Comparison

Task Focus vs Furthering

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

Furthering

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Are you an ambitious goal-setter, a serial procrastinator looking for a gentle system, and an aesthetics lover who wants productivity to feel peaceful, not punishing? Well look no further! Furthering™ is the simple and impactful productivity tracker app for you! * Master Your Momentum: Whether you're mapping out tomorrow's master plan or logging today's spontaneous victories, stay on top of your life with a system that adapts to you. * Structured Progress: Activities are grouped in 10 provided categories. You can also add your own categories. * The Power of "Dial Up" & "Dial Down": Finally, a tracker that understands balance. Assign a "polarity" to your goals: set it to maximize the good habits (like reading) and minimize the bad ones (like doomscrolling). * Your Weekly Reset: Every Monday, become your own best coach. Review your 4-week visually stunning heatmap, grade your completed week across categories and overall, and add private notes to course-correct and conquer the week ahead. * A Zen-Like Experience: Celebrate your completed tasks and reviews with the soothing, organic sound of wooden chimes. * Instant Inspiration: Feeling stuck? Let about 100 hand-picked, beautifully presented motivational quotes, set against a stunning, dynamic stained-glass backdrop, spark your inner fire exactly when you need a push. * Total Customization: Mix and match elegant fonts, soothing color schemes, and vibrant accent colors to create a workspace you actually want to open every day. * 100% Private, 0% Creepy: Your ambitions are personal. Your data stays strictly on your device - never sent to the cloud, never sold to advertisers. The only ads you see are general, not personalized to you. * Everywhere You Work: Use it on iPhone, iPad, or macOS (No cloud sync is available in the current release). * Unlock Your Potential: Start leveling up your life absolutely free. Love it? Unlock a lifetime of ad-free focus with a single, one-time payment. No sneaky subscriptions.

Screenshots

Task Focus4 screens
Furthering4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Furthering at weekly against Task Focus's every 2 weeks. Task Focus's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). 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 Furthering 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, Furthering weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Task Focus versus Furthering: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTask FocusFurthering
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLukas BurgstallerRAVI SOM SINHA

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Task Focus

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

Furthering

One-time1
  • Remove Ads for Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Task Focus free?
Task Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Furthering free?
Furthering is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Task Focus or Furthering have ads?
Neither Task Focus nor Furthering shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Task Focus or Furthering?
Task Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Furthering weekly. Most recently, Task Focus was updated on October 9, 2026 and Furthering on October 6, 2026.

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