Comparison

Tasks vs Notepods

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 decisions with the work. Only the person sharing needs Tasks Plus; the people you invite can collaborate for free. You can bring your AI assistant into the project too. Connect a compatible assistant through MCP to help create and update tasks, leave comments, and track time. You choose which projects it can access and can revoke access at any time. 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/

About

Notepods

This app offers a centralized hub for organizing your life with specialized 'pods' for various needs like journaling, counting, budgeting, and checklists. It allows for collaboration and seamless syncing across Apple devices via iCloud, keeping your data private and accessible.

Highlights
  • Purpose-built 'pods' for diverse needs
  • Photo journaling and memory capture
  • Simple counting and tally tracking
  • Spending tracking with budgeting
  • Collaborative checklists
  • Visual trend charts for data
  • Time elapser and reminders
Features
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Notepods gives you a centralized hub to actively and passively write down and keep track of your life in a wide variety of ways. With easy-to-use, purpose-built pods, you will not only have the information you need but see it in the ways it was meant to be seen. Share the fun with all of your family and friends by sending any pod as a copy on iMessage or invite them to write on the pods along with you. The best part is, all of your pods are stored directly on your device only. With iCloud, your pods can stay available across your Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) without requiring another account or login. Choose from a wide variety of pod categories that seamlessly fit any need: CAPTURE MOMENTS Never forget a moment in your life, big or small, with a header, caption, date, and photo. Moments pods are simple photo journaling to give memories a simple home without turning them into a long journal of entries. Open one later and relive the whole moment. Share them as copies to share the fun COUNT THINGS Keep a simple running count of anything you care about. Add or subtract with a tap. Timestamp your entries to track when each instance happened. Great for keeping tallies, tracking occurrences, counting activities, or anything else where a number tells the story. With timestamping, unlock a new dimension such as habit tracking. TRACK SPENDING Stay on top of your spending by quickly recording purchases with an amount and category so you can keep an eye on where your money is going. Add your own budget number when you want to stay within limits. Group your spending into different buckets for a more organized overview of your spending. MAKE CHECKLISTS Create clean, simple checklists for shopping, goals, packing, errands, or whatever you need to get through. Progress is shown automatically as you check each item off. Each item can be numbered, great for sequencing, ranking, and prioritizing. Collaborate with other users by sending invitations to join and watch the lists update in realtime on everyone's devices. TRACK TRENDS Numbers become much more useful when you can see how they’re changing over time. Let Notepods turn your entries into a visual trend chart. Use it for anything measurable that you’d rather understand on a graph than in a wall of text. LOOK FORWARD OR BACK IN TIME Create a Time Elapser for something meaningful and see exactly how much time has passed. This can span across hours, days, months, and years. Whether you’re counting from an important event or simply curious how long it’s been since something took place, the passage of time becomes something you can see at a glance. Add reminders when a certain amount of time has elapsed from now or reset the clock to start from zero again. SAVE LABELED INFORMATION Some information doesn’t need a paragraph...It just needs a name and a value, like that 10-digit ID number that you don't want to remember or a website URL. Keep useful details organized as labeled text so they’re easy to view and copy when you need them. FAVORITES Some pods deserve more attention. Easily favorite any pod and quickly find it in the Favorites tab SEARCH Quickly find the pod you need by header or content with the search function WIDGETS Notepods also supports widgets for simple counters, labeled text, time elapsers, and countdowns so they can be seen and used without opening the app. Same notes. Better structure. More functional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYLcUGgTXvMw-aBG1DlKN__ztLJahYJTSoGvccW440A/edit?usp=sharing

Screenshots

Tasks4 screens
Notepods4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notepods at 5.0 against Tasks's 4.6. Notepods also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Tasks's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 4) and device support (5 vs 2). 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. Tasks sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Notepods sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notepods 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tasks ships an update weekly, Notepods every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tasks versus Notepods: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTasksNotepods
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.9K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMsquare Labs Technologies Private LimitedBHARGAVA TEJA RAMISETTY

Customer experience

Tasks

All ratings1,912 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews313 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral13.7%
Negative22.7%

Notepods

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Notepods

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tasks

Subscriptions8
  • 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
One-time2
  • Tasks Plus Lifetime - Individual$59.99
  • Tasks Plus Lifetime - Family$99.99
3 purchases

Notepods

Subscriptions2
  • Notepods+ Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Notepods+ Annual Subscription$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Notepods+ Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Tasks free?
Tasks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notepods free?
Notepods is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tasks or Notepods?
Notepods is rated higher. Tasks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Notepods averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Tasks or Notepods have ads?
Neither Tasks nor Notepods shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tasks or Notepods?
Tasks ships an update weekly, and Notepods every 3 days. Most recently, Tasks was updated on November 7, 2026 and Notepods on October 31, 2026.

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