Chrono vs Strich

**Your brain is full. Chrono takes the load off.** You don't need another to-do list. You need a system — one place where your notes, daily routines, and long-term goals work together instead of living in separate apps you forget to open. Chrono is a productivity app built by someone who kept forgetting things, losing notes, and ignoring reminders. It's designed around one idea: if the tool isn't fast and frictionless, you won't use it. **NOTES THAT ACTUALLY WORK** Capture thoughts instantly. Tag them with one tap. Find them later without scrolling through chaos. No folders, no nested hierarchies — just fast, clean note-taking that stays out of your way. **ROUTINES THAT STICK** Morning exercises. Supplements. Language practice. Set it once, and Chrono reminds you — not just once, but repeatedly until you actually do it. Missed the 9 AM reminder? Get another at 9:30. And 10:00. Your routine doesn't care about your excuses, and neither does Chrono. **GOALS WITH SESSIONS** Reading. Studying. Deep work. These aren't tasks you check off — they're activities you build over time. Set a session length, get a notification when it ends, and decide: one more round, or done for today? No more forgotten timers running for 14 hours. **AI ASSISTANT — YOUR NOTES AS CONTEXT** Connect your own API key and let AI work with your actual notes. Summarize, translate, rewrite, or brainstorm — with your own data as context. Your notes become a knowledge base, not just a pile of text. **100% OFFLINE. 100% PRIVATE.** Everything is stored on your device. No cloud sync, no account required, no data harvesting. Your thoughts stay yours. **WHY CHRONO?** - Not a planner. Not a to-do app. A productivity system. - Built for speed: open → write → done. - Smart recurring reminders that won't let you slip. - Session-based goal tracking for long-term activities. - AI that actually knows your context. - Offline-first. No sign-up. No cloud. Stop planning to be productive. Start being productive. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Strich is an app for keeping lists. Nothing else. No reminders, no due dates, no priorities, no tags, no statistics. The restraint is the product. A list in Strich is a permanent catalog, not a throwaway note: strike things off as you go, then reset the list with one gesture and use it again. Packing lists, grocery runs, routines, rituals — anything you do more than once. WHY STRICH • Strike, don't check. Done items get a single clean stroke — the app's namesake ("Strich" is German for stroke). • Reusable by design. Reset a finished list and it's ready for next time. The list is permanent, the checkmark is temporary. • Topics hold what belongs together: the vacation with its packing list, kids' gear and paperwork — each topic with as many lists as you need. • A bench instead of a trash can. Whatever you take off the list waits on the bench below it and comes back with a tap. Nothing is lost, nothing gets added twice. • Sections keep long lists readable — type a chip or a colon prefix to file new items where they belong, or turn any line into a heading. • Ruled paper, not another sterile productivity app. WIDGETS, SIRI AND THE LOCK SCREEN • Widgets in two sizes, for one list or two. Tap an item to strike it. • Siri and Shortcuts: “Add to Groceries in Strich”, strike, reset, hear what is still open. • The next open items on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, struck without unlocking. • A “New Item” button in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or on the Action button. • Open any list from Search on the Home Screen. BRING YOUR OWN AI (OPTIONAL) Every topic and every list has a chat. Strichbot reads your lists and proposes changes: add the usual suspects to a grocery list, group a long list into sensible sections in one go, tidy things up. From the topics overview it creates whole topics, or merges two into one without duplicates. It only ever proposes. You see your real list in its future state, tap away the individual changes you don't want, and apply the rest. Nothing happens automatically. The assistant's tone and behavior are yours to set through your own system prompt. The assistant uses your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), stored securely in your device's Keychain, with whichever model that provider offers. Strich has no servers of its own, no account, no tracking. Without a key, nothing is ever sent to an AI provider. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES, AND WITH THE PEOPLE YOU SHARE WITH Your lists follow you across iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. Switch phones and everything is simply there. And when a list is not only yours: share a single list or a whole topic by link. The other person opens it in their Strich, and from then on you write the same list — they strike an item, it is struck for you. The shopping list for two, without a group chat. Or hand one out to be read and not written: a guest invited to view only sees the list and its strokes and changes nothing. What others share with you gathers under "Shared with me", and you can leave a share whenever you want. Your chat with Strichbot stays on your own device. EVERYTHING ELSE • iPhone and iPad, every orientation on the pad • Import from any app via the iOS share sheet • Export and share your lists as text • Search within any list, regardless of case and accents • Duplicate topics and lists — a good list becomes a template • Send all done items to the bench at once, reset a whole topic at once • English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Portuguese — the system language or the one you pick — light and dark • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud — never on servers of ours