Comparison

Halff vs Hourally

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

Head to head
About

Halff

This app helps you track how you spend your time by prompting you every 30 minutes to categorize your activities as valuable or a waste. It provides daily, weekly, and monthly reports to visualize your time usage and identify trends.

Highlights
  • Categorize half-hour time slots
  • Customizable value/waste categories
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly reports
  • Reminder window customization
  • Sync with web and Mac dashboard
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Halff is the honest audit of your day. Your day is 48 half hours. Every 30 minutes, Halff asks what you just did. One tap: it paid you back, or it cost you. No timer to start, nothing to stop. By evening you know where your hours went: a score out of 100, your productive hours, your wasted hours, and what ate your day. WHAT YOU GET • A reminder every 30 minutes, only between the two hours you choose. Never at night. • One tap to score, with your own categories: deep work, content, prospecting, meetings, sport, sleep, and the ones that cost you. • A daily score out of 100, built from four parts: value ratio, volume, completion, streak. • The streak: one scored half hour a day keeps it going. • Your last 30 days, your week and your month, your typical day, your focus blocks, your records. • 18 widgets, three of them on the lock screen. • Sleep read automatically from Apple Health. • Halff for Mac: a light under the notch that asks every half hour. Same account, always in sync. • A discipline report every 30 days. Halff doesn't block anything. It shows you the truth of your day, half hour by half hour. That's enough to change it. Free trial available. Subscription billed through your Apple account, cancel anytime in your settings. Terms: https://halff.io/cgu.html Privacy: https://halff.io/confidentialite.html

About

Hourally

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Hourally is the simple way to get your hours back. Pick your hourly limit: 1, 3, 5, 10 or 12 minutes. Pick the apps that pull you away. Your blocks reset every hour, right on the hour. When time's up, a classic quote pulls you back. No daily budget to blow by lunch. Just a few minutes, every hour, so you can check in and get back to your life. A TIME FOR EACH APP Give every app its own time. Your apps, your minutes, and it all resets every hour. Apps you don't change keep your usual time. Included with Hourally Plus. WHY WE MADE HOURALLY The apps we love, like social media, news and entertainment, aren't the problem. It's how much time they quietly take, while the things that matter most keep waiting: family, relationships, the workout plan you've been wanting to start, the business idea you've had on the back burner, the garage you've been meaning to clean. We live so much on our phones. It's time to get our hours back! So we made Hourally simple, with no thinking involved. No graphs, no extras. Just a set amount of time for your apps that resets every hour, so you can get back to what's important. A NOTE FROM THE CREATOR I've always found quotes motivating. With so many things fighting for our attention, a simple quote can reel us back in. A few words can give you strength, peace, a hard lesson, or real understanding. That's why every time an app's time is up, Hourally shows you one. CLOSED TILL MIDNIGHT Done for the day? One tap locks every app you chose until midnight. No undo, no excuses. At 12:00 AM your apps open back up with your regular hourly minutes. Included with Hourally Plus. SCHEDULE Put your apps on a schedule. Pick the hours Hourally is off, the same every day or different by day, and your hourly limits run the rest of the time. Included with Hourally Plus. HOUR KEY Sometimes an app really has to open. Once an hour, use your Hour Key on a locked app's screen to open it for 5 more minutes. With Hourally Plus, you get 2 keys every hour. HOURALLY PLUS Give every app its own time, set your way. Plus also lets you pick up to 20 apps, put them on a schedule and use 2 Hour Keys every hour, and adds Closed Till Midnight. Hourally is free for 2 apps. Choose yearly, with a 3-day free trial, or weekly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase, or when the free trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hourally.com/privacy.html Bring life back.

Screenshots

Halff4 screens
Hourally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Halff at none against Hourally's 7. Halff also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hourally's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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. Hourally sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Halff asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halff ships an update every 5 days, Hourally daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Halff versus Hourally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalffHourally
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUGO STEFANO DI SARIO MULLERNathaniel Cowan

Customer experience

Halff

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hourally

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Halff

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Hourally

Subscriptions5
  • Hourally Plus (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • Hourally Plus (Weekly)2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Hourally Plus (Yearly)$24.991 Year
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  • Hourally Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Hourally Plus (Yearly)3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Hourally Plus (Lifetime)$69.99

Questions

Is Halff free?
Halff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hourally free?
Hourally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Halff or Hourally have ads?
Hourally shows ads; Halff does not.
Which is updated more often, Halff or Hourally?
Halff ships an update every 5 days, and Hourally daily. Most recently, Halff was updated on October 11, 2026 and Hourally on October 24, 2026.

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