Timelines vs ATracker
Timelines and ATracker are both personal time trackers for iPhone and Apple Watch, and on paper they do many of the same things. The difference is in how they feel to use.
Timelines is built to be simple and reliable. Starting a timer takes one tap, your day shows up on a timeline you can read at a glance, and starting a subcategory or fixing a time takes seconds. ATracker runs on more platforms and is available in more languages.
We make Timelines, so we’re not neutral, but we’ve tried to keep this comparison fair.
Rated 4.8 on the App Store · Featured by Apple · Compared in November 2026
Free to start
| Timelines | ATracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for up to 3 categories. PRO: $39.99/year or $7.99/month, with a 7-day free trial | Free with ads. A one-time purchase ($4.99) removes ads and unlocks more categories. Premium, with sync and more: $26.99/year or $2.99/month |
| Sync between devices | Included in PRO | With Premium |
| Ads in the free version | None | An ad in the Today tab |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac (the iPad app, on Apple silicon) | The same, plus Android and web |
| Languages | English | English and 18 more |
| Your day at a glance | An interactive timeline you can zoom | A calendar-style day view |
| Statistics | Interactive pie chart that shows the day, week or month you’ve zoomed to. Bar charts in PRO | A separate Report tab with more than a dozen controls for the chart, period, tasks and averages |
| Subcategories | Yes, start one with a tap (PRO) | Tags |
| Simultaneous timers | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Watch app | Start and stop timers, fix times with the Digital Crown, add notes by voice, see statistics | Start and stop timers |
| Works without the iPhone nearby | Yes | Partly (start and stop) |
| Watch face complications | Yes | Yes |
| Live Activity | Yes. It also starts when a timer is started from Shortcuts, and you can stop the timer right from it | Yes, but you can’t stop the timer from it. When a timer is started from Shortcuts, it appears only after you open the app |
| Widgets | Start and stop timers right from the widget, without opening the app. Pie and bar chart widgets you can configure | Starting or stopping a timer opens the app. One statistics widget, without settings |
| Shortcuts | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Health import | Workouts and sleep (PRO) | No |
| Calendar | Imports events, and exports your time automatically, one calendar per category (PRO) | Shows events, exports entries |
| Goals | Daily, weekly, monthly (PRO) | Yes |
| Export | PDF and CSV (detailed CSV in PRO) | PDF and CSV (PRO) |
| App Store rating (US) | 4.8 (1,500+ ratings) | 4.7 (3,900+ ratings across both apps) |
Compared in November 2026. Prices are for the US.
A time tracker only helps if you keep using it. That’s why we’ve spent years making the everyday things in Timelines take as few taps as possible, so that tracking never turns into a chore.
Want to know which project or which book took your time? Timelines can ask for a name each time you start a timer. Pick one of your recent names, or type a few letters to find it, and tap the checkmark. With PRO, you can then see how your time splits between those names.
Start and stop timers from a widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, from Control Center, or with the Action button. While a timer runs, the Live Activity keeps it in view in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen, with a button to stop it.
Your time is laid out as colored blocks on a timeline. Zoom in to see a single day hour by hour, or out to see your whole week, month or year. Your statistics follow along: the pie chart always shows the day, week or month you’ve zoomed to.
Timelines has been on Apple Watch since 2016. Unlike ATracker, it works fully on its own. Leave your iPhone behind when you go for a run or into a meeting, and you can still:
With PRO, everything you track on your watch syncs to your iPhone and iPad.
You can try Timelines for free, no account needed.
Timelines is free to download, and the free version lets you track up to 3 categories, with the timeline, the pie chart and reminders included. Timelines PRO adds unlimited categories, sync between your devices, goals, bar charts, Apple Health and Calendar import, and detailed exports. It costs $39.99 a year or $7.99 a month in the US, and you can try it free for 7 days.
Not yet, but it’s planned. Until then, you can keep your ATracker export as an archive and start fresh in Timelines.
No. Timelines works fully offline, and your data stays on your device. You only need an account for Timelines Cloud, the optional sync in PRO. There are no ads, and your data is never sold or used for advertising.
Not yet. Timelines runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, and on Macs with Apple silicon. You can join the Android waitlist, and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Free to start, with a 7-day free trial of PRO.
