Comparison

ro vs Time Console

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

Head to head
About

ro

Transform your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and aesthetically pleasing environment. This app offers expertly designed layouts and a toolkit of 9 widgets to support your focus and reduce distractions.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen design
  • Customizable app launchers
  • Text-only widgets
  • Minimal dashboards
  • Weather summaries
  • Quote widgets
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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In Danish, "ro" means calm, peace, and tranquility. Your phone should be a tool that supports your focus. ro transforms your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and beautifully aesthetic environment. EFFORTLESS HARMONY ro does the design work for you. Personalize your apps, tint colors, and custom text, while the foundational layouts remain expertly proportioned. This guarantees that your home screen will always look perfectly balanced and distraction-free. 9 CRAFTED WIDGETS Explore a focused toolkit of 9 widgets, including text-only app launchers, minimal dashboards, weather summaries, and subtle quotes. COMMUNITY DRIVEN ro is an evolving, independent project. Join our Discord community to share feedback, request new widgets, and help shape the app's future. PRIVACY FIRST What happens on your home screen stays on your device. ro collects no personal data, uses no analytics trackers, and reads your calendar strictly on-device.

About

Time Console

Features
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BOOT SEQUENCE COMPLETE. Time Console is a personal time terminal: sharp countdowns for the milestones that matter, with true CRT console aesthetics. Not another pastel day-counter. A minimalist temporal panel — pixel type, prompts, and real skins, with no visual noise. CHOOSE YOUR TERMINAL • CRT Green — classic green phosphor • Amber — vintage monitor amber • White Phosphor — cold tube white • DOS Blue — console blue screen • CGA — cyan and magenta of old PCs • 8-Bit — 8-bit machine look • C64 — Commodore violet • Pocket — pocket LCD green • E-Ink — monochrome electronic ink Each theme changes colors, contrast, and the app icon. Time reads differently on every console. COUNTDOWNS THAT MATTER Create countdowns to birthdays, trips, weddings, vacations, anniversaries, deadlines, and goals. See how many days remain — or how many have passed — in a clear, minimalist list. Set yearly recurring events and the countdown returns on its own every year: a birthday, an anniversary, a date you don’t want to miss. ALWAYS IN SIGHT Add Home Screen widgets and keep the next countdown visible without opening the app. Export to your calendar anytime. Sync across your devices privately: your milestones stay with you. Perfect if you like retro, minimal, and personal. Initialize your terminal and start counting.

Screenshots

ro3 screens
Time Console4 screens

Verdict

The call

ro and Time Console are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. ro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Time Console sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ro versus Time Console: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterroTime Console
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilip SmalecDavid Llado

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ro

One-time1
  • Full Collection$2.99
1 purchases

Time Console

One-time1
  • Time Console Pro$4.99

Questions

Is ro free?
ro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Console free?
Time Console is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ro or Time Console have ads?
Neither ro nor Time Console shows ads.

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