Comparison

Plocs vs Emery

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

Head to head
About

Plocs

This app helps users plan and achieve their goals by breaking them down into actionable steps. It facilitates collaborative work on goals with friends, providing a clear path to progress.

Highlights
  • Goal planning
  • Step-by-step task breakdown
  • Progress tracking
  • Collaborative goal achievement
  • Friend-based teamwork
Features
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Plocs is a free, goal-oriented task manager that helps you achieve your goals: * Plan the steps needed to achieve your goals * See what you can do to work towards your goals

About

Emery

This daily planner helps you organize your tasks into three categories: Fires, Growth, and Extras. It features time blocking, calendar syncing, and note-taking to provide clarity and focus without judgment.

Highlights
  • 3-Bucket System (Fires, Growth, Extras)
  • Time Blocking
  • Calendar Sync (Google, Outlook, Apple)
  • Meeting Sorting
  • Notes and Projects
  • No Overdue Badges or Streaks
Features
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Emery is the guilt-free daily planner. Every morning starts fresh. No red overdue badges. No broken streaks. No "you completed 47% of your tasks" making you feel like you failed. Open the app, see today, sort in five minutes, work. Miss a day? Miss a week? Come back and the app is still ready. Three empty buckets. No judgment. And it won't become another dead app on your phone. We use Emery every morning and answer every support email ourselves. It's been in active development for years – not built over a weekend and abandoned. The 3-Bucket System Every morning, sort your tasks into three groups: – Fires – will cause real problems if you skip them today – Growth – moves your career, business, or goals forward – Extras – helpful but not critical Fires first. Then protect time for Growth. Extras fill the gaps. The whole sort takes about 5 minutes. You start your day with clarity – not a 30-item list and zero direction. Time Blocking Drag and drop tasks onto your calendar to protect your time: – Block time for Fires so they get done – Reserve focused hours for Growth work – Fit Extras into the gaps Sort Your Meetings Too Sync your Google, Outlook or Apple calendar and apply the same three buckets to meetings. See which ones move things forward – and which ones just fill your calendar. Calendar Sync – Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar support – Connect multiple calendars in one view – Add private notes to meetings Notes and Projects – Capture notes and ideas anytime – Organize tasks and notes by project – Keep meeting context in one place Who It's For Emery is for people who own their schedule – managers, solopreneurs, freelancers, anyone who decides what to work on today. It's not a project management tool. It's not an AI that schedules your day. And it's not another app that punishes you when you stop using it. 5 minutes every morning. A clean page. Real progress by the end of the day. Sort your day. Start today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Plocs4 screens
Emery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Emery at 4.2 against Plocs's 3.7. Emery also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (29 vs 3). Plocs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Emery sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Plocs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Emery holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Emery has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Plocs's written reviews are positive against 68% of Emery's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plocs ships an update monthly, Emery weekly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Plocs versus Emery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlocsEmery
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.2 (29 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews68.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings329 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStaudenmeyer Consulting GesbRStaffpass Limited

Customer experience

Plocs

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Emery

All ratings29 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative26.3%

In-app purchases

None

Plocs

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Emery

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium Quarterly3 Days trial$39.993 Months
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Plocs free?
Plocs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Emery free?
Emery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plocs or Emery?
Emery is rated higher. Plocs averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Emery averages 4.2 from 29 ratings.
Do Plocs or Emery have ads?
Neither Plocs nor Emery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plocs or Emery?
Plocs ships an update monthly, and Emery weekly. Most recently, Plocs was updated on November 3, 2026 and Emery on November 3, 2026.

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