Comparison

Surely vs Yet Another Todo App

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

Head to head
About

Surely

This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.

Highlights
  • Complete tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Defer tasks
  • Minimalist interface
  • Focus on task completion
Features
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.

About

Yet Another Todo App

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This is Yet Another Todo App. It's just a todo list app, but it tries to do things a little bit differently. • Offline only You don't need an account to use YATA. It actually doesn't even make any network requests. All the data is stored on your device and we don't collect or parse any of it. We will never collect, store, or transmit any data that isn't directly required for the operation of the app. • Detailed, interactive todos Todos can be scheduled and augmented with recurrences, reminders, subtasks, and attachments (including phone numbers, addresses, and web links). Plus, you can launch the appropriate app for attachments directly from the edit screen. • Built to help plan your day In most todo list apps, I always end up with a huge list of items I haven't done, staring me in the face for months. This app tries to avoid that problem by focusing on what you're going to do _today_. When you create todos in YATA, you can assign them a "do date". The default view you see is your Daily Schedule, the set of todos you have for a single day. • Wonderful to use and navigate This app isn't going to spam you with useless notifications. It's not going to have intrusive ads. I built it to use myself and really focused on making it wonderful to use and navigate. If you think you should be able to do something, you probably can. Swipe between days on the Daily Schedule screen or use the calendar button to jump around. Quick add todos by tapping enter while editing the title.

Screenshots

Surely4 screens
Yet Another Todo App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Surely at every 6 weeks against Yet Another Todo App's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, Yet Another Todo App every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Surely versus Yet Another Todo App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurelyYet Another Todo App
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJosh JusticeVijay Prakash

In-app purchases

None

Surely

No in-app purchases

None

Yet Another Todo App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Surely free?
Surely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yet Another Todo App free?
Yet Another Todo App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Surely or Yet Another Todo App have ads?
Neither Surely nor Yet Another Todo App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Surely or Yet Another Todo App?
Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, and Yet Another Todo App every 6 months. Most recently, Surely was updated on October 10, 2026 and Yet Another Todo App on October 8, 2026.

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