iHour vs Cuckoo Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iHour
Plan and track your time spent on developing habits and mastering skills. Set daily reminders, use a countdown timer, and plan up to ten years ahead. Unlock achievements to stay motivated on your journey to mastery.
- Daily activity tracking
- Long-term planning (up to 10 years)
- Daily reminders and countdown timer
- Progress statistics and visualization
- Over 80 unlockable achievements
- Cloud synchronization
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"iHour" helps you plan & track your time spending on habits. You can record things like Play Guitar, Read Book, Coding, Running etc. The app supports daily reminder, countdown timer, up to 10 years long-term planning. Special designed Achievements help you achieve your goal. 10000 Hours to Master a Skill. =Special Feature= · Daily Tracker: Record your daily activities by hours & minutes · Cloud Sync · Task Planner & Reminder · Time Statistics: Visualize your efforts · Achievements: 80+ Achievements are waiting for you · Share with your friends —————— About the In-App Subscription: We provide "iHour Pro · Monthly Membership" for $0.49 / month. Your subscription will be billed through your Apple ID account after purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of your billing cycle. Renewal cannot be cancelled. Privacy Policy: https://clover.ly/privacy Terms: https://m.icity.ly/tos
Cuckoo Timer
This app helps you manage tasks and cultivate skills by tracking time spent on each activity. It links tasks to specific skills, allowing you to visualize your progress towards mastery and achieve your 10,000-hour goals.
- Classical time tracking for tasks
- Task management with skill attribution
- Skill cultivation progress visualization
- Daily beautiful background pictures
- Full-screen focus mode
- Task priority setting
- iCloud sync
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Task management combined with 10,000 hours rule. It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in a field. We work not just for work, we complete our tasks not just for tasks themselves. In fact, what we want are SKILLS! Every task completed should end up with a better SKILL. ***What Cuckoo Can Do For You*** 1. Classical Time Tracking: Track time spent for every task you created. 2. Task Management: Shake your device to quickly add new Tasks, attribute your Task to a certain Skill that you want to cultivate. 3. Skill Cultivation: Tasks are for improving your skills. You can link multiple Tasks to one Skill, and time spent on those tasks will be summed as the total time of the Skill. So that you can see clearly how your skills grow towards 10,000 hours. ***More Features*** 1. A new beautiful background picture everyday; 2. Full-screen focus mode to focus on your work; 3. Advanced features such as task priority setting, iCloud sync. Privacy Policy & Use of Terms Link:https://cuckoo2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/布谷布谷隐私政策/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cuckoo Timer at every 4 days against iHour's monthly. iHour's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 71%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. iHour sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Cuckoo Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for iHour against 4.7 for Cuckoo Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 810 and 319 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of iHour's written reviews are positive against 71% of Cuckoo Timer's.
iHour ships an update monthly, Cuckoo Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iHour | Cuckoo Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (810 ratings) — better | 4.7 (319 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews — better | 71.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 810 — better | 319 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 362 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iDaily Corp. | Guangzhou Xiaorichang Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
iHour
Cuckoo Timer
User reviews
iHour
From 810 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient time tracking
- 💎 Cute and motivating design
- 🎯 Helpful for productivity and focus
- 🎮 Gamification elements are engaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional performance issues (e.g. overheating, crashes)
- 🔍 Limited customization options
- 📊 Lack of detailed data export/analysis features
- 🔕 Intrusive notifications/sounds
- 🌙 No dark mode option
Cuckoo Timer
From 319 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Clean, minimalist, and beautiful interface design
- 👍 Simple and intuitive to use
- ⏱️ Effective Pomodoro timer functionality
- 💡 Innovative 10,000 hours tracking concept
- 🎵 Calm and soothing audio experience
Room to improve
- 🌐 Incomplete English translation throughout app
- 🐛 Language setting doesn't fully apply to all text
- 🔧 Multiple bugs on Mac M1 devices
- ⏸️ Timer stops when phone is locked
- 🎵 Music cannot be disabled (only 4 preset options)
Bugs and requests
iHour
Reported bugs
3 issues- Apple Watch version has sync issues
- Countdown timer stops when screen is locked
- Time records not always accurate
Requested features
5 requests- Add more detailed time tracking (e.g. down to the second)
- Improve data visualization and analytics
- Introduce a desktop/iPad version
- Allow more customization of UI and sounds
- Implement a dark mode option
Cuckoo Timer
Reported bugs
9 issues- Skill recording time sync issue with manually uploaded tasks
- Timer freezes and requires manual time entry
- Language setting reverts to Japanese unexpectedly
- Data loss after app update
- Skills option disappeared after update
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- Notification sound doesn't work when muted
- Manually entered tasks don't appear in daily reports
- iPad text cutoff and layout issues
- Music interruption during timer countdown
Requested features
12 requests- Complete English translation for all UI elements
- Customizable number of tasks per Pomodoro session
- Widget support for home screen
- Focus mode that discards time if app is switched
- Task deadline reminder notifications
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- Daily recurring task functionality
- Time-block calendar view showing task allocation
- Ability to toggle/mute notification sounds
- Mac version of the app
- Undo/delete functionality for completed tasks
- iCloud sync across devices
- Badge notifications for pending tasks
In-app purchases
iHour
- iHour Pro - Monthly Membership7 Days trial$0.491 Month
- 咖啡$2.99
- iHour Pro$3.99
- 银币$5.99
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- 金币$14.99
- Coffee for Everyone$29.99
Cuckoo Timer
- Pro Account$1.99
