Comparison

5 Tasks vs One Line

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

Head to head
About

5 Tasks

This app helps you manage your daily tasks and projects by presenting them in manageable sets of five. Organize your to-do lists, shopping lists, or project tasks with intuitive filtering and sorting options. Enjoy a clean interface, dark mode, and automatic iCloud backup for seamless data management across devices.

Highlights
  • Presents 5 tasks at a time
  • Organize tasks by groups, priorities, due dates, and labels
  • User-friendly interface with dark mode
  • Automatic iCloud data backup
  • Supports iPad and Mac (M1/M2) with data syncing
  • Subscription for premium features
Features
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Have you ever caught yourself staring at the long list of tasks that you need to do not knowing where to start ? Now the 5 tasks app is here to solve that. Organize your daily task list / project, daily checklist or even shopping list from the same app. 5 tasks is a simple & beautiful app for managing your todos or tasks. Create all the tasks as you want, organize it under groups, sort & filter with priorities, due dates, labels & groups and complete it by tapping or swiping the task. It doesn't overwhelm you and presents you 5 tasks at a time. Once you complete that set, another set of 5 tasks is ready for you to tackle. Features: • Beautiful User friendly Interface: No more clunky, difficult navigation. This is an easy to use app with beautiful UI. • Dark Mode: Love dark mode? we love it tooo & its free. • Groups: Organize all your tasks under a group. A group acts as a container for all your tasks. • Active Tasks: See set of 5 tasks first. Complete those tasks to see another set of 5 tasks. You can also filter tasks per groups, priorities, due dates or labels. • Task Filter: Sort & filter your tasks by groups, priorities, due dates or labels. • Labels/Tags: Create unlimited labels or tags for your tasks and assign it. You can sort tasks with labels. • Priorities: Assign priorities to your tasks. • Data Backup: All your data gets backed up to your icloud account automatically, safely & privately so that you won't lose it ever. • iPad & Mac (M1/M2) Support: We designed this app to work on your ipad & mac too. All your data will be seamlessly synced with multiple devices. To access all the premium features, you can always purchase our Monthly or Yearly subscription plan. 5 Tasks will automatically charge your iTunes Account at the end of your subscription unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. Subscriptions renew at the original price. You can turn off auto-renew at any time and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but no refund can be provided for unused portions of the subscription. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. All your previous purchases can be easily restored using the **Restore Purchase** option in the app. This will provide you access to all the premium features. You can view 5 Tasks Terms of Service & Privacy Policy at: https://nrlnishan.github.io/fivetaskapp/privacypolicy/ https://nrlnishan.github.io/fivetaskapp/tos/

About

One Line

Features
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Type one line. That's the whole system. Most notes apps die the same way: organizing them becomes the work. Folders, projects, boards, tag syntax — a filing system you have to maintain before you're allowed to write anything down. One Line has none of that. You type a line and it stays exactly as you wrote it. Write "dentist tomorrow at 3pm" and the app offers "Tomorrow 3:00 PM · Add" — one tap sets the time and a reminder, or skip it and keep the line as written. The app never rewrites your words on its own. ■ Notes, tasks, and events in one stream Not three apps. Not three tabs you keep forgetting to open. One place you actually write to, with a Today view for what's in front of you and a calendar for what's coming. ■ Nothing leaves your device unless you ask No account is needed to use the app. Your writing is stored on your iPhone, and the app reads it on the device itself — nothing is sent anywhere to be processed. No ads, no tracking, no advertising identifier. Airplane mode changes nothing. Turn on Cloud sync and you sign in with Apple or Google; only then is anything you write stored on our servers. The separate, opt-in usage stats send counts of which features you used, once a week, plus a crash report if the app quits on you — never your notes. Turn on link previews and the request goes straight to that site — never through us, and we never learn what you looked at. It is off until you turn it on. ■ You don't have to open the app · A Home Screen widget shows today at a glance · Tap the widget once to capture straight into the app · Share from Safari and the page title and article are saved with it — add "todo read tomorrow" while sharing and it becomes a task for tomorrow · Share text or a screenshot from any other app and it's saved · Due dates and events arrive as notifications ■ Gets in without typing (Pro) · Share a screenshot and the text on it becomes a note — menus and status bars stripped, dates, phone numbers and amounts pinned to the top · Snap a photo or a document and the text inside is read · Record a voice memo and it is transcribed · Long articles shared from Safari can be summarized in a few lines (Apple Intelligence devices) · The reading happens on this device. Photos and voice are never sent anywhere to be read ■ Free, and actually complete · Unlimited notes, tasks, and events · Natural-language dates in English and Korean — "dentist tomorrow 3pm", "report by friday", "every monday gym" — offered, never forced · Polish — fixes only spelling and spacing, and shows you the change before it's applied (Apple Intelligence devices) · Sync across your devices — sign in and pick up where you left off. Photos, recordings and attachments come along too, up to 5 GB · Today view, calendar, notifications, widgets · Export a backup file and restore from it · Export everything as Markdown files No item caps. No ads. No trial that runs out. ■ One Line Pro · Yearly, with a discounted first year · Monthly · Lifetime — a launch price. Pay once and keep every Pro feature, including the ones that come later · Gets in without typing — Text from photos · Transcription · Article summary (Apple Intelligence devices) · Search what piled up — Semantic search: find "that hospital thing last month" without remembering the exact words · Keep it on your Home Screen — Pinned note widget Prices are shown in your local currency on the App Store. Cancel any time. Everything stays on your device. ■ Terms & Privacy · Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time, non-consuming purchase and does not renew. · Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · Privacy Policy: https://oneline.date/en/privacy

Screenshots

5 Tasks4 screens
One Line4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: One Line at daily against 5 Tasks's every 2 months. 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. 5 Tasks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and One Line sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

5 Tasks ships an update every 2 months, One Line daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
5 Tasks versus One Line: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter5 TasksOne Line
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNishan NiraulaXTI Co.,Ltd.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

5 Tasks

Subscriptions2
  • Five Task Plus - Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Five Task Plus - Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Five Task - Lifetime Access$14.99
2 purchases

One Line

Subscriptions2
  • One Line Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • One Line Pro1 Year trial$17.991 Year

Questions

Is 5 Tasks free?
5 Tasks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is One Line free?
One Line is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 5 Tasks or One Line have ads?
Neither 5 Tasks nor One Line shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 5 Tasks or One Line?
5 Tasks ships an update every 2 months, and One Line daily. Most recently, 5 Tasks was updated on November 3, 2026 and One Line on November 10, 2026.

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