REPStracker vs Taskratch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REPStracker
This app helps real estate investors and vacation rental owners track hours for tax benefits like Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) and short-term rental (STR) deductions. Log time manually or with a timer, record team members' hours, and upload evidence for audits.
- Track REPS/STR progress in real time
- Log time entries on the go
- Manual logging and built-in timer
- Record spouse/team members' hours
- Upload supporting evidence
- Cloud storage for data
- Downloadable data reports
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Are you a real estate investor or vacation rental owner bogged down with a huge tax burden? There are two powerful tax benefits you could claim to help build your real estate empire: - Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) - Short term rental (STR) tax benefit REPStracker helps you to streamline the process of claiming REPS and STR tax benefits. The REPStracker app is a quick and easy-to-use time tracking app, simplifying the process of logging your material participation hours. Features include: - Two apps in one: Whether you are a real estate investor for long term rentals or short term rentals, our app helps you qualify for either (or both) tax benefits - Track your REPS/STR progress in real time: No more guesswork or clumsy math. Know where you stand with your material participation hours so you can make decisions accordingly... before the end of the year. - Log time entries as you go, wherever you are: Don't wait until you're home in front of your desktop, relying on foggy memories to document your time entries. Do it as you go...in line at Home Depot or on hold with your mortgage broker. - Log your hours manually or with the built-in timer function Use the timer to improve the accuracy of your time entries, thereby strengthening your case against an IRS audit - Record your spouse or other team members' hours in the same account If your spouse is contributing to your material participation hours, our algorithm will tally these hours appropriately. If you are an STR owner and using time logs to show that your participation is more than anyone else on your team, easily log their hours so you can keep tabs. - Evidence Integration: Upload supporting evidence for each of your time entries, protecting you in the case of future audits. - Store everything on the cloud: Don't lose your data when you lose your phone. All your time entries and supporting evidence is stored securely on the cloud. - Download your data: Need a hard copy backup? Download all your time entries at the touch of a button. Sign up for a free trial subscription to activate your account - no credit card required! By downloading this app, you agree to the Apple developer EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Taskratch
This app helps manage daily tasks with a simple, elegant interface. It offers features like reordering, prioritizing, and setting recurring tasks, aiming to provide more time for personal pursuits.
- Easily order and prioritize tasks
- Assign timeframes to tasks
- Make tasks recurring
- Automatically forward undone tasks
- Highlight important tasks
- Preserve completed tasks forever
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If you enjoy the satisfaction of “skratching” off daily tasks on a paper notepad, this elegant app helps manage your tasks with ease. Easily order tasks, assign a timeframe, prioritize and highlight tasks, make them recurring, or delay them to tomorrow, but if you complete it: TASKRATCH—with seven simple functions that keep your tasks managed better than a paper note pad. We’ve tried plenty of calendar and to-do apps and frankly, we are spending too much time serving the app rather than it serving us. Most apps are overly integrated across too many platforms and there’s too many settings and notifications. Taskratch was created by accredited investors for busy people with an investor mindset. A paper notepad can’t automatically move undone tasks to the next day, and it’s bulky to take with you. You’ll find some elegant interactive solutions in this app. We believe the more you use Taskratch, the more moments you’ll have for the people and passions that matter most. How you can use taskratch: • Create a new task using the + sign. Enter your task in the long text box. • Next, in the short test box, and using any time format (e.g. 1-2pm, 1500-1530), enter the window of time you expect to work on your task. • You can hold your finger on any task and drag it to re-order if you like. • Refer to your taskratch app frequently throughout the day to accomplish your schedule, add more tasks, re-order them, push them off until tomorrow, or skratch them off your list! • Click on your square taskratch box once to “skratch” out your task, twice to highlight it as an important task, thrice to skratch out a highlighted task and four times to return your task to a normal status. • Any tasks you can’t get to today, will automatically forward to tomorrow waiting for you to arrange when you awake, or, click the forwarding arrow to manually move your task ahead one day. • Here’s a clever tip: if you push a task to tomorrow and want to return it to today, simply touch the forwarding arrow for three seconds and it will send it backward one day. • The date arrows will advance your days forward or backward so you can review or add daily tasks to a future date, or the past—if you like living in it! • If you prefer a change, click on your profile pic to edit your photo or your preferences. • Set your task to recur daily, or on specific days, weekly, monthly or annually, or switch all recurring functionality to “off” to make it a single task again. If a task is set to recur, the symbol is highlighted and the forwarding arrow is grayed out. • Skratched out tasks are preserved forever on the day they were scratched out. We hope you enjoy taskratch! Please send us feedback through the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Taskratch at 5.0 against REPStracker's 4.3. Taskratch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). REPStracker's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. REPStracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $32.00 per month. Taskratch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Taskratch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: REPStracker has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of REPStracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Taskratch's.
| Parameter | REPStracker | Taskratch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REPStracker | BaruzoTech Private Limited |
Customer experience
REPStracker
Taskratch
In-app purchases
REPStracker
- Monthly Subscription$32.001 Month
- Annual Subscription$304.991 Year
Taskratch
No in-app purchases








