Comparison

Instint vs Sincerely

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

Head to head
About

Instint

This app helps families manage household chores, track birthdays, and share photo memories. Parents can assign tasks to children, set up rewards, and receive notifications for task completion. It also includes a feature for sharing family photos on home screens.

Highlights
  • Chore assignment and rewards for children
  • Birthday reminders and event planning
  • Real-time photo sharing widget
  • Household task management for parents
  • Task status updates and notifications
  • Family status sharing
Features
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Instint is a productivity app for families. With Instint, you can manage your household chores by assigning them to children and rewarding them for completing chores. The 'Pay Day' reminders allow you to ensure that your children are rewarded for completed their chores on time. The app has notifications for assigning new tasks, when they're completed, and when they're approved. Instint is a quick and fun way to stay on top of your family's chores. With the app, one or more parents can assign and mark tasks as complete for the entire family. Families can even use Instint to share their current status privately with each other. Keep track of birthdays with the entire family, plan celebrations together, and now you could also share photo memories right on your family's home screens with the real-time Memories photo widget. It's the best way to stay together all day even when you're not there with each other. Instint wants to become the productivity and task management app for families of all sizes. We want to make chores fun for all! You can create an account using Sign In with Apple, or using an email address. The account is required to be able to invite family members to your household and to enable notifications. Our goal is to make this process as easy as possible, especially for children. To create a household, all you need to do is scan a QR code displayed on your screen with your kids' phones. Some features: • No collecting and sharing of your personal information • A Birthdays tab to be able to remind yourself of upcoming birthdays as well as block time on your shared calendar for family activities • Photo Memories feature to see your wonderful family members' pictures on your Home Screen • Easy sign-in using Sign in With Apple • Household customization, including auto-approval of completed chores • Easily assign chores and tasks to kids • Made a mistake? No problem! Edit or delete assigned tasks • Could be used by one or more parents to manage the household • Parents could also assign tasks to another parent for a complete chore management functionality • Capability to send simple reminders to complete tasks • Approve and reject completed chores • Ability to mark a status as 'In-Progress'. Soon: ask someone for help! • A history view to browse all previously assigned and completed tasks • Widgets to keep an overview of tasks to be completed or approved • An upcoming birthdays widget • Simple and functional Status functionality to share what you're up to with the entire family. All without excessive notifications or algorithms • Actively developed with a long list of features in the pipeline We are working on some more amazing new features, and would be releasing them from time to time. Thank you for being a part of our journey! It is only possible with your help and support. Instint is not built to use your data for tracking or showing ads. There are no marketing notifications or email lists to opt out of. We are working towards creating a sustainable app that does not rely upon selling your information to stay in business. This is an app that would grow with your family members. While we now support pay-days that reward children with money, we plan to add even more reward types. This is an app that is fun to use for every age group, and we even use it to improve Instint itself! We are developers and designers with decades of experience building amazing apps, and our hope is that Instint would become a daily part of your household. We look forward to reading your feedback!

About

Sincerely

Never forget important dates or personal details again. This app helps you track custom occasions, remember likes and dislikes, and manage gift ideas for everyone you know. Stay organized with home screen widgets and timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Custom occasion reminders
  • Contact profile tracking
  • Gift idea organizer
  • Home screen widgets
  • Time-sensitive notifications
  • Searchable occasion lists
Features
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In a world overflowing with events, moments, and milk cartons with expired dates, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to remember it all? What if you had a friend that new all the big and small occasions, to give you a little reminder? Here's how it works: - Remember occasions for anything From holidays to the day you adopted your pet turtle, Leonard. Our custom occasions feature ensures you can remember every event that is important to you. - Track likes & dislikes With detailed contact profiles, you'll remember Aunt Linda's newfound love for salsa dancing or Kelly’s latest kitchen disaster. - Easily sort & search all occasions Customized lists for any occasions you want, half-birthdays, holidays, first day of school, anything you want. - Gift ideas tracker Give better gifts by writing down the small wants you hear about from someone throughout the year, making that time of year stress-free. - Home screen widgets See upcoming occasions front and center. - Time-sensitive notifications When occasions get close we will send you notifications so you have plenty of time to prepare. Forgot Grandma’s birthday again? We didn’t. And hey, we're here to ensure you remember next time. Can’t remember if it’s your third or fourth anniversary? No worries, your friends here at sincerely-est know, we won’t tell if you don’t...

Screenshots

Instint4 screens
Sincerely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sincerely at 100% against Instint's 0%. Sincerely also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Instint's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support 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

Both are free to download. Instint sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Sincerely asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Instint ships an update every 4 weeks, Sincerely every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Instint versus Sincerely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInstintSincerely
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB59 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSaurabh GargVilidea LLC

Customer experience

Instint

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Sincerely

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Instint

One-time5
  • Coffee Tip$2.99
  • Breakfast Tip$3.99
  • Lunch Tip$8.99
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  • Brunch Tip$12.99
  • Family Dinner Tip$22.99
None

Sincerely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Instint free?
Instint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sincerely free?
Sincerely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Instint or Sincerely have ads?
Neither Instint nor Sincerely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Instint or Sincerely?
Instint ships an update every 4 weeks, and Sincerely every 4 months. Most recently, Instint was updated on September 9, 2026 and Sincerely on September 14, 2026.

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