NxtPlan vs Eisenhour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NxtPlan
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The NxtPlan App is the mobile version of the NxtPlan planning tool. With the NxtPlan App you can easily adjust your planning of the day, plan back-ups or replacements, start and stop time registration, add people to your pool and many more handy features right from your smartphone.
Eisenhour
This app helps you prioritize tasks using the Eisenhower matrix, sorting them into "do it now," "schedule it," "delegate it," or "let it go." It then transforms these decisions into actionable time blocks, integrating with your existing calendars to visualize your day and track focused work.
- Eisenhower matrix for task sorting
- Time blocking with 15-minute increments
- Integration with Google, work, and iCloud calendars
- Focus timer and session logging
- Year-long focus heatmap
- Life area tracking with weekly targets
- Task sharing as image, PDF, or text
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Most to-do apps make lists. Eisenhour makes decisions. It starts with two questions the Eisenhower method has asked for seventy years: is it important, and is it urgent? Four boxes sort everything: do it now, schedule it, delegate it, or let it go. Then Eisenhour does what matrix apps never do: it turns those decisions into hours. DECIDE WHAT MATTERS • Capture a task in seconds and sort it when you're ready. The Inbox holds what you haven't decided yet • Steps, notes, a due date and a focus timer on every task • One Filter button narrows the matrix to a life area or a status, including Done, to see what you finished • Q2, important but not urgent, is where the app gently pushes you: planning before deadlines, health before symptoms, family before repair BLOCK THE TIME • Give a task a block on a real day timeline, in 15-minute steps, and drag it to move it • Your Google, work and iCloud calendars appear beside your plan. Eisenhour reads the calendars already on your iPhone, nothing to connect • Day, three-day, week and month views • Copy a block out to one of those calendars as a real event, repeats and all (Pro) • Today's blocks sit under the matrix, so you always know what's next SEE WHERE YOUR LIFE GOES • A focus timer that logs every session, and honest manual logging for the hours you forgot to time • A year-long heatmap of your focused hours • Life areas with weekly targets and streaks, so work doesn't quietly swallow health, family and learning SHARE IT • Share today's matrix as an image, a PDF or text. Filter first and it shares just that • Build a business or personal card: name, title, phone, email and links that read as names. Share it as an image, or a PDF whose links are tappable • Send any task, steps and all, as plain text MADE FOR SCATTERED DAYS If your to-do list keeps growing and the week goes somewhere without asking you, this is built for that. For people with ADHD or a tired executive function, four boxes, one next block and a timer that rings on a locked phone are what make a plan hold. Nothing nags: no streak guilt, no red badges, and at most one quiet rating ask per version. THE SMALL THINGS • A reminder when a block starts, or a few minutes before, if you switch it on • Swipe right to finish a task, left to delete, one Undo for both • Long-press a box to add a task straight into it • Yesterday's unfinished blocks offered back each morning: move them to today, or let them go • Works with Larger Text, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion YOURS ALONE Eisenhour is local-first. Your tasks, your focus history, your card: all of it lives on your iPhone and rides your normal iCloud backup. No account, no login, no server, no tracking. The privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because there is nothing to collect. The one thing that can ever leave is a block you choose to copy to a calendar, and that goes out through your own calendar account. FREE AND PRO The method is free forever: the matrix and filters, capture, steps, time blocking with repeats, your real calendars beside your plan, the focus timer, a card to share and two life areas. One purchase, Eisenhour Pro, with no subscription, unlocks planning any day past or future, copying blocks to your calendars, a full year of focus history, performance reports, unlimited life areas and cards, the dark theme, and export and import. Try all of Pro free for 7 days, with nothing to cancel. Decide what matters. Block the time. See where your life goes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NxtPlan at none against Eisenhour's 2. NxtPlan also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Eisenhour's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 15 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Eisenhour sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. NxtPlan asks for nothing beyond the download.
NxtPlan ships an update every 15 months, Eisenhour every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NxtPlan | Eisenhour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nxtpeople | PEDRAM JAHANGIRY |
In-app purchases
NxtPlan
No in-app purchases
Eisenhour
- 7-day TrialFree
- Eisenhour Pro$19.99







