Re vs Backtick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Re
This app helps individuals manage checking compulsions associated with OCD. It allows users to log completed tasks with notes or photos, providing tangible proof to reduce anxiety and the urge to re-check. The goal is to change responses to intrusive thoughts and reclaim mental energy.
- Log completed tasks
- Attach photos for confirmation
- Timestamped task records
- Reduce checking compulsions
- Manage anxiety and stress
- Break cycles of doubt
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Have you ever left your driveway, merged onto the highway, and suddenly been struck by an overwhelming wave of doubt: Did I actually lock the front door? Did I remember to turn off the stove? Did I close the garage? Re: Mind is the ultimate cognitive offloading utility, meticulously engineered to eliminate uncertainty from your daily life. Whether you are managing a demanding professional schedule, securing your household perimeter, or simply striving to build bulletproof safety checklists, Re: Mind acts as your infallible digital memory bank. By combining elegant task management architecture with undeniable visual proof, Re: Mind ensures that once a task is completed, you never have to waste another moment worrying about it. Core Capabilities & Features: • Evidence-Based Verification Standard, text-based to-do lists rely on simple checkboxes. These are easily forgotten, mindlessly tapped out of muscle memory, or checked by accident, offering no real reassurance when doubt strikes hours later. Re: Mind completely revolutionizes accountability. Capture a rapid photo or video timestamp of your locked door, powered-down appliance, or packed luggage. When uncertainty creeps in, the definitive, uneditable visual proof is waiting right in your pocket. • Flexible Task Architecture We understand that your daily checks are entirely unique to your lifestyle. Re: Mind offers a highly adaptable, modular architecture that empowers you to build bespoke checklists for any conceivable scenario. Construct a rapid "Leaving Home" sequence, a meticulous "Closing the Office" protocol, or a comprehensive "Nightly Safety" checklist. Group, organize, and prioritize your tasks to seamlessly match your exact environmental requirements. • Visual History & Timeline Never lose track of your past actions. Re: Mind automatically archives every single verification into a beautifully designed, infinitely searchable visual timeline. Instantly review your historical data to confirm past tasks, track your consistency over weeks and months, and build unshakeable long-term confidence in your daily actions. • Premium Efficiency We know your time is your most valuable asset. Re: Mind is engineered for absolute speed and minimal friction. Utilizing advanced offline capabilities and a deeply optimized interface, logging a visually verified task requires less than three seconds. No cumbersome menus, no cloud-syncing delays—just instant, frictionless logging that keeps up with your pace. • Intelligent Onboarding Achieving peace of mind should not require a steep learning curve. Re: Mind features a seamless, intuitive setup process that guides you through establishing your first verified sequence in mere seconds. Armed with expertly designed, pre-built templates for the most common use cases (such as home security checks and morning departure protocols), you will experience the immediate relief of cognitive offloading from the very first day. Download Re: Mind today. Offload your memory, eliminate the doubt, and focus your energy on what truly matters.
Backtick
This app transforms your home and lock screens into a functional terminal. Display real-time data like calendar events, reminders, weather, and system stats directly on your device's interface.
- Functional terminal interface on home/lock screen
- Display calendar, reminders, weather, battery, GitHub
- Full-page and console widgets
- 35+ widget types including git, focus, and weather
- Lock screen widgets and StandBy mode support
- Customizable themes and palettes
- Integrates with Shortcuts and Siri
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Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal. Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, steps, battery — and now your GitHub, your focus sessions and anything your automations want to say. FULL-PAGE WIDGETS (iOS 27) The Terminal fills an entire home screen page — now, next up, tasks, weather and system as one live session. The Console goes full page too, with bit idling above the menu. THE WIDGETS — 35 OF THEM • Terminal — five panels switched by tapping tabs on the widget; small, medium, large and full page • Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without opening an app • git log — your GitHub contribution graph, streak and recent activity • focus — one tap starts a timer, with a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island • curl — any number from a JSON endpoint you choose, with a sparkline of recent values • echo — shows whatever you send it from Shortcuts; build automations that write to your home and lock screen • Weather — current, hourly and forecast; the small one pages when you tap it • Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, zero battery cost, 12h or 24h • Countdown — days to a date you pick; ticks live on the final day, counts up after • Daylight — sunrise to sunset as a gauge, golden hour, light left • Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill • Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges • Month — the full month with event markers • Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale • Steps — today's count and distance, with the week as bars • Disk — storage as a block gauge • Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix • motd — a daily line from bit, free • bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time. LOCK SCREEN Nine rectangular widgets (next up, tasks, weather, forecast, hourly, elapsed, battery, daylight, echo), six circular gauges, and inline status lines. STANDBY Charge your phone on its side and the Terminal, Weather, Clock and bit widgets switch to big, glanceable layouts you can read from across the room. THEMES Six full terminal palettes — Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night — or classic true black with one of five accent phosphors. Every widget follows instantly. SHORTCUTS, SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Set Backtick Message" puts any text on the echo widgets — when you arrive at work, when your battery runs low, whenever • Start or stop a focus session from Siri, Shortcuts or Control Center • Tick your top task, poke bit, or jump to your agenda from Control Center or the Action button BUILT LIKE A TOOL • Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders • Tap a section to open YOUR apps: choose which calendar, reminders and weather apps widget taps launch • Battery, weather and steps refresh in the background through the day • Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes • True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no sign-in, no Backtick server — there isn't one • Calendar, reminders, steps and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks • Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location • git log and curl talk only to the addresses you give them; an optional GitHub token stays in your phone's keychain • Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to. FREE / PRO The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line, motd and the classic amber theme are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — every widget, every palette — no subscription, no upsell treadmill. — Privacy policy: https://backtick.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://backtick.app/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Re at 5.0 against Backtick's 4.7. Re also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Backtick's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Re sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Backtick sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Re holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backtick has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Re's written reviews are positive against 80% of Backtick's.
Re ships an update every 6 days, Backtick every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Re | Backtick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maciej Mejer | Elvis Mederos |
Customer experience
Re
Backtick
In-app purchases
Re
- Premium Version$3.99
Backtick
- 7-Day Trial of Backtick ProFree
- Pro$4.99









