Kiseki vs Jeolmi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kiseki
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Track your study or work time with a single tap. At the end of the day, your record becomes a "Kou Card" — a single illustrated page of that day. The 72 Kou are the Japanese microseasons that divide the year into 72 five-day periods. Kiseki ties the hours you put in to the season you spent them in. That is why it keeps being opened, unlike apps that only show you a graph. 【Who it's for】 • Track study hours and feel the progress add up • Manage exam or certification study time by subject • Look back on the hours you spent in deep focus • You have tried tracking apps before and stopped 【Features】 • Track study and work time with a simple timer • Organize by subject or category • Analyze trends with statistics & graphs • Save each day as a Kou Card • Siri Shortcuts support 【What is a Kou Card?】 Each day's work, hours, weather, and location are captured in a single beautiful card — your daily footprints become a timeless collection. 【Premium Features】 • Ad-free experience • Unlimited statistics period • Unlimited categories • Unlimited manual entries • No editing restrictions Start with 30 minutes today. The hours you gather become a trail through the seasons.
Jeolmi
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Jeolmi is a focus timer and to-do list with a small paper seal that copies whatever you write. Type "read chapter 4" and the seal picks up a book. Type "pay rent" and it brings a wallet (empty, it apologizes). Tap start, lock your phone, and the seal is on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, holding the prop next to your task while the timer runs. Every real 25 minutes of focus inks one grape on today's bunch. Checked-off tasks add grapes too, drawn dotted so you can tell them apart. Fill the day's grape slots and the seal sits up and claps. Once a day. What the seal does · Copies your task with a paper prop, live as you type. There are 32 props to find, and the ones you find stay on your prop shelf. · Stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you focus. Done, Pause and +5 work without opening the app. · Says one dry line per state. It never coaches and never guilts. · Wears what you give it: outfits, body colors, a four-slot desk. Outfits, desk items and two of the body colors cost Jelly, which you earn by focusing and finishing tasks. Nothing is random. · Goes for a swim once today's grapes are filled and comes back with one line. If you take a few days off, it folds you a paper crane. It never counts the days you missed. Everything below is free · Timer: count up with no cap, a 25-minute countdown, or any length from 5 to 240 minutes. Keeps running if the app is closed · Tasks: tap to check one off, or make it timed and see today's minutes on it. Today, tomorrow, weekday routines, subjects with colors · D-day: finals, SAT, ACT, custom dates, D+ after the day · Widgets: Home Screen and Lock Screen, with today's tasks, grapes and your D-day. Check tasks off right on the widget · Live Activity with the seal and your task, also in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one · Stats: a month of grapes, hours per subject, days showed up, lifetime hours Share, if you want A card of today's grapes, a mirror card with your task and the prop, a transparent sticker of your seal for notes apps and Stories, and a three-second clip of the flop or the clap. Nothing is posted anywhere by itself. Quiet by design One note a day at most, in the seal's voice, at a time you pick (8 p.m. unless you change it). A heads-up when a countdown ends. Quiet Mode is one tap. Days showed up are counted, never used against you: two freezes refill on their own, and no message ever says something is at risk. Stays on your phone Everything stays on your phone. There is no sign-up and no email, and your tasks and records never leave the device unless you share a card yourself. The app sends only anonymous usage statistics, never what you write, to help improve it. Your records are part of your iPhone's own backup (iCloud Backup or a computer backup), so restoring or moving to a new iPhone brings them along. In English, Korean and Japanese: it follows your iPhone, and you can switch any time in Settings → Language. Jeolmi is a spotted seal pup named after injeolmi, the Korean rice cake it resembles. It insists it is a seal, not a sea lion. This matters to it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jeolmi at none against Kiseki's 1. Jeolmi also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Kiseki's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Kiseki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jeolmi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kiseki ships an update fortnightly, Jeolmi weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kiseki | Jeolmi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kozuma shun | Jaewook Jung |
In-app purchases
Kiseki
- プレミアム(広告非表示)$3.99
Jeolmi
No in-app purchases









