Comparison

Tot Pocket vs Cue

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

Head to head
About

Tot Pocket

A minimalist app for collecting and editing text across Apple devices. Organize notes with color-coded dots and enjoy seamless iCloud synchronization. Supports Markdown for web use and offers a convenient keyboard interface with count tracking.

Highlights
  • Cross-device text collection
  • Color-coded note organization
  • Dark/Light mode support
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Markdown support
  • Keyboard text operations
  • Word and character counts
Features
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Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It’s your tiny text companion! ⁕ Less Is More Tot’s single window design and simple formatting controls mean no more hunting for that chunk of text. Seven color-coded dots let you organize your notes while keeping them from getting out of hand. ⁕ Dark / Light Mode Designed to look stunning both day and night, Tot takes full advantage of iOS and macOS themes. ⁕ Small Footprint Stays out of the way on the desktop with minimal chrome and can even be controlled via the Menu bar. On mobile, each dot is just a swipe away. ⁕ iCloud Sync Seamlessly syncs your text across iOS and macOS using iCloud so you can capture thoughts wherever you are. ⁕ Markdown Support Full support for rich or plain text and even automatically translates text to Markdown for handy use on the web. Have an RTF file you need marked up? No problem! ⁕ Killer Keyboard Tot puts common text operations on the keyboard and keeps track of word and character counts as you type. Available for iOS, macOS, and watchOS.

About

Cue

Features
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It's a Widget. It's that simple. It lives on your home screen. Press and hold anywhere on your wallpaper, and add CUE Widget. CUE: ADHD Routine Widget was built around making reminders simple. Instead of asking you to open an app, unlock a screen, and scroll past everything else your phone thinks is urgent, CUE puts the one task you need to do directly on your home screen, visible before you've made a single decision about where to look. You see it, you tap it, and it's done. This is not a productivity system with color-coded projects and a weekly review you'll abandon in a couple of weeks. CUE is built around how ADHD brains move through a day, which is not in straight lines and not on anyone else's schedule. A morning routine gets built the same way a real morning happens, one visible step at a time, not as a checklist you're supposed to finish before you're allowed to feel okay about yourself. Miss a day, and CUE doesn't lecture you about it. It just shows you tomorrow's step. You don't need a diagnosis to use it. A student who reliably forgets what time her lab starts, a father running two kids and a shift schedule, a person who has lost the same set of keys four times this month, all end up using CUE the same way, which is to say they stop thinking about the system and just look at the widget. Reminders are gentle by design, because a phone that buzzes at you eleven times a day trains you to ignore it, and an ignored reminder is worse than no reminder at all. CUE asks once, clearly, at the moment that matters, and gets out of your way. Add the widget. Build one routine. Check it when you need to focus, and forget about it the rest of the time, which is the whole point. That's the pitch. The rest is just the part where you find out it works. Terms of Use: https://bigkidney-cpu.github.io/cue-landing/terms-of-service.html

Screenshots

Tot Pocket4 screens
Cue3 screens

Verdict

The call

Tot Pocket and Cue are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Tot Pocket sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cue sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tot Pocket ships an update every 3 weeks, Cue every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tot Pocket versus Cue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTot PocketCue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (238 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings238 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe IconfactoryJonny Kidney

Bugs and requests

Tot Pocket

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Data loss when using certain features
  • Keyboard issues and UI bugs
  • Unreliable syncing between devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Better share/export options
  • Ability to delete entire notes
  • More customization options
  • Apple Watch app
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  • Improved Markdown support
  • Timestamp for new notes
  • Home screen widget

Cue

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tot Pocket

One-time1
  • Tot for iOS and iPadOS$19.99
2 purchases

Cue

Subscriptions2
  • CUE Widget Monthly$3.991 Month
  • CUE Widget Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Tot Pocket free?
Tot Pocket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cue free?
Cue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tot Pocket or Cue have ads?
Neither Tot Pocket nor Cue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tot Pocket or Cue?
Tot Pocket ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cue every 6 weeks. Most recently, Tot Pocket was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cue on November 6, 2026.

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