Comparison

Yonks vs TaskCow

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

Head to head
About

Yonks

Track past and future events with customizable day counters. Set reminders for important milestones, add notes, and organize your events by various criteria. Discover popular event suggestions to get started.

Highlights
  • Customizable counters (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years)
  • Milestone tracking and calendar integration
  • Sortable event lists
  • Add custom notes to counters
  • Pre-made event suggestions
  • Customizable date and time formats
Features
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Yonks is a day counter app for past and future events, you would like to remember. Ever wondered how many days have been passed since you were born or since you've been married? How many weeks are left until your next vacation starts or a project must be finished? Are you counting the days since you've started your diet, daily workout or quit smoking? How many hours until a highly anticipated movie opens or the new awesome video game will be released? Yonks (British slang for "a long time") helps you to keep track of all of these dates and their notable milestones. :) KEY FEATURES - Fully customizable counters: Choose between counting minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years and select a custom emoji and color for every counter. - Milestones: See when a notable milestone occurs (e.g. "When is your 1000 day anniversary?") and add it to your calendar. - Sortable lists: Order your counters manually, alphabetically, increasing or decreasing by date or by color. - Notes: Need to remember more than just a date? No problem, just add a custom note to your counter. - Suggestions: No idea what to add? Yonks has a growing list of popular counters from a variety of categories (holidays, history, sports, movies, games, ...) for you to add with one tap. - Customizable date and time formats: Just change the date, time and number formats according to your personal preferences.

About

TaskCow

Features
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Till this day forgetting your tasks especially task meant to be done on the day itself is quite common, TaskCow focuses mainly on daily tasks so never worry anymore. Even if you don’t open the application TaskCow shows you all incomplete task(s) you have for the day in your home screen so you’ll be reminded of it making it hard for you to forget your tasks. Add Task, Delete Task, View Task, Be Reminded By Cow LIKE NEVER BEFORE FEATURES ◆ VIEW TASKS ON WATCH(Newly added in 1.4) - View all your tasks for the day, future tasks, completed tasks on your Apple Watch. - No intervention needed, whatever you do on TaskCow will be reflected on the watch automatically. ◆ VIEW ALL COMPLETED TASKS - View all your completed tasks that was automatically deleted, if you marked it completed. - Add back the task with same name and location, just left with date for you the user to set. - Totally remove records of your completed tasks. ◆ MONITOR WEATHER & FORECAST - Dynamic background throughout day & depending weather conditions ⁃ Its mainly Singapore supported since other Countries has limited request calls but it still works for other countries. ⁃ Requires Wifi and location services enabled. ⁃ Only track location for checking of weather no data will be kept. ◆ MARK TASKS AS COMPLETED OR INCOMPLETE - Those tasks marked as completed will be auto deleted after a day. ◆ FILTER HOW YOU VIEW TASK LIST IN APPLICATION , TASK TODAY OR ALL TASKS ◆ 85% OFFLINE, EXCEPT SEARCH NEARBY LOCATION FEATURE  & WEATHER FEATURE ⁃ You can enable/disable location access in your device’s setting. ⁃ It will require internet connection if not there won’t be results of locations nearby shown to you. ◆ COW-THEMED APPLICATION ⁃ Be reminded by Cow’s Moo once notification is set. ⁃ Cow inspired widgets that updates after any operations & when new day comes. ⁃ The widgets come in 3 sizes too. ⁃ The large widget allows you to click the button and be directed to the add task page directly, but only when you have the app running in background. ◆ DAILY TASK FOCUS ⁃ Task for the day will be automatically deleted after a day, same applies for widgets. ◆ DARK AND LIGHT THEMES ◆ ONLY SUPPORTED ON iPhone and M1 Macs PRIVACY ◆ THERE WILL NO TRACKING AT ALL, WE RESPECT OUR USER’S PRIVACY ABOUT ME TaskCow - Hi, my name is Caven a developer from Singapore this is my first application released on the App Store developed using SwiftUI all by myself, this application was created to integrate Cow which is one of my favourite animal of all time with Task Reminder. I enjoyed making this app since I learnt. Hope you don’t find the widgets boring but interesting since its cow themed. Thank You and please support me if you like my application. It's a free app now!! Get Your Own TaskCow Now!!!

Screenshots

Yonks4 screens
TaskCow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TaskCow at Free against Yonks's $1.99. TaskCow also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Yonks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and iOS requirement 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

TaskCow is free to download; Yonks costs $1.99 up front. TaskCow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Yonks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yonks ships an update every 5 months, TaskCow every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Yonks versus TaskCow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYonksTaskCow
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStefan GrundCaven Lim

In-app purchases

None

Yonks

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TaskCow

One-time1
  • TaskCow Donation$1.99

Questions

Is Yonks free?
Yonks costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaskCow free?
TaskCow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Yonks or TaskCow have ads?
Neither Yonks nor TaskCow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yonks or TaskCow?
Yonks ships an update every 5 months, and TaskCow every 3 weeks. Most recently, Yonks was updated on October 24, 2026 and TaskCow on October 27, 2026.

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