Comparison

2Do vs Prism Notes

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

Head to head
About

2Do

This task manager helps you organize work, home, and study with flexible checklists, projects, notes, and reminders. Capture ideas naturally, set custom alerts, and sync across devices. Collaborate with others and find tasks easily with smart lists and location-based reminders.

Highlights
  • Natural language input for tasks
  • Checklists, projects, and sub-tasks
  • Notes, images, and voice recordings
  • Flexible recurring tasks and reminders
  • Smart Lists for filtered views
  • Location-based reminders
  • Collaboration over Wi-Fi
Features
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2Do is a to-do list, task manager and daily planner for iPhone. Organize work, home and study with checklists, projects, notes and reminders. 2Do for iPad and Mac are sold separately. CAPTURE IT ALL • Type naturally. 2Do recognizes dates, times, repeats, alerts, durations, priorities, tags, lists and saved locations as you type. • Hold [+] for Quick Add and enter one task after another. • Capture with Siri, Shortcuts, widgets and Control Center. Turn shared text, links, photos or videos into tasks. • Email tasks to your private Mail to 2Do address, or send a numbered list to create a checklist. • Collect ideas in the GTD Inbox and organize them later. SIMPLE TASKS, CHECKLISTS & PROJECTS • Create tasks, checklists and projects with sub-tasks. Add notes, images, voice recordings and multiple alarms. • Write notes with live Markdown formatting and keep useful links with your tasks. • Set flexible repeats, start dates and durations. Call, email or open a link from a task. • Arrange tasks in named sections within a list. LIST GROUPS, LISTS & SMART LISTS • Organize your lists in groups, alongside built-in views for upcoming, starred and scheduled tasks. • Save searches as reusable Smart Lists. Search titles, notes, tags and dates, with sounds-like matching when needed. • Filter by date, priority, status or tags. Each list remembers its sort order and Focus settings. PROJECT VIEW • Open a project to see just that project and its sub-tasks. Set its sort order independently of the list around it. TAGS • Organize tags in groups and tap a tag to filter tasks. • Combine tags with Smart Lists for the tasks you return to often. Pause a tag to hide its tasks until you resume it. LOCATIONS • Create and assign locations, find nearby tasks on a map and build location-based Smart Lists. • Get a reminder when you arrive, with location access enabled. SYNC, YOUR WAY • Sync with Apple Reminders, Dropbox, Todoist, Toodledo, iCloud, Fastmail, Fruux, Yahoo or a CalDAV server you trust. • Keep tasks in Apple Reminders across your devices and capture them with Siri. • Merge work from different devices or exclude private lists from sync. COLLABORATE • Share lists and work together over local Wi-Fi without a cloud service. • Share read-only or editable lists over iCloud with others using compatible versions of 2Do. FIND AND FOCUS • Jump to any task or list with Quick Open. • Select several tasks to schedule, defer, tag, move or edit them together. ALARMS & YOUR DAY • Set multiple alarms, automatic reminders and repeating alerts. • Use full-screen alarms on supported devices with iOS or iPadOS 26.1 or later. • See calendar events and the day timeline above your tasks to plan around appointments. MADE FOR IPHONE • Slide between your lists, tasks and the Tags, Nearby and Calendar panels. Pinch to choose how much task detail you see. • Check tasks on Apple Watch and add complications to your watch face. PASSWORDS & BACKUPS • Lock individual lists or the whole app. • Keep automatic backups, save and restore external backups, or restore a single list. Move backups between 2Do on iOS and Mac. AWARDS • Apple - Best of 2013 Mac App Store • MacStories - App of the Year 2015 iOS • Cult of Mac - Best Task Manager for iOS

About

Prism Notes

Capture thoughts and links quickly with a familiar texting interface. Organize ideas with AI-suggested tags and develop them across linked threads. Review notes to keep what matters and easily search by keyword or meaning.

Highlights
  • Texting-like note capture
  • AI-suggested tags
  • Threaded idea development
  • Review mode for notes
  • Sync across devices
  • Natural language reminders
  • Lock screen capture
Features
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Prism is the private place for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free to try! Features: - Private and on-device - Opt in to iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac - Voice transcription and voice memos - Lock screen widgets for text and voice capture - AI-suggested tags to make organizing easy or automatic AI tagging (requires apple intelligence) - Review mode to keep notes alive or let them go - Threads to evolve a thought and link them together - Search by keyword - Natural language reminders - just say "remind me tomorrow at 2pm" (requires apple intelligence)

Screenshots

2Do4 screens
Prism Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prism Notes at Free against 2Do's $9.99. Prism Notes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and device support (4 vs 2). 2Do's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). On rating, ads 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

Prism Notes is free to download; 2Do costs $9.99 up front. Prism Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 2Do asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for 2Do against 4.9 for Prism Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 150 and 39 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of 2Do's written reviews are positive against 100% of Prism Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

2Do ships an update daily, Prism Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
2Do versus Prism Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter2DoPrism Notes
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (150 ratings) — better4.9 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings150 — better39
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#17 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.6
Further details — not scored
Size167 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeehive Innovations ServicesTommy Joseph

Customer experience

2Do

All ratings150 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.3%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative10.6%

Prism Notes

All ratings39 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

2Do

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Prism Notes

One-time2
  • Lifetime Unlock$6.99
  • Lifetime Unlock$12.99

Questions

Is 2Do free?
2Do costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prism Notes free?
Prism Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 2Do or Prism Notes?
2Do is rated higher. 2Do averages 4.9 out of 5 from 150 ratings, while Prism Notes averages 4.9 from 39 ratings.
Do 2Do or Prism Notes have ads?
Neither 2Do nor Prism Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 2Do or Prism Notes?
2Do ships an update daily, and Prism Notes every 3 days. Most recently, 2Do was updated on November 7, 2026 and Prism Notes on November 5, 2026.

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