Comparison

Raise The Bar vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

Raise The Bar

This app helps you track progress towards your goals and manage tasks with a visual, bar-based system. It offers time tracking, to-do lists, custom reminders, and statistics to help you stay focused and motivated. "Level up" different aspects of your life by tracking your achievements.

Highlights
  • Visual goal progress bars
  • Active time tracking
  • To-do lists
  • Customizable reminders
  • Daily/weekly statistics
  • Gamified XP system
  • Repeatable goals
Features
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Raise the Bar is a Productivity, Goal Tracking, and ToDo List app. Simply put: use bars to track things. Visually observing progress helps us to feel invested in completing our goals. The short and long term interaction with these goals can help build and maintain focus as well as increase development of solidified habits, all through reminders, statistics, and rewarded progression. We created RTB to have a fun way to "Level Up" different aspects of our lives.You can use it seriously, for important Goals you want to keep track of, or you can use it playfully, for anything you can think up. Simply make a new bar and start Tracking the amount you do something, start a timer to automatically track the time you spend doing it, or make a List of ToDo's to check off what you've done! What are you waiting for? Go Level Up your life!! Features • Active Time Tracking • Set Goals to Achieve • To-Do Lists • Custom Reminders for Goal/List • Unlimited Goals! • Color Your Lists and Goal Bars! • Daily/Weekly Stats • Time/Amount Tracking • Level Up by tracking Experience Points (XP) • FAQ section for help • Setup repeatable goals to repeat on your schedule • Force touch on a goal to peek into your goals edit page • Reorder your bars to fit your needs RTB Premium Subscription: • No Banner Ads • Unlimited Reminders • Unlimited Repeatables • Exclusive access to new pro features • 1 year subscription for only $4.99 renews automatically. • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period • Privacy Policy can be found here http://www.afewguys.com/privacy • Terms of Service can be found here http://www.afewguys.com/terms How does it work? 1. Name the activity to track. (Be creative!) 2. Pick category of bar: Level-Up or Achieve Goal (more information in FAQ) 3.You choose the type: Time spent or # of "reps." (Activities can often be tracked with either type, so choose freely!) Examples: Time Spent • Running • Reading • Drinking • Sleeping • Violin • Chemistry • Halo/COD/BF4/WoW/TF2/Minecraft/etc. • Dog Walking • Parachuting Amount (#) • Calories Eaten • Miles Ran • Books Read • Beers Drank • Hours Slept • Pull-Ups • Peaks Climbed • Cities Visited • Hotdogs Eaten To-Do List Examples: • Groceries • Workouts • Christmas Shopping • Homework • Errands Email: support@afewguys.com Please send us feedback so we can make the app even better! Your comments/questions help us make a better game for EVERYONE!! (And seriously, we'll probably implement most things you ask us to...so just ASK!!) http://www.facebook.com/RTBapp http://www.afewguys.com http://www.twitter.com/afewguysapps

About

Tally

This app helps you track anything, from habits and medications to spending and moods. It offers customizable trackers, detailed statistics, and helpful reminders to identify patterns and achieve your goals. Integrates with Apple HealthKit for automatic tracking.

Highlights
  • Track anything (habits, money, symptoms, etc.)
  • Customizable trackers (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Progress statistics and pattern analysis
  • Reminders and notifications
  • Widget and Apple Watch support
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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TALLY is a simple tool to help you track absolutely anything. Some uses for TALLY: • Tracking habits • Tracking medications / vitamins • Daily planner / to-do list • Tracking daily/weekly/monthly spending • Budgeting or saving money • Pain journal • Symptom tracking • Mood tracking • Finding patterns in your life Whether you’re trying to track how many times you ate vegetables this week, how many cups of coffee you drank, or whether or not you took your vitamins today, TALLY can help you get where you want to go. With its simple and encouraging interface, logging activity is a delight. Each TALLY box will tell you the current tracker count and how long it's been since you last logged activity. Each tracker is fully customizable. Set your tracker to reset every day, week, month, year or never. Use TALLY's charts, calendars, and notes to analyze activity and detect any progress or patterns. The main screen will display all of your trackers. You can use a filter to display your trackers in a way that makes sense to you. TALLY is FREE for up to 3 trackers. For more than 3, upgrade to the Premium Version or subscribe to the Growth Bundle. TALLY Features: • Quick logging with a Widget and Apple Watch app • Enter custom values • Tracking on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or never basis • Easily view progress with statistics • Multiple reminders for each tracker • Fun color options let you customize your list • Easy to edit activities in the past • Backup to Dropbox and iCloud • Shortcuts and Siri Integration TALLY also integrates with Apple HealthKit. This lets you set and track tallies automatically based on your activity. Ex. if you want to track how many steps you take every day, our HealthKit integration will help you with this by attributing your steps data from HealthKit directly in the app. Building amazing new habits has never been easier! TALLY contains optional annual subscription. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, for the chosen plan's price. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your iTunes/App Store Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://kodeon.ai/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://kodeon.ai/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Raise The Bar4 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tally at 4.4 against Raise The Bar's 2.8. Tally also leads on monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ratings volume (4.1K vs 12). Raise The Bar's advantage is review sentiment (68% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). 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. Raise The Bar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year and Tally sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tally holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tally has 4.1K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Raise The Bar's written reviews are positive against 33% of Tally's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Raise The Bar ships an update every 3 weeks, Tally every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Raise The Bar versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaise The BarTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (12 ratings)4.4 (4.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.7% of reviews — better32.6% of reviews
Number of ratings124.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerafewguys AppsKodeon, Inc.

Customer experience

Raise The Bar

All ratings12 ratings
Positive41.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive67.7%
Neutral6.5%
Negative25.8%

Tally

All ratings4,102 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral4.1%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews420 reviews
Positive32.6%
Neutral13.6%
Negative53.8%

Bugs and requests

Raise The Bar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Tally

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App freezing and crashing
  • Tallies not syncing correctly across devices
  • Timestamp issues and incorrect date/time display
  • Inability to restore previous purchases
  • Broken or non-functional support/feedback channels

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit or remove individual tallies
  • Improved Apple Watch integration and complications
  • Export options for data backup and analysis
  • More color and customization options
  • Easier navigation and organization of tallies

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Raise The Bar

Subscriptions1
  • Raise The Bar Premium$4.991 Year
10 purchases

Tally

Subscriptions9
  • Tally Growth Bundle: Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription1 Year trial$14.991 Year
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  • Tally Growth Bundle: Yearly$18.991 Year
  • Tally Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Tally Premium - Yearly1 Year trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Tally Growth Bundle: Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Tally Premium - Yearly1 Year trial2 variants$59.991 Year
  • Tally Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • One-Time Upgrade$6.99

Questions

Is Raise The Bar free?
Raise The Bar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Raise The Bar or Tally?
Tally is rated higher. Raise The Bar averages 2.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Tally averages 4.4 from 4.1K ratings.
Do Raise The Bar or Tally have ads?
Neither Raise The Bar nor Tally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Raise The Bar or Tally?
Raise The Bar ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tally every 2 months. Most recently, Raise The Bar was updated on June 9, 2026 and Tally on September 22, 2026.

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