Calume vs Goal Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calume
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Calume — a time tracking app for people who treat time as a resource. Track every hour with a single tap. See your full day on one timeline. Get honest reports. Built for focus, designed with care. Calume requires a Calume Pro subscription for access. Start with a 7-day free trial; you can cancel anytime. Start a timer with one tap — stopwatch or countdown, your call. Every session lands on your day timeline the moment you stop, building a complete picture of how you spend your time. Plan your day with tasks, attach timers, and watch your schedule unfold in real time. Calume keeps your intentions and your reality side by side so you can see where time actually goes. Track any activity — work, focus, sleep, rest, reading, exercise, creative time, or anything else that matters to you. Assign colors to categories and your timeline becomes instantly readable at a glance. Weekly and monthly reports show hours per activity with clear, honest numbers. Set goals and see your progress day by day. No gamification, no streaks — just the data you need to make better decisions about your time. Calume syncs with Apple Health and your calendar to fill in context automatically. Privacy Policy: https://calume.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://calume.app/terms
Goal Timer
This app helps you track the actual time spent on your goals, focusing on hours accumulated rather than simple checkmarks. It provides visual progress, historical data, and insights into your time allocation. The core features are free and ad-free, with an optional Pro upgrade for advanced functionality.
- Track time in hours, not checkmarks
- Visual progress and compounding hours
- Timestamp-based timer for data safety
- One-time or recurring goal targets
- Activity heatmap and weekly charts
- Streak tracking with freeze option
- Focus sessions (Pro feature)
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Goal Timer is a warm, encouraging stopwatch for the time you put into what matters — measured in hours, not checkmarks. Habit apps ask "did you?" Goal Timer asks "how much?" A single tap starts the clock. Whenever you work toward a goal, start the timer and forget it's running — your hours quietly accumulate into visible, compounding progress. THE HOURS ADD UP Most tracking apps count streaks and checkmarks. Goal Timer counts the one thing that actually builds skills, fitness, and craft: time. See total hours tracked, your last 7 days, and how close you are to your target — with a live count-up and full per-period history. THREE TAPS TO VISIBLE PROGRESS 1. Name your goal, pick a colour, and — if you like — set a target. 2. Whenever you work on it, start the timer. 3. Watch the hours add up toward what matters. BUILT TO BE TRUSTWORTHY The timer is timestamp-based, so your time is safe even if the app closes, restarts, or your phone dies mid-session. Run several timers at once — deep work and a workout, together. An ongoing notification shows every running timer, and you can stop it right from the notification shade. ONE-TIME TOTALS OR RECURRING GOALS Accumulate hours toward a single lifetime target, or set a goal that resets each day or week. Every finished period is quietly filed into a history you can look back on, so your stats keep their full story. SEE WHERE YOUR HOURS GO Insights turn your sessions into a picture: a 26-week activity heatmap, weekly charts, your best day of the week, and time-of-day patterns — for a single goal or everything at once. Free, because seeing your effort is the whole point. KEEP THE STREAK GOING Show up and your streak grows — a day at a time, or a period at a time for recurring goals — with milestones at 3, 7, 14, 30 days and beyond. Miss a day? A streak freeze bridges it so one off day doesn't wipe weeks of consistency. FOCUS, ON PURPOSE Need to lock in? Start a Focus session — a countdown, Pomodoro cycles, or open-ended — with the screen kept awake and distractions out. Every minute still logs straight to the goal. (Pro) HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS Start, stop, and glance at your progress from a home-screen widget — no need to open the app to keep the hours honest. HONEST, EDITABLE HISTORY Forgot to stop a timer? Tap any past session to fix its length, date, and time. Log time after the fact. Close a finished goal and reopen it whenever you like. Your tracked hours stay accurate. EASY ON THE EYES A warm, considered palette with a beautiful dark mode across every screen and widget. No clutter, no guilt, no noise. FREE TO USE — NO ADS The full core loop is free and genuinely useful: track up to 3 goals, run a timer, and see your progress, history, insights, and streaks. No ads, ever, on any tier. GO PRO WHEN YOU'RE READY Goal Timer Pro unlocks scale and depth: • Unlimited goals — track everything, not just three • Focus Mode — distraction-free countdown, Pomodoro, or open-ended sessions • Multiple timers running at once — several goals in parallel • Edit & add time entries — keep your hours accurate • Export to CSV — your data, whenever you want it • Unlimited streak freezes — Free protects one off day a month; Pro freezes as many as you need WHO IT'S FOR Anyone giving real time to something that matters — deep work and side projects, language learning and practice, workouts and training, reading and study, meditation and creative craft. If it's worth your hours, it's worth tracking. Vague intention, made visible. Start giving your goals the time they deserve. The hours add up. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://goal-timer.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Goal Timer at every 6 days against Calume's fortnightly. Goal Timer also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Calume sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Goal Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Calume ships an update fortnightly, Goal Timer every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calume | Goal Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DANIEL HAVLAS | Vladyslav Nedodaiev |
In-app purchases
Calume
- Chronicle Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- Chronicle Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Chronicle Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
Goal Timer
- Goal Timer Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Goal Timer Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$14.991 Year









