Comparison

Era vs Time Log

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

Head to head
About

Era

This app helps you understand how you spend your time by tracking your daily activities. It visualizes your time on a calendar and highlights unaccounted-for periods, offering insights into your patterns without judgment or scores.

Highlights
  • Session tracking
  • Calendar visualization
  • Unaccounted time highlighting
  • Activity pattern analysis
  • Color-coded tracks
  • Notification reminders
Features
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You are what you do. Era is a mirror for how you spend your day — track sessions on a calendar and discover patterns. No judgment, no scores, just clarity. Era is a time tracking app built around a simple idea: you are what you do. Tap to start a session, tap to stop. Each session appears as a block on your calendar — work, reading, exercise, whatever matters to you. Over days and weeks, those blocks paint a picture of how you actually spend your hours. What sets Era apart is The Gap. Between every session, unaccounted time appears as dark space on your calendar. It's not a failure — it's data. The Gap shows you the time you didn't track, the moments between commitments. Most time trackers ignore what happens between sessions. Era puts it front and center, because what you don't do matters as much as what you do. Organize your activity with up to three color-coded tracks on the free tier. Scroll through days and weeks in the calendar view to see your patterns at a glance. Dive into charts and density scores to understand your rhythms — when you're most focused, where your energy goes, how your days shift over time. Era's notification intelligence learns when you usually track and gently reminds you, without nagging. Era is free for up to three tracks. Upgrade to Era Premium for unlimited tracks, richer analytics, and deeper insight into your patterns. Premium is available as a weekly, monthly, or annual subscription. Designed in dark mode with Era Green accents and motion-first interactions, every detail is built to be calm, fast, and invisible — the interface stays out of your way so you can focus on what matters. Era doesn't gamify your life or assign you a productivity score. It just shows you the truth, and lets you decide what to do with it. Download Era and see what your day really looks like. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Time Log

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Track time spent studying, creating and reading with Start and Stop. Time Log is a simple activity tracker for understanding how you spend your own time. START WITH AN ACTIVITY NAME Add an activity with just a name. Tap Start to save its starting time and see the elapsed time. Switching to another activity ends the current session and starts the next at the same instant. Only one activity runs at a time. DAILY AND WEEKLY TOTALS ON HOME See today’s total and the current week, starting Monday, without opening a separate dashboard. Tap an activity to review its totals and history. Sessions crossing midnight are split across the days they overlap. ADD AND CORRECT PAST SESSIONS Forgot to record a session? Add it in History. Edit start and end times, change the activity or delete a record. Overlapping sessions are rejected to avoid double counting. Archive activities while keeping their history. RESTORE WHEN YOU RETURN Time includes screen lock, app closure and device restarts until you stop. When you return, elapsed time is calculated from the saved starting time. A reminder appears for long sessions so you can check for a forgotten stop. Your activity records stay on your device. No account or proprietary server sync. Free to use with a small banner ad. Recording works even when ads are unavailable. See the privacy policy for advertising SDK data processing. Available in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. Dark mode follows your device setting. Daily totals use the device’s current time zone. Manual clock changes cannot always be detected. OS backup restoration is not guaranteed. Designed for personal activity records, not attendance verification, payroll or invoicing.

Screenshots

Era4 screens
Time Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Time Log at none against Era's 3. Time Log also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). Era's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence 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. Era sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Time Log asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Era ships an update every 10 days, Time Log every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Era versus Time Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEraTime Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperANTOINE CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMSDOTNULL Co.,Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Era

Subscriptions3
  • Era Unlimited Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Era Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Era Unlimited Annual$59.991 Year
None

Time Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Era free?
Era is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Log free?
Time Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Era or Time Log have ads?
Time Log shows ads; Era does not.
Which is updated more often, Era or Time Log?
Era ships an update every 10 days, and Time Log every 9 days. Most recently, Era was updated on November 5, 2026 and Time Log on October 31, 2026.

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