Deadline App vs Today
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create deadlines
- Set notifications
- Track time left
- Deadline management
- Task reminders
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Create deadlines Set notifications for them Track the time left
Today
This productivity app offers a unique approach to task management by gamifying your to-do list. Tasks that are repeatedly postponed escalate and demand attention, while completed tasks contribute to your "K/D Ratio" and career progression. It features interactive notifications and lock screen widgets for seamless task handling.
- Escalating tasks that demand attention
- K/D Ratio tracking (Kills vs. Dodges)
- Interactive notifications with action buttons
- Lock screen and home screen widgets
- Ambient lighting themes and custom sounds
- Private by design, no accounts or tracking
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Today is one clean list for today and the six days ahead. No calendars, no projects, no clutter — just what needs to happen now. But here's the twist: Today fights back. Push a task off too many times and it escalates — flaming on your list, taking over your lock screen, re-alerting until it's handled. Handle it, and the fire goes out. YOUR STATS, LIKE A SCOREBOARD Every completion counts. Track your K/D RATIO — Kills (tasks you finished) vs Dodges (tasks you kept pushing off until they caught fire) — build streaks, and climb career ranks from Recruit to Legend on your own after-action report. ACT FROM ANYWHERE Press and hold any reminder — Done, +1 Hour, and Tomorrow buttons appear right on the notification. Widgets keep your mission on the lock screen and home screen. MADE TO FEEL PREMIUM Ambient lighting themes, a console-style startup, and a Sound Lab where every sound is yours to choose. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No tracking. Your data never leaves your device. Free: your daily list, times, reminders, notification actions, and automatic rollover of unfinished tasks. Today Pro: urgent re-alerts, widgets, themes and ambient colors, extended history and planning. Privacy Policy: https://goatedtoday.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Today at 100% against Deadline App's 62%. Today also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Deadline App's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Today sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Today holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deadline App has 63 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Deadline App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Today's.
Deadline App ships an update every 3 weeks, Today every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadline App | Today |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elena Maltceva | ISAIAH MICHAEL PARADA |
Customer experience
Deadline App
Today
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
Today
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deadline App
- Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
- Deadline Pro$9.991 Year
Today
- Today Pro$8.997 Days
- Today Pro$99.991 Year
