Headspace vs ToDoSphere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Headspace
This app offers a unique 3D approach to organizing thoughts and creating hierarchical outlines. Visualize your information in a floating space, navigate with intuitive gestures, and connect related ideas with visual links. It's designed for a dynamic and engaging way to manage lists and mind maps.
- Build hierarchical outlines in 3D space
- Navigate and zoom with familiar finger gestures
- Connect related items with link lines
- Change item color and opacity
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
- Sync files with Dropbox
- PDF export with active note links
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*** PLEASE NOTE: This NOT the meditation app! *** (There is another app called "Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness" and this is NOT that app!) This is the *original* Headspace! HEADSPACE is iOS's coolest 3D outliner and mind-mapping app! Do your list-making and mind-mapping in 3D space with the *original* Headspace. "Five stars on iPhone, completely off the scale on iPad" "This is the app I've most wanted to run on the iPad since the day it was announced, and the app that anyone looking over your shoulder will immediately want to buy an iPad just to run. " "Love the program. Favorite app. Useful and looks great. " "The implementation is beautiful! In my opinion, Headspace is becoming one of the best apps in the store." "I bought Headspace last night on a whim - been fooling around with mindmapping apps lately. This is a little piece of brilliance, you know that, right? " "This app could not just be a mindmapping program, It has the capability to become a new kind of U.I. That in my opinion that improved over apples U.I." Headspace allows you to create items and groups of items on a floating plane in three-dimensional space. The hierarchy of items and their various sub-items make for a beautiful display of information as they recede into the distance. Simple and familiar finger gestures allow you to move around the space. Use the menu button to travel between various groups. Easily create links and travel between them. The beautiful animated interface is like something from a sci-fi movie, but it isn't just eye-candy. You can go from an "eagle-eye" view of your entire map to focusing on a single item with a simple pinch of your fingers. There's just something about being able to manipulate the scale and space that goes perfectly with the idea of outlining. Here's a rundown on all its cool features: ● build hierarchical outlines in 3D space ● use familiar finger gestures to navigate and zoom ● connect related items with link lines - even between files! ● change item color and opacity ● change text color ● 'Flick' up or down to travel to top or bottom of lists ● special characters and foreign-language support ● universal app -- runs on both iphone and ipad ● easy travel between groups and files ● cut-and-paste items ● search in spaces, notes, and files ● item notes for supplemental information (text/photo/url) ● optional accelerometer rotate ● customizable color palette ● "to-do" style item checkboxes ● 2D orthogonal mode ● sync files between your iphone and iPad with Dropbox ● file support for Freemind, the free multi-platform desktop mind-mapping program ● stunning PDF export w/ active note links Get some perspective on your thoughts. Try Headspace today! Let us know what else you'd like to see added, email headspace@flatblackfilms.com!
ToDoSphere
Visualize your day as a collection of spheres, where size represents task duration. This app helps you see if your schedule fits at a glance, allowing easy rearrangement and categorization. It offers insights into your time usage and planning habits.
- Task visualization as spheres
- Time capacity bar
- Drag-and-drop task arrangement
- Color-coded categories
- Task templates
- Daily planning reminder
- Time usage analytics
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ToDoSphere turns your day into something you can see. Every task is a sphere, and its size is the time it takes. A two-hour block is large. A ten-minute errand is small. Put them on one screen and you stop guessing whether your day fits — you can simply look at it. REBUILT FROM THE GROUND UP This version is a complete rewrite. The app opens faster, moves more smoothly, and holds up under a real workload. The idea has not changed. How well it works has. SEE WHAT ACTUALLY FITS A capacity bar shows planned time against the length of your day, so an over-booked day announces itself before you live through it. Set your own day length — nine hours is a default, not a rule. PLAN BY MOVING THINGS AROUND Drag spheres to arrange your day. Push one to the edge to send it to yesterday or tomorrow. Tap a sphere to change its duration, category or notes. COLOUR IS CATEGORY Every sphere takes the colour of its category, always. Rename categories, recolour them, and pick an icon from a wider set — so your day is readable at a glance rather than after reading. KEEP WHAT REPEATS Save a day's tasks as templates and stamp them onto any other day. Mornings that look alike should not be typed out twice. A REMINDER THAT SUITS YOU One daily nudge to plan, at a time you choose, and one switch to turn it off. No stream of alerts for individual tasks. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY Completed tasks, your planning streak, and where your time actually goes by category — real numbers from your own data, not encouragement invented for you. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Use your email, or sign in with Google or Apple. FREE AND PRO Free covers five tasks a day and one saved template. Pro removes the limits, adds custom categories, and supports the work. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.todosphere.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ToDoSphere at Free against Headspace's $3.99. ToDoSphere also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Headspace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On 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
ToDoSphere is free to download; Headspace costs $3.99 up front. ToDoSphere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Headspace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Headspace holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Headspace has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Headspace's written reviews are positive against 100% of ToDoSphere's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Headspace ships an update every 2 months, ToDoSphere fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Headspace | ToDoSphere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flat Black Films | Ubinair |
Customer experience
Headspace
ToDoSphere
Bugs and requests
Headspace
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on creating new groups
- Crashes when entering text on iPad
- Text color picker fails to change colors
- Instant crash when closing text color picker
- Crashes on Dropbox connection
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- Data loss with file format updates
- Existing links lost after updates
- Screen flickers between files
- Text display issues after multiple app launches
- Color brightness settings lost
- Keyboard popup without dialog box
- Accelerometer causes erratic screen movement
- Incompatibility with iOS/iPadOS updates
- Performance lag with large maps
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
24 requests- Desktop/Mac version for syncing
- iCloud syncing between iOS devices
- Google Drive and OneDrive support
- Evernote integration
- Ability to drag items between groups
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- Undo functionality
- Export to email directly
- Different arrow/connector styles
- OPML export format
- Reminders and deadline notifications
- Different text box shapes
- Photo/image import and support
- Web-based version
- Ability to move items outside groups
- Simpler gesture controls for text entry
- List view option
- Icons and visual indicators for content types
- Advanced search functionality
- Child count indicators on parent nodes
- Customizable 3D graphics
- Movie recording with preset paths
- Structured data visualization capabilities
- Automatic color selection for new groups
- Bullet points for children items
ToDoSphere
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Headspace
No in-app purchases
ToDoSphere
- ToDoSphere Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ToDoSphere Premium Annual14 Days trial$14.991 Year









