Timeline vs Vesper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timeline
This app combines scheduling, availability sharing, and booking into a private, device-first platform. Plan your day, week, and recurring routines with flexible notifications and a Home Screen widget. It prioritizes user privacy with optional syncing and offline functionality.
- Device-first and private planning
- Offline functionality
- App Lock with Face ID/PIN
- People and request management
- Calendar integration (.ics, Apple Calendars)
- Recurring events and multiple reminders
- Home Screen widget
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Timeline brings planning, availability sharing, and booking together in one private place. It syncs only when you choose to. Plan your day, your week, and your recurring routines in one calm view. Add Actions, Meetings, Events, and Reminders, then stay ahead with flexible notifications and a Home Screen widget that always shows what's next. DEVICE-FIRST & PRIVATE • Your events live on your device by default. No account is needed to get started. • Fully usable offline. Syncing is optional and only happens after you sign in. • App Lock opens Timeline with Face ID or a 4-digit PIN. PEOPLE & REQUESTS • Find people by name or @handle and keep the people you plan with close at hand. • Schedule a time with someone, or invite people to events by @handle and see who has accepted. • Request keeps what you've received, sent, and confirmed in one place. Accept, decline, or ask for a new time in a tap. • Share your Free Time only with the people you choose. You decide whether others can find you by name. CALENDARS THAT WORK TOGETHER • Import selected Apple Calendars and keep imported events refreshed. • When allowed, mirror edits or deletions of Apple-origin imported events back to Apple Calendar. • Subscribe to .ics feeds or import .ics files. PLAN WITH CONFIDENCE • Recurring events with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly patterns. • Multiple reminders per event, with per-event overrides. • Day, Week, and Month views built for quick scanning. Swipe between days and weeks. • Set an event's time zone, or let it follow you as you travel. • Follows your iPhone's text size and works with VoiceOver. • A Home Screen widget for your next event and the day ahead. OPTIONAL ACCOUNT FEATURES • Sign in for your public Signature page, booking page, and booking requests. Members can also sync their full calendar across devices and Timeline web. • Keep up to four Glass Workspace accounts on your iPhone, plus Local, and switch between them anytime. • See event weather for confirmed physical venues without sharing your device location. • Turn on Sealed Sync to encrypt supported titles, notes, and details on your device before they leave it. Timeline keeps planning simple, private, and entirely in your control. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glassworkspace.com/timeline/privacy
Vesper
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How did today feel? That's the only question Vesper ever asks. No streaks to protect. No scores to chase. No guilt for the days you miss. Vesper doesn’t gamify your feelings or compete for your attention, it asks once each evening, then gets out of your way. What’s left, over time, is an honest, quiet record of your life worth actually looking back on. WHAT VESPER DOES Every evening, Vesper asks how today felt: Good, Meh or Hard. Add a line if you want to remember why. Your answer becomes one colored dot on a simple monthly grid. Miss a day and nothing happens, no penalty, no broken chain to mourn. Vesper never judges your day. It just holds it. Tap any past day to see what you wrote. Once you’ve kept it up for six months, your memory trail unlocks: every note you’ve ever written, in one place, in your own words. VESPER PLUS For anyone who wants to see the bigger picture, Vesper Plus reveals patterns that only show up over time: • Side by Side, comparing recent months at a glance • Shape of Your Weeks, seeing which days tend to feel harder • Quietest & Fullest, the months that stood apart • Yearly Portrait, one full year, at a glance • On This Day, a quiet echo of what today looked like a month or a year ago Plus also includes: • iCloud sync, so your record follows you across every device • An Apple Watch app, for checking in from your wrist • A home screen widget, a glance at your month without opening the app • Curated themes: Chalk, Marigold, and Ink • Anytime check-in, if evenings aren't when your day actually ends Vesper Plus is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS With Vesper Plus, your record syncs privately through your own iCloud account. Nothing is shared, sold, or used to train anything. Some days are good. Some are hard. Most are somewhere in between. Vesper is a quiet place to keep track of all of them. For details on subscriptions and purchases, see Apple's Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Timeline at every 5 days against Vesper's every 6 weeks. Timeline also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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. Timeline sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month and Vesper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Timeline ships an update every 5 days, Vesper every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timeline | Vesper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marlowe Emrys LLC | Calvin Ng |
In-app purchases
Timeline
- Plus — Account 6$10.001 Month
- Plus — Account 7$10.001 Month
- Plus — Account 8$10.001 Month
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- Plus — Account 9$10.001 Month
- Plus — Account 10$10.001 Month
- Member — Account 6$25.001 Month
- Member — Account 7$25.001 Month
- Member — Account 8$25.001 Month
- Member — Account 9$25.001 Month
- Member — Account 10$25.001 Month
Vesper
- Vesper Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Vesper Plus Annual$14.991 Year
- Vesper Plus Lifetime$49.99









