LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes vs Loom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes
This app combines journaling, planning, and note-taking into a single, organized platform. Track your mood, plan your days with time blocking, manage to-do lists, and monitor habits and goals. Capture ideas, organize collections, and utilize a Pomodoro timer for enhanced productivity.
- Daily journaling with mood tracking
- Day planner with time blocking and calendar sync
- To-do lists with customizable stages
- Habit and goal tracking
- Notes and collections organization
- Built-in Pomodoro timer
- Cross-device syncing and offline access
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Your journal. Your planner. Your notes. Finally, one app that does it all. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Daily journal with rich timeline, mood tracking, and reflections • Day planner with time blocking, Apple Calendar & Reminders sync • Weekly and monthly views for planning ahead • To-do lists with 5 stages: idea, to do, active, pending, finalized • Habit tracker for building routines • Goal tracker for fitness, health, and personal growth • Notes and outlines for capturing ideas • Collections for movies, books, recipes, and more • Built-in Pomodoro timer • Home screen widgets • Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web • Syncs across all your devices • End-to-end encryption • Works offline • No ads. Ever. GETTING STARTED • Watch the quick start videos in the app • Pick one thing: journal, planner, or tasks • Explore more when you're ready TRY RISK-FREE 60-day money back guarantee. Not for you? Full refund, no questions asked. ABOUT THE DEVELOPER Hi, I'm Hai, the solo developer behind LiveIt. Since 2017, over a million people have used the app to organize their lives. I read every review and email — your feedback shapes what I build next. CONNECT • Support: hai@doit.me • Reddit: r/liveitapp • YouTube: youtube.com/@liveitapp • Guide: liveit.me/guide TERMS & PRIVACY • Terms of Use (EULA): https://liveit.me/terms • Privacy Policy: https://liveit.me/terms
Loom
This app helps you organize your life by connecting your purpose, goals, and daily actions into a single system. It goes beyond simple task management to help you define your ideal life and build momentum through small wins and personalized AI guidance.
- Define desired life and organize into key areas
- Turn goals into focused action plans
- Attach details to actions (due dates, places, attachments)
- Build momentum with 'Little Wins'
- Personalized AI guidance and suggestions
- Identify areas needing attention for rebalancing
- Optional Apple Health integration for progress tracking
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Your life is not a to-do list. When goals, habits, plans, notes, and daily actions are scattered across different tools, it is easy to stay busy without feeling in control. Loom brings them together in one guided life management system, connecting the direction you want your life to take with the areas you want to continually improve, the outcomes you want to achieve, and the actions you can take now. HOW LOOM WORKS - Purpose: Define your larger Vision, then explore four Passion lenses: what you love, what you are committed to, what excites you, and what you refuse to tolerate. Together, they create a lasting compass for the life you want to build. - Fulfillment Areas: Create 3-7 areas you want to continually improve, such as health, career, relationships, or wealth. Give each area a Mission, an Identity to live into, supporting Passions, and Little Wins. Fulfillment Areas are continually strengthened, not completed. - Goals: Define a specific outcome, why it matters, when it begins, its target date, and the Fulfillment Area it supports. Add a measurable target when numbers would make progress clearer. - Projects: Organize larger results into milestones and the actions required to reach them. Give each milestone a date range, connect the work that moves it forward, and see how the full result develops over time. - Action Plans: Turn captured actions into focused weekly execution. Define the Result you are committed to, connect the relevant Fulfillment Area, Identity, and Goals, then rank the actions that matter most as Musts. - Little Wins: Strengthen important areas through small, repeatable actions. Little Wins build consistency without mixing recurring behaviors into your finite task list. - Capture: Save new actions before they are lost, then add them to an Action Plan when you are ready to organize and act on them. - Reflection: Close an Action Plan by reviewing the Result, recognizing progress, and deciding what to complete, reschedule, revise, or carry forward. - LoomAI: Get help clarifying Goals, drafting Action Plans, suggesting Little Wins, rewriting notes, and exploring priorities using the context already in Loom. You review and approve what enters your system. WHY LOOM IS DIFFERENT Most productivity apps are designed to help you keep track of more. Loom helps you decide what deserves your time and make your effort count. Loom creates a clear line from the life you want to the actions you take today. When everything feels important, Loom helps you stop reacting to whatever feels most urgent, choose what matters now, and keep one demanding part of life from taking over everything else. Instead of piecing together a task manager, goal planner, habit tracker, notes app, journal, and disconnected AI chats, Loom gives each part a meaningful place in one connected system. You do not just collect tasks. You can understand why they matter, what they support, and whether your daily actions are moving your life in the right direction. For complex actions, add execution details such as dates, duration, status, people, places, notes, links, and attachments. Optionally use permitted Apple Health signals with supported Goals and Little Wins, keep progress close with widgets, and share assigned actions through Loom in Messages. Research on goal setting, implementation intentions, and habit formation informs Loom's design. These studies did not evaluate Loom, and Loom does not promise clinical or guaranteed outcomes. Loom requires an in-app purchase for continued access. Monthly, annual, and lifetime options are available through the App Store. End stress. Live fulfilled. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes at 4.7 against Loom's 4.1. LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes also leads on ratings volume (246 vs 7) and review sentiment (79% vs 67%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Loom sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes has 246 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes's written reviews are positive against 67% of Loom's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes | Loom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (246 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 246 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 619 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Doit Apps OU | SPENCER RAY DAUGHERTY |
Customer experience
LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes
Loom
Bugs and requests
LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes on photo upload
- Black screen errors
- Login authentication failures
- Sync failures between devices
- Update loop preventing app access
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- Data disappearing from calendar view despite existing in database
- App closes unexpectedly during entry composition
- iPad version won't open or update
- Set Color option crashes app
- Apple Pencil input not working
- Security lock feature not persisting
- Notification system not triggering for tasks
Requested features
13 requests- Voice note recording capability
- Financial/budgeting template
- Habit categorization/organization
- Advanced recurring task scheduling (e.g., third Thursday of month)
- Apple Watch app
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- iCloud and local calendar sync support
- Drag-and-drop task rescheduling
- Text font and size customization in trackers
- Achievement/reward system for goals
- Link and sketch embedding capability
- Portuguese language support
- More granular notification controls per block
- Ability to schedule repeating tasks by specific dates
Loom
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LiveIt Journal, Planner, Notes
- Monthly subscription14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
- Lifetime$99.99
Loom
- Loom Monthly$15.001 Month
- Loom Annual7 Days trial$79.001 Year
- Founding Member (Lifetime)2 variants$129.00
Questions
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