Comparison

Story Tracker vs Today's Tasks

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

Head to head
About

Story Tracker

Easily manage your submitted creative works, from short stories to scripts. Track submissions to various markets, store details about your writing and potential publishers, and monitor your income. Never lose track of where your work is or when to expect a response.

Highlights
  • Track submissions of all writing types
  • Store market and submission details
  • Add story information (title, word-count, genre)
  • View income earned per story/submission
  • Monitor submission status and deadlines
  • Passcode protection and data backup/export
Features
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Story Tracker makes keeping track of your submitted stories, novels, poems, scripts, and articles easy. Never wonder again where or when you submitted your work. The information is all right there on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch! Whether you're a working freelance writer, a hobbyist, or something in-between, Story Tracker is a valuable addition to your writing toolbox. Many magazines, journals, or other markets for your work don't allow simultaneous submissions. When you're juggling dozens or even hundreds of stories, it's easy to make an embarrassing mistake. Keeping track of it all can soon become a nightmare. Here's what you can do with Story Tracker: * Track submissions of all your writing: stories, poetry, novels, articles, scripts, screenplays, and more. * Store details and guidelines for any market accepting written submissions: magazines, book publishers, journals, agencies, websites, movie studios, or even one-off writing competitions or anthologies. * Add details for each story, including title, word-count, genre, and notes. * View total income earned for each story. * 'Trunk' stories to hide them from the story list when creating submissions. * View the submission history for each story, sorted by date. * Displays story status icons. * Add details for each market, including title, genre, editor, deadline and more. * Launch email or phonecalls directly from market details. * Highlights approaching market deadlines on the market list. * Hides closed markets from the market list when creating submissions. * View submission history for each market, sorted by date. * View response times for each submission. * Add details for each submission, including story, market, sent/response due/response dates, withdrawn status, and notes. * Response due dates are calculated automatically based on market response time and submission sent date, or can be overridden. * Past due submissions are flagged with an exclamation mark on the story and submission screens. * Past due submissions are highlighted on the submission list. * Store income earned for each submission. * Database statistics. * Protect your data with a passcode lock. * Database backup, restore, import and export over WiFi to your computer's web browser, Story Tracker for Mac, and Story Tracker for PC. - Transfer the complete database between devices (iPad / iPhone / iPod) over WiFi via Story Tracker SDBI-format support and AirDrop. - Supports iTunes file-sharing to transfer the database between device and computer. * CSV format support to import/export your Story Tracker database to and from desktop spreadsheet applications. * iPad support at no extra charge! Please visit http://andrewnicolle.com/storytracker for more information on Story Tracker, including contact details to ask questions, request features, or report any issues. Join the Facebook page to discuss Story Tracker with other fans.

About

Today's Tasks

This app enhances your standard reminder application by helping you focus on immediate tasks. It allows you to postpone or defer tasks, categorize them into lists, and visually highlights overdue or upcoming items.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization
  • List classification
  • Task postponement
  • Visual task highlighting
  • Filter by list
  • Mark tasks complete
Features
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Introduction This application is an auxiliary tool for the standard iOS reminder application. It manages tasks (i.e. reminder items) with or without a notification date and by list classification. You can postpone tasks that you don't want to do immediately, or delete the notification date for undecided tasks (I'll do it someday), so that you can focus on today's tasks that are displayed. About Lists We recommend that you prepare multiple "Lists" for reminders (created from the standard reminder app, e.g. "Shopping", "Work", "Housework"). The default list set in your iPhone reminder app is called Inbox in this app. Today's Tasks screen Displays a list of tasks whose notification dates are up to today. The background color of the past tasks is red, and the background color of the tasks within an hour from now is yellow. Complete a task Tapping the circle icon next to the left side of the task will mark it as completed, and the task will disappear from the list. Postpone a Task Tap the calendar icon on the right side of the task to display the postpone menu. For example, tapping "3 hours later" will postpone the notification date to 3 hours after the current time. Filter Function Tap the filter button to display the list of list names. Tap any list name to switch to the task list of that list. Tasks that have not yet been notified as "To be done someday" will also be displayed, so you can change undecided tasks to be done tonight. To remove the filtered view, tap the title at the top of the screen. Inbox = In other words, from the list of tasks that are set as the default list on your iPhone, use "Change List" to sort them into a list by purpose.

Screenshots

Story Tracker4 screens
Today's Tasks3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Today's Tasks at Free against Story Tracker's $7.99. Today's Tasks also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months). Story Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 50%) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Today's Tasks is free to download; Story Tracker costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Story Tracker ships an update every 5 months, Today's Tasks every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Story Tracker versus Today's Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStory TrackerToday's Tasks
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB37 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperAndrew NicolleYasuko Shikiuchi

Customer experience

Story Tracker

All ratings24 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.1%

Today's Tasks

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Story Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Today's Tasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Story Tracker free?
Story Tracker costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Today's Tasks free?
Today's Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Story Tracker or Today's Tasks have ads?
Today's Tasks shows ads; Story Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Story Tracker or Today's Tasks?
Story Tracker ships an update every 5 months, and Today's Tasks every 8 days. Most recently, Story Tracker was updated on October 28, 2026 and Today's Tasks on October 13, 2026.

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