Deadline vs Common Hours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deadline
This app helps you visualize and track upcoming deadlines with progress bars. It offers interactive widgets for home and lock screens, Live Activities, and timely notifications. Organize your deadlines with lists, columns, categories, pins, and notes.
- Progress bar visualization
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Live Activities and Dynamic Island support
- Customizable categories and notes
- iCloud synchronization
- List and Columns view modes
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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.
Common Hours
This app offers a novel approach to coworking, connecting users for shared work sessions. It facilitates focused productivity by enabling individuals to work together remotely. Discover a new way to collaborate and get things done.
- Novel coworking approach
- Remote collaboration
- Focused productivity sessions
- Shared work environments
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A new type of coworking app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Common Hours at 5.0 against Deadline's 4.5. Common Hours also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Deadline's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Common Hours asks for nothing beyond the download.
Common Hours holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deadline has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Deadline ships an update every 2 weeks, Common Hours every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadline | Common Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Elena Maltceva | Alexander Kim |
Customer experience
Deadline
Common Hours
Bugs and 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
Common Hours
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deadline
- Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
- Deadline Pro$9.991 Year
Common Hours
No in-app purchases
