Deadline App vs Margin Web Notes
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
Margin Web Notes
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Margin is an Apple Pencil notebook for the web. Annotate supported Safari pages with pen, pencil, marker, eraser, lasso, and ruler tools. Share links from Chrome to save them in your library. Search, favorite, and export your pages. Notes stay on your iPad with no account, analytics, advertising, or cloud upload.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Margin Web Notes at none against Deadline App's 2. Margin Web Notes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Deadline App's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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. Deadline App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Margin Web Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Deadline App ships an update every 3 weeks, Margin Web Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadline App | Margin Web Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Elena Maltceva | Kaustubh Dhawale |
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
Margin Web Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deadline App
- Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
- Deadline Pro$9.991 Year
Margin Web Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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