Comparison

BigPlan vs Atlas

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

Head to head
About

BigPlan

This app offers a visual planner to organize tasks, habits, and schedules on a single timeline. It helps users focus, manage projects with nested tasks, and personalize their planning space with custom themes and backdrops. Enjoy seamless synchronization across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Visual timeline for tasks, habits, and events
  • Habit tracking and progress visualization
  • Nested tasks for project breakdown
  • Customizable themes, colors, and backdrops
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Quick search and multi-edit capabilities
Features
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An intuitive visual planner that helps you focus every day on what you want to do, organize your time, and follow good habits. Find calm and focus in your day. Make plans and see all your tasks, habits, and schedule come together on a single timeline. Struggling to focus, juggling all the important stuff, or just keeping your head clear? Reclaim your headspace from all the distraction. – Simplify Your Day – Designed to bring you focus and clarity at a glance: - See Your Schedule Beautifully: Map out your entire day on an intuitive timeline that combines your to-dos, habits, and events. - Build Lasting Habits: Create and track repeatable tasks to build momentum and visualize your progress over time. - Never Miss a Thing: Stay on top of deadlines, meetings, and birthdays with custom reminders. – A Planner Just For You – Make your planning space a place you love: - Custom Colors: Personalize with a color palette that fits your style. - Big Themes: See the entire app transform with special color palettes that magically adapt to your chosen theme. - Serene Backdrops: Set your productive scene with beautiful backgrounds. – Easy Organization – From grocery lists to big projects, have the tools to handle it easily: - Tackle Projects: Break down big things into smaller, manageable steps with nested tasks and lists. - Gain Powerful Perspectives: Use Labels to categorize and quickly filter everything from work assignments to personal errands. - Capture Every Detail: Add notes quickly to your tasks so important information is always right where you need it. – Built For Your iPhone and iPad – - Widgets: See plans at a glance and seamlessly complete your to dos. - iCloud Sync: Your data is always saved and syncs automatically and securely across all your Apple devices. - Drag & Drop: Fluidly plan your day and reorganize with interactive drag-and-drop. - Quick Search: Swiftly find what you need - any task, note, or project. - Multi-Edit: Save time by editing multiple lists and tasks at once. - Dark mode Ready to focus? Get BigPlan now and start easily.

About

Atlas

This app helps you organize your tasks and manage your focus time. It offers a clean interface for planning your day, managing projects, and utilizing focus sessions with optional soundscapes and Pomodoro timers. Premium features include distraction blocking and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Daily agenda and monthly calendar view
  • Task management with projects and subtasks
  • Quick capture via text or voice
  • Focus sessions with soundscapes and Pomodoro
  • Distraction blocking (Premium)
  • Calendar sync (Premium)
  • Widgets and Lock Screen integration
Features
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Atlas is a calm planner for your tasks and your focus. Plan the day, keep every project in its place, then put the phone down and do the work. No ads, no clutter, no noise. AGENDA One day at a time. The week strip at the top opens into the whole month with a tap or a pull. Overdue tasks wait at the top of today, finished ones fold away, and your progress fills in as the day goes. INBOX Everything without a date lands here, so nothing gets lost while you decide. Filter by project, and give things a day when you are ready. PROJECTS Every project gets a card in its own color, with what is open and what is overdue. Tap one to see its tasks, add to it, rename it or delete it. QUICK CAPTURE Type "Call Ana tomorrow at 3pm #Home" and Atlas picks up the day, the time and the project. Or tap the mic and just talk: say a few things in one go, and Atlas turns them into separate tasks and shows them to you before anything is saved. Your speech is transcribed and understood on your iPhone, and the audio is never saved. Works in English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Italian. Tasks have reminders, repeats, subtasks and notes. FOCUS Pick a time on the dial or one of the presets, choose the tasks for the session, and start. The session takes the whole screen, and after a few seconds without a touch the controls fade away, leaving the time and your open tasks. Add a soundscape like rain, ocean or brown noise, and follow along from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. When you finish, share your session as an image made for Stories. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS (Premium) Choose the apps and websites that pull you away, and Atlas blocks them for the length of a session. Or block everything except Atlas and the system apps. Set scheduled blocks that work even when Atlas is closed. Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. BROWSE Your day at a glance: what you finished, the minutes you focused, and Insights with goals and streaks. Lists for Today, Scheduled, Inbox, Overdue, Pinned and Completed. Search across tasks and projects. ALWAYS WITH YOU Widgets for your day and your focus. A morning summary, and a reminder on Sunday evening to plan the week ahead. Reorder the tabs so Atlas opens where you want. Everything syncs to your account, so it is the same on every iPhone you sign in to and on the web at atlasapp.so. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics, and your data is never sold. Voice capture runs on your device. Export your data at any time, or delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. Atlas uses a free account so your tasks can sync. ATLAS PREMIUM Atlas is useful for free, with Focus, sounds and stats included. Premium adds: • App blocking and scheduled blocks • Flow sessions: open-ended focus that counts up until you stop • Two-way sync with Apple Calendar, and your calendar events inside the Agenda • Photos on your tasks Atlas Premium is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the U.S., with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of the free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Atlas is made by one independent developer. Your subscription keeps it that way. Terms of Use: https://atlasapp.so/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://atlasapp.so/privacy.html

Screenshots

BigPlan4 screens
Atlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Atlas at every 4 days against BigPlan's every 2 weeks. BigPlan's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BigPlan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Atlas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BigPlan against 5.0 for Atlas. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BigPlan has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BigPlan ships an update every 2 weeks, Atlas every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BigPlan versus Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBigPlanAtlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB21 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJesse SpencerAdriano Fiuza

Customer experience

BigPlan

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Atlas

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BigPlan

One-time1
  • Nova$12.00
2 purchases

Atlas

Subscriptions2
  • Atlas Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Atlas Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is BigPlan free?
BigPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Atlas free?
Atlas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BigPlan or Atlas?
BigPlan and Atlas are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BigPlan or Atlas have ads?
Neither BigPlan nor Atlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BigPlan or Atlas?
BigPlan ships an update every 2 weeks, and Atlas every 4 days. Most recently, BigPlan was updated on November 4, 2026 and Atlas on October 31, 2026.

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