Comparison

Routine Timer vs Questly

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

Head to head
About

Routine Timer

Features
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Big friendly timers. One step at a time. No pressure. Routine Timer turns any routine — morning, homework, cleanup, bedtime — into a sequence of visual steps. Each step gets a full-screen timer with a big color ring, and a gentle tap tells you when to move on. MADE FOR REAL LIFE • Build routines from steps: icon + duration, nothing to overthink • One giant full-screen timer per step — impossible to lose track • Haptic nudge on every transition • Pause, skip, or restart any step — no streaks, no guilt, no failure stats PERFECT FOR • Morning and bedtime routines • Homework and focus sprints • Kids getting ready for school • Cleanup bursts and chore blocks PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no analytics, no ads. SIMPLE PRICING Your first routine is free — full featured, forever. One purchase unlocks unlimited routines. No subscription.

About

Questly

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Your to-do list, played like a tabletop RPG. Finish a task, roll the dice, and the total becomes credits you spend on rewards you wrote yourself. Suddenly "reply to emails" is worth a proper coffee. HOW THE DICE WORK • Give each quest a complexity: d4 for trivial, d20 for legendary • Finish it and Questly rolls that die — the total is your credits • Log focus sessions on a quest first and you roll extra dice, up to six • Land the same face on every die and a jackpot multiplies the payout A SHOP YOU STOCK YOURSELF Rewards are yours to invent. "A lazy Sunday morning", "that game on my wishlist", "a proper coffee" — set a price in credits and cash it in once you've earned it. Feeling reckless? Spend on a mystery box or a lucky draw instead. Credits are only ever earned by finishing quests and checking in on habits: they cannot be bought, and nothing in Questly costs real money except the subscription described below. HABITS AND STREAKS Any repeating event can become a habit. Check in on the days you planned to roll for credits, and every consecutive check-in nudges your chance of a bonus die a little higher. Miss a day and the streak resets — unless you are holding a rest token, which is spent automatically to cover the gap. A FOCUS TIMER THAT PAYS OFF Focus blocks queue the next one up for you, with a long break every fourth round, so you just tap start. Every session logged against a quest grows the die you will roll when you finish it. On Apple Watch the timer is one full-screen dial: tap it to start or pause, hold it to stop, and turn the Digital Crown to switch quests. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN One widget in five sizes for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen: your credit balance, today's progress, and your best streak. A Live Activity keeps the focus countdown on the Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island on supported iPhone models. ALSO INSIDE • Calendar and planner with reminders • Adventure log, 12 achievements, and a focus heatmap • Seven dice skins, six of them unlocked with credits • iCloud sync across your iPhones • English, 简体中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Français, Español PRIVACY No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your quests live on your device and in your own iCloud. FREE FOR YOUR FIRST MONTH Try everything free for 30 days from the day you open Questly. After that, Questly Monthly keeps the app unlocked. • Length: 1 month, renewing automatically • Price: US$0.99 per month in the United States. Prices vary by country or region, and your local price is shown in the app and on this App Store page before you confirm. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before that point • Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings Privacy Policy: https://realmyang.com/Questly/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Routine Timer2 screens
Questly4 screens

Verdict

The call

Routine Timer and Questly are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Routine Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Questly sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Routine Timer versus Questly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoutine TimerQuestly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerihor Romanenko明昊 阳

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Routine Timer

One-time1
  • Unlock Forever$12.99
1 purchases

Questly

Subscriptions1
  • Questly Monthly$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Routine Timer free?
Routine Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Questly free?
Questly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Routine Timer or Questly have ads?
Neither Routine Timer nor Questly shows ads.

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