Comparison

Funnel vs OnlyCheckboxes

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

Head to head
About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

OnlyCheckboxes

Features
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Know what needs doing. Know what got done. OnlyCheckboxes gives you one clear place for work, home, routines, errands, and projects. Start with a simple checklist. Add notes, dates, sub-checkboxes, tags, and attachments only when the work needs more detail. WHY YOU'LL LOVE ONLYCHECKBOXES KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING See overdue, due-soon, active, and recurring lists together so the next thing never hides in another app or notebook. MAKE EVERY STEP CLEAR Give each checkbox its own notes, smaller steps, tags, dates, and files. The list stays simple until you need more. REPEAT WHAT WORKS Turn any useful list into a template. Schedule it to come back on the dates that fit your life. WORK WITH AI WITHOUT LOSING THE RECORD Supported AI assistants can create lists and work through steps with you. Their progress lands in the same checklist you can inspect later. FIND ANYTHING FAST Search across lists and checkboxes when you need to pick up old work or check what happened. FEATURES • Simple personal checklists • A dashboard for overdue, due-soon, active, and recurring work • Reusable templates • Recurring schedules • Due dates and date ranges • Notes and sub-checkboxes • Tags and search • File attachments • Support for connected AI assistants • Light and dark modes OnlyCheckboxes keeps what needs doing and what got done in one clear place—without turning your life into a project-management system. Download OnlyCheckboxes and start with one list. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Funnel4 screens
OnlyCheckboxes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: OnlyCheckboxes at every 4 days against Funnel's every 6 weeks. OnlyCheckboxes also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and OnlyCheckboxes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, OnlyCheckboxes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Funnel versus OnlyCheckboxes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunnelOnlyCheckboxes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (47 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNoteSight Labs ApSAndrew Byrd

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

OnlyCheckboxes

Subscriptions2
  • OnlyCheckboxes Monthly$12.001 Month
  • OnlyCheckboxes Yearly$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OnlyCheckboxes free?
OnlyCheckboxes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Funnel or OnlyCheckboxes have ads?
Neither Funnel nor OnlyCheckboxes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Funnel or OnlyCheckboxes?
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, and OnlyCheckboxes every 4 days. Most recently, Funnel was updated on November 3, 2026 and OnlyCheckboxes on October 31, 2026.

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