Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker vs ThisDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker
This app offers a minimalist approach to time management, featuring focus timers, Pomodoro sessions, and detailed productivity reports. It helps users stay focused on tasks like studying and work by tracking time spent on projects and breaks, all without requiring an account.
- Standard focus timer
- Flow Sessions
- Classic Pomodoro timer
- Custom Pomodoro intervals
- Projects and categories
- Productivity insights
- TXT and Excel export
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Focus, your way. Flowtime is a flexible, friction-free focus timer and time tracker designed around a simple idea: starting should be easy, and your timer should adapt to how you focus. Start with one tap. Choose how you want to focus. Stay aware of passing time without constantly watching the clock. When you’re done, see where your time went and celebrate the milestones along the way. FOCUS WITHOUT RIGID RULES Not every task fits into a 25-minute timer. Use a simple timer, Pomodoro, Flowmodoro, or your own custom setup. Flowtime gives you structure when you want it without forcing every focus session into the same routine. STAY AWARE OF TIME Deep in a task and suddenly an hour has passed? Gentle reminders help you notice passing time without automatically ending your session. They’re useful for deep work, long creative sessions, hyperfocus, and time blindness. REDUCE DISTRACTIONS App Shielding helps keep distracting apps out of reach while you focus. When you deliberately choose to open one, Flowtime adds a moment of friction before you continue. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES Your sessions become a record of how you spend your focus time. Explore your history, filter your statistics, organise sessions into projects, and discover your own patterns. CELEBRATE YOUR PROGRESS Unlock achievements as you use Flowtime and reach new focus milestones. Achievements are designed to celebrate progress without turning focus into a streak you have to maintain. Share the achievements you’re proud of, or simply keep them for yourself. BUILT FOR LESS FRICTION • One-tap focus timer • Pomodoro and Flowmodoro • Custom timer setups • Time-awareness reminders • App Shielding • Projects • Session history • Focus statistics and filters • Shareable achievements • Light and dark themes • Custom accent colours USE IT YOUR WAY Flowtime can be a work timer, study timer, deep-work companion, time tracker, Pomodoro alternative, or simply a way to make passing time easier to notice. Its time-awareness tools can also be useful for experiences such as hyperfocus and ADHD time blindness, without defining how or why you use the app. No account. No complicated productivity system between you and what you want to do. Open Flowtime. Start. Focus your way. Terms of Use (EULA) Flowtime uses Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ThisDay
This app organizes your day by placing all tasks, notes, voice memos, events, and habits onto a real calendar date. It integrates with Apple Health for habit tracking and syncs with Apple Reminders, ensuring nothing gets buried and everything is accessible.
- Tasks, notes, voice memos, events, and habits on real dates
- Habit tracking integrated with Apple Health
- Syncs with Apple Reminders
- Unfinished tasks roll over to the next day
- Quick capture and day bar for easy access
- Widgets and Live Activities support
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Not someday. ThisDay. Most planners hand you a backlog. ThisDay hands you a day. Every task, note, voice memo, event and habit lands on a real date; not in a someday pile you scroll past for months. Open the app and there is one thing in front of you: today, in the order it happens. ONE DAY, EVERY KIND OF THING Tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits share one list, because they share one day. A habit at 10:00 sits between the 9:00 task and the 11:00 meeting, where it belongs. Same row, same swipe, same checkbox, whatever kind of thing it is. Your own calendars appear inline too, at the hour they happen, so a morning with a meeting in it never looks free. EVERYTHING CAN REMIND YOU Record a voice memo and put a reminder on it. Write a note and have it find you at 6pm. Your phone can already take a voice memo, it just can't tell you about it later. ThisDay can. HABITS THAT TICK THEMSELVES Point a habit at Apple Health and stop reporting on yourself. Steps, exercise minutes, active energy, sleep, the Watch's three rings, and workouts from running to yoga. Set the number you're aiming at; ThisDay watches for it and fills the ring as your day fills it. ThisDay only reads Health, never writes to it, and only the measurement each habit names. Nothing leaves your device. And a habit is never marked done because a sensor said so and you disagreed. No reading is ever "done"; if your watch was on the charger, the tick is still yours to make. Your tick always wins. APPLE REMINDERS, BOTH WAYS The Reminders lists you choose show up in your day, next to everything else, read-only: ThisDay never edits somebody else's row. And when you ask for it, the other direction. Tasks you make here are written back out as reminders, so they reach Siri, a Mac that doesn't run ThisDay, and anyone you share a list with. Switching it off takes the copies back out. NOTHING GETS BURIED Unfinished work follows you to today instead of quietly aging on a date you've already passed. Completed things can leave the list or stay in a folded section, your call. ONE RULER, FROM A DAY TO THE YEAR Slide the ruler at the top of your day out to a few days, the week, the month or the whole year, and tap any day to come back into it. The + is always one thumb away. ALSO IN HERE • Quick capture for every kind of item • Reminders, repeats and rollover • Categories, priorities and links • SiriAI: ask about your plans, answered on your device (Apple Intelligence) • A Library for notes, voice notes, pictures, places and countdowns • An inbox for anything without a day yet • Monthly recaps and medals you can share • Widgets, Live Activities and an Apple Watch app • Shortcuts and Siri • Twelve languages, every screen in each one • Light and dark, and an accent you choose • Your day on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac BUILT BY ONE PERSON There is no account and no sign-up, because there is no server to sign up to. No analytics, no tracking, and nothing sold to anyone; your day never leaves your device. Something broken or missing? Write to hello@akilastudio.com and you'll get a reply from the person who made it. FREE FOR TASKS, ONE PRICE FOR THE REST ThisDay is free for 21 days with everything included; no card up front and nothing to cancel. After that, tasks and repeats stay free for good. ThisDay Pro opens everything else with one payment. No subscription, no renewal. ThisDay is on the Mac too, in this same App Store listing, with its own one-time unlock. If you bought ThisDay on iPhone, the Mac costs less.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: ThisDay at free against Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker's freemium. ThisDay also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ThisDay sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker against 5.0 for ThisDay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker ships an update weekly, ThisDay every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker | ThisDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ava Thalheim | Agustin Dell Aquila |
Customer experience
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker
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In-app purchases
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker
- Flowtime Monthly Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Flowtime Yearly Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Flowtime Founders Lifetime$59.99
ThisDay
- Coffee tip$2.99
- Lunch tip$9.99
- ThisDay$14.99
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- Dinner tip$19.99
- ThisDay Pro (Mac)$34.99
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