Finishly vs Shadowfetch

Finishly is a to-do app that helps you start and finish tasks by reminding you why they matter. How it works: - Add a task. - Add your reasons for doing it. - Add an image that motivates you. - Set reminders. - Tap the sun icon to choose what you want to finish today. - When the reminder appears, you don’t just see the task — you see your own reason and image. Why it works: Normal to-do apps remind you what to do. Finishly reminds you why you wanted to do it in the first place. Instead of a generic nudge like “Exercise,” you can see: “Have more energy” “Feel better mentally” plus an image that pushes you to act. Instead of “Play with the kids,” you can see: “They grow up fast” plus a photo that makes the task feel important. Finishly helps turn tasks from boring items on a list into things that feel worth doing. It gives you personal motivation at the moment you need it most. No ads. No tracking. Everything stays on your device. No account needed — just open the app and start. Finishly is free to try. Premium unlocks unlimited tasks. If your to-do list isn’t helping you start, try Finishly.

Shadowfetch keeps important dates visible, whether you are counting down to something ahead or counting up from something that already happened. Add a birthday, anniversary, trip, launch, deadline, ceremony, or personal streak. Shadowfetch sorts it, counts it live, helps you protect it with reminders, and gives you clean exports when you need a backup or handoff. Core features: - Count down to future dates with live days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds - Count up from past dates for anniversaries, sobriety streaks, product launches, and milestones - Pin a priority event so it leads the home screen and widget - See a Countdown Progress bar showing how far through the wait you are - Organize events by category: Birthday, Anniversary, Travel, Health, Deadline, Celebration, Milestone, Sports, Holiday, or Other - Create one-time, yearly, or monthly countdowns - Choose all-day dates or exact times - Use absolute time zones or local wall time - Schedule local reminder alerts before important events - Enable milestone notifications for notable countdown moments - Personalize events with a color or background photo - Keep a priority countdown visible with home screen and lock screen widgets - Share polished countdown or elapsed-time cards - Export all events as a spreadsheet-ready CSV - Share an Event Health Report summarizing reminders, pinned items, recurrence, categories, photos, stale records, and upcoming dates Shadowfetch is local-first. It does not require an account, does not include analytics or tracking, and does not upload your event data to a Shadowfetch-operated server. MOMENTS (NEW IN 1.7) Every other countdown app dies at zero - Shadowfetch makes zero the whole point. Events glow TODAY when the day arrives, erupt into confetti in their own color at the exact moment, and then retire to a Memories shelf that keeps the story alive: "127 days ago." One tap turns a finished moment into a count-up ("days since our wedding") or a yearly tradition. Anticipation, celebration, memory - all offline, all yours.