TOM vs Aligned
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TOM
This app offers a structured approach to home management, helping users stay on top of household tasks without it consuming their lives. It provides daily tasks, an 8-week cleaning plan, guided sessions, and customizable routines to reduce mental load and free up time and energy.
- Daily non-negotiable tasks
- 8-week rolling cleaning plan
- Guided cleaning and cooking sessions
- Customizable routines and task rollover
- Reduces mental load of household chores
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More life. Less housework. The TOM App is your calm in the chaos. Created by Gemma Bray, founder of The Organised Method (TOM), it helps you stay on top of the house without it taking over your life. A smart, structured approach to managing your home, so you’ve got more headspace, more time, and more energy for everything else. Inside the app: Daily Tasks – A simple set of non-negotiables to keep things ticking over. 8-Week Rolling Plan – Clean smarter, not harder, with a focus for each day. TOM Rocks – Guided sessions to keep you company (and on track) while you clean, cook, or get life sorted. Customisable Routines – Add your own tasks, roll over jobs, tailor the plan to your home. Mental Load Lightened – Designed to take the thinking out of what needs doing next. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed or just want a method that actually works, this is home management without the faff. Start your 7-day free trial today. Because there’s more to life than housework Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Aligned
This app helps you understand the difference between your planned and actual daily schedule. Log activities as they happen to identify patterns and improve your routine consistency. It offers flexibility with custom start times and grace periods for activities.
- Plan ideal routines with timings and reminders
- Log actual activity timings
- Analyze weekly, monthly, and quarterly trends
- Flexibility window for on-time logging
- Customizable start of the day
- Offline functionality
- iCloud sync and manual backups
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A schedule tracker that helps you understand the gap between your planned vs real schedule to help you improve your routine consistency. No streaks, no checkmarks to chase. Aligned shows you whether your day is drifting from your plan or getting closer to it. Aligned lets you set your ideal routine, log when activities actually happened, and shows drift patterns that help you to improve over time. START IN MINUTES, NOT FROM A BLANK PAGE Answer a few quick questions about your day, and Aligned builds a starter schedule for you: wake up, meals, work, wind-down, bedtime. Adjust any time with a tap, then make it yours. HOW DOES ALIGNED WORK? Plan your ideal routine: Set your daily activities with specific timings and reminders to follow. Customise activities by day of the week — choose different activities, or different timings for the same activity, on different days. Track what actually happens: Log the activities as they happen and capture your actual timings, including your meals, sleep and work time. Log directly from the home screen widget without even opening the app. This will help you to understand your real behaviour with ease. See your patterns clearly: Understand how your routine evolves over time with: - Weekly trends - Monthly patterns - Quarterly insights See whether you are drifting away or getting closer to your ideal routine. Designed for real-life use cases: - Flexibility window: Add a small time buffer so an activity is considered on time if completed within 10–15 minutes of the planned time. - Custom start of the day: Set your day start time based on your routine. The order of activities will be adjusted based on the start of the day. You don’t have to follow fixed times like 5 AM. - Day-wise customisation: Weekdays don't look like weekends — set different activities and timings for different days of the week. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Works completely offline, no account needed - Automatic iCloud sync and manual backups - Manage your backups with ease — restore or delete individual backups anytime - Manual export anytime PERFECT FOR: - Remote workers and WFH professionals whose days blur without structure - Anyone dealing with sleep issues or digestion problems caused by irregular meal timings - Students and professionals who want to build consistent, trackable routines - Anyone who wants to understand their drift and close the gap over time FREE FEATURES: - Track up to 5 activities in your daily routine. - Export your data to CSV (up to 3 times) - Detailed insights of the last 7 days of activity ALIGNED PLUS+ - Track unlimited activities with no limits. - Unlimited CSV exports for full data access - Automatic iCloud sync for seamless backup - Manual backup & restore across devices - Detailed insights of 30 days and 90 days of activity Aligned Plus is available quarterly, annually or as a lifetime access. Unlike a typical planner, Aligned is a schedule tracker with insights, which is built to help you understand how you actually live, not just how you plan to. Start planning, tracking, and improving your routine today with Aligned. Privacy policy: https://prismtree.com/privacy-policy/ User license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aligned at 5.0 against TOM's 4.0. Aligned also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%). TOM's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (49 vs 3). On price, 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
Both are free to download. TOM sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and Aligned sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Aligned holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TOM has 49 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of TOM's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aligned's.
TOM ships an update every 2 weeks, Aligned every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TOM | Aligned |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (49 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Bray | prismtree |
Customer experience
TOM
Aligned
Bugs and requests
TOM
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to log in or reset password
- Saved tasks and customizations not persisting
- Timer functionality issues when phone is locked
- Incompatibility with certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to roll over tasks to next week
- Calendar view for tasks
- Collaboration features for households
- Offline mode for audio guides
- Customizable reminders and notifications
Aligned
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TOM
- The Organised Mum7 Days trial$3.991 Month
Aligned
- Aligned Plus - Quarterly14 Days trial$2.993 Months
- Annual Plus14 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Aligned Plus - Quarterly Family14 Days trial$5.993 Months
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- Annual Family14 Days trial$9.491 Year
- Aligned Plus - Annual14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Aligned Plus - Annual Family14 Days trial$18.991 Year
- Lifetime Plus$14.99
- Lifetime Plus Family$24.99
- Aligned Plus - Lifetime$29.99
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- Aligned Plus - Lifetime Family$49.99








