Mind Your Now vs Leeway
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. It helps you focus on actionable items, share lists with family, and track habits. An optional AI assistant is available for planning.
- Four-zone task prioritization
- Start dates for tasks
- Household task sharing
- Habit and focus timers
- Offline functionality
- Optional AI planning assistant
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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
Leeway
This app intelligently schedules your tasks by first mapping your existing calendar events and reminders. It then finds available time slots to fit your to-dos, automatically adjusting the schedule as your day progresses. Features include a visual timeline, goal setting, and a focus timer.
- Automatic task planning into free time
- Integrates with Apple Calendar and Reminders
- Visual timeline view of the day
- Goal setting with time limits
- Focus timer with Lock Screen and Dynamic Island support
- iCloud sync across devices
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Leeway shows how much free time you really have today, then fits your tasks into it. Your calendar events, reminders and routines go on the timeline first. Leeway counts the hours that are left. Tap Plan and your tasks land in the open gaps, around everything that's fixed. When the day changes, Leeway moves the rest and shows you what moved. PLAN THE DAY IN ONE TAP • Plan my day places your tasks in the free time you actually have, and says where anything that won't fit goes. • Plan the week spreads work across the days ahead. • Running late? Make it fit reshuffles the rest of today. WORKS WITH YOUR CALENDAR AND REMINDERS • Apple Calendar events and Reminders appear on your timeline. • Move a task to another day and its reminder or event moves with it. SEE THE WHOLE DAY • A timeline from wake-up to bedtime, every hour in its place. • Your free time, counted live as the day goes on. • The week at a glance, before it fills up. KEEP TIME FOR WHAT MATTERS • Goals with a floor for what matters and a cap for what drifts. • A focus timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Widgets, an Apple Watch app, and iPad, in sync over iCloud. SAY IT ALL, GET A PLAN (LEEWAY PRO) • Type or speak a messy list, and Leeway picks out the tasks, times and deadlines and plans them. With Apple Intelligence, it all runs on your device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up. • Your data syncs through your own iCloud. LEEWAY PRO Planning, the timeline, goals, focus, widgets, the Watch app and iCloud sync are free. Leeway Pro adds the AI planner, voice capture, unlimited projects and milestones, custom categories, trends and history, and themes. Monthly, yearly with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Give yourself a little leeway. Terms of Use: https://leeway.innovatism.app/leeway/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mind Your Now at 67% against Leeway's 0%. Mind Your Now also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Leeway's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 and Leeway sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Leeway holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Mind Your Now's written reviews are positive against 0% of Leeway's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mind Your Now ships an update fortnightly, Leeway every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind Your Now | Leeway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mind Your Now LLC | Innovatism LLC |
Customer experience
Mind Your Now
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In-app purchases
Mind Your Now
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$49.991 Year
Leeway
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$19.99









