Crastinate vs BreakMode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crastinate
This task manager offers a simple and kind approach to managing your to-do list. It focuses on getting things done without rigid schedules or due dates, making productivity feel effortless.
- Task management without rigid calendars
- Procrastination made useful
- Forgets due dates
- Clean and simple interface
- No signups or data collection
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Crastinate is a task manager that works like you do. It does away with rigid calendars, makes procrastination useful and forgets due dates ever existed. It's clean, simple and most of all kind. No signups, in-app purchases, data collection, or AI required. Please procrastinate!
BreakMode
This app intelligently schedules personalized breaks into your calendar based on your unique criteria. It helps prevent burnout by ensuring you step away from work, even when busy. Customize break lengths and timing to fit your schedule.
- Customizable open-ended breaks
- Real-time calendar sync
- Override lockout feature
- Simple progress dashboard
- Personalized onboarding
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Your Day. Your Rules. Your Rest. Most productivity apps tell you when to work. BreakMode empowers you to decide when to rest. Designed for busy remote workers, students, and parents, BreakMode is the smart auto-calendar app that inserts fully customized, user-driven breaks directly into your Google and iOS Calendars based on your unique criteria. No rigid cycles. Just automated sanity shaped by you. WHY BREAKMODE? We get stuck at our desks, lose track of time, and look up at 4 PM realizing we haven't stood up or seen sunlight in six hours. That isn't a deep focus state, it is just plain burnout. BreakMode acts as a direct shield for your time. It steps in so you can step away, because small breaks make big days better. Taking a break shouldn't feel like extra work. HOW IT WORKS Set it and forget it. Complete our personalized onboarding profiling, securely connect your calendars, and define your "Open-Ended" break rules. Our custom algorithm scans your live schedule and intelligently carves out recovery slots exactly where they fit. CORE FEATURES: • CUSTOM OPEN-ENDED BREAKS: You control the parameters. Decide your minimum and maximum break lengths, what days you want to use the app, and your preferred time windows. The app takes care of the scheduling for you. • REAL-TIME CALENDAR SYNC: Works natively with iOS Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. • OVERRIDE LOCKOUT: Protect yourself from chronic burnout. Turn on the Lockout feature to temporarily disable accidental or impulsive break deletions when you are stressed. • SIMPLE PROGRESS DASHBOARD: Quickly see how many breaks you took, what got shifted, and look at your daily habit consistency without any guilt or judgment. Stop letting your calendar run your life. Download BreakMode today and make your schedule work for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BreakMode at Free against Crastinate's $0.99. BreakMode also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
BreakMode is free to download; Crastinate costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Crastinate against 5.0 for BreakMode. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Crastinate ships an update monthly, BreakMode every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crastinate | BreakMode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Lucas Forsman Boothe | GILLIAN MARA SANDMAN |
Customer experience
Crastinate
BreakMode
In-app purchases
Crastinate
No in-app purchases
BreakMode
No in-app purchases









