OutTime vs Bracelings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OutTime
This app helps you track your clear aligner wear time by counting down your daily out-time budget. It offers hands-free Siri control, session editing, and keeps all your data private on your device. Pro features include wrist and Lock Screen countdowns, and timelapse videos.
- Countdown out-time budget
- Hands-free Siri control
- Edit past sessions
- Private, on-device data
- Apple Watch integration
- Lock Screen Live Activities
- Retainer mode
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Most aligner apps count up. OutTime counts down, so you always know exactly how much out-time you have left today. Free to use, with a one-time Pro upgrade and no subscription. OutTime is a personal timer and does not provide medical advice. Always follow your orthodontist's instructions. Pro adds the Apple Watch app, Home Screen widgets, full stats history, and more for a single $9.99 purchase. No account, no ads, Family Sharing included. Works with Invisalign, Angel Aligner, Spark, ClearCorrect, Byte, and any other clear aligner. A BUDGET, NOT A STOPWATCH A stopwatch leaves you to do the math. OutTime gives you a daily out-time budget and counts it down every time your aligners come out. Tap once when your aligners come out, tap again when they go back in. SEE WHERE YOUR OUT-TIME GOES Where do your two hours go? OutTime sorts your sessions into Food, Drink, Meetings, and more, with your session count, average, and longest. See your 7-day average next to last week's, and days on budget for every tray. Tap any day in the month calendar to see that day's sessions, or log one you forgot. With Pro, share a clean Wear-Time Summary PDF of any month, plus your session data as CSV, ready for your next appointment. PRO: ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN Start and end sessions from your Apple Watch, and see your remaining out-time on your wrist. Home Screen widgets show it all day. While your aligners are out, the countdown also runs on your Lock Screen. FORGOT TO START THE TIMER? Edit any session after the fact: adjust the time or duration, or log a session you missed entirely. Life happens; your data should still be accurate. HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI Hands full at lunch? Say "Take my aligners out with OutTime" to start a session, or "Put my aligners back in with OutTime" to end it. Works with Shortcuts and the Action Button too. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No email. No OutTime server. Zero analytics. Zero data collected. Everything lives on your iPhone. Optional iCloud Backup & Restore (Pro) keeps a copy in your own private iCloud so you can restore on a new iPhone, and we still cannot see it. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected." We mean it. SMILE TIMELINE Build a private photo timeline of your smile, tray by tray. Crop, straighten, rotate, and brighten each photo. Put any two side by side and share them, or turn the whole timeline into an MP4 timelapse video. Your first photo is free. Pro unlocks the rest. RETAINER MODE Treatment ends, but retainers do not. Pick "I wear a retainer" on first launch, or switch later. Full-time or nights-only wear, with its own bedtime and replacement reminders. MADE BY ONE DEVELOPER No investors, no ads, no data sold. Pro is the only thing funding OutTime, so your purchase pays for the updates and the support replies. OUTTIME PRO - PAY ONCE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Your countdown, at a glance - Apple Watch app - Home Screen widgets - Lock Screen countdown during out-time sessions Your history, all of it - Full stats history: every month and every tray, back to day one - Smile Timeline: unlimited photos, side-by-side sharing, MP4 timelapse - Export for your orthodontist: Wear-Time Summary PDF, CSV data, photos Reminders, icons & backup - Cleaning and appointment reminders - Alternate app icons: six quieter looks - iCloud Backup & Restore: optional, off by default FREE - Full countdown timer with daily budget - Activity tagging (Food, Drink, Meeting, Brush, Exercise, Other) - Break Types stats: see where your out-time goes - 7-day average and current + previous tray stats - Your last 30 days of stats and calendar, day by day - Every session you have ever logged, in View All History - Hands-free Siri voice commands - Tray calendar: extend, delay, and set the days for each tray - Out-time and tray change reminders - Your first Smile Timeline photo For informational purposes only. Follow your orthodontist's guidance.
Bracelings
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Aligners only work when they are actually worn — and that is the hard part. Bracelings turns wearing them into a game: the less time your aligners spend on the table, the faster the egg on screen cracks open. HOW IT WORKS • Taking your aligners off? Tap one button. Putting them back on? Tap the other. • The app counts time WITHOUT aligners against a daily budget you set. • Every good day brings the hatch closer. The shell cracks before your eyes but never reveals who is inside — the surprise keeps to the very end. WHAT'S INSIDE • 172 pets to hatch — from a capybara to Spaghetto. • 12 personalities: pets live their day, switch moods and talk back. • Golden eggs for 7-day streaks — with exclusive golden creatures. • The guessing game: bet on who will hatch and earn a bonus when you're right. • Reward crates, badges, and a collection card to show off. • At night the menagerie sleeps — but the too-long-break alarm wakes everyone. FOR PARENTS • An alarm after a break lasts too long (30 minutes by default), with notifications. • Day history with the ability to fix a mistake. • Aligner-set counter and whole-treatment progress. • No accounts, no ads, no data collection. Everything stays on the phone. Bracelings does not replace your orthodontist's instructions — it makes them easier to follow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bracelings at none against OutTime's 1. Bracelings also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, ads and device support 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. OutTime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bracelings asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | OutTime | Bracelings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emil Georgiev | TENKAI PL S C |
In-app purchases
OutTime
- OutTime Pro$9.99
Bracelings
No in-app purchases









