Comparison

JournalReminders vs calmtasks

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

Head to head
About

JournalReminders

This app combines a to-do list with journaling features. It syncs with your device's reminders, offers smart delay options, and allows you to write and review journal entries. "On This Day" helps you revisit past experiences.

Highlights
  • Syncs with Reminders app
  • Smart Delay for reminders
  • Journal entry creation
  • Review completed reminders
  • "On This Day" feature
  • Calendar event integration
Features
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To-do list app with timer. Reminders tab โ€ข Syncs with Reminders app. (Required.) โ€ข Favorites for quick reminder creation. โ€ข Smart Delay scatters reminders throughout today or a month. Write tab โ€ข Write journal entries. Review tab โ€ข Review today's completed reminders before saving to journal. Read tab โ€ข Read journal entries. โ€ข "On This Day" shows past entries from the same date. See where you spent time. Settings tab โ€ข Copy Calendar events to Reminders. Support: vibecoder.company@gmail.com

About

calmtasks

Features
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Save it, view it, play it, forget it. calmtasks holds the links, files, photographs, video, audio and dates that belong to a task, and opens them where the task is โ€” so the things you would otherwise keep in a bookmark app, a downloads folder and your own head are in one place. Organise it three levels deep, read the account from any CalDAV client, and take everything back as one zip. No subscription, no advertising, and nothing collected that the app does not need to work. WHAT A TASK CAN HOLD Links, photographs, PDFs, scans, audio and video. They open where the task is: pinch to zoom an image, read a PDF, play a recording, follow a link. Nothing goes to a separate folder or a separate app, so the quote, the serial number, the photograph and the page you found them on are in one place a year later. PROJECTS Three levels: context, then category, then project. Work โ†’ Clients โ†’ Hendersons, or Home โ†’ House โ†’ Bathroom. Each task also carries tags, a flag, notes, a status and a duration. SHARE SHEET ROUTING Share anything into calmtasks from another app and it becomes a task. Then choose, once, where each kind of shared item goes: โ€ข links โ€ข photographs and video โ€ข files โ€ข calendar events โ€ข plain text Each can land in a different project, so a URL from Safari and a photograph from Photos stop arriving in the same place. RECURRING TASKS Repeats use RFC 5545 rules, the same standard calendars use, so "the first Monday of every month until June" is one task rather than twelve. Start, due and completion are three separate dates, and each task also has a duration. CALENDAR AND MAP Month and day calendar views. Tasks given a location appear together on a map. CALDAV ACCESS Your account is readable by any CalDAV client โ€” Apple Calendar, Fantastical, Thunderbird. Tasks with dates appear alongside your other calendars. You sign the client in with your email address and a token the app generates. SEARCH Across every field at once: names, notes, tags, projects and contexts, as you type. EXPORT AND IMPORT Export everything as one zip: the tasks as CSV and as JSON, with every attached file alongside them. The same zip imports back. Nothing is locked to the service. ON THE WEB, AND FROM YOUR OWN CODE Everything is also at calmtasks.com in a browser, on the same account. There is a documented HTTP API with an OpenAPI description at calmtasks.com/api/docs. SIGNING IN An email address and a six-digit code. There is no password to reuse, leak or reset. WHAT WE HOLD Your email address, your tasks, the files you attach, and โ€” only if you give a task a location โ€” that location. That is what the service runs on. We do not sell it and we do not track you between apps. The full policy is at calmtasks.com/privacy.

Screenshots

JournalReminders4 screens
calmtasks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: calmtasks at weekly against JournalReminders's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JournalReminders ships an update every 2 weeks, calmtasks weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
JournalReminders versus calmtasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJournalReminderscalmtasks
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.1 โ€” better18.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB16 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSeung-Un HamElaine Bevington

In-app purchases

None

JournalReminders

No in-app purchases

None

calmtasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JournalReminders free?
JournalReminders is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is calmtasks free?
calmtasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JournalReminders or calmtasks have ads?
Neither JournalReminders nor calmtasks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JournalReminders or calmtasks?
JournalReminders ships an update every 2 weeks, and calmtasks weekly. Most recently, JournalReminders was updated on October 7, 2026 and calmtasks on October 5, 2026.

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