Comparison

Christmas Planner. vs One Small Thing

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Christmas Planner.

Organize your holiday gift-giving with a dedicated app. Create detailed gift lists, set budgets, track purchase progress, and manage recipients. Never forget a gift or overspend again with this easy-to-use organizer.

Highlights
  • Gift list creation by recipient
  • Budgeting per person
  • Track gift status (idea, purchased, wrapped)
  • Shopping list by store
  • Christmas Day countdown
  • Passcode protection
  • Dropbox backup
Features
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Keep your Christmas lists organized; create the gift lists with budget, status and recipients etc, and track the progress to make sure your person get your gifts on time. This app is simple and easy to use, take and check it anytime, don’t leave lists on the paper again in case of lost. Key Features: ⁃ Christmas Day counting down. ⁃ Create budget for each people. ⁃ Create and track gift lists by people. ⁃ Track gift lists by store. ⁃ Add gift info with picture, quantity, recipients, price, store and status. ⁃ Mark gift status progress by idea, need to buy, purchased, wrapped and done. ⁃ Track budget progress by money: total, spent, available. ⁃ Track gift progress by quantity. ⁃ Add people manually or from local Contacts and group them. ⁃ Create list to show gift to me with sender, gift picture and name, quantity. ⁃ Share lists by email. ⁃ Archive passed years’ gift list and refresh. ⁃ View archived gift , restore or duplicate to gift list. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question or suggestion, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.

About

One Small Thing

Features
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It's eight in the evening, you have the next two hours free, and you cannot decide what to do with them. So you pick up your phone. Forty minutes later you put it down feeling worse than when you started. Every other app that helps you decide asks you to type the options in first. If you already knew the options, you wouldn't need the app. One Small Thing comes with 1,200+ of them. You tap one of three lines and get a single card: one specific thing you could start in the next minute, and a sentence on why that one. HOW IT WORKS Tap whichever is true right now: · I'm bored — give me something to do · Bored of the usual — give me something I haven't done · Today feels empty — help me end the day You get one card. Not a list, not a feed. If it doesn't fit, push back — lighter, don't want to leave the house, free, something completely different — and you get another one. When it fits, close the app and go do it. Tap once when you're back. That's the whole thing. LATE AT NIGHT IT STOPS SUGGESTING Past an hour you choose, it won't try to start something with you. It walks three short steps to end the day instead: look back at it, name the first thing for tomorrow, one small thing to unwind. Then it says good night. In the morning, the thing you named is waiting on the home screen, and tapping it clears it. 1,200+ THINGS TO DO From untangling the charging cables to walking to the corner shop to study a drink you've never had. Indoors and out, free and not, lazy and not. Every card says how long it takes and whether it costs anything. IT WORKS WITH THE WIFI OFF There is no server. The whole library ships inside the app. It works on a plane, in a basement, in airplane mode, on a phone with no SIM in it. NO ACCOUNT. NOTHING COLLECTED. Nothing to sign up for. What you've done and what you've saved sit in a database on this phone, and you can export the lot as JSON or wipe it, from Settings, in two taps. No analytics, no ad SDK, no tracking, and no notifications trying to drag you back in. This app has done its job at the moment you close it. THE COLOURS FOLLOW THE SKY Afternoon is pale blue, dusk is orange, late night is off-white on near-black. It uses the real sunrise and sunset where you are, so it never looks the same at two different times of day. Free with 300 things to do. A one-time purchase unlocks the whole library — 1,200+ — including everything added later. No subscription, and nothing to cancel. Made by one person. The trade for collecting nothing is that I can't see what anyone does with it — so if a suggestion is bad, email me and I'll fix that entry. That's the only way I find out.

Screenshots

Christmas Planner.4 screens
One Small Thing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: One Small Thing at none against Christmas Planner.'s shown. One Small Thing also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Christmas Planner. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 6 months and One Small Thing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Christmas Planner. ships an update every 7 months, One Small Thing every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Christmas Planner. versus One Small Thing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmas Planner.One Small Thing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (251 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings251 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB35 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTD北京丈量世界科技有限公司

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Christmas Planner.

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months$2.996 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$19.99
1 purchases

One Small Thing

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$3.99

Questions

Is Christmas Planner. free?
Christmas Planner. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is One Small Thing free?
One Small Thing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Christmas Planner. or One Small Thing have ads?
Christmas Planner. shows ads; One Small Thing does not.
Which is updated more often, Christmas Planner. or One Small Thing?
Christmas Planner. ships an update every 7 months, and One Small Thing every 4 days. Most recently, Christmas Planner. was updated on November 2, 2026 and One Small Thing on October 31, 2026.

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