# Deadline App — user reviews

> 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Deadline App by Elena Maltceva, rated 4.50/5 from 63 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deadline-app/id1557048705/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deadline-app/id1557048705.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 49 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3

## What do users think of Deadline App?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- ✨ Clean, minimalist design
- 👁️ Clear visual deadline representation
- ⚡ Simple and intuitive interface
- 📱 Widget functionality for quick access
- 🎯 Effective deadline tracking
- 🔄 iCloud synchronization capability
- ⏱️ Live activities feature
- 🎨 Customizable color labels
- 📊 Organized deadline visualization
- 🚀 Fast and responsive performance

**Cons**

- 💰 Aggressive monetization strategy
- 🔐 Synchronization issues across devices
- ⚠️ Limited free version functionality
- 🐛 Widget display problems
- 📵 Lack of notifications
- 🔄 Poor data sync between platforms
- ❌ No task deletion feature
- ⛔ Subscription model frustration
- 🚫 Limited free tier (3-5 deadlines)
- 💳 Pricing increase after purchase model change

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Widget not displaying deadlines on Mac
- App freezing when creating multiple tasks
- Synchronization failures between iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
- Purchase restoration not working on all devices
- Incorrect deadline display (showing wrong remaining time)
- Live activities not updating progress bar over time
- Widget showing blank on Intel Mac
- Notifications triggering incorrectly (wrong timing)
- App crashes and data loss
- Calendar write access permission issues
- Widget not syncing with app data
- Lagging when scrolling through many deadlines
- Live activities disappearing randomly
- Completed deadlines auto-deleting after 30 days without user control

**Most requested features**

- Display deadlines in days format instead of percentage
- 12-hour time format option
- Task categories/organization by type
- Recurring/repeating deadlines
- Progress bar fill visualization
- Overdue task indicators
- Share and copy to clipboard functionality
- Countdown mode without completion requirement
- Multiple widget selection options
- Automatic calendar integration
- Line break support in notes/descriptions
- Image attachment capability
- Lifetime purchase option
- Working days calculation (excluding weekends)
- Task deletion functionality
- Bidirectional time counting
- Family/shared task support
- Today button for quick start date setting
- Notification customization and frequency control
- Light mode theme option

## Newest reviews (16 of 77)

### 4/5 — only a disadvantage

*2026-04-13, version № 54*

can the widget be shown as the form of days

### 3/5 — 알람소리가 없네요

*2025-07-23, version № 54*

아쉽습니다

### 4/5 — Calendar write access

*2025-05-05, version № 54*

The app is very minimalistic and helpful for me. Would it be possible to just request write access to the calendar and not read access ?

### 3/5 — phải mua mới được xài tiếp

*2025-02-24, version № 53*

Giới hạn lượt sdung thôi, muốn xài tiếp phải đóng phí

### 4/5 — ddl tomorrow

*2025-01-15*

As an user, I am wonderingly why we cannot see the percentage of how long we’ve been gone through the start point or apart from ddl time.

Hate most app when ddl is comming soon. 
App itself is good. Full mark will be given after the ddl.

### 3/5 — Perpetual subscription

*2024-11-18*

Decent app, but there are plenty of like solutions that don’t require an endless subscription. Subscriptions are a nonstarter for me… and this is increasingly the case for users.

### 2/5 — Widgets don’t work

*2024-11-06, version № 52*

I downloaded this so I could have the widgets on my Home Screen and it doesn’t work after I paid for the subscription. I’ve turned on/off my phone, deleted and reinstalled the app. I emailed the dev as well and have not received a reply.

### 3/5 — When having a lot of deadlines

*2024-09-19, version № 50*

Uni student with a lot of deadlines when I scroll through my deadlines it starts lagging and doesn’t show some and then they suddenly pop out and it does that when I scroll up and down it just starts lagging and doesn’t load some of my deadlines on the screen

### 3/5 — Not good value for money

*2024-09-16, version 49*

It’s decent for the free version but no point of paying if the deadlines won’t  show up as a  notification. You can’t even make it into a widget which kinda defeats the whole purpose of remembering your deadlines….

### 4/5 — ICloud not syncing

*2024-08-15*

…

**Developer response:** I apologize. 
Fixed this bug. 
Please update the app to the latest version.

### 4/5 — Please Add One Option

*2024-06-21, version 46*

Great simple app. Does what I need it to do. Can you please give us the option for 12 hour format instead of 24? Maybe you already do but I can’t find it. Thanks.

### 2/5 — Could be great, but needs work

*2024-06-11, version 46*

This app has a lot of potential but at this point is minimal with much room for improvements that would justify a $10 subscription. 

Here is how it would be much more useful to me (I realize this is personal and others will have different preferences): 

- make it count in both directions (how much time until… or how much time SINCE)
- probably most important: let me choose the display units: for example due in two months or due in 61 days; AND let me not count weekends (I really don’t have 61 working days for this project if we deduct weekends!)
- let me choose which timelines / deadlines to add to widgets: one is not enough; all are too many
- figure out a graphic way to signal time visually on widget timelines: I have one thing due in 2 days and one in 2 months: on the widget they both look pretty much the same, which defeats the purpose of having a widget for that. 

Overall, a good idea, with a lot of potential, but too basic to be useful to me at this point.

### 4/5 — Simple app but I like it, you need to pay to get rid of banner ad.

*2024-06-08, version 46*

Also the label for the year and month subscriptions are swapped.

### 2/5 — I dont like it cant show the how many day I have overdue

*2024-06-07, version 46*

This is important for adhd to know which overdue is leave there too long and you have to hand that in first.

### 4/5 — 맥 위젯에 데드라인이 안 떠요

*2024-03-20, version 46*

맥 위젯을 추가했는데 앱에서 보이는 데드라인이 안떠요
위젯을 추가하면 새로운 데드라인을 만들라고 뜨는데
새로 만들어도 위젯에는 표시가 안돼요
잘 쓰고 있었는데 이 것 때문에 좀 불편하네요
빨리 고쳐주세요~

### 4/5 — Хорошее приложение

*2024-02-07*

Нравится минимализм и не перегруженность, но лично мне не хватает возможности повтора дедлайна, чтобы при окончании, сразу перезапускалось заново. И чтобы срок окончания был не определенный день, а количество дней

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Love money

*2025-09-21, version 48*

I used to use it before and thought it was very easy to use. As a result, it began to charge later. Now I can only use two of them for free, and even the price has increased == I love money so much.

### 1/5 — 5 deadlines. Really?

*2025-09-18, version № 54*

Unless you get pro, you can only add up to 5 deadlines, which doesn’t make this useful as a free app, and I don’t want to sign up for a subscription fee.

### 1/5 — 吃相难看

*2025-09-06, version № 54*

只能免费加入四个，没有提前告知要收费。

### 1/5 — Not synchronized

*2024-09-10, version 48*

It is impossible to synchronize the app between iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. I have  paid for one year and for nothing.

### 1/5 — cannot sync with my iphone

*2024-08-22, version 46*

I got the professional version in my mac and phone, but why they could not sync?

### 1/5 — 買斷後改成訂閱制卻限制功能

*2023-12-25, version 44*

我在還是一次$120買斷制時買了這個程式的完整功能，現在改成訂閱制後更新的功能卻都無法用。甚至顯示的內容都是錯誤的，明明是剩下一個月半的事件卻永遠卡在顯示剩餘兩個月。難道舊用戶就該被犧牲嗎？請製造商或工程師改正。

### 1/5 — who pays for this?

*2023-11-18, version 44*

Asking this money for a super simple app that would take like 1 day to code🤣🤣 ridiculous

### 1/5 — Has Multiple Bugs and Very Inefficient

*2023-10-06, version 43*

This app is poorly designed after a couple weeks of use. Yes, it does show you the deadline in clear order. But it is 1) unable to sort the deadlines in categories. 2) extremely difficult and frustrating to keep items in sync with multiple divises, even with the pro subscription. 3) inconvenient to "complete" the items which does not have any shortcuts in editing deadlines' status 4) NOT support deleting items, the only way to "delete" it is to change every single detail to the new details in order to replace it.

### 1/5 — Deleted all my deadlines

*2023-04-06, version 2.3.5*

Thanks for nothing

### 1/5 — Really bad experience

*2022-08-30, version 2.2.0*

Tried to add an anniversary date but it was not even responded to in the app

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Excelent app, functionally perfect

*2026-08-10, version № 54*

I want more and better theme and color options though.

### 5/5 — Best find of the past 5+ years

*2026-03-12, version № 54*

I've used countless to-do list apps, always searching for one that clearly displayed deadlines, but none of them did. The Deadline App is simple, intuitive, and solves the problem the right way. It succeeds where many other apps fail: it does exactly what it promises. Extra points for the live activities and widgets. If you don't just want to follow a schedule, but need to meet your deadlines, this is the ideal app. Without a doubt, the best discovery on the App Store in the last 5 years!

### 5/5 — Мне понравилось, но….

*2025-09-15*

Лично мне приложение понравилось, минималистично и удобно 
Но я не знаю что за проблема произошла, сегодня я зашёл чтоб сделать новый дедлайн и меня стало перекидывать на платную версию, неужели у приложения есть ограничения для бесплатного использования? Или есть ограничения на день?
Если есть ограничения на бесплатную версию то я буду сильно разочарован в этом приложении

### 5/5 — Простое, красивое, ничего лишнего

*2025-08-18*

Очень нравится приложение, помогает не забыть о второстепенных делах. Мне не хватает только функции удаления задачи

### 5/5 — Incredible app!

*2025-03-24, version № 54*

I’m a super visual person, and this app just works the way my brain does. It’s clean, simple, and makes tracking deadlines so easy. The design is absolutely stunning, and it feels effortless to use. I love how I can see everything at a glance without feeling overwhelmed. It’s been a game-changer for keeping me on top of events without stress. If you like staying organized in a way that feels intuitive, this is the app for you. Truly great work by the developers!

### 5/5 — ddl tomorrow

*2025-01-20, version № 52*

As an user, I am wonderingly why we cannot see the percentage of how long we’ve been gone through the start point or apart from ddl time. Hate most app when ddl is comming soon. App itself is good. Full mark will be given after the ddl.

edit a week later
Good

### 5/5 — Widget didnt work properly

*2024-05-11, version 46*

I think its a really neat app. And there are some suggestions.
1. Set a today button for start date would be a nice touch.
2. Not sure how to use the custom color tool for the task color label.
3. I am using mac with intel cpu, and widget is a white blank insted of showing the countdown. I don't know how to fix it.

### 5/5 — Excellent UI, but widget problem.

*2024-03-16, version 46*

I am a subscriber to Deadline and have been utilizing the app on my Mac. However, I have encountered an issue where the projects I create do not display successfully in the widget. The widget consistently shows "Choose the deadline or create a new one," and when clicked, it redirects to the creation page, yet after creating a new project, the widget remains unchanged.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance in resolving this matter. Your prompt response would be highly valued.

### 5/5 — Widget support is nice

*2024-02-05, version 44*

Nice app thank you, Mac users really need an app like this

### 5/5 — Fantastic app, needs some features and bug fixes though.

*2023-12-16, version 44*

I love this app a lot. It helps a ton because I have severe ADHD and need to keep track of these these things constantly. 
One feature I’d like though is instead of specific tasks, maybe more of a countdown focused one that just alerts you when the countdown is complete and doesn’t require you to mark as complete.
Another thing is separate categories for deadlines, such as education, work, etc. would help to sort them. 
The live activities are also a great addition, but are pretty buggy. At the moment, they don’t move the progress bar over time and you need to manually restart the activity again. Other than those little things, great app.

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