insta vs Back Burner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
insta
Organize your photos with captions, tags, and locations. This app helps you create, edit, and easily search through your cherished memories.
- Add captions to photos
- Tag photos for easy searching
- Attach locations to memories
- Create and edit photo memories
- Searchable photo library
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instanote attaches captions, tags, and locations to your photos to provide a robust tool for creating, editing, and searching your memories.
Back Burner
Capture tasks and goals you want to address later. This app offers a card-based system to manage eventual to-dos, helping you focus on personal accomplishments instead of endless lists. It's a simple way to track and complete your objectives.
- Card-based task management
- Swipe to postpone or complete tasks
- Capture eventual to-dos
- Alternative to social media scrolling
- Goal tracking
- Unlimited cards for subscribers
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You have projects. You have tasks. And you have things you want to do... eventually. Back Burner is a place to collect those eventual to-dos so that you can revisit them, revise them, and get them done when you've got the time. Back Burner is also an alternative to social networks. Have five minutes free on your commute? Instead of doom scrolling the latest bad news, check out your Back Burner and swipe to find something you can accomplish for YOU! Or if you have a new goal you want to jot down quickly, throw it on your Back Burner and come back to it later! Whether it's paying a bill or calling a loved one, signing up for that course or remembering to drink water a few times a day, Back Burner is a great way to track and accomplish your goals simply and easily. Other task managers fill your screen with llists, and require you to set time tables and dependencies. Back Burner follows the model of a card deck, allowing you to have one idea per card, and just rotate through, swiping left to postpone something you're not ready to do, or swiping right when you've done it. Users get 100 cards for free, with titles only. Subscribers get unlimited cards, with both titles and descriptions, tags, filters, and search. And there are dozens of features in development which will all be available to subscribers only. Download Back Burner now for FREE, and when you love it, subscribe to unlock everything! Use of this app is pursuant to the standard Apple App Store EULA at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Back Burner at 5.0 against insta's 4.0. Back Burner also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). insta's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Back Burner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per month. insta asks for nothing beyond the download.
Back Burner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
insta ships an update every 2 weeks, Back Burner monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | insta | Back Burner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Doczy | Benjamin Carroll |
Customer experience
insta
Back Burner
In-app purchases
insta
No in-app purchases
Back Burner
- Monthly Subscription$0.291 Month
- Annual Subscription$2.901 Year
- Superfan Annual Subscription$29.001 Year
