Finalist vs Erre

Inspired by paper planners, Finalist shows your calendar, tasks, notes, reminders and weather forecast in one beautiful timeline. It even pulls in your Journal Suggestions and Activity Rings to keep you inspired. Gorgeous themes make planning a joy, not a chore. Finalist is built for people who finish things, no complex workflows or productivity theater. NOTES, IN YOUR PLANNER Your planner remembers what you wrote. A dedicated Notes tab gives you notebooks, tags and search. Keep native notes that sync over iCloud, or connect a folder of plain markdown files, including your Obsidian vault, and edit them in place. Tasks inside your markdown files become real Finalist tasks: dated, tagged and checkable anywhere in the app. YOUR DAY, ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app puts your whole day one glance away: events, tasks, reminders and habits in one scrollable view, topped by a Now card that always knows what matters next. Check off pinned lists from the wrist, grocery list included, and add tasks by keyboard, scribble or dictation. Complications and a Smart Stack widget round it out. (Requires watchOS 26.) DESIGN YOUR DAY Choose between two Daily designs: Daybook, the classic stacked layout, or Broadsheet, a newsprint-inspired look that shines on iPad and Mac. Rearrange sections with the layout editor and save your own presets. On the rebuilt Timeline, drag tasks onto the grid to sketch your day in pencil, then commit when it's real. "I've tried dozens of planning apps, this is the one that finally works." - Beta user "The integration of Reminders and Lists reduces the apps I need daily and makes planning actually fun." - Beta user Built with native Apple technologies: no accounts to create, syncs over iCloud, supports Family Sharing, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and Mac. Full database backup, export and import via JSON and OPML. Finalist is a love letter to paper planners. Give it a try, it feels great :) Purchasing information To get the full functionality in Finalist you will need to either purchase a subscription or a one time In-App Purchase for Lifetime access. The purchase amount will be applied to your iTunes account. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Lifetime purchase is a one-time fee. For more information, see our Terms of Use at https://finalist.works/eula/ and our Privacy Policy at https://finalist.works/privacy-policy/

Erre is a to-do list built around projects instead of dates. Most task apps ask when something is due. Erre asks what it belongs to. Your to-dos live inside a project; that could be a shoot you are editing, a room you are cleaning, a trip you are getting ready for. Everything is accessible on one screen and extremely easy to navigate. WHAT IT DOES • Create, rename, reorder, and archive projects easily. The one you are working on fills the screen. • Drag to reorder. Swipe to delete. Tap to tick. • Completed to-dos sink to the bottom, struck through, and can be hidden entirely. • The line above each project name writes itself; "new", then "in progress", then "completed" as the work moves. Type your own label instead and Erre leaves it alone. • An archive for the projects you have finished, and a restore button for the ones you had not. • Four accent colors and two densities. ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO On an iPad, or an iPhone Duo opened flat, Erre becomes a notebook laid open: a contents page of every project on the left, and the one you are working on facing it. On the closed Duo, the side column takes your accent color and holds the tools: add, projects, completed, and settings. Your list fills the rest of the screen. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No notifications, no streaks, no nagging, nothing to subscribe to. It also does not talk to the internet. There is no networking in the app at all — your projects and to-dos are written to a single file on your iPhone and they stay there. Nothing is collected, nothing is measured, nothing is sent anywhere. HOW IT LOOKS Erre is set in the manner of a printed field notebook: warm paper, a double rule under the header, monospaced small caps for the labels, and a serif where it counts. It is meant to look like something you would write in, not a dashboard.