Comparison

Time Tracker vs GGPomodoro

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

Head to head
About

Time Tracker

This app acts as a focus pacemaker, prompting you every 15 minutes to log your current activity. It helps expose distractions and quantify your deep work versus shallow tasks, enabling you to build better focus habits.

Highlights
  • 15-minute activity logging prompts
  • Plan vs. actual time comparison
  • Deep work vs. shallow task analysis
  • Productivity streaks
  • Customizable check-in intervals
  • Focus shields and screen time blocking
Features
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You write down a perfect to-do list in the morning. By 5 PM, you’ve done 45 minutes of real work, scrolled for two hours, and spent the rest of the day answering pointless emails. You feel exhausted, yet nothing got done. Where did the day go? Traditional time trackers let you lie to yourself. You start a timer, get distracted, and leave it running for three hours. That’s not tracking; that’s guessing. Meet Quarter: the accountability partner you can’t lie to. Quarter isn't a passive stopwatch. It is a radical focus pacemaker. Instead of tracking the past, Quarter actively keeps you in the present by tapping you on the shoulder every 15 minutes to ask one brutally honest question: What are you actually doing right now? By breaking your day into bite-sized, 15-minute micro-commitments, Quarter kills time-blindness, exposes your worst distractions, and forces you to confront reality. THE QUARTER SYSTEM: BUILD UNBREAKABLE FOCUS -Zero-Friction Logging Complex timers just give you another excuse to procrastinate. When the Quarter buzzer hits, log your exact focus in one tap using our intuitive color-coded wheel. It takes less than a second. No excuses. -Plan vs. Reality Everyone has a plan until they get distracted. Map out your ideal schedule, and Quarter will place it directly next to your actual logged time. See exactly when, where, and why your focus collapses so you can fix your broken routines. -Expose "Fake Work" Stop confusing "being busy" with actually making progress. Quarter provides hard, undeniable data on exactly how many hours you spent in deep work versus shallow admin tasks or pure distraction. Prove your focus to yourself. -Unstoppable Streaks Build momentum that makes it painful to quit. Track your daily deep work, string together productive days, and watch your output multiply. Break the doomscrolling loop for good. -Total Customization Your day, your rules. Set your active working window, choose your check-in cadence (15, 20, or 30 minutes), and build custom tags that fit your exact lifestyle-from intensive study sessions and coding blocks to the gym and built-in breaks. -The Quantified Day At the end of your day, receive beautiful, shareable charts that break down your focus, breaks, and true output. Take the guesswork out of your productivity. -Block your screen time: Focus shields allow you to disconnect and bookends block your phone after waking up and during bedtime. WHO IS QUARTER FOR? Quarter is built for people who are tired of their own excuses. It is the ultimate tool for: -Founders & Freelancers who need to ensure they are spending time on high-leverage tasks. -Students & Researchers trying to hit massive study quotas without burning out. -Remote Workers struggling to separate "home mode" from "work mode." -Anyone with ADHD or Time-Blindness who needs a reliable, external pacemaker to stay anchored to the present moment. Stop stressing about your entire day. Just win the next 15 minutes. Download Quarter today and take your control back. In-App Purchase Required: Please note that accessing this app requires a paid purchase. We offer flexible Monthly, Annual, and one-time Lifetime plans to unlock all features. Terms of service: https://quarter-app.onrender.com/terms.html

About

GGPomodoro

Features
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Stop opening fifteen apps to focus. GG Pomodoro is the cozy focus timer that lives where you do — your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Lock in for 25 minutes. Breathe for 5. Repeat four times, then take a real break. The system is 60 years old. The execution is 2026. WHY GG POMODORO • Live Activities — your timer stays on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. No more opening the app to check • Background-safe — phone locks, timer keeps running, alarms still fire • Beautiful by default — warm peach palette, calm typography, zero noise • Gentle alarms — multi-tone wake on phase end, never jarring • Haptic everything — every tap, every transition, feels right • Home Screen Widget • iPad and landscape ready THE METHOD, DONE RIGHT • 25 minute FOCUS phase • 5 minute SHORT BREAK • 15 minute LONG BREAK after four sessions • Clean session counter — see your 4-cycle progress at a glance • Daily total tracker NO TRICKS • No subscription • No ads • No tracking • No streaks to lose sleep over • No login Just focus. Just breaks. Just you, and the next 25 minutes. Built by a builder, for builders. Whether you are chasing finals, shipping a side project, or trying to write one paragraph today — GG Pomodoro does not care what you do. It only cares that you start. Press start. Stay there.

Screenshots

Time Tracker4 screens
GGPomodoro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GGPomodoro at none against Time Tracker's 3. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. GGPomodoro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Time Tracker versus GGPomodoro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime TrackerGGPomodoro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaksym HoroszczakGINES GARCIA LOPEZ

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Time Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Quarter Unlimited Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Quarter Unlimited Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Quarter Unlimited Lifetime$69.99
None

GGPomodoro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Tracker free?
Time Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GGPomodoro free?
GGPomodoro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Tracker or GGPomodoro have ads?
Neither Time Tracker nor GGPomodoro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Tracker or GGPomodoro?
Time Tracker ships an update every 4 days, and GGPomodoro every 4 days. Most recently, Time Tracker was updated on October 31, 2026 and GGPomodoro on October 31, 2026.

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