Routinely vs JustBegin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Routinely
This app helps you build, monitor, and understand your daily habits and tasks. Set specific goals with target times, track your progress, and receive reminders. Review your history and streaks to stay motivated and mindful of your routine.
- Establish and track daily goals
- Set custom target times for tasks
- Receive completion reminders
- Review history and completion streaks
- Create custom goals or use suggestions
- Utilize 3D Touch for quick actions
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Routinely is a tool to help you establish, track, understand, and be more mindful of your daily routine. Use Routinely to quickly and easily set goals for each of the tasks and habits that make up your day, and then track your completion of those goals. Routinely can send you notifications to remind you to complete your goals, and provides a history view to review past days. Each goal has a name, an abbreviation (you can use emoji to liven up your routine!), and a target time. Goals can also have alternative target times for different days of the week, or target times can be set relative to other goals. Routinely will track your average completion time for each goal, and let you know when you’re on a completion streak. You can create custom goals, or choose from a library of suggestions. Routinely uses 3D Touch (when available) to give you quick access to creating new goals, and completing your ‘most recent’ and ‘next upcoming’ goal. You can swipe to access frequently used features for each goal, use Pop/Peek to quickly review goal information, and search for goals using spotlight. Routinely provides a "Current Goals" widget that shows your most recent and next goals, for quick access.
JustBegin
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Know what to do, but can’t start? JustBegin helps you turn overwhelming tasks into one tiny first step you can actually do. Stop managing tasks. Start one tiny step. This app is designed for people who know what they need to do, but still can’t seem to begin. When a task feels too big, too messy, or too overwhelming, it’s easy to freeze, avoid it, or keep putting it off. This app helps you turn that stuck feeling into action by breaking one task into one tiny first step. No complicated planner. No overwhelming to-do lists. No pressure to organize your whole life. Just open the app, type the task you’re avoiding, and get one simple step you can start right now. What it helps with starting work you keep delaying replying to emails you’ve been avoiding beginning a report, paper, or project getting started on studying starting chores when everything feels too much How it works Enter the task you’re stuck on Get one small, clear first step Start a short focus session Keep going with one more tiny step Why people use it tasks feel overwhelming traditional to-do apps create more stress it’s hard to start, even when the task is clear big goals need a smaller entry point Designed to feel gentle This app is built to reduce friction, not add more pressure. If the step still feels too big, it helps make it even smaller. Whether you struggle with procrastination, overwhelm, task paralysis, or executive dysfunction, this app helps you begin. You do not need a perfect plan. You just need the first step. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://support.id-photo-pro.cn/justbegin_intro_privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Routinely at none against JustBegin's 1. Routinely also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. JustBegin sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Routinely asks for nothing beyond the download.
Routinely ships an update fortnightly, JustBegin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Routinely | JustBegin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | chris hollander | 小红 顾 |
In-app purchases
Routinely
No in-app purchases
JustBegin
- One Month Premium$4.991 Month









