deepstint vs Tiimo: An Honest Comparison

Tiimo and deepstint come up in the same conversations, but they are built for different problems. Tiimo helps you plan and see a day. deepstint helps you start a piece of work and keep an honest record of where the time went. Picking well means knowing which problem is actually yours.

What Tiimo is

Tiimo is a polished visual daily planner. You lay out your day as a timeline of blocks with icons and colors, set reminders, and follow a clear visual schedule. It has added an AI co-planner to help turn loose intentions into an actual plan, it has a strong App Store presence with years of refinement behind it, and it has a calm, considered design that many people find genuinely pleasant to look at. As of 2026, Tiimo is priced at around $6.99 a month or $40.99 a year, depending on the plan and any promotion running.

Credit where it is due. If your core difficulty is seeing the shape of a day and remembering what is next, Tiimo is squarely aimed at that, and it does it well. A visible timeline is a real intervention for a lot of people, and Tiimo's version is one of the better ones on the market.

What deepstint is

deepstint is narrower on purpose. It is a focus-stint timer built around the moment of starting and the honesty of the record. Type a task, hit Enter, and the timer is running. There is no schedule to build first and no day to lay out before you are allowed to begin. You can retag a stint without stopping it, and at the end of the day you get a plain, honest picture of where your focus actually went. No streaks, no scores, nothing that flatters.

• Local-first, so your data lives with you.
• On the web now, with Android coming.
• $39 a year, and that one price includes a second seat. One price, two people.

The narrowness is the point. deepstint is not trying to run your calendar. It is trying to get you from wanting to work to working, and then to tell you the truth about how the day went.

Two practical differences are worth naming. deepstint is local-first, so your record lives with you rather than on someone else's server by default, which matters if you would rather not hand your day to the cloud to use a timer. And the $39 price includes a second seat, so a partner or friend is covered under the same plan. One price, two people. Neither of those will decide the choice on its own, but they are real, and Tiimo is priced and structured around a different model.

Where they overlap

Both are made with ADHD in mind, both care about time, and both can hold a daily structure. If all you want is a timer attached to a plan, either one will give you that, and Tiimo's version is wrapped in a more visual daily layout. It would be dishonest to pretend there is no overlap. There is, and for some people either tool would be a fine choice.

Which to choose

Choose Tiimo if your main need is visual scheduling, a timeline you can see at a glance, and reminders that keep the day on rails. Choose deepstint if your main need is getting started when starting is the hard part, and an honest end-of-day record with no guilt mechanics. Some people will even run both, planning the day in one and doing the focused work in the other, and there is nothing wrong with that. They are not really competitors so much as answers to two different questions. Decide which question is yours, and the choice makes itself.