Comparison

Datum vs Track Anything Journal

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

Head to head
About

Datum

This app allows you to track virtually anything, from daily habits to specific metrics, with customizable input methods and data visualization. It prioritizes user privacy by keeping all data on your device and offers extensive personalization options.

Highlights
  • Track anything with custom units
  • Multiple input styles (stepper, tally, dial)
  • Bundle trackers into check-ins
  • Pre-made check-in templates
  • Customizable dashboard and charts
  • Attach photos, voice notes, and text
  • Integrates with Siri and Shortcuts
Features
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The tracker that doesn't track you. You're probably already tracking things: gas mileage in a ratty old notebook in your glovebox, a Note called "plant watering," your memory for the headaches. Plus a folder of single-purpose apps that each demanded an account. Coffee. Mileage. Mood. Spending. Baby feedings. Practice hours. Pain levels. Sleep. Pull-ups. The sourdough starter. TRACK ANYTHING Create a tracker for anything in seconds. Pick its unit (miles, dollars, cups, °F, percent, or one you invent) and log with the capture style that fits: a stepper, a tally pad, a dial you spin. Yes/no habits, ratings, colors, and short notes work too. CHECK IN, DON'T FILL OUT Bundle trackers into check-ins (a morning check-in, a workout, a refuel) and log them all in one pass, with the note, photo, and weather attached to the moment. START FROM THE LIBRARY Browse ready-made check-ins (Rise & Shine, Refuel, Baby Log, Plant Care) and make them yours. Everything in the Library is free. SEE WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Trends, streaks, comparisons, distributions, heatmaps. Honest charts that never exaggerate your data, on a dashboard you arrange yourself. Scrub any chart with a finger. Every chart speaks VoiceOver. Share any view as an image. MAKE IT YOURS Dye the whole app your color: any tint, any backdrop, light or dark, not just an accent on a button. Charts, heatmaps, every screen wears your theme. Even our logo will, if you let it. Save your looks as presets. Your Datum won't look like anyone else's. MORE THAN NUMBERS Attach photos, voice notes, and text. Let a tracker capture location, weather, or your calendar automatically, only where you say so. PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS Log by voice with Siri or wire Datum into your Shortcuts. Send a photo, a link, or text from any app straight into an entry with the share sheet. Import years of spreadsheet history from CSV. Share a check-in as a small file a friend can open in their own Datum, trackers included. YOURS. ACTUALLY YOURS. No account. No sign-up. No server of ours holding your life. Your data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud, syncing across your iPhone and iPad. We couldn't read it even if we wanted to. Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you like. It's your data; leaving is easy, so we make staying worth it. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS Datum is free for up to 10 trackers and check-ins. Unlock unlimited forever with a single purchase. Nothing renews. Nothing is rented. Founding pricing is available through December 1, 2026. The price only goes up from here. Track anything. Keep it yours.

About

Track Anything Journal

Features
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Track Anything is a custom tracker you build yourself: you name the thing, choose the fields, and set the rhythm. A habit. Hours of sleep. A mood record for Thursday's appointment. A reading log, a page count, a plant. Then your projects, tasks and goals live in the same day. Build the tracker each thing needs A tracker is a small form you design in three steps. Seven field types: Number, Text, Rating, Yes / no, Choice, Multiple choice, Date. Number fields take a unit; number and rating fields take a range, an increment, a direction that counts as progress, and a success target. Start from Build my own, one of three ready-made setups (Sleep notes, Plant journal, Reading nook), or a copy of a tracker you already keep. Rhythms, not rules Every day, some days, monthly or annual, at an interval like every two weeks, with an end date if the thing has one. Streaks count only the days you asked for, so a Tuesday off never breaks a Monday, Wednesday, Friday run, and a today that is still open does not end it. One capture a day, or as many as the day holds if you set the tracker to Event mode. Capture in one screen Quick capture opens from the tracker card with the fields you marked required. Repeat last capture and Use safe defaults fill it in when today looks like yesterday. A capture you make is undoable, and the confirmation says whether it reached the server or is waiting on this device. Catch up missed days closes a gap in one pass. Look back without flattery Summary, Trends and Entries across 35 days, 90 days, 6 months, a year or all time, and Trends compares a period with the one before. Sparklines you can drag to read a single day, your target marked behind the line, and real date spacing, so gaps look like gaps. A dot calendar you page back month by month; tap a day to fill it in. The share of due days you kept. Possible relationships puts two numeric fields side by side and says how closely they moved together, never that one caused the other. Export a tracker as a CSV report, or paste a CSV in and older history comes too. The rest of the day Today opens on a swipeable week strip, the day grouped into Morning, Anytime, Afternoon and Evening. Home gathers what is still due, plus the habits you keep with a tap; Inbox holds the undated, Late what slipped, Upcoming what has not arrived. Projects carry tasks, progress drawn from those tasks, and a drag-and-drop board whose stages you rename, reorder and remove. Tasks, events, meetings, milestones and goals sit in the same days as the trackers, and a repeating one can be edited for a single day or the whole series. Swipe to complete or delete, undo either, and search reaches everything. Yours, and portable Captures made without a signal wait in an outbox and upload themselves later, each with an id, so nothing is written twice. When a change collides with the server, the Sync centre shows your version beside the server copy and you decide. The local cache is encrypted on the device, App lock puts Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode in front of everything, and reminders are local. Two-factor sign-in with recovery codes, sign out everywhere, a full JSON export, and account deletion that takes the data with it. Sharing, if you want it Choose a friend, then choose what they may see; sharing is read-only, and nothing is shared until both people confirm. A tracker you share exposes its setup, never its captures, and a template you send arrives with an empty history. Blocking is available from any friend or request. Light and dark follow the system, the week starts where you say, the clock reads 12 or 24 hours. Text is contrast-checked and layouts grow with the system font, on iPhone and iPad. An account keeps your history with you rather than with one phone, and opens in a browser at trackanything.cloud too. One tap loads sample data if you would rather look around first. Privacy policy: https://trackanything.cloud/privacy Support: https://trackanything.cloud/support

Screenshots

Datum4 screens
Track Anything Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Track Anything Journal at none against Datum's 7. Track Anything Journal also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Datum's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Datum sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Track Anything Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Datum ships an update every 2 days, Track Anything Journal monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Datum versus Track Anything Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDatumTrack Anything Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEKPQA, LLCJulia Afonso

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Datum

One-time7
  • Calculated Fields$7.99
  • Attachments$7.99
  • Automations$7.99
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  • Unlimited Trackers$7.99
  • Connected Trackers$7.99
  • Datum Pro$19.99
  • Early Adopter$49.99
None

Track Anything Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Datum free?
Datum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Track Anything Journal free?
Track Anything Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Datum or Track Anything Journal have ads?
Neither Datum nor Track Anything Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Datum or Track Anything Journal?
Datum ships an update every 2 days, and Track Anything Journal monthly. Most recently, Datum was updated on October 2, 2026 and Track Anything Journal on October 12, 2026.

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