LivePen vs Task Roulette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LivePen
Instantly digitize your handwritten notes and drawings from paper to your smartphone. Capture ideas, sketches, and important information in ink and bring them into your digital world for easy access and sharing.
- Instant digital capture of handwritten content
- Syncs ink from paper to smartphone
- Converts handwritten notes to text
- Share digital notes and sketches
- Organize captured ideas and sketches
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The companion app for LivePen from Livescribe. When used together, whatever you write and draw in ink on paper in the real world is instantly captured on your smartphone to use in your digital world. It’s kind of like magic! For millennia, we have written on paper to capture our ideas, sketches and notes. But all of that content, all of those imaginative thoughts have been trapped in ink on paper in the real world to probably be misplaced, lost or forgotten. Not anymore. With the LivePen app paired with LivePen, we’ve unlocked the ability to instantly bring your handwritten world, captured in ink on paper, to digital life. So, a scribbled down shopping list? Immediately on your phone. Handwritten notes from the classroom? Immediately available on your phone. Important notes from a business meeting? Already converted to text on your phone. Inspired sketched idea? Ready to share, instantly on your phone.
Task Roulette
This app helps you overcome indecision by randomly selecting tasks from your list. It offers a free trial period and various subscription options for continued use.
- Random task selection
- Task list management
- Focus timer integration
- Free trial available
- Subscription options
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Free to try for 7 days. Cancel anytime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://taskrouletteapp.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Task Roulette at 100% against LivePen's 33%. Task Roulette also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0). LivePen's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (34 vs 2). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Task Roulette sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. LivePen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Task Roulette holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LivePen has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of LivePen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Task Roulette's.
| Parameter | LivePen | Task Roulette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (34 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Livescribe Inc. | Wyatt Franz |
Customer experience
LivePen
Task Roulette
In-app purchases
LivePen
No in-app purchases
Task Roulette
- Task Roulette Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Task Roulette Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
