TimeTrack vs HOLDit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeTrack
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Where did today actually go? TimeTrack answers that in three taps. Name what you're doing, start the stopwatch, stop when you're done. That's the whole app. No account. No cloud. No setup screen between you and the timer. SIMPLE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY USE Most time trackers ask you to build a project hierarchy before you can log a single minute. This one opens on a big start button. Everything else — labels, notes, reports — you can add later, or never. THE TIMER KEEPS RUNNING Switch apps, lock the phone, take a call. The timer carries on and picks up exactly where it should. Forgot to start it? Add the session by hand afterwards. Left it running overnight? Auto-stop catches that before it ruins your week's data. LABELS THAT MAKE SENSE OF IT Colour-coded labels with icons for the things you actually do — Work, Study, Client A, Deep Work, Gym. Sub-labels when a project needs breaking down. Favourites for the ones you track every day. REPORTS THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING Daily, weekly and monthly breakdowns. Stacked daily bar charts, coloured by label. A 13-week activity heatmap, so a good month and a bad month look different at a glance. Streaks, daily average, longest session and your most productive day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN, NOT BY POLICY TimeTrack has no servers. There is nothing to opt out of, because nothing about how you spend your time is collected in the first place. It works on a plane, in a basement, and on a phone with no data left. Export everything to JSON whenever you like. Schedule automatic backups daily or weekly. Your data is yours to take. WHO IT'S FOR Freelancers billing by the hour. Students who want to know how much they really studied. Remote workers protecting deep work. Anyone who suspects their time goes somewhere other than where they think. Free to use, with an optional one-time unlock that removes ads and the label limit. One payment, yours forever — never a subscription. Available in 18 languages.
HOLDit
This app provides a private, local space to capture and organize significant thoughts and realizations. It uses a card-based system with optional color-coding to help users revisit important moments. The intentional card limit encourages focus on what truly matters.
- Private, local storage
- Card-based thought organization
- Color-coding for categorization
- Intentional card limits
- Thought release for new moments
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HOLDit is a private place for thoughts too important to disappear into a regular notes app. Some moments change how you see your life: a realization, an epiphany, a sentence you need to remember, or a decision that brings clarity. HOLDit gives each one a place to stay. KEEP A MOMENT Each card holds a moment and the thought connected to it. Tap a card to write freely. Name the moment in your own words, then keep the thought beneath it. Hold a saved card to give it a color. Tap the card count to change the order of your cards. Return to the grid whenever you want to revisit them. MAKE ROOM FOR WHAT MATTERS Start with 4 cards. With Access, unlock all 99. The limit is intentional. Choose the thoughts that matter enough to keep close, rather than saving everything. When a card no longer needs to stay, release it with the slider inside the saved card. KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS PRIVATE Your thoughts are stored only on your device, with support for iCloud backups. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: TimeTrack at 3 against HOLDit's 1. TimeTrack also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. TimeTrack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HOLDit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TimeTrack ships an update monthly, HOLDit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeTrack | HOLDit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gunawan Santoso | Seunghoon Baek |
Customer experience
TimeTrack
HOLDit
In-app purchases
TimeTrack
- Premium Upgrade$7.99
HOLDit
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Yearly$34.991 Year









