Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
I made OwnTime to balance between competing priorities in my life. The idea is based on two main influences: the concept of "roles" from "The 5 Choices" (2015), and my repeated failure to effectively implement time blocking due to the necessary flexibility in my role. The app allows you to define time budgets, which are not much more than a few mutually exclusive countdown timers. The UX is essentially that of a chess clock for an arbitrary number of players with configurable time. The whole point of the app is to kick you out of the running role/priority when its time is up. One…
OwnTime is a chess clock app that helps users manage competing daily priorities by setting time budgets for different activities. Available on iPhone and Apple Watch, it runs one countdown timer at a time while pausing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Mom Clock▲742Hi HN, I’ve tried dozens of reminder and habit apps over the years. They’re all polite. Gentle. Easy to ignore. So I built something intentionally different. Mom Clock is a reminder app that behaves more like a strict parent than a productivity coach: – no snoozing – no “later” – optional app blocking using Screen Time APIs The idea came from my own behavior: I don’t need motivation — I need enforcement. This is not for everyone. Some people hate it. Some people love it. I’m genuinely curious where HN stands on this tradeoff: comfort vs. effectiveness. Happy to answer questions about: –…
Jan 2026 · momclock.com · its alternatives →
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TimeAlignfree tier, from $5/mo▲677Align your time with your goals & optimize your life
2024 · timealignapp.com · its alternatives →
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RescueTime▲319Analytics on your daily habits and productivity
2014 · rescuetime.com · its alternatives →
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Mayday▲198The AI-assisted calendar that helps you make time to thrive.
2023 · mayday.am · its alternatives →
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Hello, For quite some time, I've been unsatisfied with the built-in timers on both Android and iOS; especially for workouts, when I needed to set up a configurable number of series with rest periods in between. That's when I started thinking about building something myself. It was just a timer and I said to myself "how hard could it be?", I had no idea. The first iteration of the project worked "just fine", but the UI was an eyesore (even more than it is now), and the UX was quite awful as well. As you can probably guess, I'm not versed in design or front-end development. In fact, my last…
Nov 2025 · mytimers.app · its alternatives →
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SaveMyTime 3.0▲106Get rid of wasted time to make space for New Year’s Goals
2019 · its alternatives →
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I quit my job and made an automatic time trackerfrom $39/mo▲136Hey Hacker News! This is my first post here. About 5 months ago, I left my job because I was completely burnt out. After taking some time off, I started freelancing. But I found tracking my time to be a real hassle as I kept forgetting to start or stop the timer and often had no idea what I’d worked on. So, I decided to build Taim as a side project, while also working now on some freelancing gigs. Taim is going to be automated time tracking tool for freelancers and teams. It’s designed to make tracking time effortless and accurate, so you can focus on your work and not worry about the clock.…
2024 · taimapp.io · its alternatives →
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The personal time tracker for your iPhone.
2012 · myminutesapp.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy, gang; After almost two weeks of sitting in Apple's approval queue, my new app Timebar is finally available. I think it has a pretty innovative UI feature, so I wanted to float it by Hacker News. It's a timer app that turns your Mac's menu bar into a sort of virtual hourglass. Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up. It works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen…
2013 · whimsicalifornia.com · its alternatives →
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Create, schedule & track your Habit goals – use AI to defend flexible time for your routines. Get started, free on Google Calendar & Outlook Calendar
2020 · reclaim.ai · its alternatives →
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Protect your free time from over hours
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A habit tracker that integrates with your calendar
2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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TimeFerret▲67Be in control of your time, schedule with ease
2017 · timeferret.com · its alternatives →
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Track real work vs. procrastination with a single click
2025 · procrastination-slayer.com · its alternatives →
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Care to share a screenshot and the 'killer feature' of any of your personal, self-built productivity tools? eg. I made my own calendar and money-tracker last year - there are no other users, it makes no money, I have no plans to make it public, but it holds my life together :) http://i.imgur.com/h2keJDg.png GREAT BECAUSE... it tells me how much I'm going to get paid this month. Absolutely no ulterior motive here (ie. I'm not canvassing opinions for a productivity app startup or anything), just interested.
2013 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →
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Track Your time, build your flow
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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