Tody vs 20 Seconds
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.
20 Seconds
This app helps build new habits or break existing ones by using a 20-second countdown. It provides a progress indicator and optional sounds or music to aid in distraction and amusement during the countdown.
- 20-second habit timer
- Progress indicator
- Distracting sounds and music
- Automatic start option
- 30-day trial in Today widget
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20 Seconds is a simple app, whose only purpose is to count, you guessed it, to 20 seconds. Why, one might ask, 20 seconds? Well, there is a theory that says that 20 seconds is enough time to help you build a new habit, or help you break an existing one. To start with good habits, if you want to do something, you are much more likely to actually do it, if you start within 20 seconds from when you first thought about it. If you wait any longer, you are less likely to go through with it. Conversely, if you want to break a bad habit, waiting 20 seconds after you get the urge, will make it easier for you to avoid doing it. So, when you feel an urge to do something you want to stop doing, start the 20 Seconds app and let it count down. See how you feel about that urge after 20 seconds have passed. While counting down, the app will show a progress indicator, (with or without a random shape), play music or play ticking sounds to distract and amuse you a little bit. It can start counting automatically as soon as you start the app. It also has a 30 day trail of usage in the today widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tody at every 10 days against 20 Seconds's every 3 months. Tody also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 21) and review sentiment (86% vs 67%). 20 Seconds's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and 20 Seconds sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tody holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tody has 11K ratings behind it against 21, 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 67% of 20 Seconds's.
Tody ships an update every 10 days, 20 Seconds every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tody | 20 Seconds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better | 4.6 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.6% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LoopLoop | Nishco Ltd |
Customer experience
Tody
20 Seconds
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
20 Seconds
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
20 Seconds
- Premium Version$0.99
- A Kind Tip$0.99









