Deadlines vs Fast Idea Book
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deadlines
Easily monitor your tasks with a visual progress bar. Input deadlines using natural language and manage them with intuitive gesture swipes. Future updates aim to include notifications and smartwatch integration.
- Visual progress bar for tasks
- Natural language date recognition
- Gesture swipe controls
- Task deadline tracking
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Keep track of all your deadlines by glancing at how much work you've done on them. -Gesture swipe -Natural language recognition for dates -Progress bar I'm working on adding notifications, a widget, and an Apple Watch app down the line!
Fast Idea Book
Quickly capture fleeting thoughts via text, voice, or photo with a single tap. Access your ideas through widgets, the Share Sheet, or Siri. Organize and review them later, with advanced features unlocked via subscription.
- One-tap text, voice, and photo capture
- Home Screen capture widget
- Share Sheet integration
- On-device voice transcription
- Tags and quick review
- Siri integration
- iCloud sync
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A frictionless capture pad for the ideas you would otherwise lose. If you have ever woken at 3 AM with a great idea and nothing to write it on, or watched a brilliant phrase evaporate while you opened a heavier app, Fast Idea Book is for you. It is a calm, on-device idea book built around one job — capture the thought before it fades — and one principle: never make you wait or sign in. Open the app and you are already typing. Quick notes save with a single keystroke. Brainstorm freely without folder rituals, then tag entries afterward when your brain wants structure. Voice memo capture for hands-free moments, brain-dump templates for foggy mornings, and a search that surfaces the half-remembered note in seconds. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep the latest idea visible, and the interface ships in 39 languages with full accessibility. Built for writers, founders, students, designers and anyone whose best ideas arrive at the worst possible moment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fast Idea Book at 5.0 against Deadlines's 2.5. Deadlines's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fast Idea Book holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadlines | Fast Idea Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marwan Elwaraki | Bahattin Duran |
Customer experience
Deadlines
Fast Idea Book
In-app purchases
Deadlines
No in-app purchases
Fast Idea Book
No in-app purchases
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