Comparison

codetime.dev vs Aura

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

Head to head
About

codetime.dev

Features
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Code Time turns the time you spend in your editor into clear charts and totals. See your day at a glance: total coding hours, your most productive time of day, which languages you used, and which projects you worked on. Look back: 7-day, 30-day, 90-day, and yearly trends. Compare days. See your active streak. Track AI: if you use Claude Code, Cursor, or other AI assistants, Code Time pulls in token usage, sessions, tool calls, and AI-assisted code changes — so you can see how much your work is actually augmented by AI. Home screen widgets: Today's coding time, this year's activity heatmap, top languages, and recent AI usage — all updating throughout the day. Sources: Code Time tracks via official editor plugins for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, plus an agent CLI for terminal-based AI assistants. The mobile app is a read-only companion to your dashboard at codetime.dev. Privacy: We only store anonymized telemetry — coding times, project names, and language breakdowns. We never read your code. Full details at codetime.dev/privacy. Free to use. Sign in with Apple, Google, or GitHub.

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Aura

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Every app on your iPhone quietly talks to advertising and analytics servers. Aura ends those conversations at the DNS layer — before a single byte ever leaves your phone. No tunnel. No account. No browsing history, because there is none to keep. HOW IT WORKS Aura saves an encrypted DNS profile to your iPhone. From then on, every domain your apps look up is resolved over an encrypted connection — and the ones belonging to trackers, ad networks, telemetry endpoints and known malicious hosts are simply never answered. The request is not slowed down or rerouted. It never happens. WHAT YOU GET • System-wide blocking — every app and every browser, not only Safari • Encrypted DNS over HTTPS, so cafés, hotels and mobile carriers can no longer read which sites you open • A live activity log — the exact domain each app asked for, and whether Aura stopped it • Honest numbers — threats blocked today, and the megabytes you never had to download • One tap to pause — switch the shield off on this iPhone without touching your other devices • No speed cost and no battery cost, because there is no tunnel to keep alive SET UP IN UNDER A MINUTE 1. Tap Set Up Protection. Aura writes its DNS profile to your iPhone. 2. Follow six illustrated steps to pick Aura in iOS Settings. 3. Come back. The shield runs a live test lookup and turns itself on. PRIVACY THAT IS STRUCTURAL, NOT PROMISED There is no account to create, no email to hand over, nothing to sign in to. Your lookups are answered and discarded. The activity log is built on your iPhone and never leaves it. We cannot sell, leak or be compelled to hand over records we never kept. WHAT AURA IS NOT Aura is not a VPN. It does not tunnel or reroute your traffic — it changes which resolver answers your lookups, which is exactly why it costs you nothing in speed or battery. It cannot remove ads that a service delivers from its own domain, and it does not hide your IP address. AURA PRO • Weekly — with a free trial • Annual — the best value per week The exact price in your local currency is shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://b4udie.github.io/aura-legal/terms-of-service.html Privacy Policy: https://b4udie.github.io/aura-legal/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

codetime.dev4 screens
Aura4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: codetime.dev at 4 against Aura's 1. codetime.dev also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

codetime.dev ships an update every 4 days, Aura every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
codetime.dev versus Aura: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametercodetime.devAura
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer建琦 潘Valentyn Bratkevych

In-app purchases

None

codetime.dev

No in-app purchases

None

Aura

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is codetime.dev free?
codetime.dev is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aura free?
Aura is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do codetime.dev or Aura have ads?
Neither codetime.dev nor Aura shows ads.
Which is updated more often, codetime.dev or Aura?
codetime.dev ships an update every 4 days, and Aura every 3 days. Most recently, codetime.dev was updated on November 10, 2026 and Aura on November 10, 2026.

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