprofit teams, and anyone who has to walk a room through next year on an iPad and then look it up on an iPhone afterward. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create tracks for projects, teams, or areas of responsibility, and place activities across the year • Switch between the wheel and a chronological list: the same plan, read two ways • Present straight from the iPad in the meeting, with no sign-in and no browser tab • Hand the plan over as a PDF or PNG for the board packet, the staff handbook, or the wall IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open versioned Årshjul files and JSON • Import and export CSV and iCalendar • Export to PDF and PNG • Warnings appear before an import changes your plan. Nothing is altered silently. FOURTEEN DAYS OF FULL ACCESS Everything is open from the first launch. No account, and no payment request before you have tried it. After fourteen days, creating and editing require a subscription. Reading and exporting your own wheels keeps working either way, so you never lose access to work you have already done. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. INSTEAD OF A BROWSER TOOL OR A TEMPLATE A browser-based year wheel wants an organization account and a login — in the meeting, from every colleague, every time. A PowerPoint or Miro template looks right once and then has to be redrawn by hand every time a date moves. Årshjul is a real app on all three Apple platforms: it opens immediately, needs no account, keeps the plan on your own device, and lets the same plan leave as CSV or iCalendar when someone else needs the dates. LOCAL FIRST No account. No tracking. Your plans stay on your device unless you choose to share them or save an export yourself. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and WCAG 2.2 AA. The plan can be read and understood without relying on color. LANGUAGES English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annualwheel.pages.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Årshjul at fortnightly against Chronicle's every 2 months. Årshjul also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Chronicle sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Årshjul sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chronicle ships an update every 2 months, Årshjul fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chronicle | Årshjul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexey Kuznetsov | Jesper Sachmann |
In-app purchases
Chronicle
- Calendar Integration$0.99
- Emotions$0.99
- Intention & Reflection$0.99
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- Journal$0.99
- Integrations$0.99
Årshjul
- Annual Wheel Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual Wheel Pro – Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year









