Comparison

Across vs Redirect Loop

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

Head to head
About

Across

A minimalist schedule planner that seamlessly integrates with Apple Calendar and Reminders. It offers a fast, intuitive, and distraction-free experience for organizing events and tasks, promoting a more mindful life. The app provides elegant views, deep customization, and offline capabilities.

Highlights
  • Apple Calendar & Reminders integration
  • Fast and intuitive experience
  • Elegant and customizable views
  • Serverless and offline-capable
  • Event templates and natural language input
  • Widgets for at-a-glance planning
Features
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Across is a calendar you can start using right away, then customize as much as you like. With a wide range of views and deep customization, it becomes more your own every day. Across doesn't lock you in. Your events stay safely in Apple and Google, while Across helps you view and manage them the way you want. Our goal is simple: not to keep you locked in, but to be the calendar you'll want to keep using. Across works seamlessly with Apple Calendar, Reminders, and Google Calendar, and stays in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No ads. Any data we collect is never linked to your identity. What Across offers: * 12+ calendar views * Monthly view with up to two lines per event and adjustable spacing * Weekly and multi-day views with continuous day-by-day scrolling * Deep customization of tabs, views, fonts, colors, and themes * Routine and recurring event management * Event templates, natural language event creation, and more * Anniversary and D-day countdowns * Widgets that show your upcoming events at a glance * Events and tasks managed in one place For those who love to plan, a precise planning tool. For those who don't, a simple way to stay on top of your days. Contact: support@daymore.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Redirect Loop

Features
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You already know what you should be doing. The trouble is that it's six taps away, and Instagram is one. Most blockers put a grey wall in front of the app you reached for. A wall is an argument, and the wall usually loses, because what's behind it is easy and the work is not. Redirect Loop shows you the next step instead. One physical action, small enough to start without deciding anything first. Open the file. Write one bad sentence. Copy out the line you're stuck on. HOW IT WORKS Name the one thing you've been putting off. Choose how long to go for, and which apps pull you in. When you reach for one of them mid-session, you don't get a wall. You get your own task back, with its next step already broken down, and two buttons: Back to work, or I'm stuck. "I'm stuck" is the point. It's the same tap as unlock, and the opposite psychology. WHEN IT'S STILL TOO BIG Ask for it smaller, and it gets smaller. Steps keep shrinking until they're something you can start without thinking about it, because the reason you're avoiding a thing is almost never the whole thing. HOURS THAT KEEP THEMSELVES Set the hours you want held. Any times, any days, or a one-off for a particular Saturday. They open and close on their own so you don't have to remember, and ending a session lifts everything until the next one begins. A RECORD, NOT A SCOREBOARD At the end you get sentences, not charts. What you actually did, in your own words. It counts the times you reached for a blocked app and went back to work, because those are the wins. It never shows you what you failed to do. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. Your choices go through Apple's own picker and come back as tokens this app cannot read. It cannot see which apps you blocked, or anything you do inside them. There's no account, no analytics and no advertising. HONEST LIMITS iOS grants Screen Time to one app at a time, so another blocker will stop this one working until you remove its access. There are timed passes, on purpose. A blocker you can't get past is a blocker you delete instead.

Screenshots

Across4 screens
Redirect Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Redirect Loop at none against Across's 5. Redirect Loop also leads on ads (none vs shown). Across's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price and iOS requirement 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. Across sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Redirect Loop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Across versus Redirect Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcrossRedirect Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (505 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings505 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDayMore Corp.Round Social LLC

Bugs and requests

Across

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Calendar events not syncing properly across devices
  • Recurring tasks not working as expected
  • Holidays calendar keeps reappearing
  • App freezing when adding/editing events

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to connect to Google Tasks
  • Improve widget functionality and customization
  • Implement lunar calendar support
  • Add ability to add participants to events
  • Enhance task management with sub-tasks and sections

Redirect Loop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Across

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Tips$0.99
  • Color Premium$3.99
  • Premium Lifetime$24.99
None

Redirect Loop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Across free?
Across is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Redirect Loop free?
Redirect Loop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Across or Redirect Loop have ads?
Across shows ads; Redirect Loop does not.

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