Comparison

Tallyday vs Focus Timer

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

Head to head
About

Tallyday

This app helps you track habits, streaks, and milestones with a simple, beautiful interface. It offers unlimited customizable counters, categories for organization, and iCloud sync for seamless data management across devices. Focuses on privacy with no accounts or tracking.

Highlights
  • Unlimited customizable counters
  • Categories for organization
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Customizable reminders
  • Import/export as JSON or CSV
  • Privacy-first design
Features
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Tallyday is a simple, beautiful tracker for the things that matter. Count the days since a milestone, count down to a big date, or build a daily streak one check-in at a time. Starting a streak? Check in for today from the app or Home Screen widget. Tallyday shows your current run, longest run, and total credited days. If you forget to record a day, open the calendar and fill it in later. It counts down, too. Set a date for a trip, a launch, or a wedding and watch the days left tick away. When the day arrives, Tallyday celebrates with you, then keeps counting the days since. I built it because I wanted something focused: no accounts, no premium tier, no notifications begging for attention. Just a clean list of counters that sync via your own iCloud and stay out of your way. WHAT'S INSIDE • Unlimited counters with custom titles, icons, and colors • Daily streaks with current, longest, and total day counts • A calendar for recording today or filling in past streak days • Countdowns: track the days until a big date, with a day-of celebration • Interactive streak widgets for checking in without opening the app • Home Screen widgets that stay current, right through midnight, including a slim list widget that shows several counters at once • Categories to organize habits, home, family, health • Tap any counter to flip between total days and a years/months/days view • Share any milestone as a beautiful card to Messages, Instagram, and more • Send a milestone to a friend so they can add it to their own Tallyday • Automatic on-device backups you can restore anytime from Settings • Daily streak reminders that stop once you've checked in • Reliable milestone reminders on the cadence you choose: daily, weekly, monthly, annual, or every N days • Archive counters you're not tracking right now and bring them back anytime • Bottom search field with instant filtering • iCloud sync across your devices, no developer account needed • Import / export as JSON or CSV • Privacy-first: no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs LIQUID GLASS DESIGN Built ground-up for iOS 26. Translucent chips, glass cards, springy interactions. Beautiful in both light and dark mode. PRIVACY Your counters and categories live on your device and, optionally, your own iCloud. There are no accounts to create. There is no Tallyday server. There is no telemetry sent anywhere. Your data is yours. Requires iOS 26. Questions or feedback? Email tallyday@omarknows.app. Real replies, real fixes.

About

Focus Timer

Features
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Every session from now on is a step toward a more mindful life. Focus Timer is a simple way to see where your time actually goes. Make a handful of categories for anything you want to measure, good or bad: Work, Reading, Studying, Meditation… or Gaming and Scrolling, if you're up for it. Then start a timer with a default track and break time whenever you start one of them. That's the whole habit. After a few days the numbers start talking, and most people are surprised by what they hear. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a category, tap Start. • Pause when life gets in the way. Pauses are saved too, so your history stays honest. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Your day as a timeline, in each category's colour. Pinch to zoom in, all the way down to the minute. • Every past day and week is there too. • Filter by category to see just your Work, or just your Gaming. ON YOUR WRIST • The Apple Watch app runs sessions on its own. Turn off your iPhone, leave it in another room, and keep tracking from your wrist. • Start on your iPhone, pause on your Watch. They stay in sync. JUST TELL SIRI • "Start Work in Focus Timer." Any category works, no setup needed. • Pause, resume, stop, take a break, or ask for today's summary without touching a thing. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • Everything syncs between your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch through your own iCloud. • Export your whole history to CSV or SQL anytime, with a README that explains every column. Hand it to your spreadsheet, your analytics app or your AI and ask things like "Which hour of the day do I get the most tracked time, and is it different on weekends?" • Import it back whenever you like. • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. We never see your data. OUR PROMISE Create a handful of categories and keep tracking your sessions through the week. This one simple change will save you hours of your life, every week. We know from our testing that this works for most people, but certainly not everyone. If the experiment doesn't save you real time after a few days, please feel free to delete the app.

Screenshots

Tallyday3 screens
Focus Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Timer at none against Tallyday's 3. Focus Timer also leads on device support (4 vs 2). 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. Tallyday sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Focus Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tallyday versus Focus Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTallydayFocus Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOmarKnows LLCCododev Technology Inc.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tallyday

One-time3
  • A Little Thanks$1.99
  • A Big Thanks$4.99
  • An Amazing Thanks$9.99
None

Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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