SyncOnSet 5.0 vs Deadlines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SyncOnSet 5.0
This Emmy Award-winning tool streamlines TV and film production for creative departments. It digitally manages script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, and approvals from prep to wrap, optimizing workflows and communication.
- Digital script breakdowns
- Continuity photo management
- Inventory tracking
- Approvals and notes
- Department-specific workflows
- Pre-production to wrap management
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SyncOnSet is an Emmy Award-winning digital continuity and collaboration tool that helps streamline TV and Film production from prep to wrap. With SyncOnSet, your whole team can digitally manage script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, approvals, notes, and much more! Designed for Costume, Hair, Makeup, Props and Set Dec departments, SyncOnSet helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the life of a project. Creative departments use SyncOnSet production apps from pre-production (script breakdown and budgeting) to principal photography (continuity notes and photos), through wrap (wrap labels and reports).
Deadlines
Organize your daily tasks with this modern to-do list manager. Create custom groups, assign priorities, and visualize deadlines. Upgrade for unlimited tasks, alerts, subtasks, and calendar integration.
- Custom task groups
- Priority assignment
- Deadline visualization
- Incomplete task widgets
- iCloud storage
- Light and dark modes
- Subtasks and alerts (Pro)
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Deadlines is a modern, productive task manager tool to help organize your daily list of jobs. You can create custom groups to separate your tasks however you like, such as by classes and projects. Boost your productivity with the following features: • Create custom groups for different types of tasks • Assign higher priorities to more important tasks • Visualize deadlines by day, priority, or group • See incomplete deadlines using widgets • Search for specific deadlines • Keyboard shortcuts for faster additions • Store deadlines in iCloud • No external login required Deadline has a modern and minimalistic interface with emphasis put on smooth animations that makes it enjoyable to use: • Light and dark mode support • Minimize deadline groups you don't need to see • Filter out completed tasks to see remaining tasks • See tasks grouped by week • Color code your groups for visual distinction Everyone can initially create three custom groups and ten different deadlines. Upgrading to Pro Mode unlocks several benefits: • Unlimited deadlines and groups • Set alerts for each deadline • Access to subtasks for each deadline • Push deadlines to calendar • Create repeatable deadlines Deadlines that are pushed to the calendar are automatically updated when you change the deadline. New deadlines can be automatically pushed to Calendar from Settings, as well as setting default alerts for all deadlines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deadlines at 75% against SyncOnSet 5.0's 3%. Deadlines also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.7). SyncOnSet 5.0's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (61 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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. Deadlines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SyncOnSet 5.0 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Deadlines holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SyncOnSet 5.0 has 61 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of SyncOnSet 5.0's written reviews are positive against 75% of Deadlines's.
SyncOnSet 5.0 ships an update monthly, Deadlines every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SyncOnSet 5.0 | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (61 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 2.5% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | wymsee Inc. | Brady Simon |
Customer experience
SyncOnSet 5.0
Deadlines
In-app purchases
SyncOnSet 5.0
No in-app purchases
Deadlines
- Pro Mode$1.99







