Comparison

Ikes vs TaskTale

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

Head to head
About

Ikes

Capture and organize text or image ideas with a dynamic feed. Intelligent search and discovery help you find inspiration and make unexpected connections. Syncs seamlessly across devices and prioritizes your privacy.

Highlights
  • Quick capture for text and images
  • Dynamic Idea Feed for discovery
  • Tag, source, and color organization
  • Intelligent search by meaning
  • Automatic idea discovery
  • Shuffle for serendipity
  • iCloud sync across devices
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Ikes is not your ordinary note app. It's built for capturing ideas and finding them again — fast. Got an idea? Read a great quote? Snapped a page from a book? Just throw it all into Ikes. Text, images, and links drop into a single feed, and you add tags, sources, and sparkles to whatever matters. Later, filters and search bring anything back in seconds. Now with a new unified export: send your whole library — or just the ideas matching your current filter — out as TXT, CSV, TSV, JSON, or YAML. JSON and YAML are designed for AI and RAG workflows, ready to drop straight into your pipeline. - Save text, images, and links instantly, with tags, sources, and sparkles. - Works inside Safari, X/Twitter, book readers, and other apps via the share extension. - Filter bar, tag/source browsers, and full-text search surface what you need. - Shuffle and random idea views bring forgotten ideas back to the top. - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — included for free. - Place your favorite quotes on your Home Screen with widgets. [ Premium features ] - Intelligent Search — semantic search across your entire idea feed. - Intelligent Discovery — surface related ideas you had forgotten. - Unified Export to TXT / CSV / TSV / JSON / YAML (Export All or Export Filtered). - Text recognition (OCR) on captured images — perfect for reading physical books. - Filter which ideas appear in widgets. - Custom color schemes and app icons. [ Ikes at a glance ] - Free iCloud sync - Text, images, and links with tags, sources, and sparkles - Share extension for 3rd-party apps - Filter bar + tag cloud - Shuffle / random view - Home Screen widgets - Dark mode - Universal: iPhone, iPad, and Mac

About

TaskTale

Organize your life and manage projects with this task manager. Create workspaces and projects, add tasks, and track your progress with time and cost calculations. Visualize your work with charts.

Highlights
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Project management
  • Task and to-do item creation
  • Time and cost tracking
  • Work charts and visualization
  • Freelance work planning
Features
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TaskTale is your personal task manager built with rich features to help you organize anything in your life, and manage your projects easily. it allows you to create multiple workspaces and every workspace has its own projects then you start adding your tasks or to-do items and work on them. You can use TaskTale to plan anything you want like your daily tasks, your freelance work, your general plans or projects, or anything you need to work on it or achieve. TaskTale will help you to do it, also it will help you to track anything you made in your tasks, and give you some charts for your work and it can calculate the time you spent on every task and the cost for it.

Screenshots

Ikes4 screens
TaskTale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TaskTale at 5.0 against Ikes's 4.7. TaskTale also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Ikes's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (31 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ikes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TaskTale sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TaskTale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ikes has 31 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Ikes's written reviews are positive against 100% of TaskTale's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ikes ships an update every 2 weeks, TaskTale every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ikes versus TaskTale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIkesTaskTale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (31 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size284 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperINCREDIBLE FOX, Inc.Adel Bassiony

Customer experience

Ikes

All ratings31 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%

TaskTale

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ikes

One-time1
  • Ikes PREMIUM$9.99
1 purchases

TaskTale

Subscriptions1
  • TaskTale Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Ikes free?
Ikes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TaskTale free?
TaskTale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ikes or TaskTale?
TaskTale is rated higher. Ikes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while TaskTale averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Ikes or TaskTale have ads?
Neither Ikes nor TaskTale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ikes or TaskTale?
Ikes ships an update every 2 weeks, and TaskTale every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ikes was updated on November 3, 2026 and TaskTale on November 3, 2026.

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