Comparison

Task Focus vs Parallelife

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

Head to head
About

Task Focus

This productivity partner helps power users manage goals, projects, and priorities with clarity and speed. It offers daily task targets, versatile calendar views, and Kanban boards for visualizing progress. Organize tasks by color-coded projects, locations, or tags, and break down complex tasks into subtasks.

Highlights
  • Daily task targets and intelligent workload organization
  • Distraction-free daily and overdue task views
  • Monthly, weekly, and daily calendar views
  • Kanban boards for project visualization
  • Color-coded projects and location-based notifications
  • Tag filtering and repeating tasks
  • Subtasks for breaking down complex tasks
  • Share extension, widgets, and App Intents integration
Features
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Task Focus keeps your tasks, projects, and priorities in one place. Plan your day, see what needs attention, and get on with the work without spending all day organizing it. Set Goals & Stay on Track: Define what success looks like. Enter your daily task targets, and Task Focus organizes your workload intelligently to help you hit them consistently. Plan with Precision: - Today & Planning: Start each day with a distraction-free view of today's and overdue tasks. Plan ahead with versatile calendar views—monthly, weekly, or daily—to keep your goals in sight. - Kanban Boards: Visualize projects, areas, tags, or locations in Kanban boards for instant clarity on progress. Organise with Ease: - Areas & Projects: Use color-coded projects to visually differentiate areas of your life, making time management straightforward and effective. - Locations: Activate location-based notifications, ensuring you receive task alerts precisely when you arrive or leave relevant places. Enhanced Task Management: - Tags: Easily filter tasks with a contextual tag filter bar for quick access to what's important. - Repeating Tasks: Automate task repetition on the next available day or at regular intervals, keeping you on track effortlessly. - Sub Tasks: Break complex tasks into manageable steps by assigning subtasks. Integrate Seamlessly: - Share Extension: Add tasks directly from any app using the share sheet feature. - Widgets: Stay on top of your tasks with desktop widgets, offering quick access and easy task management right from your home screen. - App Intents: Incorporate Task Focus into your workflows using the Shortcuts app for task addition and scheduling. Stay Connected: - Calendar Events: Integrate your calendar, displaying events alongside tasks for a comprehensive daily view. - Reminders: Import your Reminders directly into Task Focus to have everything in one place. - iCloud Sync: Enjoy seamless syncing across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud, ensuring your tasks are always current. Exclusive Features with Task Focus Pro: Task Focus Pro renews automatically as a paid subscription unless canceled 24 hours before renewal. Payment is charged to your iTunes Account at purchase confirmation. Renewal charges occur within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time via iTunes settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid charges. Cancellation takes effect after the current subscription ends, downgrading you to the free service. Any unused free trial time is forfeited if a premium subscription is purchased during this period. Privacy Policy: https://voidstern.net/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://voidstern.net/terms-of-use

About

Parallelife

Features
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ParallelLife — Turn Your Life Into a Game You Designed Tired of plain, lifeless to-do lists? ParallelLife is a gamified task manager that lets you build a fully customizable "second life" while getting real things done. Tasks, Your Way: Create tasks with tags, priorities, and repeat rules (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly, or even "restart immediately on completion"). View your schedule in five calendar modes — Day, 3-Day, Week, Month, and Year. Build Your Own Growth System: Custom attribute bars, level curves, rarity tiers — you define every rule of this world. Complete a focus session (Pomodoro, countdown, or count-up) and earn the "coins" or attribute growth you designed for yourself. Run a Shop That's Entirely Yours: Stock your shop with items you create: in-game props that interact with attributes and levels (triggering effects, unlocking requirements, timed buffs), or real-world rewards for yourself — a bubble tea, an episode of your favorite show, a break you've earned. Spend the coins you earn through focus sessions to buy them, turning self-discipline into a rewarding kind of "shopping." Long-Term Achievements, Lasting Motivation: Set long-term goals — tasks completed, focus time logged, streaks kept, levels or attributes reached — tracked automatically across daily/weekly/monthly/yearly cycles, with built-in rewards that make your progress visible. A Space That's Truly Yours: Customize your theme color and wallpaper, and switch between multiple profiles to keep work, study, and life separate — all synced across your devices via iCloud.

Screenshots

Task Focus4 screens
Parallelife4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Parallelife at every 2 days against Task Focus's every 2 weeks. Task Focus's advantage is device support (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Task Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Parallelife sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Task Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, Parallelife every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Task Focus versus Parallelife: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTask FocusParallelife
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukas Burgstaller一帆 王

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Task Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Task Focus Pro$1.991 Month
  • Task Focus Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Parallelife

One-time1
  • Pro Account$9.99

Questions

Is Task Focus free?
Task Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Parallelife free?
Parallelife is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Task Focus or Parallelife have ads?
Neither Task Focus nor Parallelife shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Task Focus or Parallelife?
Task Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Parallelife every 2 days. Most recently, Task Focus was updated on October 9, 2026 and Parallelife on October 7, 2026.

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