Eisen vs Sift for Reminders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Eisen
This task management application employs the Eisenhower Matrix to help users prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance. It offers a straightforward interface for adding, removing, and reviewing tasks, enabling a focused approach to daily productivity.
- Eisenhower Matrix task classification
- Add and remove tasks
- Review completed tasks
- Focus on critical tasks
- Simple user interface
- Daily productivity maximization
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This is a task management app that uses the Eisenhower Matrix. The Eisenhower Matrix is a method that classifies tasks into four categories based on their importance and urgency, allowing users to prioritize and focus on the most critical tasks. With this app, you can easily add or remove tasks and review completed tasks later through a simple interface. The app helps users focus on their most important tasks without getting distracted by unnecessary ones. Manage your tasks efficiently and maximize productivity daily. The Eisenhower Matrix makes task management simpler and more effective than ever before. Named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this method will take your task management to the next level.
Sift for Reminders
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Sift is a fast triage layer on top of Apple Reminders. It uses the lists you already have, and there is nothing to migrate. Your tasks stay where they are. Sift reads and writes them through EventKit, Apple's own framework, so they remain ordinary reminders that Reminders, Siri and every other app you use can still see. Delete Sift tomorrow and Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it. THE EISENHOWER LENS Urgent against important, laid over the lists you already keep. Four quadrants, derived from a task's due date and its priority, and adjustable by hand whenever the derivation is wrong about your day. Pick the vocabulary that fits: plain verbs, the classic Eisenhower labels, or one word each. TRIAGE, NOT ANOTHER INBOX One card at a time, on the keyboard or under your thumb, until the pile is gone. Place it, snooze it, let it go. A task you are not going to do this week can be put out of sight without being deleted and without being a lie. THE DAILY REVIEW One short ritual that keeps the matrix honest, because a matrix nobody revisits is a drawing. It walks what is overdue, what has gone stale and what you are waiting on, and it ends by asking the only question that matters: what will you actually do today? RIGHT IN THE MENU BAR What is burning, one click from anywhere on the Mac, plus quick add without leaving what you are doing. ON THE PHONE The same matrix, the same quadrants, the same day. Everything a task can be doing has somewhere to be: snoozed until Tuesday, waiting on someone else, ignored until you are ready, or parked in someday. Every verb is one long press away. IT NEVER TOUCHES WHAT IT CANNOT SEE Tags, subtasks, attachments and flags are invisible to EventKit, so Sift neither shows them nor rewrites them. It never writes its own metadata into the notes field of your tasks. NO SERVER, NO ACCOUNT There is nothing to sign in to. Sift keeps a small lens beside your reminders (which quadrant a task sits in, whether it has been triaged, what is snoozed and until when, what you focused on, what you reviewed and when, the log of completed repeating occurrences, and your settings) and that lens lives in your own iCloud private database, which is how the Mac and the phone stay in step. Nobody else can read it, including us. There is no telemetry, no analytics and no advertising identifier. Free. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sift for Reminders at none against Eisen's 2. Sift for Reminders also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). Eisen's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Eisen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sift for Reminders asks for nothing beyond the download.
Eisen ships an update every 7 months, Sift for Reminders every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eisen | Sift for Reminders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kota tada | David Barta |
In-app purchases
Eisen
- Ad-free for 1 month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Ad-free for 1 year14 Days trial$49.991 Year
Sift for Reminders
No in-app purchases
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