Comparison

Mini Planner vs Cost Captains

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

Head to head
About

Mini Planner

Organize projects and tasks efficiently for both personal and professional use. Create simple yet effective plans, manage child/parent task relationships, and track progress with ease. Ideal for fast-paced environments.

Highlights
  • Create task plans
  • Manage child/parent tasks
  • Edit and view tasks
  • Mark tasks complete
  • Table-like task display
  • Unlimited child tasks
Features
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The Mini Planner App enables flexible and timely project planning/task organization for a fast paced world for both private and business use. * The Mini Planner App allows users to create simple yet effective task plans for both private and business use cases. The Mini Planner App is ideal for handling the rapid pace that we all lives our lives and enables users to create tasks/lists promptly.
 * Mini Planner, example use cases, include customer facing projects plans, sales deal organization bills of work, children activity management and cooking recipe group. Ideal for business travels (conference call team) or working moms/dad that need a quick way to organize their menus.
 * The Mini Planner App displays tasks in a table-like manner with tasks sorted in alphabetic order according to function names. * Each task (or project) has Delete, Complete, Edit and View action ability. * The Complete action allows users to strike out completed tasks. * The Edit action gives users a choice to either edit parent tasks or to create a child of the parent task. * The Mini Planner App contains an easy to use interface for managing and viewing (greater than sign indicates a parent has child work) jobs in child/parents relationships. * The View action gives users a read-only view of the task name and description. * The number of the child to parent tasks is unlimited. * Child tasks have the same actions as Parent Tasks. The steps for Child tasks include Delete, Complete, Edit, and View. * After a task is in the Complete state (strike out), the only work left is Delete, as a job is ready to be deleted.

About

Cost Captains

Generate detailed cost estimates for custom construction projects. This tool simplifies the budgeting process for any building endeavor, providing comprehensive breakdowns to help you plan effectively.

Highlights
  • Detailed cost estimates
  • Custom construction projects
  • Budgeting tool
  • Project planning
Features
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This app will help you generate a detailed cost estimate for any custom construction project.

Screenshots

Mini Planner4 screens
Cost Captains4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cost Captains at Free against Mini Planner's $0.99. Cost Captains also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Cost Captains is free to download; Mini Planner costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mini Planner against 5.0 for Cost Captains. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mini Planner ships an update every 3 months, Cost Captains every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Mini Planner versus Cost Captains: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMini PlannerCost Captains
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB137 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDushan StojanovichRyan Amamoo

Customer experience

Mini Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cost Captains

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mini Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Cost Captains

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mini Planner free?
Mini Planner costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cost Captains free?
Cost Captains is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mini Planner or Cost Captains?
Mini Planner and Cost Captains are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mini Planner or Cost Captains have ads?
Neither Mini Planner nor Cost Captains shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mini Planner or Cost Captains?
Mini Planner ships an update every 3 months, and Cost Captains every 2 months. Most recently, Mini Planner was updated on October 29, 2026 and Cost Captains on October 6, 2026.

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