Comparison

Prioritize vs Deadlines

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

Head to head
About

Prioritize

This app automatically organizes your tasks and reminders based on due dates and priority levels. It helps you focus on what's most important, ensuring timely completion of projects and tasks.

Highlights
  • Automatic task organization
  • Due date and priority sorting
  • Master task list
  • Customizable task lists
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Multiple sign-in options
Features
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Prioritize what you need to get done today with Prioritize! Prioritize will automatically organize all of your tasks and reminders you need to complete based off of the Due Date and Priority level that you assign. Prioritize can sort all of your tasks and reminders automatically for you so that you can just view your top tasks that you need to work on. Let Prioritize do the work for you of reminding you of which tasks you need to complete and when. If you have a big project that is due in a week, mark the Priority as Very High. If you have a email that needs to be sent in a few days, mark the priority as Not Important. Your project will show up higher on the list than sending the email, but as the days go by, your email will climb up the list and swap places with other reminders to let you know to send out that email. You can have all of your tasks from all of your lists show up on your Master List, or you can create a new list where you will only see tasks for that list when you navigate into that list. Access all of your tasks and lists on any iOS device that you sign into, using Sign-In with Apple, Google, or Facebook, or create an account with your email and a new password.

About

Deadlines

Organize your daily tasks with this modern to-do list manager. Create custom groups, assign priorities, and visualize deadlines. Upgrade for unlimited tasks, alerts, subtasks, and calendar integration.

Highlights
  • Custom task groups
  • Priority assignment
  • Deadline visualization
  • Incomplete task widgets
  • iCloud storage
  • Light and dark modes
  • Subtasks and alerts (Pro)
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Deadlines is a modern, productive task manager tool to help organize your daily list of jobs. You can create custom groups to separate your tasks however you like, such as by classes and projects. Boost your productivity with the following features: • Create custom groups for different types of tasks • Assign higher priorities to more important tasks • Visualize deadlines by day, priority, or group • See incomplete deadlines using widgets • Search for specific deadlines • Keyboard shortcuts for faster additions • Store deadlines in iCloud • No external login required Deadline has a modern and minimalistic interface with emphasis put on smooth animations that makes it enjoyable to use: • Light and dark mode support • Minimize deadline groups you don't need to see • Filter out completed tasks to see remaining tasks • See tasks grouped by week • Color code your groups for visual distinction Everyone can initially create three custom groups and ten different deadlines. Upgrading to Pro Mode unlocks several benefits: • Unlimited deadlines and groups • Set alerts for each deadline • Access to subtasks for each deadline • Push deadlines to calendar • Create repeatable deadlines Deadlines that are pushed to the calendar are automatically updated when you change the deadline. New deadlines can be automatically pushed to Calendar from Settings, as well as setting default alerts for all deadlines.

Screenshots

Prioritize4 screens
Deadlines4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Deadlines at none against Prioritize's shown. Deadlines also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 50%). Prioritize's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Prioritize sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Deadlines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Prioritize against 4.7 for Deadlines. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prioritize has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Prioritize's written reviews are positive against 75% of Deadlines's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Prioritize versus Deadlines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrioritizeDeadlines
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (46 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake GordonBrady Simon

Customer experience

Prioritize

All ratings48 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Deadlines

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Prioritize

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
1 purchases

Deadlines

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$1.99

Questions

Is Prioritize free?
Prioritize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deadlines free?
Deadlines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prioritize or Deadlines?
Deadlines is rated higher. Prioritize averages 4.6 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Deadlines averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Prioritize or Deadlines have ads?
Prioritize shows ads; Deadlines does not.
Which is updated more often, Prioritize or Deadlines?
Prioritize ships an update every 2 months, and Deadlines every 2 months. Most recently, Prioritize was updated on October 29, 2026 and Deadlines on October 13, 2026.

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