Strive Planner vs BeThere Scheduling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Goal connection to daily events
- Weekly planning
- Task management
- Productivity focus on 'why'
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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/
BeThere Scheduling
Streamline event staffing and team management with this app. It enhances collaboration, boosts accountability, and significantly reduces time spent on scheduling tasks.
- Event scheduling
- Event staffing
- Team management
- Improved collaboration
- Increased accountability
- Time saving
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BeThere is an event-scheduling, event-staffing, and team management app that improves collaboration and accountability and saves time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BeThere Scheduling at none against Strive Planner's 3. BeThere Scheduling also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Strive Planner's advantage is ratings volume (60 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Strive Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. BeThere Scheduling asks for nothing beyond the download.
BeThere Scheduling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive Planner has 60 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, BeThere Scheduling every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive Planner | BeThere Scheduling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (60 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Weiss Solutions LLC | Derek Johnson |
In-app purchases
Strive Planner
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$64.99
BeThere Scheduling
No in-app purchases
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