Comparison

Card Decks vs Leeway

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

Head to head
About

Card Decks

Create and share custom card decks for various uses, from team meetings and planning to personal expression and task management. Configure individual cards with display times for timers or reminders, and easily share decks via email or messages.

Highlights
  • Configurable colored text cards
  • Group cards into decks
  • Create custom card sets
  • Timer and countdown functionality
  • Share decks via email/messages
  • Open source
Features
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Card Decks is a small utility application for your iPhone and iPad which brings you simple, configurable, colored, multi-line text cards that are grouped into card decks. A card deck can be used to show your vote or estimation on a certain topic in a meeting, e.g. in a planning meeting used in agile software development methods like Scrum or Extreme Programming. If the pre-configured cards don't fit your needs, just extend the existing cards or build your own set of cards, e.g. including special estimation numbers like "Pi" or "?". Or, if you are the chair of a session on a conference, you can use a card deck to remind a speaker of the remaining time for the presentation. Or, as a speaker, use a timer card deck to track the remaining minutes. Or, just use your cards to show your opinion, argument, or mood, in a simple, non-verbal way. Or, use the shuffle feature to randomly select a task from a card deck with tasks, or randomly assign tasks to students, team members, etc. Card Decks contains some pre-configured card decks with voting cards, simple colored cards, cards with numbers, colored cards which show remaining minutes, and some timers. Individual card decks can be created with the built-in editor. Each card in a card deck can be configured with a display time. This way, you can build your own countdown timer with individual numbers, texts, reminders, etc. Example timers for 15 and 60 minutes are pre-configured. Additionally, Card Decks supports sending and receiving card decks via e-mail, messages, etc. for sharing your card decks with your friends or colleagues. Either as an URL, or via a JSON-based document. Found a bug? Missing a feature? Drop a line to carddecks@0xc0.de, or open an issue in the project on GitHub. Card Decks is open source and licensed under the terms of the MIT license. Its source code is hosted on GitHub.

About

Leeway

This app intelligently schedules your tasks around existing calendar events and reminders. It visualizes your day on a timeline, showing available time slots and automatically rearranging tasks when plans change. It also offers features like goal setting and a focus timer.

Highlights
  • Automatic task planning into free time
  • Timeline view of your day
  • Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
  • Goal setting with caps and floors
  • Focus timer with Lock Screen integration
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Card Decks4 screens
Leeway4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Card Decks at 78% against Leeway's 0%. Card Decks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Leeway's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support 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. Leeway sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Card Decks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Card Decks ships an update every 5 months, Leeway every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Card Decks versus Leeway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCard DecksLeeway
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArne HarrenInnovatism LLC

Customer experience

Card Decks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

Leeway

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Card Decks

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Leeway

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Card Decks free?
Card Decks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Leeway free?
Leeway is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Card Decks or Leeway have ads?
Neither Card Decks nor Leeway shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Card Decks or Leeway?
Card Decks ships an update every 5 months, and Leeway every 6 weeks. Most recently, Card Decks was updated on October 23, 2026 and Leeway on October 28, 2026.

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