Comparison

菌境 vs Sundial Time Marks

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

Head to head
About

菌境

Features
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每一次专注,都会长成一座独一无二的微观世界。 菌境是一款把专注计时与微生物培养结合在一起的效率 App。开始学习、工作、阅读或创作后,细胞会在屏幕上迁移、分裂,并逐渐形成不同的菌落。时间结束,这段投入会保存为一只培养皿,成为可以回看的成长痕迹。 【让时间真正生长】 每次专注都会使用新的培养参数。不同物种拥有不同的轮廓、分裂方式和群落行为;专注越久,眼前的微观世界就越丰富。你无需在过程中不断操作,只需把注意力留给正在做的事。 【自由而可靠的专注计时】 • 5 分钟至 5 小时,自由设置专注时长 • 支持暂停、继续和提前结束 • 严格模式:离开菌境时暂停计时 • 宽松模式:切换到其他界面后继续计时 • 实时活动显示当前专注状态 【隔离容易分心的内容】 经你授权后,可使用 Apple 的屏幕使用时间能力,选择专注期间需要屏蔽的 App、类别或网站。菌境只接收系统生成的选择令牌,不读取所选项目的名称或使用记录。专注结束后,限制会自动解除。 【给专注一层声音背景】 选择内置氛围音乐,或在菌境 Plus 中导入自己的本地音频。暂停专注时,声音也会随之暂停。 【把投入保存下来】 • 完成或中途结束的培养都可以留下记录 • 按学习、工作、阅读、创作等活动整理时间 • 在日、周、月、年视图中回看专注节律 • 生成培养记录和阶段报告,与朋友分享 【在培养中认识微生物】 收集多种细菌与真菌的知识档案,了解它们的典型形态、群落行为和研究故事。知识内容保留资料来源,让好奇心成为下一次专注的奖励。 【本地使用,也可选择同步】 不登录也能开始基础专注。使用 Apple 登录后,可以将培养档案同步到私有云端,并自行选择是否参与本周专注排行榜。 【菌境 Plus 与自动续期订阅】 基础专注功能可免费使用。菌境 Plus 提供深度年度复盘、更多活动屏蔽方案、本地音乐导入和进阶生长引擎等功能。 订阅信息 订阅标题:菌境 plus 会员 订阅时间:每月 价格:¥12/月 订阅时间:每年 价格:¥48/月 菌境 Plus 提供月度和年度自动续期订阅。确认购买后,费用将通过你的 Apple 账户支付。除非在当前订阅期结束前至少 24 小时关闭自动续期,否则订阅将自动续期;续订费用将在当前订阅期结束前 24 小时内按购买页面显示的价格收取。你可以在购买后前往 App Store 的账户订阅设置中管理或取消订阅。取消后,已开通的权益可继续使用至当前订阅期结束。已购买用户可以在菌境 Plus 页面恢复购买。 隐私政策:https://junjing.mijiu.ltd/privacy 使用条款:https://junjing.mijiu.ltd/terms 说明:菌群画面依据微生物的典型形态与行为进行二维视觉化设计,不代表真实实验培养结果,也不提供医疗诊断或健康建议。

About

Sundial Time Marks

Visualize your progress through natural cycles like days, weeks, years, and your lifetime with customizable widgets. See where you stand at a glance with visual marks representing past, present, and future. Your data remains private and synced across devices.

Highlights
  • Visualize time across natural cycles
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Lifetime progress visualization
  • Customizable styles and palettes
  • Private iCloud synchronization
  • Monthly year-progress notifications
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INSPIRATION The sundial is an ancient instrument for telling the time. It made invisible time visible. Nobody uses one anymore. Sundial sets out to do the same, in a way made for today: it draws time again with shapes, colours and progress. THE NAME The Chinese name, 岁时, comes from Jingchu Suishi Ji, written by Zong Lin in sixth-century China. The book follows the year from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve, and in its pages a year is not 365 identical days but a sequence of named stretches of time. The app does the same: it cuts continuous time into pieces and lays them out in front of you. The English name, Sundial, is that ancient instrument for telling the time. TIME YOU CAN SEE Every stretch of time is drawn as a row of marks: behind you in ink, right now in a single vermilion stroke, still ahead in light grey. No need to open the app. Glance at your Home Screen and you know where you stand. · Seven cycles: today, this week, this month, this quarter, this year, the lunar year and your lifetime · Countdown: from a start date to a target date, see what is left · Count up: from a date in the past, see how far you have come · Overview: today, this week, this month and this year side by side · Lifetime: enter your birthday and a life expectancy, and your life becomes a grid of marks, drawn exactly like your day. Where you are in the day and where you are in your life line up at a glance WHERE YOU LOOK EVERY DAY · Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large, plus extra large on iPad · Lock Screen widgets in circular and rectangular, so a countdown can sit right on your Lock Screen · Full iPad support in both orientations 29 STYLES, 57 PALETTES Bars, thin bars, capsules, stairs, dots, dot matrix, ring, tick ring, ink ring, hexagons, timeline, neon, and motifs from Chinese ink painting: pine, bamboo, plum, leaf, mountains, clover, moon phase and seal. From a single hairline to a small painting, all in the same paper and ink language. Palettes come in Universal, Chinese, Night, Material and Contrast, or build your own from any background and accent colour. Over twenty typefaces, and the figures follow them: stroke weight and line ends match the character of the font. FULL SCREEN AND SHARING Open any item for a full screen view: this year as 365 dots, one for each day, or this month as a calendar of dots. Share any of them as an image. YEAR PROGRESS ON THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH At 9 AM on the first of each month, a silent notification with a card of the year so far. Check this year's progress in Settings any time, share it, or turn the reminder off. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything is stored on your device and in your own private iCloud database. The developer never sees it and collects nothing. With iCloud sync on, switch phones or reinstall and your widgets are still there. Sync can be turned off at any time. FREE AND PRO The free version lets you create three widgets with the basic styles and every palette. Sundial Pro removes the limit and unlocks every style and iCloud sync, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

菌境4 screens
Sundial Time Marks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sundial Time Marks at 92% against 菌境's 50%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. 菌境 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Sundial Time Marks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

菌境 ships an update every 5 days, Sundial Time Marks every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
菌境 versus Sundial Time Marks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter菌境Sundial Time Marks
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer北京米酒科技有限责任公司婉 唐

Customer experience

菌境

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Sundial Time Marks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

菌境

Subscriptions2
  • 菌境 plus 月会员$1.991 Month
  • 菌境 plus 年会员7 Days trial$6.991 Year
3 purchases

Sundial Time Marks

Subscriptions2
  • Sundial Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Sundial Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sundial Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is 菌境 free?
菌境 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sundial Time Marks free?
Sundial Time Marks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 菌境 or Sundial Time Marks have ads?
Neither 菌境 nor Sundial Time Marks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 菌境 or Sundial Time Marks?
菌境 ships an update every 5 days, and Sundial Time Marks every 9 days. Most recently, 菌境 was updated on November 12, 2026 and Sundial Time Marks on October 31, 2026.

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