Tody vs Buzzkill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tody
This app helps manage household cleaning routines by prioritizing tasks based on actual need rather than fixed dates. It visualizes dirtiness and cleaning progress to motivate users and make cleaning more satisfying. It can be customized for individuals or large households, turning chores into a game.
- Flexible task management by need
- Visual dirtiness and cleaning progress
- Optional notifications and deadlines
- Gamified cleaning with house member sync
- Intuitive customized cleaning plans
- Scalable for any household size
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Tody is a smarter to-do list for managing household cleaning routines. It will optimize and motivate your cleaning. ● Gain flexibility by managing cleaning tasks by indicators of actual need rather than arbitrary dates. ● Tody visualizes dirtiness to motivate cleaning and visualizes the effect of cleaning to enhance satisfaction. ● There are no deadlines, alarms and notifications (optional). Tody puts you in control of your cleaning routines instead of cleaning routines controlling you. ● Turn home cleaning into a game. House members can sync plans across devices and users and check-in to claim credit for their actions. ● Enjoy an extremely easy and intuitive set up of a customized cleaning plan. ● Tody can be customized and scaled to fit almost any needs. It thus suits singles as well as complex households with many members. Even professionals find Tody to be their preferred tool. Recommended by marthastewart.com, Buzzfeed and MacWorld.
Buzzkill
This app helps you break free from excessive app usage by sending timely, customizable notifications. Set specific apps to monitor and adjust the frequency and tone of alerts to match your habits and encourage mindful usage.
- Customizable app monitoring
- Adjustable notification frequency
- Variable notification tone (friendly to angry)
- Gradually increasing urgency
- Daily buzz-free time settings
- Daily usage limits with advance warnings
- Privacy-focused, on-device data storage
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Buzzkill helps you break out of doomscrolling by sending frequent notifications when you spend too much time in selected apps. Choose which apps you want to monitor and set a custom buzz frequency per app, so notifications match your habits instead of fighting them. Choose your preferred language and the tone you like. You can go from sweet and friendly all the way up to full-on ANGRY CAPSLOCKS when you really want a strong notification. As your usage goes up, notifications gradually become more urgent instead of repeating the same message over and over. Buzzkill uses a large set of around 3,000 notifications in English, Dutch, German and French. Other languages are supported as well, but currently use smaller message sets. You can set a daily buzz-free time so notifications only start after you have used that amount of time. You can also add a daily limit that is easy to change, with optional notifications sent in advance so you can slow down before you reach your cap. Buzzkill keeps your data on your device. Usage history is automatically deleted after seven days. Nothing is sent to a server, and no long-term profiles are built from your behaviour. It’s a privacy-first way to reduce your screen time without blocking your apps, and it’s not another data-hungry tracker.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tody at 86% against Buzzkill's 0%. Tody also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (11K vs 2). Buzzkill's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Tody sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Buzzkill asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tody holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tody has 11K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Tody's written reviews are positive against 0% of Buzzkill's.
Tody ships an update every 2 weeks, Buzzkill every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tody | Buzzkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LoopLoop | Jens Somers |
Customer experience
Tody
Buzzkill
Bugs and requests
Tody
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes on certain devices after updates
- Issues with data sync and loss of progress
Requested features
5 requests- Landscape mode support
- Apple Watch app integration
- Ability to set tasks for specific days
- More customization options for UI
- One-off task list separate from recurring tasks
Buzzkill
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tody
- Premium Solo1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Premium+ Duo1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- Premium+ Family1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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- Premium+ Team1 Month trial$79.991 Year
Buzzkill
No in-app purchases









