Comparison

10000 Hours Tracker vs Mastery Timer

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

Head to head
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10000 Hours Tracker

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Build mastery through consistent, measured effort. 10000 Hours Tracker is a minimalist app designed to help you focus on what matters: putting in the time. โ€ข Track time across multiple skills โ€ข See your progress toward 10,000 hours โ€ข Log sessions with notes and tags โ€ข Stay focused with a clean, distraction-free design No noise. No gamification. Just the work.

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Mastery Timer

Features
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Mastery Timer turns the time you spend getting good at something into visible progress. Pick the skills you want to master. Writing, reading, an instrument, a language, a sport, meditation, anything. Give each one a daily goal, and fill its bar a little more every day. Every minute counts toward the bigger picture: the path to 10,000 hours of mastery. As your hours add up you rise through 25 ranks, from your very first session to true mastery, and the app tells you something new at every single hour. Not only at the milestones, every hour. What is shifting in your craft, what you have unlocked, how far you have come. No points to lose. No guilt. No streaks that punish you for a missed day. Lifetime hours and ranks only ever go up. If you skip a day, a streak simply starts again, quietly. Mastery Timer is built for years of use, not for a quick hit. Features - Create as many skills as you want, each with its own daily goal - A clean bar you fill each day, with a gentle gong when you reach your goal - A lifetime mastery view: your hours, your current rank, and encouragement that changes every hour - Tailored progress for each kind of skill, from writing to music to fitness - Fully offline and private. Your practice stays on your device. No account, no data collected - A calm, distraction free design The work is the point. Mastery Timer just makes the hours add up where you can see them.

Screenshots

10000 Hours Tracker4 screens
Mastery Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 10000 Hours Tracker at none against Mastery Timer's 1. Mastery Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Mastery Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 10000 Hours Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
10000 Hours Tracker versus Mastery Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter10000 Hours TrackerMastery Timer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.516.4 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathaniel Garrett DavisArjun Gupte

In-app purchases

None

10000 Hours Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Mastery Timer

One-time1
  • Friends$1.99

Questions

Is 10000 Hours Tracker free?
10000 Hours Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mastery Timer free?
Mastery Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 10000 Hours Tracker or Mastery Timer have ads?
Neither 10000 Hours Tracker nor Mastery Timer shows ads.

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