Timefog vs Fire Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timefog
Visualize your day as a "donut" where priorities shrink in real-time if you go overtime. This app helps you see the trade-offs you're making before it's too late, protecting your sleep schedule automatically.
- Real-time time trade-off visualization
- Priority setting and planned time allocation
- One-tap task start
- Overtime notifications
- Automatic sleep schedule protection
- Subscription with free trial
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Subscription required. 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Ever spend too long on one thing and realize you ran out of time for everything else? Timefog makes that visible for you. In real time. Your day is a single donut. When a priority runs overtime, the other ones shrink one by one, so you see exactly what you're sacrificing while it's still happening. HOW IT WORKS — Set your priorities and planned time for each — Start a task with one tap — If you go overtime, your other tasks shrink to show the real cost — Get notified before time runs out — Your sleep schedule is protected automatically WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most productivity apps track time after it's gone or force you into rigid timers. Timefog shows you the tradeoff you're making in real time so you can decide what matters most — before the day is over. Built for deep workers, students, creators, and anyone who loses track of time when they're locked in. Stop sacrificing what matters. Start seeing your day clearly. SUBSCRIPTION Timefog is a subscription app. Choose the plan that fits you: • Annual — start with a 7-day free trial, then billed yearly • Monthly — billed every month, cancel anytime Your subscription auto-renews at the end of each period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. You can manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms: https://timefog.app/terms Privacy: https://timefog.app/privacy
Fire Notes
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Some thoughts are meant to be written down. Not all of them are meant to be kept. Fire Notes is a private notebook with one unusual feature: you can burn a note. Fire, rendered live on your screen — the paper catches, chars and falls away as ash. When the flame goes out, the note is gone. It's oddly satisfying. It's also the point. WRITE ANYTHING • A fast, beautiful editor with rich text, checklists, headings and highlights • Choose your paper and your handwriting — from clean type to a looping script • Photos, shelves and compact pinned notes on a board you can rearrange by hand • Choose from 20 pin designs in one compact Settings gallery • Search notes and checklist items, duplicate a note, or shuffle loose notes with undo LET IT GO • Burn a note in a moment, or hold for the full cinematic ceremony • A slow, soft flame with drifting smoke, glowing embers and falling ash • Use the microphone or press and hold to light the flame • Set an auto-burn timer when a note is only for now • Ashes records released notes with a date and an optional one-word tag SCAN YOUR PAPER • Scan receipts, bills and letters, or import photos and PDFs into a multipage document • Find page edges, correct perspective, crop, rotate and adjust the image • Clean up the page with filters; duplicate a page or apply one filter to the whole document • Add pen marks, highlights or handwriting, with undo for page edits • Read and correct recognized text on your device, then find a scan by the words inside it • Export a searchable PDF, page images or plain text, with the current page order and markup • Keep documents in their own shelves, show one on Home, or move it to Shoebox when you're done CAPTURE YOUR VOICE • Record, pause, replay and seek through a voice note • Read, copy or retry its on-device transcript • Share the recording with its transcript, or keep it safely in Shoebox PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes and scans live on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Face ID app lock, plus a separate lock for the notes that matter most • Locked and sealed content stays out of previews and content search • No account. No ads. ALSO IN THE BOX • A gold capture button that catches the light as you tilt your iPhone • On-device AI to fix, rewrite or reshape your words on compatible Apple Intelligence devices • Export notes, checklists and drawings when you decide to keep them • Reduce Motion support and a readable menu for note actions FIRE NOTES+ A one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. It unlocks the document scanner, voice capture and dictation, AI writing tools on compatible devices, premium burn styles and clean, watermark-free exports. Buy it once and it's yours on every device you sign in with. The notebook itself stays free. Write as much as you like. Burn as much as you like. Write it down. Let it go.
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Verdict
Timefog and Fire Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Timefog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Fire Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Timefog | Fire Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 207 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacobi Colombani | Ivan Trendafilovski |
In-app purchases
Timefog
- Timefog Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Timefog Pro - Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Fire Notes
- Fire Notes+ Lifetime$9.99









