OneTime vs Make Time for Yourself
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
OneTime
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OneTime is a time-tracking stopwatch for recording time and organizing your day. Start with one tap, and your records flow into a timeline, calendar, and stats. You can track study, work, exercise, reading, and daily activities. See how much you did each day and review weekly and monthly patterns. What you can do with OneTime โข Timeline See your activities in chronological order throughout the day. โข Calendar Review your records by date and check any day you want. โข Stats See how you spend your time with weekly and monthly patterns. โข Time tracking Use a stopwatch that tracks one activity at a time. โข Manual entries and edits Add missed time later, edit existing records, and leave notes. โข Automatic tracking by app Track time automatically based on selected apps. โข Routines and checklists Organize recurring items and manage date-based checklists. You can add items, reorder them, and carry unfinished items over to the next day. Missed a record? No problem. You can add or edit it later. OneTime is built not just for measuring time, but for reviewing and organizing your records. If you want time tracking, timeline, calendar, and stats in one app, OneTime fits. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Make Time for Yourself
This app offers a peaceful fishing-themed focus timer to help you concentrate. Set your session duration, choose from calming waterside scenes and ambient sounds, and collect interactive fish after each completed focus. Your progress is saved locally, and optional features like app blocking are available.
- Fishing-themed focus timer
- Ambient waterside scenes and sounds
- Interactive fish collection
- Focus session presets and custom steps
- Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
- Optional app and category blocking
- Focus history and daily totals
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A little focus. A little wonder. Open a book, choose one task and cast your line at a quiet waterside. Spend the next few minutes on what matters. When your session ends, discover a fish to add to your collection. Make Time for Yourself brings a cozy fishing ritual to your focus timer, with gently moving scenery, nature sounds and small discoveries worth returning for. FIND YOUR OWN PACE โข Set a session from 10 to 120 minutes: a 25-minute study block, a chapter of a book or time for deeper work. โข Choose a river or sea, daylight or sunset, and the sounds that suit your mood. โข Return to your last settings or prepare a waterside from a past session. โข Optionally block apps and categories during focus. You choose the permission and what to restrict. MAKE FOCUSED TIME TANGIBLE โข Discover 48 real-world fish and 16 fantasy fish in the base catalog. โข Revisit the waterside, companion and focused time behind your discoveries. โข See today's focused minutes and completed sessions, and keep your session history. TAKE YOUR FOCUS SOMEWHERE NEW Optional region packs bring four destinations to your waterside: Korea, Japan, Finland and Italy. โข Each region has eight scenes: spring, summer, autumn and winter, in daylight and at sunset. โข Seasonal outfits, changing scenery and regional ambience make each visit feel different. โข Discover four fish in each region: 16 regional species to collect. โข Choose a destination straight from Home, or find your next place in the Places tab. A LITTLE COMPANY The optional Waterside Guardians pack includes Noeul, Olive and Mongdol, time spent with your companions, Focus Sets, weekly and monthly reports, private share cards and Strict Lock. CHOOSE WHAT MAKES IT YOURS The timer, base watersides and nature sounds, base catalog, today's summary, session history and standard focus blocking are included without additional purchases. Region packs and Waterside Guardians are available as separate one-time purchases. All Waterside Pass includes every current feature and all future features and content released in this app, including new regions and Guardians. โข Monthly or annual subscription: full access while your subscription is active. โข Lifetime purchase: permanent access to all current and future features and content with one purchase. Your existing individual purchases remain yours. Discovered fish and session records stay with you even after a subscription ends. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple account. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscriptions are available in the app. Available in Korean and English on iPhone and iPad. Check remaining time with widgets and Live Activities. Some system features depend on your device and OS. Support: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/support Privacy Policy: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Make Time for Yourself at none against OneTime's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. OneTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Make Time for Yourself sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
OneTime ships an update weekly, Make Time for Yourself every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OneTime | Make Time for Yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Weekly โ better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 522 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UNCHAN BAEK | SnapWorks Lab |
In-app purchases
OneTime
- Launch Monthly$0.991 Month
- Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Token Bundle$0.99
- Lifetime$11.99
Make Time for Yourself
- Waterside Guardians$1.99
Questions
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