TooSoon vs Deadline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TooSoon
Easily track important upcoming dates with a clear countdown view. Spot urgency with color-coded ranges and keep your next event visible on your home screen, lock screen, and Apple Watch. Sync deadlines across devices for seamless organization.
- Clear countdown view for deadlines
- Color-coded urgency indicators
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch integration
- Cross-device iCloud sync
- Repeating deadline support
- Fast, uncluttered interface
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TooSoon helps you stay ahead of deadlines with a clear countdown view for the dates that matter most. See upcoming due dates at a glance, spot urgency with color-coded ranges, and keep your next event visible on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, and widgets. TooSoon is also available as a native Mac app with an optional menu bar companion, so your dates stay visible at your desk too. Perfect for: - Exams and study deadlines - Work deliverables and project milestones - Bills, renewals, and appointments - Birthdays, trips, and personal events Why people use TooSoon: - Count down in weeks and days - Set repeating deadlines for routines, renewals, and recurring events - Highlight urgent dates with a customizable color scale - Switch between upcoming deadlines and past events - Sync deadlines across devices with iCloud - Check upcoming dates from iPhone, iPad, Mac, widgets, and Apple Watch - Stay focused with a fast, uncluttered interface
Deadline
Track upcoming events and deadlines with visual progress bars. Utilize interactive widgets, Live Activities, and notifications to stay on top of what matters. Organize deadlines by category, pin important ones, and add notes for comprehensive management.
- Visual progress bars for deadlines
- Interactive Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Live Activities and Dynamic Island integration
- Timely notifications
- List and Columns view
- Deadline categorization and pinning
- iCloud synchronization
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Deadline shows how much time is left before what matters: every deadline gets a progress bar that fills up day by day. Follow your deadlines in interactive widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, in Live Activities and Dynamic Island, and get notifications right on time. View deadlines in List or Columns mode, sort them into categories, pin the important ones and add notes. Deadline works on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch and syncs through iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Deadline at 4.5 against TooSoon's 4.0. Deadline also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (63 vs 3). TooSoon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Deadline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. TooSoon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Deadline holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deadline has 63 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TooSoon ships an update every 3 months, Deadline every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TooSoon | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 62.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Bernhard | Elena Maltceva |
Customer experience
TooSoon
Deadline
Bugs and requests
TooSoon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Deadline
Reported bugs
14 issues- Widget not displaying deadlines on Mac
- App freezing when creating multiple tasks
- Synchronization failures between iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
- Purchase restoration not working on all devices
- Incorrect deadline display (showing wrong remaining time)
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- Live activities not updating progress bar over time
- Widget showing blank on Intel Mac
- Notifications triggering incorrectly (wrong timing)
- App crashes and data loss
- Calendar write access permission issues
- Widget not syncing with app data
- Lagging when scrolling through many deadlines
- Live activities disappearing randomly
- Completed deadlines auto-deleting after 30 days without user control
Requested features
20 requests- Display deadlines in days format instead of percentage
- 12-hour time format option
- Task categories/organization by type
- Recurring/repeating deadlines
- Progress bar fill visualization
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- Overdue task indicators
- Share and copy to clipboard functionality
- Countdown mode without completion requirement
- Multiple widget selection options
- Automatic calendar integration
- Line break support in notes/descriptions
- Image attachment capability
- Lifetime purchase option
- Working days calculation (excluding weekends)
- Task deletion functionality
- Bidirectional time counting
- Family/shared task support
- Today button for quick start date setting
- Notification customization and frequency control
- Light mode theme option
In-app purchases
TooSoon
No in-app purchases
Deadline
- Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
- Deadline Pro$9.991 Year
