Comparison

Today vs Chaos Control™

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily clean slate
  • Important reminders
  • Recurring tasks
  • Priority setting
  • Someday view for long-term goals
  • List organization
Features
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Today keeps your day simple: one calm list for what matters now, and a place for everything else. Swipe the sun to move between Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and Someday. Each view has its own sky, so you always know where you are. PLAN YOUR DAY • Add a task in seconds: pick a day, set a time, a reminder or a repeat • Sort by priority or in your own order • Lists for work, home, groceries and everything else • Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats, or your own: every 2 weeks, on chosen weekdays, on the last day of the month • Check off several tasks in a row without the list jumping NOTHING SLIPS THROUGH • Open tasks from earlier days wait in the archive under Yesterday • Review them one by one, or move them all to Today • Completed tasks by month, with search MORE THAN A LIST • Notes and photos on any task • Reminders that arrive on time; check off or snooze right from the notification • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch complications and a Control Center button • Apple Watch app to add and check off tasks • Siri and Shortcuts: add and complete tasks by voice • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch • Backups as a ZIP file you can import on any device MAKE IT YOURS Nine themes, each with its own sky and landscape. The Today theme is free; eight more are available as in-app purchases. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your tasks stay in your iCloud.

About

Chaos Control™

This app helps you manage goals, to-do lists, and tasks for both personal and professional life. It's based on the GTD methodology to prioritize outcomes and organize projects, tasks, and ideas efficiently. Seamless syncing across devices ensures your plans are always accessible.

Highlights
  • Goal and project management
  • GTD-inspired contexts
  • Daily planning
  • Chaos Box inbox
  • Cross-platform sync
  • Recurring tasks
Features
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Chaos Control is a personal organizer that will help you manage your goals, to-do lists and tasks in both your business and personal life. People don't usually achieve impressive results simply by being good at task management. It's the ability to set legitimate goals that makes the difference. Just write down your desired outcomes to make them real. This simple technique helps you to prioritize your goals before acting on them. Chaos Control is a task manager based on the best ideas of GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology created by David Allen. Whether you are running a business, launching an app, working on a project or simply planning your holiday trip, Chaos Control is a perfect tool to manage your goals, juggle your priorities, and organize your tasks to get things done. And the best part is, you can handle both heavyweight project planning and simple daily routine like shopping list management in one flexible app. Also, Chaos Control is available across all major mobile and desktop platforms with seamless sync. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS: 1) MANAGE YOUR PROJECTS Project is a goal combined with a set of tasks you need to complete in order to achieve it. Create as many projects as you like to write down all the desired outcomes you have 2) ORGANIZE YOUR GOALS Create unlimited number of projects and group them by category using Folders 3) USE GTD CONTEXTS Organize tasks from different projects using flexible context lists. If you are familiar with GTD you would just love this feature 4) PLAN YOUR DAY Set due dates for tasks and make plans for any particular day 5) USE CHAOS BOX Put all the incoming tasks, notes and ideas into Chaos Box in order to process them later. It works similar to GTD inbox, but you can use it as a simple to-do list 6) SYNC YOUR DATA Chaos Control works on both desktop and mobile devices. Setup an account and sync your projects across all of your devices This app is designed with creative people in mind. Designers, writers, developers, startup founders, entrepreneurs of all kinds and pretty much anyone with ideas and desire to make them happen. We combined the power of GTD with the convenient interface to help you with: • personal goal setting • task management • time management • planning your business and personal activities • building your routine • handling simple to do lists, checklists and shopping lists • catching your ideas and thoughts to process them later KEY FEATURES • Seamless cloud sync across all major mobile and desktop platforms • GTD-inspired Projects and Contexts supplemented with Folders, sub-folders and sub-contexts • Recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly and chosen days of the week) • Chaos Box - Inbox for your unstructured tasks, notes, memos, ideas and thoughts. Great tool for staying on track inspired by GTD ideas • Notes for tasks, projects, folders and contexts • Fast and smart search • Recurring tasks for managing activities that happen regularly • Nested folders and contexts for better projects and tasks structuring • PIN code protection: secure your data with a secure passcode • Favorite tasks, projects and contents Terms Of Use: http://chaos-control.mobi/toc.pdf Have a productive day!

Screenshots

Today4 screens
Chaos Control™4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chaos Control™ at 4.6 against Today's 4.3. Chaos Control™ also leads on ratings volume (488 vs 20) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Today's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 72%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Today sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Chaos Control™ sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chaos Control™ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chaos Control™ has 488 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Today's written reviews are positive against 72% of Chaos Control™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Today ships an update every 4 weeks, Chaos Control™ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Today versus Chaos Control™: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTodayChaos Control™
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (20 ratings)4.6 (488 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.4% of reviews — better72.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20488 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB318 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChi Trung TranTarasov Mobile

Customer experience

Today

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive83.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative12.7%

Chaos Control™

All ratings488 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews161 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral9.3%
Negative18.6%

User reviews

Today

From 20 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple and easy to use
  • 👍 Attractive and intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Efficient task management
  • 👍 Helpful for staying organized
  • 👍 Cheerful and uplifting design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Lack of cloud sync and backup
  • 🔒 No iPad or desktop version
  • 🔒 Limited customization options
  • 🐛 Issues with task reordering and list management

Chaos Control™

From 488 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🚀 Streamlined organization
  • 💡 Helpful Chaos Box feature
  • 🚀 Seamless cross-device sync
  • 👍 Clean and attractive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Sync and login issues
  • 💰 Unexpected costs for full features
  • 🤔 Lacks some basic GTD functionality

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

Chaos Control™

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Tasks disappearing
  • Sync failures between devices
  • Frequent crashes
  • Login problems

Requested features

6 requests
  • Calendar integration
  • Subtasks and nested projects
  • Ability to manually sort tasks
  • More customization options
  • Email task creation
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  • Attachment support

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Today

One-time8
  • Dark$0.99
  • Minimal$0.99
  • Neon$0.99
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  • Meadow$0.99
  • Ocean$0.99
  • Spring Theme$0.99
  • Winter Theme$0.99
  • Autumn Theme$0.99
9 purchases

Chaos Control™

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Subscription: 1 Month$3.991 Month
  • Premium for 1 month$6.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription: 1 Year$29.001 Year
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  • Premium Subscription: 1 Year$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • "Level Up" e-book$2.99
  • Premium Universal - Tier B$10.99
  • Chaos Control Premium$18.99
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  • Premium Universal - Tier C$20.99
  • Premium Universal - Tier A$79.99

Questions

Is Today free?
Today is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chaos Control™ free?
Chaos Control™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Today or Chaos Control™?
Chaos Control™ is rated higher. Today averages 4.3 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Chaos Control™ averages 4.6 from 488 ratings.
Do Today or Chaos Control™ have ads?
Neither Today nor Chaos Control™ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Today or Chaos Control™?
Today ships an update every 4 weeks, and Chaos Control™ every 3 weeks. Most recently, Today was updated on October 29, 2026 and Chaos Control™ on October 23, 2026.

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