Tasks vs Routine Roaster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tasks
Organize your to-dos, reminders, and projects in one place. Capture ideas instantly, visualize progress with Kanban boards, and attach all necessary details to tasks. Collaborate with others and track your time effectively.
- Capture tasks with natural language
- Switch between lists and Kanban boards
- Break down tasks into subtasks
- Attach notes, links, and files
- Set location-based reminders
- Collaborate on shared projects
- Track time spent on tasks
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Keep your day clear and your projects moving. Tasks brings your to-dos, reminders, and shared projects together in one place. Plan a busy week, organize a trip, or take a project from first idea to finished. Start with a simple list and add the structure you need as you go. CAPTURE IT WHILE IT'S ON YOUR MIND Type “Send the report tomorrow at 3pm” and accept the suggested date and time. Tasks recognizes dates, repeats, priorities, and locations as you type. Add tasks with Siri, save something from another app, or turn an email into a task with the original message attached. SEE WHAT'S NEXT, AND WHAT'S MOVING Switch between lists and Kanban boards. Give each project its own stages, such as Planned, In Progress, and Waiting, so you can see where things stand. Break bigger tasks into subtasks, add tags and priorities, and use Smart Lists to bring the right work together across projects. KEEP THE DETAILS WITH THE TASK Add notes, links, images, PDFs, and emails so you have what you need when it's time to act. Customize each project's fields and keep conversations in comments. A task can hold the whole story, from the first brief to the final decision. MAKE TIME FOR FOCUSED WORK Start a timer on a task and see where your time goes. On iPhone and iPad, block distracting apps while you work. Follow your session from a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and, on supported iPhones, the Dynamic Island. REMINDERS THAT FIT REAL LIFE Set reminders for a date, a time, or when you arrive at or leave a place. Repeat tasks on a schedule or a set time after you finish them, ideal for routines that don't always happen on the same day. Connect Apple Reminders to keep your existing lists in sync. SHARE THE WORK, KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP Plan with your partner, family, or team. Share a project, assign tasks, and use comments and @mentions to keep every decision right where the work happens. The people you invite collaborate for free. Bring your AI assistant into the project too. Connect it through MCP to create and update tasks, leave comments, and track time. You choose which projects your assistant can access and what it can change. FEEL AT HOME ON YOUR APPLE DEVICES Use Tasks on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Keep tasks close with widgets, capture ideas from your wrist, and build everyday automations with Siri and Shortcuts. Sync lets you pick up where you left off on another device. Make Tasks feel like yours with Classic, Mono, and Paper themes, your choice of heading and body fonts, and light or dark mode. Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support help you work comfortably. START WITH YOUR NEXT TASK Download Tasks for free. Tasks Plus adds unlimited projects, custom workflows and fields, sharing, attachments, Smart Lists, sync, and more. Choose a subscription or a lifetime purchase in the app. Made by an independent developer who cares about the details. Questions or ideas? Write to tasks@msquarelabs.com. Privacy Policy: https://thetasks.app/legal/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://thetasks.app/legal/terms/
Routine Roaster
This app tracks your daily routines with a unique coaching system. Choose from five distinct personalities or create your own to receive personalized feedback, including roasts for missed tasks and celebrations for achievements. It prioritizes user privacy with no account required.
- Personalized coaching with unique personalities
- Customizable coaches with AI-generated voices
- Daily routine tracking and check-offs
- Progress statistics (completion, streaks)
- Private by default with iCloud backup
- Optional notifications and message types
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Routine Roaster is a habit tracker with an opinion. Set your routines, pick which days they run, then check them off. That part is ordinary. What isn't is the coach who notices. Each morning they tell you what's on. If the day is still open, they nudge. And the next day they deliver a verdict on yesterday: a roast if you let it slide, a small celebration if you didn't. FIVE COACHES, FIVE TONES - Asian Mom: disappointed in you, but with love - Mom: gentle, warm, quietly keeping score - Friend: hypes you up, roasts you gently, never actually mad - Boss: everything is a deliverable, and you are a resource - Enemy: actively rooting for your failure OR WRITE YOUR OWN Describe any character in a sentence and they get a voice and a face. A retired drill sergeant. A cat that is sweet but cold. Your future self, disappointed. Keep two coaches of your own for free. THE REST - Monday-to-Sunday week at a glance, tap to check off - Routines on any pattern of days, with an optional end date - 30 days of stats: completion rate, current streak, best streak, day by day - The last 15 things your coach said, kept so you can share the good ones - Four kinds of message, each one optional: the morning lineup, the nudge, the roast, the win - Turn any notification off and still read the message inside the app PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-in. Nothing to log into. Your routines and the coaches you write are backed up to your own iCloud, so they survive a reinstall and follow you to a new phone. Your check-off history stays on your phone and is kept for 90 days. We never see any of it. Writing a coach with Pro sends the description you typed, and a check that your device is genuine. Nothing else. Routine Roaster will not be nice to you. That is the point.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Routine Roaster at 100% against Tasks's 64%. Routine Roaster also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). Tasks's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 2) and device support (5 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Tasks sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Routine Roaster sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Routine Roaster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasks has 1.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Tasks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Routine Roaster's.
Tasks ships an update every 9 days, Routine Roaster every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasks | Routine Roaster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Msquare Labs Technologies Private Limited | Yen-Tin Liu |
Customer experience
Tasks
Routine Roaster
Bugs and requests
Tasks
Reported bugs
5 issues- Tasks not syncing correctly
- Inability to delete tasks
- Crashes when adding comments
- Unreliable date and time handling
- Inconsistent behavior when rearranging tasks
Requested features
7 requests- Recurring tasks
- Calendar integration
- Ability to move tasks between projects
- Global tag management
- Expanded note-taking capabilities
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- Shortcuts and automation support
- Batch task editing and management
Routine Roaster
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tasks
- Tasks Plus (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Tasks Plus Family (Monthly)$7.991 Month
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- Annual (Offer)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Tasks Plus$24.991 Year
- Tasks Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Annual (Offer)14 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Tasks Family Plus$49.991 Year
- Tasks Plus Lifetime - Individual$59.99
- Tasks Plus Lifetime - Family$99.99
Routine Roaster
- 5 Pro Generations$1.99
- 3 More Coaches$2.99









