Mind Your Now vs The Big 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mind Your Now
Manage tasks for work and home with a unique four-zone system that prioritizes what's critical today. Plan tasks by start date, not just due dates, and share lists with your household. An optional AI assistant can help with planning on paid plans.
- Four-zone task prioritization
- Task scheduling by start date
- Household task sharing
- Offline functionality
- Optional AI planning assistant
- Calendar integration
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Mind Your Now is the task app for your work and your household. It puts what matters today up front and holds everything else until it's time. FOUR ZONES, ONE QUESTION Every task sits in one of four zones: Critical Now, Opportunity Now, Over the Horizon and Parking Lot. One question decides what goes in Critical Now: would I stay late to finish this? Keep Critical Now to five or fewer and the day stays doable. START DATES, NOT A WALL OF DUE DATES Tasks show up on the day you plan to start them, so today's list stays short and nothing gets lost. FINISH IT AND SEE IT Check off a task and a red pen stroke draws through it. Changed your mind? Undo. ONE APP FOR THE HOUSEHOLD Share grocery lists and chores with your household, and see who added what. Habits and focus timers live here too. Connect Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. WORKS OFFLINE, ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Your tasks, habits, chores, grocery lists and timers are stored on your device and work offline. They sync between your devices when you're online. Kaia, sync, calendar connections and sign-in need a connection. Export an encrypted backup any time. KAIA, IF YOU WANT HER Kaia is an optional AI planning assistant. She can plan your day with you, remember your routines and preferences, and talk by voice on paid plans. When she tidies your list on her own, she signs each change and leaves an Undo. The four zones and the Going Home Test come from Michael E. Linenberger's Master Your Now method. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mindyournow.com/docs/privacy
The Big 3
This task management application helps you prioritize and focus on your most important goals. It limits your daily tasks to three, ensuring you complete or postpone them before setting new ones. Features include watch app integration and home/lock screen widgets.
- Focus on 3 daily tasks
- Complete or postpone tasks
- Watch app integration
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Import Reminders app data
- Cross-device data sharing
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The Big 3 is a task list app that helps you focus on what’s most important. Most task manager apps let you list every possible thing that you could want to do. Then, when it’s time to get things done, your list is so long that you can spend more time managing it than checking things off. The Big 3 takes a different approach. It lets you focus on the 3 things that you need to do right now. You plan out your Big 3 goals all at once. Then you have to either complete each goal, or say that you’re not going to do it today. You can’t start a new Big 3 until you’ve completed or postponed everything in your current Big 3. The Big 3 includes a watch app so that you can track and complete your Big 3 on your watch. It also includes a range of widgets for both the home screen and lock screen. And it lets you import and track reminders from your Reminders app. The Big 3 does share your data between your devices, but does not collect or share any of your info ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Big 3 at 5.0 against Mind Your Now's 3.7. The Big 3 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Mind Your Now's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Mind Your Now sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. The Big 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Big 3 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Mind Your Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Big 3's.
Mind Your Now ships an update fortnightly, The Big 3 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind Your Now | The Big 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mind Your Now LLC | Old Jewel Software |
Customer experience
Mind Your Now
The Big 3
In-app purchases
Mind Your Now
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$49.991 Year
The Big 3
No in-app purchases









