Comparison

Mind Your Now vs SimpleList

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

Head to head
About

Mind Your Now

Organize your work and home tasks 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 plan your day.

Highlights
  • Four-zone task organization
  • Start date planning
  • Household task sharing
  • Habit and focus timers
  • Offline functionality
  • Optional AI planning assistant
Features
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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

About

SimpleList

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In a world filled with list apps—ToDo lists, shopping lists, and more—there's no shortage of wonderful features that make these apps incredibly useful. But do you really use all those features? This app keeps it simple, both in functionality and design. ・Add items and display them in a list. ・You can tag each item with up to three tags. ・Swipe right to archive and keep a history. ・Swipe left to delete items you no longer need. I・tems in the history are automatically deleted after about a month. Need a reminder feature? Isn't setting a timer every time cumbersome? Want more types of tags? Isn't deciding and managing what each tag means too much hassle? There's freedom in limitations. While this app may have limited features, it doesn't limit how you use it. Feel free to give it a try.

Screenshots

Mind Your Now4 screens
SimpleList4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimpleList at none against Mind Your Now's 2. Mind Your Now's advantage is device support. On price 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. Mind Your Now sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SimpleList asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mind Your Now versus SimpleList: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind Your NowSimpleList
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMind Your Now LLCShuta Uto

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mind Your Now

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$49.991 Year
None

SimpleList

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mind Your Now free?
Mind Your Now is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SimpleList free?
SimpleList is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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