Comparison

Daily Checklist vs Five Tasks

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

Head to head
About

Daily Checklist

Create and manage repeatable checklists for daily routines, packing, or cleaning. This app helps you feel less forgetful and overwhelmed by ensuring you have everything you need before leaving the house. It's designed for simplicity and can be synced across devices.

Highlights
  • Create repeatable checklists
  • Manage daily routines
  • Packing and cleaning lists
  • Syncs with iCloud
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Daily reminders
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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CheckYourList lets you make repeatable checklists to help manage life’s challenges. You live in an overwhelming world, with new information constantly bombarded at you. Simple tasks like remembering what to take when you leave the house often feel overwhelming. We need to offload this cognitive function and be confident we do and take everything we need. Traditional to-do list apps are overwhelming, they make it difficult to surface lists when you need them. Apps that focus on repeatable lists are often focused on streaks and habits. CheckYourList solves your problem. It lets you create lists via a simple interface that you can use spontaneously. You can check your items off and feel confident that you have everything. Once the list is complete or whenever you need to, uncheck the entire list so it is ready to go again. It’s great for packing lists, daily routines, cleaning lists and things that you need to take with you constantly. FEEL LESS FORGETFUL Always feeling like you've forgotten something? Feel organized and free up mental energy. Make repeating checklists so you don't forget your stuff. DON'T BE OVERWHELMED We live in an overwhelming world. It's easy to forget things when leaving the house. CheckYourList is a simple app, designed to make you organized. REMEMBER YOUR STUFF Tired of turning up at the gym without your headphones? Forgot your lunch? Turned up at daycare but forgot your baby? STOP WASTING TIME Create repeatable checklists when you need to remember things every day. Stop wasting time backtracking and worrying if you have everything. CheckYourList and be confident whenever you leave the house. BUILT TO HELP WITH ADHD Hi, I'm Spencer and I built this app to help with my ADHD. I found myself forgetting things more and more after the birth of my son. Dropping him at daycare and then going to the gym, required so many things. I felt overwhelmed and would take ages to leave the house. I wanted a solution, so I built this app. Now I run through CheckYourList and am confident I have everything I need. SYNCS WITH ICLOUD Sync across your iOS and watchOS devices using apple iCloud. All your lists are automatically backed up to your iCloud account and will sync on any new device you log into. SHORTCUTS INTEGRATION Integrates with Apple Shortcuts. DAILY REMINDERS Set a daily reminder for each checklist that will remind you at a specific time each day. WIDGETS Add a home screen or lock screen widget to get a quick overview of how many items are left on your checklist, as well as a quick way to open the checklist. Try out the app with two checklists for free. Unlock the full version to get more than two checklists. Privacy Policy - https://checkyourlist.app/privacypolicy/ Terms of Use - https://checkyourlist.app/terms/

About

Five Tasks

This productivity app encourages users to focus on essential tasks by limiting their to-do list. It helps prioritize what's important, preventing overwhelm and ensuring key items get done.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization
  • Limited to-do list
  • Simplified interface
  • Focus on important tasks
  • Task completion aid
Features
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Welcome to Five, the to-do app with a limit. By putting a limitation on your to-do list, you are forced to prioritise and focus on what’s important. Five helps you do this with an incredibly simple app With Five you will stop taking on too many tasks, many of which you wouldn’t have time to complete anyway. So welcome to the first step toward simplifying your to-do list, and getting the important tasks done!

Screenshots

Daily Checklist4 screens
Five Tasks3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Five Tasks at none against Daily Checklist's 7. Five Tasks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Daily Checklist's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 50%) and ratings volume (284 vs 16). 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. Daily Checklist sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Five Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Five Tasks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Checklist has 284 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Daily Checklist's written reviews are positive against 50% of Five Tasks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daily Checklist versus Five Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily ChecklistFive Tasks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (284 ratings)5.0 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings284 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrighten LabsSpencer Walden

Customer experience

Daily Checklist

All ratings283 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive70.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative22.2%

Five Tasks

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Daily Checklist

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Update destroyed 150 item list
  • Watch app doesn't work
  • Glitchy, slow loading/adding/removing items
  • Text becomes inverted in dark mode (white on white)

Requested features

15 requests
  • Ability to re-order lists
  • Groups within checklists
  • Dark mode support
  • Home Screen/Lock Screen widgets
  • Sublists or headings
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  • Bulk add in text box format
  • Export tasks
  • Folder list view
  • Drag and drop function for checklists
  • Option to insert/view as sub-checklist
  • Notifications to remind to go through checklist
  • Haptic feedback on Apple Watch
  • Reset list button on top of Apple Watch app
  • Widget showing next few items on list
  • Add Apple Watch complication

Five Tasks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Daily Checklist

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99
  • Pro Lifetime$69.99
None

Five Tasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Checklist free?
Daily Checklist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Five Tasks free?
Five Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Checklist or Five Tasks?
Five Tasks is rated higher. Daily Checklist averages 4.7 out of 5 from 284 ratings, while Five Tasks averages 5.0 from 16 ratings.
Do Daily Checklist or Five Tasks have ads?
Neither Daily Checklist nor Five Tasks shows ads.

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