CarPin vs Make Time for Yourself
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CarPin
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CarPin - Every parking moment, saved in one tap. That awkward 1 second when you step out of your car. "Where am I?" "Which floor?" "Was it zone B or C?" Tired of mentally taking notes every time? Let CarPin remember for you. ONE TAP. SAVED. - Park Here logs your GPS location and timestamp instantly - Floor, zone, and spot number in one quick sheet - Add a photo to remember the exit or pillar - Point your camera to read floor, zone, and spot number automatically - Memo field for details like color tags or height limits - Share your spot as a card image with a map link FAVORITE PLACES (up to 20) - Save home, office, malls, and places you visit often - Arrival auto-detected via geofencing - Per-place preset floors and zones cut input time in half - Per-place parking timer EVERY PARK, IN ONE PLACE - Search yesterday, last week, or last month - Filter by floor, zone, or place - Stats reveal your most-visited spots TIMER AND ALERTS - Get notified before paid parking expires - Get a return alert when you arrive near your parked car - Choose a return-alert radius from 50 to 500 meters - Live Activity shows remaining time and distance to your car on the Lock Screen - Dynamic Island ready 9 THEMES (1 free + 8 premium) Parq Neon, Sunset Drive, Candy Pastel, Forest Camp, Ocean Blue, Gold Luxury, Cyberpunk, Mono Clean, Imperial Red APPLE WATCH - Save instantly from your wrist, with the watch's location - See location and walking directions HOME AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS - Tap once to log a park - Lock Screen widget plus Watch face complications CARPLAY DETECTION - Auto-detects the moment you leave the car - No need to take out your phone PRIVACY FIRST - Location data stays on your device - Your car location is never sent to external servers CarPin. Parking stress, gone.
Make Time for Yourself
This app offers a peaceful fishing-themed focus timer to help you concentrate. Set your session duration, choose from calming waterside scenes and ambient sounds, and collect interactive fish after each completed focus. Your progress is saved locally, and optional features like app blocking are available.
- Fishing-themed focus timer
- Ambient waterside scenes and sounds
- Interactive fish collection
- Focus session presets and custom steps
- Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
- Optional app and category blocking
- Focus history and daily totals
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A little focus. A little wonder. Open a book, choose one task and cast your line at a quiet waterside. Spend the next few minutes on what matters. When your session ends, discover a fish to add to your collection. Make Time for Yourself brings a cozy fishing ritual to your focus timer, with gently moving scenery, nature sounds and small discoveries worth returning for. FIND YOUR OWN PACE β’ Set a session from 10 to 120 minutes: a 25-minute study block, a chapter of a book or time for deeper work. β’ Choose a river or sea, daylight or sunset, and the sounds that suit your mood. β’ Return to your last settings or prepare a waterside from a past session. β’ Optionally block apps and categories during focus. You choose the permission and what to restrict. MAKE FOCUSED TIME TANGIBLE β’ Discover 48 real-world fish and 16 fantasy fish in the base catalog. β’ Revisit the waterside, companion and focused time behind your discoveries. β’ See today's focused minutes and completed sessions, and keep your session history. TAKE YOUR FOCUS SOMEWHERE NEW Optional region packs bring four destinations to your waterside: Korea, Japan, Finland and Italy. β’ Each region has eight scenes: spring, summer, autumn and winter, in daylight and at sunset. β’ Seasonal outfits, changing scenery and regional ambience make each visit feel different. β’ Discover four fish in each region: 16 regional species to collect. β’ Choose a destination straight from Home, or find your next place in the Places tab. A LITTLE COMPANY The optional Waterside Guardians pack includes Noeul, Olive and Mongdol, time spent with your companions, Focus Sets, weekly and monthly reports, private share cards and Strict Lock. CHOOSE WHAT MAKES IT YOURS The timer, base watersides and nature sounds, base catalog, today's summary, session history and standard focus blocking are included without additional purchases. Region packs and Waterside Guardians are available as separate one-time purchases. All Waterside Pass includes every current feature and all future features and content released in this app, including new regions and Guardians. β’ Monthly or annual subscription: full access while your subscription is active. β’ Lifetime purchase: permanent access to all current and future features and content with one purchase. Your existing individual purchases remain yours. Discovered fish and session records stay with you even after a subscription ends. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple account. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscriptions are available in the app. Available in Korean and English on iPhone and iPad. Check remaining time with widgets and Live Activities. Some system features depend on your device and OS. Support: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/support Privacy Policy: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Make Time for Yourself at none against CarPin's shown. Make Time for Yourself also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CarPin sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Make Time for Yourself sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CarPin ships an update every 5 weeks, Make Time for Yourself every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CarPin | Make Time for Yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | β | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days β better |
| Ads | Yes | No β better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | β | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 522 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VyxWorks | SnapWorks Lab |
In-app purchases
CarPin
- Sunset Drive Theme$1.99
- Candy Pastel Theme$1.99
- Forest Camp Theme$1.99
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- Ocean Blue Theme$1.99
- Gold Luxury Theme$1.99
- Cyberpunk theme$1.99
- Mono Clean Theme$1.99
- Imperial Red Theme$1.99
- Theme All Access$8.99
Make Time for Yourself
- All Waterside Pass Monthly$0.991 Month
- All Waterside Pass Annual$5.991 Year
- Finnish Waterside$1.99
- Korean Waterside$1.99
- Italian Waterside$1.99
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- Japanese Waterside$1.99
- Waterside Guardians$1.99
- All Waterside Pass Lifetime$19.99
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