Comparison

Tally vs ClipRing

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

Head to head
About

Tally

This app helps you understand where your time goes by gently prompting you to log activities throughout the day. It provides visual breakdowns of your time, allowing you to identify patterns and achieve a better balance between productivity and rest.

Highlights
  • Gentle daily prompts for logging
  • Quick-log from notifications
  • Customizable categories with icons
  • Visual daily timeline
  • Balance bars for productivity and rest
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights
  • Offline functionality
Features
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You know the feeling. It's 9 PM and you're wondering where the day went. You were busy — but doing what, exactly? Tally answers that question. Not with timers or complicated tracking. Just a gentle nudge throughout the day: "What did you just do?" Tap a category and you're done. Three seconds, tops. Do this for a few days and something shifts. You stop guessing and start seeing. The afternoon you thought was productive? Mostly phone. The evening you felt was wasted? Actually a solid mix of cooking and reading. Tally doesn't judge. It just shows you the picture. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE Your daily timeline is a visual map of how your hours were spent, color-coded by category. At a glance, you see the shape of your day — what you did, and what slipped by unlogged. LOG WITHOUT THINKING - A gentle nudge at the interval you choose - Quick-log directly from the notification — no need to open the app - Pick from your most-used categories with a single tap - Only active during your waking hours — you set the schedule CATEGORIES THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Tally comes with 10 default categories: Work, Rest, Exercise, Social Media, Reading, Commute, Cooking, Entertainment, Social, and Other. Add your own — unlimited, with custom icons and colors. Your categories should reflect how you actually spend time, not how you wish you did. BALANCE, NOT JUST DATA Tally tracks four dimensions of a well-spent day through balance bars: - Create: time spent on focused, productive work - Recharge: rest, exercise, cooking — recovery that actually counts - Focus: your day minus the distractions - Awareness: how much of your day you've accounted for Each bar has a personal target. When all four close, you've had a balanced day — by your own definition, not anyone else's. SEE THE PATTERNS The Insights tab breaks down your time across four views: - Daily: where today's hours went, charted by category - Weekly: seven days side by side — spot the rhythm of your week - Monthly: trends that only emerge over longer stretches - Yearly: the full picture of how your time adds up No scores designed to guilt you. Just clean data about your own life. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY - iCloud sync keeps your data across all your devices - Dark mode that follows your system setting - Works offline — your data is local first, always - No account required. No sign-up. No analytics tracking you. Tally is completely free. Every feature, every insight, every category — no paywalls, no limits, no "upgrade to unlock" screens. WHAT TALLY IS NOT Tally is not a Pomodoro tool. There are no work/break cycles. Tally is not a billing tracker. There are no projects or clients. Tally is a mirror. It shows you where your time goes. What you do with that information is entirely up to you. Terms of Use: https://www.theblackholecompany.com/termsConditions.html

About

ClipRing

Features
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ClipRing is a clipboard history manager for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Every time you copy text, ClipRing quietly saves it — so nothing you copy is ever lost again. Free to download and use. Upgrade to ClipRing Pro with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, ever. ▼ NEW: QUICK-PASTE PALETTE (MAC) Press ⌥⌘V in any app and a Spotlight-style panel appears with your clipboard history. Type to search, press Return, and the clip pastes right into the app you were in. ⌘1–⌘9 paste a row instantly. It's the fastest way to get that thing you copied twenty minutes ago back under your cursor. ▼ NEW: ICLOUD SYNC (PRO) Copy on your Mac, paste on your iPhone. Your clipboard history syncs privately through your own iCloud account — never through our servers. One ring, all your devices. ▼ CLIPRING KEYBOARD (IPHONE & IPAD) Switch to the ClipRing keyboard in any app to paste any item from your history. Tap to paste, swipe to delete. No app switching, no hunting for what you copied earlier. ▼ SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Copy text on your Mac and it's captured automatically. On iPhone, just copy and open ClipRing — auto-save captures your clipboard the moment the app appears. Prefer other routes? The Share sheet, a one-tap import button, and Shortcuts actions (pair "Save Text to ClipRing" with Back Tap) are all there too. ▼ HOME SCREEN WIDGET (IPHONE & IPAD) Put your recent clips on the Home Screen. Tap the copy button on any row and it's back on your clipboard — without even opening the app. ▼ MAC POWER FEATURES • ⇧⌘V cycles through history in place — works even in terminal apps (iTerm2, Terminal, Warp, kitty and more) • Pin favorites: pinned clips never expire and never get pushed out • Launch at login, and an optional menu-bar-only mode (no Dock icon) • Shortcuts support: read your latest clip, pick from recent clips, or save text from any automation — bind "Choose a Clip" to Back Tap or the Action button for instant paste access ▼ FULLY CONFIGURABLE • Ring size up to 100 items (Pro), auto-expiration from 1 hour to 30 days, deduplication, max text length ▼ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ClipRing works entirely on your device. Passwords copied from password managers are automatically excluded and never recorded. No analytics, no ads, no tracking — and sync, if you enable it, goes only through your personal iCloud account. Ever. ■ FREE VS PRO • Free: full capture, quick-paste palette, keyboard, Share sheet, 10 most recent items, 1 pin. • Pro (one-time purchase): ring size up to 100, unlimited pins, iCloud sync. Bought ClipRing 1.x when it was a paid app? You get Pro automatically — thank you for the early support.

Screenshots

Tally4 screens
ClipRing4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tally and ClipRing are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Tally sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and ClipRing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tally ships an update every 6 weeks, ClipRing monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tally versus ClipRing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTallyClipRing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoussef IsmailiMicrodog Labs LLC

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Tally

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Generous Tip$9.99
  • Crazy Tip$49.99
1 purchases

ClipRing

One-time1
  • ClipRing Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClipRing free?
ClipRing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tally or ClipRing have ads?
Neither Tally nor ClipRing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tally or ClipRing?
Tally ships an update every 6 weeks, and ClipRing monthly. Most recently, Tally was updated on October 24, 2026 and ClipRing on October 25, 2026.

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