Comparison

Opening Bell vs Hourtle

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

Head to head
About

Opening Bell

This app gamifies habit tracking by treating habits like stocks. Log your activities to increase their 'price,' and review your weekly performance with market-style earnings reports. It offers unique comeback bonuses and trading halts for missed habits.

Highlights
  • Habits as stock tickers
  • Price increases with logging
  • Weekly earnings reports
  • Comeback bonuses
  • Trading halts for misses
  • Customizable guidance
  • Social exchanges
Features
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Your habits trade like stocks. Log one and the price rises, miss it and it falls, and every Sunday the market posts earnings on your week. Most habit trackers give you a streak and take it away. This one gives you a price, and it pays most for coming back. HOW IT WORKS 1. List your habits as tickers. $GYM, $ZZZ, $BOOK, or your own. Each one opens at $10. 2. Log them as you go. A logged day lifts the price, a missed day takes 0.5% at the close. 3. Sunday, the market posts earnings. Your week is scored against the guidance you set, ticker by ticker. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Comebacks pay double. After two misses, your next session moves the price twice as far. • Three misses in a row halts the ticker until Monday. Not a guilt trip, a trading halt, with a screen that asks what got in the way. • Arm a circuit breaker and a third miss holds the price instead of halting it, so the week keeps trading. • Guidance is a promise you make to yourself, not a target the app picks. Beat it, meet it, or miss it. THE EARNINGS CALL Every week closes with a call. Put your own call on the record before the numbers print, read the print ticker by ticker, take the desk's questions, and set guidance for next week. It plays as a pixel-art trading floor, or as plain type if you prefer. Your answers stay on your device. THE TAPE • One index for your whole fund, weighted the way you set. • A page for every habit: the tape as a line or as candles, a rating from this week's numbers, and your streaks. • An archive of past calls. • A home screen widget with your price, today's move and the tape. • Light and dark, following your system or held either way. SHAREHOLDERS AND EXCHANGES • Send a link and a friend becomes a shareholder. They see your fund and the listings you leave open. Mark a listing private and it never leaves your book. • Open an exchange: a group of funds quoted as one index. The group chat, with a price on it. Joining is free for everyone. • The Street shows how everyone holding a habit is doing, in aggregate only, and only once ten or more people hold it. Opt out in Settings. • Block or report anyone. Blocking is silent. YOUR ACCOUNT • No sign-up to start. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your fund and carry it to a new phone. • Export your data any time. Delete your account and history from Settings. • No ads, ever. OPENING BELL PLUS The free plan tracks 5 habits, opens the last 12 weeks of calls, gets 1 circuit breaker a month, and creates 1 exchange. Plus is optional and adds: • Up to 30 habits • Every week in the archive • Circuit breakers without a monthly cap • Up to 10 exchanges you create • The Lock Screen ticker: a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and the medium home screen widget • Your statement as a CSV export • Trading floor palettes: Terminal, Paper and Blue chip, light or dark • An analyst note written by AI each week, only if you allow it Plus is $2.99 a month, or $19.99 a year with a 7-day free trial. Prices are in US dollars and vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings, Opening Bell Plus, Manage subscription, or in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fredfermin02.github.io/openingbell-legal/privacy/ Prices in Opening Bell are a score computed from your own check-ins. There is no real money, no real trading, and no brokerage. Opening Bell does not give investment advice.

About

Hourtle

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How much of your day is actually yours? Once you take out sleep, work and chores, it's often less than you think. Hourtle shows you the number, then helps you use it. You tell it when you sleep, work and do chores. It works out what's left, and you give that time a name: Guitar, Reading, Running, whatever you keep meaning to get to. Start a timer and a little tortoise walks across a meadow while you work. Stop, and it stops too. Most time apps want you to plan every minute. Hourtle doesn’t. It just tells you how much time you have for the thing you care about, and gives you a gentle push to actually spend it. What's in it: - Plans for weekdays, weekends, or a one-off day - Timers for your own time, chores and everything else, or log the time afterwards - App blocking while a timer runs, with an optional wait before you can pause - A streak for every day you spend at least 30 minutes on what matters, plus trophies along the way - Widgets and a Live Activity, so your timer is on your Home Screen and Lock Screen - Turtle facts when you tap the tortoise (there are a lot of them) - Optional sign in with Apple to back up your plans and streak Terms of Use: https://hourtle.com/terms

Screenshots

Opening Bell4 screens
Hourtle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Opening Bell at 16.4 against Hourtle's 26.0. 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. Opening Bell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Hourtle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Opening Bell ships an update every 4 days, Hourtle every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Opening Bell versus Hourtle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpening BellHourtle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB36 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFrederick FerminRAUL GARCIA BREIJO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Opening Bell

Subscriptions2
  • Opening Bell Plus, Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Opening Bell Plus, Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Hourtle

Subscriptions2
  • Hourtle Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Hourtle Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Opening Bell free?
Opening Bell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hourtle free?
Hourtle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Opening Bell or Hourtle have ads?
Neither Opening Bell nor Hourtle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Opening Bell or Hourtle?
Opening Bell ships an update every 4 days, and Hourtle every 3 days. Most recently, Opening Bell was updated on October 31, 2026 and Hourtle on October 31, 2026.

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