Crit List vs The Quantified Self
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crit List
This task manager helps you focus on your most critical to-dos by displaying only the top 10 tasks at a time. Easily manage tasks with intuitive swipe gestures for moving or deleting them. It also offers a web version for access across devices.
- Focus on top 10 critical tasks
- Swipe right to move tasks
- Swipe left to delete tasks
- Task status cycling (later, critical, complete)
- Web version available
- Developed quickly for demonstration
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Simplify your life by keeping a special TODO list of only your most critical tasks. Each list shows only the top 10 tasks, that way you’ll never overload yourself! Swipe right to move a task. Swipe left to delete a task. Full swipe right to move a task to the a default destination: later -> critical critical -> complete complete -> later Crit List is also available on Web: https://critlist.jamesonsaunders.com Crit List was developed on camera in 2 days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRmjngNALA
The Quantified Self
This app helps you manage recurring tasks and habits, prioritizing them by urgency, due date, or importance. It offers automation based on location or NFC tags, performance tracking, and workload adjustment. Organize habits into projects and review your past activities.
- Recurring task management
- Habit tracking (good and bad)
- Automation via location/NFC
- Habit organization into projects
- Performance tracking over time
- Workload adjustment based on bandwidth
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Manage your recurring tasks and your habits (good and bad), and see your intentions laid out by urgency, due date, or importance. You can also: - Automate your habits based on location, health, or NFC tags - Organize habits into projects - Track your performance over time - Right-size your habit workload by your available bandwidth - Peruse your timeline of past habits Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crit List at none against The Quantified Self's 4. The Quantified Self's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 22 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. The Quantified Self sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Crit List asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crit List ships an update every 22 months, The Quantified Self every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crit List | The Quantified Self |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bot Group LLC | Jared Clifton-Lee |
Customer experience
Crit List
The Quantified Self
In-app purchases
Crit List
No in-app purchases
The Quantified Self
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Quarterly$5.493 Months
- Pro Biannual$10.496 Months
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- Pro Yearly$20.491 Year
Questions
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