Internalize vs Back Burner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Internalize
Break down aspirations into manageable activities and milestones to achieve your goals. Track progress with visual indicators and a time guide, fostering habit building and skill improvement without a rigid schedule.
- Track goals by activities or milestones
- Set target completion dates
- Monitor progress with progress bar
- Utilize a time guide
- Quick activity tracking
- Color and icon customization
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Internalizing your goals means focusing on what's within your control. With Internalize, you can break down aspirations into manageable activities and milestones. Activities are key to building good habits and improving through repetition, whether it's practicing an instrument or mastering a new skill. Milestones are incremental steps towards achieving success, helping you stay motivated and track your progress. The app's progress bar and time guide keep you on track without requiring a rigid schedule, so you can complete your goals on time and with ease. By using these tools to track your goals, and with enough time, you can accomplish anything! Main Features: - Track goals by activities, milestones, or both - Choose a color and icon for your goal - Set a target completion date for each goal - Monitor your progress with the progress bar or milestone indicator - Keep track of time with the time guide - Use the quick activity screen to quickly track your activities - Track your overall or weekly progress on the main view No subscription required. Internalize offers your first 3 goals for free, and a one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited goal tracking. By making this purchase, you'll help support the app's ongoing development and receive future updates with new features to help you achieve your goals even more effectively.
Back Burner
Capture tasks and goals you want to address later. This app offers a card-based system to manage eventual to-dos, helping you focus on personal accomplishments instead of endless lists. It's a simple way to track and complete your objectives.
- Card-based task management
- Swipe to postpone or complete tasks
- Capture eventual to-dos
- Alternative to social media scrolling
- Goal tracking
- Unlimited cards for subscribers
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You have projects. You have tasks. And you have things you want to do... eventually. Back Burner is a place to collect those eventual to-dos so that you can revisit them, revise them, and get them done when you've got the time. Back Burner is also an alternative to social networks. Have five minutes free on your commute? Instead of doom scrolling the latest bad news, check out your Back Burner and swipe to find something you can accomplish for YOU! Or if you have a new goal you want to jot down quickly, throw it on your Back Burner and come back to it later! Whether it's paying a bill or calling a loved one, signing up for that course or remembering to drink water a few times a day, Back Burner is a great way to track and accomplish your goals simply and easily. Other task managers fill your screen with llists, and require you to set time tables and dependencies. Back Burner follows the model of a card deck, allowing you to have one idea per card, and just rotate through, swiping left to postpone something you're not ready to do, or swiping right when you've done it. Users get 100 cards for free, with titles only. Subscribers get unlimited cards, with both titles and descriptions, tags, filters, and search. And there are dozens of features in development which will all be available to subscribers only. Download Back Burner now for FREE, and when you love it, subscribe to unlock everything! Use of this app is pursuant to the standard Apple App Store EULA at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Back Burner at 5.0 against Internalize's 4.5. Internalize's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Internalize sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Back Burner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Back Burner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Internalize ships an update weekly, Back Burner monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Internalize | Back Burner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blit Labs | Benjamin Carroll |
Customer experience
Internalize
Back Burner
In-app purchases
Internalize
- Unlimited Goals$6.99
Back Burner
- Monthly Subscription$0.291 Month
- Annual Subscription$2.901 Year
- Superfan Annual Subscription$29.001 Year









