Comparison

Deadline App vs Mood Board

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

Head to head
About

Deadline App

Easily create and manage all your important deadlines. Receive timely notifications to ensure you never miss a due date. Visually track the remaining time for each task.

Highlights
  • Create deadlines
  • Set notifications
  • Track time left
  • Deadline management
  • Task reminders
Features
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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.

About

Mood Board

Organize and store all your creative project ideas and inspiration in one place. This app allows you to add various content types, sort, filter, and sync across your Apple devices. Upgrade for unlimited workspaces, folders, and tags.

Highlights
  • Unlimited items and workspaces
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Multiple content types (text, image, file, etc.)
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Sort, filter, and duplicate items
  • Dark mode and native design
  • Widgets and app shortcuts
Features
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Meet Creativit, a powerful digital moodboard that is designed to help you plan out and launch your next big creative project much faster. With Creativit, you can store all of your ideas and inspiration for all of your creative projects in one convenient place that you can sync across multiple Apple devices connected to your iCloud account. Creativit lets you add an unlimited number of items that can be organized into different folders and tags that you can add and customize yourself. With Creativit, you can add the items of different types, such as text, links, images or any other files you wish. You can also add an unlimited number of workspaces to organize and manage all of your larger projects even more efficiently. Creativit is built with privacy and security in mind because we truly believe that you shouldn’t even have to worry about what data the app collects because Creativit just doesn’t collect any personal data linked to you at all. All of your data is being stored locally on your device and securely synced via iCloud. We have also designed Creativit to be as intuitive and easy to use as possible, and it will definitely feel right at home on any of your Apple devices, all thanks to its fully native design. Creativit offers an extensive variety of features that you can use completely for free forever, but if you feel that the free functionality is not enough for your needs, you can always upgrade to Creativit Premium for even better experience. With Creativit Premium, you get an access to an unlimited number of workspaces, folders and tags that you can add and customize. KEY FEATURES: - One workspace for your creative projects - Up to two folders to help you organize all of your ideas and inspiration - Unlimited number of items with your ideas and inspiration that you can add - iCloud sync - 5 different content types (Text, link, image, file, task) - Ability to sort your items using a pre-defined or a custom sort order - Ability to reorder your items however you want - Ability to filter your items using various filter options - Ability to duplicate your items - Ability to archive the unnecessary items that you don't want to delete yet - Ability to customize the toolbar for your items lists or grids (iPadOS only) - Gorgeous dark mode - Fully native design - Support for focus filters to help you minimize the distractions and focus on what actually matters to you at any given time - Support for app shortcuts on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 - Home Screen quick actions - Beautiful Lock and Home Screens widgets - Available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS PREMIUM FEATURES: - Unlimited workspaces that will definitely help you organize and manage all of your larger projects - Unlimited number of folders that you can add - Access to tags that you can use to organize all of your ideas and inspiration for your creative projects however you wish - Bulk editing to help you edit all of your items more efficiently - 10 different app icons for you to pick the one that fits your Home Screen the most - 15 different tint colors that you can choose from to make the app feel more unique to you - Custom appearance (System, light and dark) If you have any questions or concerns regarding our app, we are always here to help you! Just reach out to us at info@designtech.so. Terms of service: https://designtech.notion.site/DesignTech-Terms-of-Service-18cc124eba4080c58316f2ed81f84bff. Privacy policy: https://designtech.notion.site/DesignTech-Privacy-Policy-18bc124eba40809eba48e6af249ebd2c.

Screenshots

Deadline App4 screens
Mood Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mood Board at fortnightly against Deadline App's monthly. Mood Board also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Deadline App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mood Board sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Deadline App against 4.5 for Mood Board. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 101 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Deadline App's written reviews are positive against 55% of Mood Board's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deadline App ships an update monthly, Mood Board fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Deadline App versus Mood Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeadline AppMood Board
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (63 ratings)4.5 (101 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews — better54.5% of reviews
Number of ratings63101 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElena MaltcevaDesignTech SIA

Customer experience

Deadline App

All ratings63 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral15.6%
Negative22.1%

Mood Board

All ratings101 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral13.6%
Negative31.8%

User reviews

Deadline App

From 63 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Clean, minimalist design
  • 👁️ Clear visual deadline representation
  • ⚡ Simple and intuitive interface
  • 📱 Widget functionality for quick access
  • 🎯 Effective deadline tracking

Room to improve

  • 💰 Aggressive monetization strategy
  • 🔐 Synchronization issues across devices
  • ⚠️ Limited free version functionality
  • 🐛 Widget display problems
  • 📵 Lack of notifications

Mood Board

From 101 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Well-designed and functional
  • 👍 Great for organizing notes, links, images
  • 👍 Integrates well with iOS, iPadOS, MacOS
  • 👍 Simple and aesthetically pleasing interface
  • 👍 Useful for teachers' lesson plans

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues between devices
  • 🐛 No undo/recover button, accidental deletion risk
  • 🐛 App freezes when loading files
  • 🐛 Images compressed, not original size
  • 🐛 Videos not supported

Bugs and requests

Deadline App

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

Mood Board

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Share to Creativit finicky, locks up
  • Accidentally deleted entire workspace, no recovery
  • App freezes when loading any file from Mac
  • Sync doesn't work, bug preventing file sync
  • Link previews not showing after iOS 18 update
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  • Image previews not loading unless tapped
  • Synchronization between devices works poorly
  • PNG images not displayed on cards
  • Cannot switch between workspaces on iPad/iOS
  • Grid view of folder broken, opens wrong item
  • No photo on one item, only text file open
  • No links or lists on some items
  • Mac OS 12 compatibility issue
  • Shortcuts don't allow quick capture, just opens app
  • Premium advertisement false, price issues
  • Cannot restore premium purchase
  • Clearing cache deletes everything without confirmation
  • Free version impossible to use
  • Cannot insert Pages files into folders

Requested features

15 requests
  • Support multi-picture and video addition
  • Add adaptive or waterfall display for folders
  • More control over item presentation (image adjustment, scaling)
  • Undo or recover button
  • Warning before deleting items/workspaces
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  • Support for Mac OS 12
  • Export to .CSV
  • Copy button (instead of duplicate)
  • Allow multiple photos per item
  • Video controls (pause, seek)
  • Easier quick capture (e.g., Safari extension)
  • Ability to select multiple tags for search
  • Subfolders
  • Vary text look (fonts, etc.)
  • Share Sheet and Apple Shortcuts support

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Deadline App

Subscriptions2
  • Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
  • Deadline Pro$9.991 Year
3 purchases

Mood Board

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Deadline App free?
Deadline App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mood Board free?
Mood Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Deadline App or Mood Board?
Mood Board is rated higher. Deadline App averages 4.5 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Mood Board averages 4.5 from 101 ratings.
Do Deadline App or Mood Board have ads?
Neither Deadline App nor Mood Board shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deadline App or Mood Board?
Deadline App ships an update monthly, and Mood Board fortnightly. Most recently, Deadline App was updated on October 24, 2026 and Mood Board on October 24, 2026.

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