Comparison

Outliner vs PracticeMeter

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

Head to head
About

Outliner

Organize your thoughts, tasks, and projects with a powerful outlining tool. Create structured lists, track project progress with visual indicators, and collaborate with others. Sync your work across devices and cloud storage for seamless access.

Highlights
  • Create structured outlines
  • Track project progress with pie charts
  • Sync with cloud storage (OneDrive, Dropbox)
  • Collaborate with other users
  • Drag and drop editing
  • Search and filter outlines
  • Archive old outlines
Features
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CarbonFin Outliner allows you to organize your thoughts, tasks, and projects. Easily create a todo list for today, or track an entire project anywhere you are. Share your outlines, edit them online, and collaborate with other Outliner users. Highlights • Create outlines full of notes, structured lists, tasks, or detailed projects • Sync your outlines automatically to Outliner Online, OneDrive, or Dropbox for web or desktop editing • Get a quick view of project progress - tasks with subtasks show a pie-chart indicating percent completed Organize • Search through all your outlines or an individual outline • Tag your outlines, and filter based on tag • Archive old outlines to hide them from view without deleting Easy-to-use Editor • Drag and drop to move items within an outline • Copy, paste • Undo, redo • Expand all, collapse all • Optional outline numbering • Zoom in to focus on a single subtree Outliner Online • Securely synchronize your outlines with Outliner Online • View and edit your outlines in any web browser • Import and export outlines as plain text or OPML • Keep all your devices synchronized • Share an outline with other Outliner users to collaborate OneDrive and Dropbox • Sync your outlines with OneDrive or Dropbox to allow quick import/export • Seamlessly access and edit across your iOS devices and PCs -= Recent version history =- Version 3.21 • iPhone Duo support • Bug fixes Version 3.20 • iOS 27 support • Updated Dropbox and OneDrive integrations • Bug fixes Version 3.19 • iOS 26 support and adoption of liquid glass Version 3.18 • iOS 18 support • Dark and tinted app icons Version 3.17 • Minor bug fixes Version 3.16 • Minor bug fixes • iOS 17 support Version 3.15 • Fixed Dropbox integration • Show a warning when unlinking Dropbox/OneDrive if there are unsynced outlines • iOS 16 support Version 3.12 • Dark mode • Added confirmation to "Delete Completed" • Changing "Archived" won't update the outline's modification time • iOS 13 support Version 3.11 • OneDrive sync support Version 3.10 • Sync the order of outlines across devices (CarbonFin outlines only) • iOS 12 support Version 3.9 • iPhone X support • iOS 11 support Version 3.8 • Open In... support • Ability to hide the outline list on iPad • Minor UI tweaks

About

PracticeMeter

Track daily practice habits for skills, goals, and projects. Organize sessions into fundamentals and goals, monitor progress with visual indicators, and earn accomplishments for consistent effort. View detailed reports and share statistics.

Highlights
  • Track daily, weekly, and monthly practice habits
  • Organize practice into Fundamentals and Goals
  • Progress bar for Goal completion
  • Earn accomplishments and track streaks
  • Detailed practice reports and statistics
  • Home Screen Widgets for progress visibility
  • Apple Watch integration for session tracking
Features
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Improve your daily, weekly, and monthly practice habits by tracking your progress each day. Whether you are a practicing musician, athlete, or are learning a new skill, PracticeMeter can help you in organizing and motivating your personal practice. Available on iPhone and Apple Watch. Start a Session Simply press the ‘Start’ button at the beginning of your practice session. A timer will begin. After your practice session press the stop button. PracticeMeter will ask you what you practiced. In addition to tracking the amount of time, you can organize your practice sessions into Fundamentals and Goals. Fundamentals Fundamentals are skills that you want to develop each day. It may include a specific warmup routine with activities that are repeated each day. For a musician, this may include breathing activities, long tones, scales, etc… For an athlete, it may include stretches, breathing, and specific strength training exercises. If you are using PracticeMeter to improve your mindfulness, your Fundamentals may include specific meditation practice. Fundamentals may be archived for future use so that you are only repeating the items that you are currently focused on. Goals Goals are specific projects that you are currently working on. They include a progress bar so that you can self-assess how close you are to reaching your Goal. You will want to work on your Goals each day, seeing the progress toward completion gradually increase. Once you reach 100%, your Goal is cleared off of your daily routine and logged under Completed Goals. Time The default practice time for each day is 120 minutes, but you can set your own practice time goal in settings. Accomplishments As you practice each day, you’re rewarded with accomplishments. Accomplishments may include having a perfect week of practice, where you met your time goal and practiced all of your Fundamentals, and worked toward your Goals each day of the week. PracticeMeter will track your Streaks as well. Accomplishments are available for multiple perfect weeks of practicing your fundamentals and goals, as well as long-term Accomplishments for total practice time. Reports The Reports view logs your practice sessions, organized by day. You can keep notes about your practice sessions and share your statistics via text or email. Reports also provide a weekly view of your practice time. If you forgot to press ‘Start’ when beginning a practice session, you can add practice time to each day of the week. A single tap will add 15 minutes, while a long press on the day of the week will allow you to enter your total practice time for the day. Tap on the total time to toggle between minutes and hours. Widgets In iOS 14, Apple introduced Home Screen Widgets. PracticeMeter Widgets are available in a variety of formats for seeing your ring progress throughout the day. Apple Watch PracticeMeter will sync with your Apple Watch. Use your watch to start practice sessions add or delete fundamentals and goals, set a new practice time goal, and view your accomplishments. To add new fundamentals and goals, long press on the fundamental or goals header. Watch Complications include a simple circular view for keeping track of your daily practice time, as well as a larger rectangular view to see your daily progress of fundamentals, goals, and practice time. I hope you enjoy using PracticeMeter. Let’s get practicing!

Screenshots

Outliner4 screens
PracticeMeter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PracticeMeter at 5.0 against Outliner's 4.8. PracticeMeter also leads on price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Outliner's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, 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

Outliner costs $4.99 and PracticeMeter $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PracticeMeter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Outliner has 89 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Outliner's written reviews are positive against 100% of PracticeMeter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Outliner ships an update every 4 months, PracticeMeter every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Outliner versus PracticeMeter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOutlinerPracticeMeter
Price$4.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.8 (89 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarbonFinAdam Ballif

Customer experience

Outliner

All ratings89 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral1.1%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews327 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral6.1%
Negative7.3%

PracticeMeter

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Outliner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unexpected error: 500 when saving data
  • Pane that lists outlines won't go away or resize
  • Keyboard takes up too much screen space

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add due dates and priority levels for tasks
  • Improve export and sharing options (e.g., PDF, Word)
  • Implement better organization and search capabilities
  • Introduce a desktop companion app for easier editing
  • Add support for voice notes and other multimedia

PracticeMeter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Outliner

No in-app purchases

None

PracticeMeter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Outliner free?
Outliner costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PracticeMeter free?
PracticeMeter costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Outliner or PracticeMeter?
PracticeMeter is rated higher. Outliner averages 4.8 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while PracticeMeter averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Outliner or PracticeMeter have ads?
Neither Outliner nor PracticeMeter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Outliner or PracticeMeter?
Outliner ships an update every 4 months, and PracticeMeter every 2 months. Most recently, Outliner was updated on October 13, 2026 and PracticeMeter on October 1, 2026.

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