Comparison

Keytch vs Cues

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

Head to head
About

Keytch

This app provides a tactile fidget experience using your phone's volume button. Enjoy satisfying haptic feedback with various clicker sounds and patterns, or create your own. Track your usage habits and customize the intensity for a personalized fidgeting session.

Highlights
  • Volume button real press feel
  • 8 haptic patterns + custom editor
  • Intensity, sharpness, rhythm customization
  • Multi-clicker options
  • Rhythm habit tracking stats
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When you're in a meeting, watching something, or just picking up your phone for no reason. This haptic fidget clicker is for hands that just can't stay still. Open 'KEYTCH' and press the volume button. Crispy, stretchy, bubbly. Feel every tap through satisfying haptic feedback. Create your own patterns, switch between clickers for every mood, and enjoy it quietly in your pocket, no one has to know. - Real press feel with the volume button - 8 haptic patterns + custom pattern editor - Intensity · sharpness · rhythm customization - Multi-clicker for every situation - Stats that track your rhythm habits

About

Cues

This app visualizes daily needs as draining bars, prompting users to refill them before they hit zero. It helps busy individuals, parents, students, and those with executive-function challenges remember to hydrate, eat, move, and take medications. The app offers default and custom cues, integrates with Apple Health, and operates privately on-device.

Highlights
  • Draining bars for daily needs
  • Visual reminders for hydration, food, sleep, movement
  • Default and custom cue creation
  • Apple Health integration for auto-refill
  • On-device privacy with no accounts or tracking
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Bars that drain. Top them up before they hit zero. Most people don't notice they're thirsty until they're already dehydrated. Or that they haven't eaten in eight hours. Or that they haven't moved since yesterday. Cues turns the daily needs you forget about into bars that drain over time — so you see them before they hit empty, not after. WHO IT'S FOR If you reach mid-afternoon and realize you haven't eaten, had water, or stood up. If "just remember" has never worked for you. If habit-streak apps only ever made you feel further behind. Cues is for busy people, parents, students, and anyone with ADHD or executive-function challenges who loses track of basic needs until they're already running on empty. THE LOOP Each cue is a bar. The bar drains at its own pace — water in 4 hours, food in 6, sleep over 17, movement every 8, social every couple of days. When a bar gets low, Cues nudges you. You tap to top it up. That's the whole game. No streaks to break. No shame. No guilt. Just the bars. SEVEN DEFAULTS Ready on first launch: • Water • Food • Sleep • Movement • Meds • Bathroom • Social PRESETS Drop in eight more cues without designing them yourself: Sensory Break · Fresh Air · Mood Check · Screen Break · Temperature · Fun · Sunlight · Hygiene CUSTOM CUES Design your own bars with the decay timing and trigger that fits your life. AUTO-REFILL FROM APPLE HEALTH Cues reads sleep, movement, sunlight, food, and water from Apple Health. When the data lands there, the right bar tops itself up automatically. No double-entry — log a glass of water in any Health-aware app and Cues picks it up. QUIET, PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE — No accounts. No login. No servers. — No telemetry. No ads. No tracking. — Health data stays on your phone. — Notifications come at quiet times, not as a flood — quiet hours by default. APPLE WATCH Cues runs on Apple Watch as a companion. Glance at your wrist, see what's running low, top it up from the watch face. WIDGETS Lock screen and home screen widgets show your three most-urgent bars at a glance. FREE Everything in Cues is free. No subscription, no IAP, no trial countdown — just the app. COMMON QUESTIONS What is Cues? Cues is a free self-care tracker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Each basic need — water, food, sleep, movement, meds, bathroom, social — is a bar that drains over time, and you top it up when you act on it. How is it different from a habit tracker? Habit trackers reward streaks and punish gaps. Cues has no streaks and nothing to break: a bar that hit zero yesterday is just a bar you fill today. Does it need an account or a connection? No. Cues works offline, with no account, no servers and no tracking. Health data stays on your device. Is it really free? Yes — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no trial. Do I need an Apple Watch? No. The watch app and widgets are optional; the iPhone app on its own is complete. — — — Cues is built by an indie developer in Finland. Quiet support: stationify.fi/apps/cues

Screenshots

Keytch4 screens
Cues4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cues at none against Keytch's 1. Cues also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Keytch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cues asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Keytch versus Cues: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeytchCues
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEunyeong KimStationify Oy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Keytch

One-time1
  • Keytch Unlimited$1.99
None

Cues

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Keytch free?
Keytch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cues free?
Cues is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Keytch or Cues have ads?
Neither Keytch nor Cues shows ads.

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