Comparison

Strive Planner vs FarmerDo

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

Head to head
About

Strive Planner

This app helps you connect your daily tasks and events to your overarching goals. It focuses on the 'why' behind your productivity, ensuring your actions align with your aspirations.

Highlights
  • Goal connection to daily events
  • Weekly planning
  • Task management
  • Productivity focus on 'why'
Features
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What exactly do most calendar, task list, and productivity apps get wrong? They either focus on the *when* or the *how*, but they never focus on the *why* Strive fixes that. With Strive, you're able to connect the goals you work on to the events in your day. Enjoy! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

FarmerDo

Features
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FarmerDo — Where Every Chore Grows Something Most to-do apps just want a checkmark. FarmerDo wants you to grow a farm. Here's how it works: every task you write down has two halves. Check it off in real life, and your farm opens up with a matching chore waiting for you — water the flowers, milk the cow, go fishing, collect the morning eggs. Walk your farmer over and finish the job, and only then does the task actually count as done. Half-finished tasks sit right there in your list with a little open marker, quietly reminding you that real life and farm life both need closing out. Plant and harvest six different crops. Raise alpacas, cows, goats, sheep, chickens, and a small army of pigs, starting them off as babies and working them up to full-grown adults. Cast a line at the fishing spot and hope for one of thirteen real species instead of yet another boot — your Fish Log keeps score either way. Every chore you finish pays out in gold, and every gold coin gets you closer to the animal you've been eyeing in the store. It's a to-do list with a pulse — productive in the real world, oddly soothing in the game one, and sneaky enough to make "water the flowers" feel like a reward instead of a reminder. Real tasks. Real farm. Actually getting things done, twice over.

Screenshots

Strive Planner4 screens
FarmerDo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Strive Planner at Free against FarmerDo's $0.99. Strive Planner also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 15 months) and device support (4 vs 1). FarmerDo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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

Strive Planner is free to download; FarmerDo costs $0.99 up front. Strive Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. FarmerDo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, FarmerDo every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Strive Planner versus FarmerDo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrive PlannerFarmerDo
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.8 (56 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeiss Solutions LLCmysteryfiles.nl

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Strive Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$64.99
None

FarmerDo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strive Planner free?
Strive Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FarmerDo free?
FarmerDo costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Strive Planner or FarmerDo have ads?
Neither Strive Planner nor FarmerDo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strive Planner or FarmerDo?
Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, and FarmerDo every 15 months. Most recently, Strive Planner was updated on September 17, 2026 and FarmerDo on September 22, 2026.

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