Badger Bug vs Don't Waste Today
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Badger Bug
This app helps you overcome procrastination by sending repeated reminders for tasks you've been putting off. It offers adjustable intensity levels and encouraging messages to motivate you to complete your to-do list.
- Task deferral reminders
- Adjustable intensity levels
- Encouraging messages
- Task suspension and resumption
- Completion celebration
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Badger Bug When procrastination is not an option, the Badger Bug can help… Having problems getting things done in time? Do you have a tendency to put boring or difficult things off? Taxes, repairs, calls to plumbers, veterinarians or distant family? Help is on the way! The Badger Bug application will bug you to accomplish today what you were deferring until tomorrow! Enter or dictate the task you are constantly putting off, then press START. It will send to your phone, or your Apple Watch repeated reminders to get it done! The Friendly Badger has three different levels of intensity, and a lot of encouraging words for you. He believes in you, and thus Badger Bug is and always will be free! You can suspend the Badger if you are too busy or unable to complete the task due to physical or mental circumstances. Once you get back, just resume, and the Badger will report for duty. It will be joyful and celebratory once you are able to press the “DONE!” button, and send the Badger away…
Don't Waste Today
This app helps you identify and understand your procrastination habits. It prompts you at chosen intervals to assess if you're procrastinating and why, providing insights to help you overcome it and improve your daily productivity.
- Procrastination detection prompts
- Reason analysis for procrastination
- Daily procrastination scoring
- Progress visualization
- Customizable check-in frequency
- Open-source
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"Lost time is never found again" - Benjamin Franklin Don't Waste Today is a free, open-source app that will: - Help you understand how often you procrastinate - Tell you why you procrastinate - Give you the insights to take action to "unstuck" your life. "To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom" - Socrates Here's how it works: 1/ Choose when and how often you want it to check on you 2/ At those times, the app will notify you to ask if you are procrastinating 3/ If you are procrastinating, the app ask you why 4/ The app will then show you a breakdown of your main reasons to procrastinate, as well as score you each day you use it After using the app for a while you'll be motivated to improve your results and get your graph up to 100% procrastination-free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Badger Bug at none against Don't Waste Today's shown. Badger Bug also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Don't Waste Today's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and rating (3.8 vs 3.6). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Don't Waste Today holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Badger Bug's written reviews are positive against 50% of Don't Waste Today's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Badger Bug ships an update every 2 months, Don't Waste Today weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Badger Bug | Don't Waste Today |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 3.8 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martine Habib | GoalsWon Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Badger Bug
Don't Waste Today
In-app purchases
Badger Bug
No in-app purchases
Don't Waste Today
No in-app purchases
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