Comparison

Simplish Planner & To Do List vs Forem Tasks

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

Head to head
About

Simplish Planner & To Do List

This app combines your calendar, tasks, notes, and team messaging into one organized system. It helps you achieve work-life balance with compartmentalized workspaces and a daily planner, offering over 30 organizing features. Designed for mobile, it streamlines your life and reduces chaos.

Highlights
  • Integrated calendar, tasks, and notes
  • Compartmentalized workspaces
  • Daily planner tool
  • Recurring tasks
  • Drag and drop weekly planner
  • Smart reminders
  • Team messaging and collaboration
Features
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Finally all your calendar, tasks, notes, team messaging and more all in one place. Simplish is a beautiful, thoughtfully designed GTD based day planner that gives you structure and confidence in your everyday life. ACHIEVE TRUE WORK LIFE BALANCE: Simplish is the only productivity app that is designed from the ground up to help you balance all the things in your life. Organize work, life, interests, school work, etc. in compartmentalized workspaces, then use the day planner tool to bring everything in one place. THE MOST LOVED DAY PLANNER APP: 5 stars - "I can honestly say I am the most organized I have ever been. “ 5 stars - “This app is such a life saver. I had list sin 6 different places and now I can just have everything in this one place. I LOVE Simplish“ LESS CHAOS AND CONFUSION: Create a system that brings order and organization into your life. Access over 30+ amazing organizing & planning features like recurring tasks, drag and drop weekly planner, smart reminders, pinboards, notes, highlights, and much more. STOP WASTING TIME: Nothing is more important than your time. Chances are if you don’t have a good system to keep track of things, you are wasting a lot of time and frustration in your life. Simplish is simply the best time management app to streamline your life so you aren’t waiting your most important resource in your life. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTIVITY APP BUILT FOR A PHONE: Unlike many other tools that think of their mobile app as an afterthought, Simplish is designed specifically for mobile organization. So much of your best thoughts come from when you are inspired in the world. Whether you are poolside, at a restaurant bar, or just going for a walk, Simplish has powerful touch-based intuitive features optimized for prioritizing and planning on the go. ORGANIZE WITH OTHERS: Share tasks, todo lists, pinboards with a partner or co-worker. Simplish makes it easy to collaborate on just about anything from general family life, work projects, wedding planning, creative projects and anything else you can imagine. IS SIMPLISH FOR ME? Simplish is designed specifically for people who have a lot on their plates. It helps with context switching and group coordination in a way no other app comes close to doing. You’ll feel more focused and confident in your day and will be able to handle multiple things at once without feeling overwhelmed. At the core of Simplish is something more than just a productivity tool - it is a path forward to be a more mentally healthy person. Based on months of research on productivity and positive psychology, Simplish is designed to help boost your mood; from the colors that we have chosen, the positive daily affirmations and features like the Daily Planner which is a shortlist of tasks to help you stay focused and present every single day. No more wasting brain power on the question, “What should I do next?” SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Contact support is on Instagram @simplish_app *********************** • Auto-renewable subscription • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Privacy policy: www.simplish.co/privacy • Terms of Use: www.simplish.co/terms-of-use

About

Forem Tasks

This app helps you manage tasks, plan your day, and stay organized with a powerful yet simple interface. It offers smart task entry, a focus timer, and productivity insights to enhance your workflow. Enjoy a private, offline-first experience with optional cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Smart task entry with natural language processing
  • Organize tasks into lists and projects
  • Built-in focus timer (Pomodoro technique)
  • Productivity insights and streak tracking
  • Daily planner with calendar sync
  • Reusable task templates
  • Offline-first functionality with optional cloud sync
Features
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Is it becoming challenging for you to manage your daily tasks? Will you like to take help from a smart list maker and task organizer app? Eliminate unnecessary clutter and stress from your life by effectively managing your daily tasks and following specific lists. Be it your overdue grocery shopping spree, a halted personal project or friction in completing your daily tasks, you can always take from this smart app designed to assist you in managing your life effectively. Become more productive by sorting and organizing your duties in a simple yet effective way. Try Forem Tasks – Task Organizer now! Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with ForemSoft Tasks. Make shopping lists or task lists, to improve your productivity and focus on what matters. Stay Organized With Tasks Lists Are you lagging behind your work schedule? Is procrastination taking up chunks of your available time? If that is the case, you need to take control of your available time and seek help from a task organizer app to sort out your daily tasks. Forem offers you this amazing feature of creating tasks lists where you can add multiple tasks corresponding to different time slots throughout the day. Simply create a list, create a name, add different to-do items in the list and add time or day corresponding to each task. Viola! Your life is sorted for the most part. Create and Manage Shopping Lists Do you tend to be forgetful while going shopping? Will you, for once, like to complete the purchasing of all the items in your shopping list without forgetting anything? With Forem Tasks – Task Organizer, you can create grocery shopping, personal shopping or any other type of shopping lists. Simply create a list, add items and put different numbers corresponding to the quantity of any item that you need to buy. Stay on top of your shopping necessities and never miss an important item again! De-Clutter Your Schedule Effectively Multiple scientific studies have validated the influence of pending tasks in increasing the degree of procrastination in different people. The main culprit behind low productivity in life is cluttered schedule and lack of proper, organized system to do your tasks daily. With Forem, you can de-clutter your life by organizing your tasks in different to-do lists. On top of that, you can enable task reminders so your app will automatically tell you when a task is due soon! User-friendly Interface, Smooth Response On Forem Tasks – Task Organizer, everything from list creation till setting the time for different tasks is smoother, quicker and easier than any other platform. The user-friendly interface helps you save more time and effort on your everyday life tasks. Features of Forem Tasks – Task Organizer • Simple and easy to use task organizer app UI/UX • Create and organize items in shopping lists or to-do lists • Add time, date and task reminder next to different task entries • Enable notifications to receive task reminders and stay on top of your schedule • Tasks, subtasks, lists, tags, priorities & Daily Focus • Due dates, reminders, repeats (including set weekdays), location alerts and auto-rollover • Add tasks by natural language or voice in seconds • Month, week and agenda views, quick-add, drag to reschedule, Google and Apple Calendar sync • Search by tag, filter by priority, date and starred, save Smart Filters • Focus Timer, time tracking, Priority Matrix, task dependencies and templates • Streaks and activity heatmap to build better habits • Works offline, optional cloud sync, shared lists, backup and home-screen widget • Light and dark themes, multiple languages Are you ready to sort your life and enhance productivity? Download and use Forem Tasks – Task Organizer today!

Screenshots

Simplish Planner & To Do List4 screens
Forem Tasks3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simplish Planner & To Do List at 76% against Forem Tasks's 0%. Simplish Planner & To Do List also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (920 vs 1). Forem Tasks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simplish Planner & To Do List sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Forem Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simplish Planner & To Do List holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simplish Planner & To Do List has 920 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Simplish Planner & To Do List's written reviews are positive against 0% of Forem Tasks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simplish Planner & To Do List ships an update every 10 days, Forem Tasks every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Simplish Planner & To Do List versus Forem Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimplish Planner & To Do ListForem Tasks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (920 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews76.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings920 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer52 Spring LLCForem Software

Customer experience

Simplish Planner & To Do List

All ratings920 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral4.1%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral12.4%
Negative11.5%

Forem Tasks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Simplish Planner & To Do List

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues and inability to create accounts
  • Calendar view limitations beyond 2021
  • Inconsistent task management behavior

Requested features

5 requests
  • Desktop/web app version
  • Habit tracking functionality
  • Customizable task repeat options
  • Ability to rearrange workspace order
  • Improved task editing and organization

Forem Tasks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Simplish Planner & To Do List

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly PRO upgrade7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • English$17.993 Months
  • Yearly PRO3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Offer$39.99
None

Forem Tasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simplish Planner & To Do List free?
Simplish Planner & To Do List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forem Tasks free?
Forem Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simplish Planner & To Do List or Forem Tasks?
Simplish Planner & To Do List is rated higher. Simplish Planner & To Do List averages 4.7 out of 5 from 920 ratings, while Forem Tasks averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Simplish Planner & To Do List or Forem Tasks have ads?
Simplish Planner & To Do List shows ads; Forem Tasks does not.
Which is updated more often, Simplish Planner & To Do List or Forem Tasks?
Simplish Planner & To Do List ships an update every 10 days, and Forem Tasks every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simplish Planner & To Do List was updated on September 21, 2026 and Forem Tasks on July 7, 2026.

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