Comparison

Structured vs MindSpill

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

Head to head
About

Structured

This app offers a visual timeline for planning your day, helping you stay focused and productive. It's designed to build effective routines and manage tasks, making time blocking simple and intuitive for busy individuals.

Highlights
  • Visual timeline planner
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Inbox for quick capture
  • Sub-task breakdown
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Calendar and Reminders integration
  • AI-powered planning
Features
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Plan your day visually. Stay focused. Get things done. 400,000+ five-star ratings · Trusted by 1.5 million active users The daily planner built for how your brain actually works. Map your tasks and calendar onto a visual timeline, block your time with intention, and finally build a routine that sticks — whether you have ADHD or just a lot on your plate. WHY STRUCTURED WORKS Most planners give you a blank page. Structured gives you a timeline. You see your whole day laid out, with every task, event, and routine in order. It's time blocking made simple. Built for ADHD minds, busy professionals, and students who need more than a to-do list. FREE FEATURES - Visual day planner with an intuitive drag-and-drop timeline - Inbox to capture ideas fast and sort them later - Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac - Break big projects into sub-tasks with notes - Pomodoro focus timer, Live Activities, and interactive widgets - Color-coding and hundreds of icons to personalize your schedule - Accessibility built in: VoiceOver, Voice Control, dyslexia-friendly font, and multiple languages STRUCTURED PRO - Connect your calendars and Reminders for a complete daily schedule organizer - Build recurring tasks and routines - AI-powered day planning: draft your schedule in seconds - Replan: automatically reschedules missed or forgotten tasks - Custom notifications to match your workflow PERFECT FOR - ADHD-friendly daily planning that actually sticks - Time blocking your work and study sessions - Morning routine and evening routine planning - Students managing class timetables and study tasks - Anyone who wants a simple to-do list app with a timeline view - Habit tracking alongside your daily task planner YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY Structured isn't just a task manager or a habit tracker. It's the daily planner that puts everything in one place — so you can plan your day, build better habits, and get things done without the overwhelm. Structured Pro is available monthly, annually, or as a lifetime purchase. Terms & Privacy: https://structured.app/legal

About

MindSpill

Organize your tasks, notes, and calendar events in one unified view. Capture thoughts naturally through voice or text, and let the app untangle them into actionable items. Integrates with your existing calendar and offers export options.

Highlights
  • Unified task, note, and calendar view
  • Natural language input (voice & text)
  • AI-powered task breakdown
  • Real-time calendar integration
  • Export to Apple Reminders, Calendar, Notes, Notion
  • Home screen widgets
  • On-device voice transcription
Features
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Say what's on your mind. Messy is fine. MindSpill gives you back your whole day — tasks, notes, and your real Apple Calendar, together on one screen instead of scattered across three apps. Something big? Ask it to break it down. And if it's simple, it'll tell you that instead. SAY IT ONCE Talk the way you'd talk to a friend who's about to help — half-finished, out of order, jumping around. No blank field to stare at, no format to get right. Your voice is transcribed on your device. Prefer to type? Type it messy. Point the camera at a whiteboard, a school letter, a handwritten list, and MindSpill reads the text. Paste a link and get the parts you actually need to act on. IT COMES BACK UNTANGLED The problem was never that there's too much. It's that everything is stuck together and you can't see where to pull. Say "dentist Thursday at 4" and it's there on Thursday at 4, with a nudge before it. Say "call the dentist Thursday" and it's waiting on your Plan that morning. Say "I should call the dentist" and it sits in Ongoing, showing up every day until you deal with it — and never once nagging you about it. Say "pay rent on the 1st of every month" or "team sync every other Tuesday at 10" and it repeats on its own. When plans change, move just that one, or change all the ones after it. YOUR REAL CALENDAR, IN THE SAME VIEW The events already on your iPhone appear right beside what you captured, so you can see your actual day in one place. No copying, no importing. MindSpill also checks for conflicts before you schedule something, so you find out before it's a problem. ROOM TO BREATHE MindSpill finds the open time in your day and offers it to the things that are waiting. On a packed day, it suggests a short Mind Break in a gap. And when something has sat there for days, you can let it go — no guilt, no red marks. TOLD STRAIGHT Tap Break it Down on anything you've been avoiding. Sometimes it splits into steps. Sometimes it surfaces the thing you'd have forgotten. Sometimes it just tells you this one's simple and to go do it. Most apps' AI always has something to say. This one knows when a task doesn't need help. GOES WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE A widget on your home screen that reads like your plan, where you can tick things off. A word to Siri. And when you want something somewhere else, send it: Apple Reminders, Apple Calendar, Apple Notes, or Notion. NO STREAKS. NO SHAME. Miss a day and nothing happens. There's no number to protect, no chain to break, no notification asking where you've been. A quiet weekly view shows where your time actually went — no scores, no judgement. ALSO IN THIS APP - Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, kept in sync with MindSpill Pro - In English, Deutsch, Español and Français - Siri Shortcuts and App Intents - Home screen widgets you can tick tasks on - Comments on tasks and notes - Search everything you've ever said PRIVACY Voice transcription happens on your device — your audio never leaves your phone. Photos are read on-device and only the text is kept. The text of a spill is sent to our AI service to be sorted, only after you agree. Your data is never sold or used for advertising. PRICING Everything is free for 7 days — the full app, nothing held back. After that, MindSpill Pro is $5.99/month or $49.99/year, renewing automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. When your trial ends, you keep what you made. Your spills, tasks and notes stay, and you can still view, edit, complete and export them. Terms: https://mindspill.app/terms Privacy: https://mindspill.app/privacy

Screenshots

Structured4 screens
MindSpill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Structured at 169K against MindSpill's 1. Structured also leads on chart position (#90 vs unranked). MindSpill's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Structured sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and MindSpill sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MindSpill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Structured has 169K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Structured ships an update every 9 days, MindSpill every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Structured versus MindSpill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStructuredMindSpill
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (169K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings169K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#90 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size292 MB15 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerunorderly GmbHNeon Media Limited Liability Company

Customer experience

Structured

All ratings168,625 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews3,742 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral8.0%
Negative14.2%

MindSpill

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Structured

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recurring subtasks not unchecking properly
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Glitches when changing task times

Requested features

7 requests
  • Drag and drop to rearrange tasks
  • Ability to push back all tasks
  • Shared calendars and task lists
  • Routines and habit tracking
  • More icon categories and search
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  • Customizable notifications
  • Improved Apple Watch and Mac support

MindSpill

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Structured

Subscriptions9
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)$6.991 Month
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)$7.991 Month
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  • Structured Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Structured Pro (Lifetime)$99.99
2 purchases

MindSpill

Subscriptions2
  • MindSpill Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • MindSpill Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Structured free?
Structured is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindSpill free?
MindSpill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Structured or MindSpill?
MindSpill is rated higher. Structured averages 4.8 out of 5 from 169K ratings, while MindSpill averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Structured or MindSpill have ads?
Neither Structured nor MindSpill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Structured or MindSpill?
Structured ships an update every 9 days, and MindSpill every 4 days. Most recently, Structured was updated on November 11, 2026 and MindSpill on November 9, 2026.

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