Comparison

Actimate vs Forkboard

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

Head to head
About

Actimate

This productivity app is designed for individuals with ADHD, offering tools to manage tasks, habits, and goals. It features an AI accountability partner, customizable modes, and focus tools to combat procrastination and improve consistency.

Highlights
  • AI accountability partner (Pia)
  • Three customizable app modes
  • Smart task management with GTD workflow
  • Visual habit tracking with streaks
  • Goal achievement with milestone tracking
  • Focus tools including Pomodoro timer
  • Calendar integration (Apple/Google)
Features
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Meet Actimate. Your ADHD system, with a partner built in. Every Monday feels like a fresh start. By Wednesday, the system falls apart. Actimate is different: Pia, your AI accountability partner, learns what you are fighting, builds a system that fits your brain, and runs it with you every day, until the days you win outnumber the days you don't. IT STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION Tell Pia what you're working toward. No setup screens, no configuring. A conversation, not a configuration, that ends with a first step you can take today. ONE PLAN EACH MORNING. ONE QUESTION EACH NIGHT. - Each morning, pick up to 3 wins. Finish them and the day counts. - Normal day, rough day, or rest day: choose the version of today you can actually do. - Each evening, one question: did today count? BAD DAY? NOTHING BREAKS. - Days won never reset. Miss one and your total stays. - When you drift, Pia offers a lighter version of your day and keeps the door open. HABITS THAT BEND, NOT BREAK - Track the reps, not perfection. A missed day never erases your progress. - Tiny habit versions and cues tied to your routine. ONE THING AT A TIME - Exactly one next step, with a timer. Starting stops being the hard part. - Check a task off and feel it: the box fills the moment you tap. BIG GOALS, BROKEN INTO DAYS - Set the destination with Pia: milestones, weekly steps, daily tasks. - Invite an accountability partner who sees your progress and cheers you on. YOUR SYSTEM, EVERYWHERE - Widgets for today's tasks, habits, your streak, productivity, focus, your calendar, and your win plan. - Use Actimate on the web at actimate.io. Everything syncs with your phone. - Connect more than one Google account, work and personal, and see every calendar in one Today. Apple Calendar and Apple Reminders sync too. READ IT YOUR WAY - Light, dark, or a warm Sepia theme. - The OpenDyslexic font, if it's easier for you to read. - Motion stays calm when your device's Reduce Motion setting is on. Stop starting over. Start stacking good days. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS Get started at no cost with our Free plan. Core productivity features are available to everyone, with Pro for power users who want the full experience. Actimate is a premium, ad-free app that offers pro tier auto-renewing subscription options: $9.99 / month $59.99 / year These prices are for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription to Actimate will automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Terms of Service: https://actimate.io/tos Privacy Policy: https://actimate.io/privacy

About

Forkboard

This app helps you plan your entire week's dinners on a single board, adapting to your tastes, schedule, and existing ingredients. It learns your preferences, suggests meals based on what you have, and generates a smart grocery list.

Highlights
  • Weekly dinner planning board
  • Personalized meal suggestions
  • Ingredient-based meal creation
  • Leftover meal integration
  • Household taste blending
  • Automated grocery list generation
Features
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Your whole week of dinners, planned on one board. Forkboard answers "what's for dinner?" for the entire week at once — a calm planning board instead of an endless recipe feed. Tell it a little about how you eat, and it plans seven nights around your tastes, your schedule, and what's already in your kitchen. The more you rate, the sharper it gets. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Plan the whole week, not one meal. Seven dinners land on one board, decided together — every night chosen knowing the other six, so cuisines vary from one night to the next. • Change one night, not the whole week. Swap a dinner you're not feeling and a new one takes its place. Pin the ones you love and replan the rest around them. • Effort that fits the night. Set your weeknight and weekend time budgets once — a 15-minute Tuesday, up to a two-hour Sunday — and Forkboard plans to them. Pin a night and tag it quick, standard or a proper project, and its next swap comes back in kind. • It learns your taste. Thumbs up the wins, thumbs down the misses. No long quiz to begin; it just gets better as you go. • Every dinner opens to a real recipe. Ingredients in the right quantities, numbered steps, and — where we have them — estimated per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat. • Cook what you already have. Snap a photo of your fridge, a pantry shelf or a single label, or scan a barcode, and Forkboard leans the week toward what's already in it. Put an expiry date on the perishables and it tries to land each one on a night before it turns. • Leftover intelligence. Monday's roast chicken can become Thursday's tacos — the board sees the whole week. • One board for the whole household. On Family, everyone's tastes blend into a single week — and on every plan, every allergen you set is a hard rule, respected on every plate. • A grocery list that writes itself. Grouped by aisle, quantities merged into one line, and whatever's already in your pantry checked off. Share it out from your phone in a tap. • Sized for your table. Say how many you're cooking for — two on Solo, up to six on Family — and the recipes, and the grocery list, scale to match. • Marks for the cook. Kitchen stamps stack up as the weeks do: First Service, To Market, A Season of Sundays. ON EVERY SCREEN, IN SYNC Plan on your iPhone, spread out on iPad, or bring up the big board on the web — it's the same plan everywhere, always up to date. Start a week, lock your phone and come back: it keeps building without you. BUILT FOR REAL WEEKNIGHTS Set your cuisines, dietary needs, allergens, skill and time budgets once, then let Forkboard do the deciding. Allergens are a hard rule, never a suggestion: an allergen you've set simply never reaches the board. Sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email, or with Apple or Google — no password to invent. MEMBERSHIP Forkboard is free to start — four plans a month, one seat, no card required. Every new account also starts with 7 free days on Solo — the same full-quality planning, with 15 plans to get a feel for it. That trial is not a subscription and never turns into one: when it ends you simply drop to the free plan, and your boards stay put. A membership opens up the full board: • Solo — 30 plans a month for one cook. • Family — one board, up to six taste profiles, 60 plans a month pooled across the house. Add kids and partners as taste profiles without them needing an account of their own. Monthly and yearly memberships are available for both; the price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. Forkboard memberships are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically at the price shown unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://forkboard.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://forkboard.app/terms

Screenshots

Actimate4 screens
Forkboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Forkboard at none against Actimate's shown. Forkboard also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Actimate's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Actimate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Forkboard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 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 — 4.9 for Actimate against 5.0 for Forkboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Actimate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forkboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Actimate ships an update weekly, Forkboard every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Actimate versus Forkboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActimateForkboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperActimateAI LLCForkboard LLC

Customer experience

Actimate

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%

Forkboard

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Actimate

Subscriptions4
  • Actimate Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Welcome Offer$44.991 Year
  • Actimate Yearly Subscription$59.991 Year
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  • 7-Day Streak Offer$79.991 Year
4 purchases

Forkboard

Subscriptions4
  • Solo Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Family Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Solo Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Actimate free?
Actimate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forkboard free?
Forkboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Actimate or Forkboard?
Forkboard is rated higher. Actimate averages 4.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Forkboard averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Actimate or Forkboard have ads?
Actimate shows ads; Forkboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Actimate or Forkboard?
Actimate ships an update weekly, and Forkboard every 4 weeks. Most recently, Actimate was updated on October 9, 2026 and Forkboard on October 5, 2026.

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