Pros n Cons vs Best Decision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pros n Cons
This app helps you make informed decisions by weighing pros and cons. You can list factors, assign importance, and assess options against each factor. It then ranks your options based on your input to guide you to the best choice.
- List decision factors
- Assign importance to factors
- Assess options against factors
- Rank options automatically
- Simple decision helper
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Pros n Cons - simple yet powerful decision helper. List all factors and set their importance. List all options and assess them for each factor. Options will be sorted from the best to the worst based on the assessments multiplied by importance of corresponding factors. Make the best decision!
Best Decision
This app helps you make objective choices by analyzing your options based on your defined criteria and their importance. It guides you through a simple three-step process to identify the best decision and presents results in a clear, sorted list.
- 3-step decision making process
- Define custom criteria and importance
- Unlimited decisions, options, and criteria
- Decision templates
- Data sync across devices via iCloud
- Secure with Touch ID/Face ID
- Share results via message, email, PDF
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Buying new MacBook? Wondering which house is best for your family? Choosing holidays: tropical beach or a spirited trip through Asia? Always make Best Decision! Best Decision is an extremely easy choice-making analytics app. It will tell you which decision is objectively the best, then YOU choose whatever you please. The decision making process in Best Decision is trimmed down to the necessary minimum. It’s a 3-step-down staircase: 1. enter all the choices you’re considering 2. enter all the relevant criteria and their importance 3. estimate how well each option meets each criterion Best Decision takes it from here and the math does the job. As an outcome, you get plain & simple result: your Best Decision and all the other options in order of how well they suit you. So if you are about to make an important decision, let Best Decision's algorithms do the hard work for you. GET IT NOW! Most important FEATURES of Best Decision: 1. UNIVERSAL APP for all your iOS and macOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac) 2. uses iCloud to automatically SYNC your data between all your devices 3. suitable for COMPLEX and SIMPLE DECISIONS 4. highly FLEXIBLE: + can store unlimited number of decisions, options and criteria + is suitable for different types of decisions + allows to define personal criteria together with their importance + allows to modify all previous inputs + allows to change the order of decisions, options and criteria (tap and hold) 5. Decision TEMPLATES 6. Touch ID, Face ID or password-protect so YOU DECIDE who can access your decisions 7. USER FRIENDLY: guides you easily through the decision making process 8. presents OBJECTIVELY BEST OPTION in comparison with all other sorted by rating results 9. you can SHARE calculated verdict by Message, send it by mail, generate to PDF or save to Photos 10. use 3D Touch ACTIONS on icon to quickly go to the last 3 decisions or create a new one 11. find any decision in your SPOTLIGHT SEARCH by name or considered option 12. work more efficiently with SLIDE OVER and SPLIT VIEW on your iPad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Best Decision at Free against Pros n Cons's $1.99. Best Decision also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (82% vs 65%). Pros n Cons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 16.6). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
Best Decision is free to download; Pros n Cons costs $1.99 up front. Best Decision sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pros n Cons asks for nothing beyond the download.
Best Decision holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 98 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Pros n Cons's written reviews are positive against 82% of Best Decision's.
Pros n Cons ships an update every 4 months, Best Decision every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pros n Cons | Best Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (36 ratings) | 4.6 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Akopov | Lukasz Kowalski |
Customer experience
Pros n Cons
Best Decision
Bugs and requests
Pros n Cons
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Best Decision
Reported bugs
10 issues- App keeps crashing when entering choices
- N/A option negatively affects results
- Inability to sort/rearrange items in a list
- Verdict displayed incorrectly (repeated or missing options)
- Option C score not displayed correctly
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- Option C marked as best with incorrect score
- Emailing results doesn't work
- Syncing with iCloud stopped at 20 items
- Poor user interface: clicking decision text renames it
- Verdicts do not show properly, sometimes missing or repeated
Requested features
22 requests- CSV export for analysis
- Display logic in a simple table
- Sort alphabetic or manually
- Copy and paste projects
- Build in a radar / gap analysis chart
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- Create correlation line chart
- Manually change order of items
- Sort Criteria list
- Export and import information without iCloud
- 3D Touch in Criteria list for ratings
- Probability value of options for SWOT analysis
- Ability to email whole decision
- Sync between devices
- Evaluate trade-offs
- More specific numbering by use of scaling
- Graphic like diagrams
- Allow less than six criteria
- Final analysis not leaving out options
- List options in numerical order
- Reorganize order of criterion/options
- Tap option name to scroll full name
- Improve poor user interface (e.g., renaming text)
In-app purchases
Pros n Cons
No in-app purchases
Best Decision
- Golden Membership One-time Pay$1.99
Questions
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