Comparison

Marklist vs 10000 Hours

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

Head to head
About

Marklist

Capture fleeting thoughts, interesting articles, or tasks to tackle later. This app consolidates search queries, notes, and unread articles into a single, organized list for efficient management and focus.

Highlights
  • Configurable search engine integration
  • One-tap note-taking
  • Auto-mark by copying links
  • Favorites and grouping
  • Web page snapshots
  • iCloud backup and sync
  • Configurable notifications and widgets
Features
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This is an app helps you manage later things in life. It must have occurred to you that at some moment, you suddenly want to learn about something, suddenly have some burst of inspiration, or suddenly see an interesting article...... But you are in the midst of other things and have to let these exciting moments fade away. Marklist is just made for this. It provides a simple list to help you store all these later things and remind you to deal with them later. ——————————————— Generally, there are three kinds of later things, 1. a keyword that needs to be looked up with a search engine, 2. an inspiration or a to-do item that needs to be recorded as a clue, 3. an article from another app that you have not finished reading. These later things are perfectly integrated into Marklist, and they correspond to three features in the main interface, 1. configurable search engine, 2. one-tap note, 3. auto-mark by copying other app links and switching to Marklist. It is not a single search engine, a single to-do list/notebook, or a single read-it-later tool. It consolidates all these later things into a single list, so you always use one tool to manage them, always keeping focused and efficient. After each later thing is dealt, you move it to the completed list. This way your main interface always stays clean and you do not have to worry about losing anything. ——————————————— In addition to above, Marklist also provides, 1. very good favorites and favorites grouping features, 2. free web page snapshots, 3. real-time iCloud backup and sync, no more worrying about data loss, 4. sticky and sorting features, so you can prioritize later things, 5. love feature that can distinguish the importance of favorites, 6. configurable notifications and widgets to remind you of recorded later things for your situation, 7. flexible search and filter, 8. QR code scanning for contents from your computer, 9. long screenshots for all kinds of contents, 10. daily and weekly statistics, 11. and countless other details not mentioned yet. The Mac version of Marklist is also available on the Mac App Store, so if you are a Mac user, you can install it together and the data will be automatically synced through iCloud in real time. ——————————————— As a developer, I want to provide a product that is easy to use, stable, and powerful. Now I think Marklist has succeeded in doing all of these. If you approve of my work, please give me a 5-star review, or recommend it to your friends. If you think Marklist still needs improvement, please contact me by email: sspsx@163.com. Anyway, thanks for using!

About

10000 Hours

Track your progress on long-term life projects with a dedicated timer. Focus on meaningful activities and build a consistent habit, visualizing your growth over time with detailed charts and widgets.

Highlights
  • Create and track long-term projects
  • View total hours, daily, and weekly trends
  • Progress charts
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Watch widgets
  • iCloud automatic sync
  • Archive completed projects
Features
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10,000 Hours turns the time you invest in a skill into visible progress. Pick something you actually want to get good at — a language, an instrument, writing, training, code — start the timer, and watch the hours add up. As your total grows, you move through ten stages, so you always know where you are on the way to mastery. This isn't a productivity app for your to-do list. It's for the one or two things you want to still be doing in five years. WHY PEOPLE STAY WITH IT Ten stages, not one number Most trackers hand you a total and leave you to feel something about it. Here, every hour moves you along a path with named stages — so 57 hours isn't just 57 hours, it's more than halfway to the next one. Built for long projects, not 25-minute sprints Set a daily target, a weekly target, or simply accumulate at your own pace. Pause for a week and nothing is lost. Your progress waits for you. Always one tap away Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, and a proper Apple Watch app. Start a session without opening your phone. Yours alone No ads. No tracking. No account. No subscription. Nothing you record ever leaves your devices — it syncs privately over iCloud and that's it. WHAT'S INSIDE - Unlimited long-term projects, each with its own stage progress - Count up or count down, with a distraction-free timer screen - Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly trends, plus a calendar heat map - Milestones and shareable achievement cards - Home Screen / Lock Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch - Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac - Archive finished projects and keep the record - Dark Mode Made by one person who can't write code — every version built with AI tools, designed by hand, and updated more than twenty times this year. 10000 Hours Pro is available as: · 10000 Hours Pro · Annual subscription — ¥15/year (about ¥1.25/month), 12-month term · 10000 Hours Pro · Monthly subscription — ¥3/month, 1-month term · 10000 Hours Pro · Lifetime — ¥25, one-time purchase, never renews Subscriptions renew automatically 24 hours before the end of the current period unless cancelled beforehand. Cancel anytime from Membership → Manage Subscription, or in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://jessiezhang0314-hub.github.io/10000hours-legal/ios/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://jessiezhang0314-hub.github.io/10000hours-legal/ios/terms.html Questions, bugs, or ideas? Email zjy0314@icloud.com — I read and answer all of them myself. --------- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Marklist4 screens
10000 Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Marklist at Free against 10000 Hours's $0.99. Marklist also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (97% vs 62%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Marklist is free to download; 10000 Hours costs $0.99 up front. Marklist sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 10000 Hours sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Marklist holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marklist has 34 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Marklist's written reviews are positive against 62% of 10000 Hours's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marklist ships an update every 2 weeks, 10000 Hours every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Marklist versus 10000 Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarklist10000 Hours
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.9 (34 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews97.2% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings34 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer思朴 宋鸿宇 彭

Customer experience

Marklist

All ratings32 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral3.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive97.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative0.0%

10000 Hours

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Marklist

One-time1
  • Marklist Pro$29.99
3 purchases

10000 Hours

Subscriptions2
  • 10000 Hours Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • 10000 Hours Pro Yearly7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 10000 Hours Lifetime Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Marklist free?
Marklist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 10000 Hours free?
10000 Hours costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marklist or 10000 Hours?
Marklist is rated higher. Marklist averages 4.9 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while 10000 Hours averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Marklist or 10000 Hours have ads?
Neither Marklist nor 10000 Hours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marklist or 10000 Hours?
Marklist ships an update every 2 weeks, and 10000 Hours every 10 days. Most recently, Marklist was updated on October 24, 2026 and 10000 Hours on October 20, 2026.

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