Comparison

Cadence vs TimelySelf

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

Head to head
About

Cadence

This app helps you build positive routines or break bad ones with a focus on daily progress. It offers flexible tracking options, visual progress overviews, and on-device data privacy. Unlock unlimited habits and sync features with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Flexible habit scheduling
  • Visual progress grids and heatmaps
  • Momentum rings for 30-day performance
  • Apple Watch and widget support
  • Actionable lock screen alerts
  • Private, on-device data storage
Features
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Cadence is a calm, strictly private habit tracker with no subscriptions that helps you focus on your daily progress. No cluttered interfaces and no account signups. Whether you want to build a positive routine or break a bad one, Cadence gives you the clarity to actually stick to it. Log habits by hand, or connect Apple Health and let them log themselves. AUTOMATIC WITH APPLE HEALTH • Connect Once: Link a habit to a Health metric like steps, workouts, water, sleep, or mindful minutes. • Logs Itself: The moment you reach your goal, Cadence marks the habit done for you. Your streak keeps going without a single tap. • You Decide: Connect only the habits you want, and switch it off any time. TRACK IT YOUR WAY • Target Goals: Set "at least" goals to build up or "at most" limits to cut back. • Simple Habits: Track "yes or no" routines like reading or meditating. • Any Schedule: Every day, specific weekdays, 3 times a week, 5 times a day, every other day. If it fits your life, Cadence can track it. • Skip Days: Mark a day as "not applicable" without breaking your streak. Life happens. SEE THE FULL PICTURE • Overview: Your home base to visualize all your habits and progress at a glance. • The Visual Grid: View your long-term consistency on a beautifully color-coded calendar heat map. • Habit Details: Track streaks, personal bests, and completion rates across weeks, months, and years. • Momentum Rings: Instantly gauge your 30-day rolling performance directly from your habit list. ON YOUR WRIST & HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch: Log habits and check your progress right from your wrist. No phone needed. • Widgets: Keep a single habit front and center with small widgets, or track your entire day at a glance. • Heatmap Widget: Put one habit's recent weeks on your Home Screen as a grid of days, shaded by how much you did, with its ring beside them. STAY ON TRACK • Actionable Alerts: Log a habit as "Done" or "Skip" directly from your lock screen without opening the app. • Smart Reminders: Nudges that adapt to you. Hit your weekly goal early, and Cadence stays quiet until next week. • Daily Notes: Attach context to any entry (like noting the weather for a run). • Adaptive Theming: Full support for Light and Dark modes with a carefully curated 28-color palette. YOUR DATA, YOUR BUSINESS Cadence has no analytics, no tracking SDKs, and no data harvesting. Your habit data lives locally on your device, with free iCloud sync through your private Apple account. Cadence reads Health data on your iPhone and never sends it to us or third parties. Health-derived habit entries may sync through your private iCloud when iCloud Sync is enabled. FREE VS. UNLOCKED Use Cadence completely free for up to 4 active habits, including full iCloud sync. Need more? A single one-time purchase unlocks Cadence: • Unlimited active habits • CSV data export and import • Home Screen widgets • Apple Watch app • All future updates No subscriptions. No auto-renewals. Pay once, own it forever.

About

TimelySelf

Features
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Working across borders shouldn't require manual timezone math or endless calendar confusion. TimelySelf is a visual workday optimizer and multi-timezone overlap engine designed for remote engineers, freelancers, contractors, and distributed global teams. Instead of basic numeric time converters, TimelySelf provides interactive, flat-design day and night timelines that map multi-client working hours, pinpoint your golden meeting overlap windows across custom split shifts, and effortlessly contextualize scheduled meetings directly in your local time. Key Features: • Interactive Visual Timelines: Instant visual clarity with flat-design celestial daylight, twilight, and night-shift gradients. • Multi-Client Working Hour Mapping: Add clients across any global timezone and visualize their availability against your own schedule. • Split Shift & Custom Hour Support: Set multiple working blocks per day (morning + evening shifts) and instantly calculate shared working hours. • Golden Overlap Engine: Automatically detect and rank the best friction-free meeting windows across all selected timezones. • Meeting Planner & Local Contextualizer: Add meetings with one tap and see exactly where they land across everyone’s local working hours. • Daylight Saving Time (DST) Tracking: Native IANA timezone transition detection alerts you before clock shifts disrupt your team. • Cross-Platform Sync: Securely save your preferences, clients, and meetings for instant access across your devices. Eliminate timezone fatigue and make asynchronous global collaboration seamless with TimelySelf.

Screenshots

Cadence4 screens
TimelySelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimelySelf at none against Cadence's 1. TimelySelf also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Cadence's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads 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. Cadence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TimelySelf asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cadence ships an update every 10 days, TimelySelf every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cadence versus TimelySelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCadenceTimelySelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyundoh KimNeutron LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cadence

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$2.99
None

TimelySelf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimelySelf free?
TimelySelf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cadence or TimelySelf have ads?
Neither Cadence nor TimelySelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cadence or TimelySelf?
Cadence ships an update every 10 days, and TimelySelf every 5 weeks. Most recently, Cadence was updated on October 7, 2026 and TimelySelf on October 15, 2026.

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