Comparison

Columns.app vs Time Blocking for ADHD

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

Head to head
About

Columns.app

Organize your thoughts and tasks with a unique column-based list manager. Ideal for planning, tracking, and managing projects, ideas, or collections. It offers a structured, linear approach similar to mind maps for clear visualization.

Highlights
  • Organize with linear columns
  • Plan and track progress
  • Manage projects and ideas
  • Create roadmaps
  • Teamwork organization
Features
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Columns is a list manager. Lists are great for organizing things and see the big picture. It's perfect for planning, tracking, noting, managing and thinking. It is like mind maps but organized in a linear, columns structure. What for? Make a list of movies you want to see. Put all your recipes together. Create a roadmap for your project. Organize teamwork. Lists help track progress. Write a novel. So it’s a tool for organizing lists, and lists are a tool for organizing things. If you need the ultimate organizer, you found it.

About

Time Blocking for ADHD

Plan your day visually with time blocks, ideal for managing tasks and schedules. Reschedule and resize blocks easily as plans change, then review how your day unfolded. Offers free basic features and a premium subscription for advanced insights and customization.

Highlights
  • Visual time blocking
  • Drag and drop rescheduling
  • Calendar integration
  • Progress tracking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Advanced insights and streaks (Plus)
  • Subtasks (Plus)
Features
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Plan your day with visual time blocks, on iPhone and iPad. Turn an overloaded task list into a realistic timeline. When plans change, drag and resize your day without starting over. Then see how the day actually went. NEW: ALIGN FOR IPAD Align is now on iPad, free just like on iPhone. • See several days side by side on a wide canvas. • Drag a time block to any visible day. • Open more than one window. • Your date browser and widgets stay in sync with your iPhone. FREE • Unlimited time blocks on a clear daily timeline. • Works with your calendars: events from the calendars you choose appear as time blocks, and new time blocks are saved back to them. • Drag and drop to reschedule. Push a time block to the edge of the screen to move it to the next day. • Resize a time block by dragging its top or bottom edge. • Icons and colors for every time block. • Custom alerts for each time block, plus an optional daily review reminder. • Recurring time blocks for the routines you repeat. • Mark time blocks complete and watch your daily progress. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: see what's next, check off time blocks, and add a new one without opening the app. ALIGN PLUS • Insights: daily, weekly, and monthly views of how your plan really goes. See what you completed, how loaded the day was, and what still fits before it ends. • Streaks: clear every time block in a day to start a run. • Shareable day cards: turn a good day into an image you can send. • Insights widgets for your pace, day load, and streak. • Overlap avoidance: drag or resize a time block and the surrounding ones move out of the way. • Time block locking: keep important time blocks fixed while you rearrange the rest. • Subtasks: break a time block into steps and check them off. • Custom day start and end: set the timeline to your own hours. Align Plus is available as a subscription with a free trial, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. WHO IT'S FOR Align is a time blocking daily planner for anyone whose to-do list never fits the day: people with ADHD who plan better when they can see time, students balancing classes and study, and professionals planning around meetings. Align is made by an independent developer. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Columns.app4 screens
Time Blocking for ADHD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Columns.app at none against Time Blocking for ADHD's 4. Columns.app also leads on ads (none vs shown). Time Blocking for ADHD's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 50%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time Blocking for ADHD sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Columns.app asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Blocking for ADHD holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Blocking for ADHD has 61 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Columns.app's written reviews are positive against 73% of Time Blocking for ADHD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Columns.app ships an update every 3 weeks, Time Blocking for ADHD fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Columns.app versus Time Blocking for ADHD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColumns.appTime Blocking for ADHD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)4.6 (61 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews72.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings361 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColumns, inc.Oscar Vicente Gonzalez Greco

Customer experience

Columns.app

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Time Blocking for ADHD

All ratings61 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral4.9%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

None

Columns.app

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Time Blocking for ADHD

Subscriptions3
  • Align Plus - Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Align Plus - Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Align Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Align Plus - Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Columns.app free?
Columns.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Blocking for ADHD free?
Time Blocking for ADHD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Columns.app or Time Blocking for ADHD?
Time Blocking for ADHD is rated higher. Columns.app averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Time Blocking for ADHD averages 4.6 from 61 ratings.
Do Columns.app or Time Blocking for ADHD have ads?
Time Blocking for ADHD shows ads; Columns.app does not.
Which is updated more often, Columns.app or Time Blocking for ADHD?
Columns.app ships an update every 3 weeks, and Time Blocking for ADHD fortnightly. Most recently, Columns.app was updated on November 3, 2026 and Time Blocking for ADHD on November 12, 2026.

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