Today vs Kounters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Today
This app helps you manage your daily tasks with a clean slate each day. It offers features like reminders, recurring tasks, and priority setting to keep you organized. Unfinished tasks can be moved to another day or reactivated, and long-term goals can be stored separately.
- Daily clean slate
- Important reminders
- Recurring tasks
- Priority setting
- Someday view for long-term goals
- List organization
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Today helps you keep a clear list for what matters now, what can wait until tomorrow, and what belongs in someday. Plan your day without turning every idea into pressure. Add tasks quickly, organize them into lists, set reminders, choose priorities, and move unfinished work forward when plans change. Why people use Today: - A focused Today list for the tasks that deserve attention now - Tomorrow and Someday views for future plans and ideas - Reminders, notes, priorities, and recurring tasks - Simple lists for work, home, errands, and personal projects - Calm gestures and a clean interface that stays out of the way Today is built for people who want a task planner that feels light, practical, and easy to return to every day.
Kounters
Quantify and track your daily activities, habits, and goals with customizable counters. Log events with notes, images, and locations, and visualize your progress with detailed graphs. Offers flexible counting methods and export options.
- Customizable counters (auto/manual)
- Event logging with notes and images
- Progress visualization with graphs
- Shake and sound to count options
- Data export to PDF/CSV
- Categorization and favorites
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Track your life, reach goals, quantify. Kounters is an application that will let you count user defined events. Use it to count/quantify/track progress on different day to day tasks like: - workouts - habits - expenses - sales - weight - scores - goals Each counter has it's own event log, to let you track when they happen. You can even add an image and/or a text note to each event. Features: • 2 different types of counters: a) Auto: you specify the incremental amount b) Manual: you enter the count amount for each event • Favorites: 8 spots where you can assign any counter. • Categories: let’s you organize your counters into collections • Counters: - counter information: name, type, count amount, thumbnail - add, delete - thumbnails: use your Photo Library or camera to assign a thumbnail to any counter • Graphs: shows a Graph for each counter to let you quickly see your progress: - day counts: active/inactive, first/last event dates - inactivity feedback - Landscape Graph: rotate your device to landscape to see a detailed bar graph with totals for up to 3 years, max count, average count • Events: - event information: date, time, location (optional), image, note - edit Events: lets you change any of the above - add, delete events - shake to count: count by shaking your device ‣‣‣ preference to turn on/off ‣‣‣ shake sensitivity - sound to count: count when sound above a user defined level is detected ‣‣‣ preference to turn on/off ‣‣‣ sound sensitivity - Event location: save the latitude and longitude of each event ‣‣‣ preference to turn on/off - Export list of all the events for a counter as PDF or CSV ‣‣‣ iTunes ‣‣‣ email - reset Events: deletes all events in a counter Please contact us to report any bugs or suggestions. Requires iOS18 or later
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Today at Free against Kounters's $0.99. Today also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). Kounters's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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
Today is free to download; Kounters costs $0.99 up front. Today sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Kounters asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kounters holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Today has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Today's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kounters's.
Today ships an update every 4 weeks, Kounters every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Today | Kounters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi Trung Tran | iPinsoft |
Customer experience
Today
Kounters
Bugs and requests
Today
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes and freezes
- Issues with task reordering and list management
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
- Badge notifications not working as expected
Requested features
6 requests- Cloud sync and backup
- iPad and desktop versions
- More customization options (colors, themes, etc.)
- Improved task reordering and list management
- Recurring tasks and advanced scheduling options
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- Integration with other productivity apps and services
Kounters
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Today
- Ocean$0.99
- Spring Theme$0.99
- Winter Theme$0.99
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- Autumn Theme$0.99
Kounters
No in-app purchases
