Comparison

Brain MAX vs TaskForge

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

Head to head
About

Brain MAX

Access premium AI models and get answers grounded in your company's work. Seamlessly integrate with your tasks, docs, and chats for instant, context-aware responses. Dictate messages, conduct deep research, and create complex deliverables with ease.

Highlights
  • Access premium AI models
  • Answers grounded in company work
  • Talk to text dictation
  • Deep research with web integration
  • Search across connected apps
  • Persistent memory for context
  • Generate presentations, websites, and more
Features
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Your company's most powerful AI, in your pocket. Brain MAX gives you instant access to every premium AI model, deep research, and answers grounded in your actual work: your tasks, docs, chats, and connected apps. No copy-pasting context. No re-explaining your projects. Just ask. Brain MAX won head-to-head evaluations against leading enterprise AI assistants, before it even loaded private company context. Once it knows your work, it's not even close. CHOOSE YOUR MODEL Switch between the world's most powerful AI models and ClickUp Brain. Every model gets full access to your workspace tools and knowledge. AI THAT KNOWS YOUR WORK Ask anything and get answers drawn from your tasks, docs, chats, and connected apps. Brain MAX understands your projects inside and out, so you never start from scratch. TALK TO TEXT Speak up to 5x faster than you type. Dictate messages, tasks, and docs with intelligent cleanup, formatting, and tone matching. DEEP RESEARCH Combine your internal workspace data with real-time web results for comprehensive, multi-step research that no standalone AI can match. CONNECTED APPS Search and act across your favorite work apps, including cloud storage, email, messaging, calendars, design tools, dev tools, and more, from a single interface. PERSISTENT MEMORY Brain MAX remembers your preferences, your projects, and how you work. Every conversation picks up where the last one left off. CREATE ANYTHING Generate presentations, websites, data visualizations, project plans, and images directly from your conversations. One-shot complex deliverables that used to take hours. ENTERPRISE SECURITY Your data stays yours. No third-party model training. No data retention. SOC 2 compliant. From the team at ClickUp, the everything app for work.

About

TaskForge

Manage your Obsidian tasks directly from your mobile device with real-time sync and notifications. Visualize your workload with calendar and Kanban views, and stay organized with powerful search and filtering. Create and edit tasks using familiar Markdown syntax.

Highlights
  • Real-time push notifications for tasks
  • Home screen widgets for at-a-glance task viewing
  • Deep integration with Obsidian vaults
  • Calendar and Kanban board task visualization
  • Advanced search and filtering capabilities
  • Markdown-powered task creation and editing
  • Cross-platform sync via iCloud
Features
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Bring your tasks, notes and calendar together without creating a TaskForge account. Your tasks and notes stay in local Markdown files you can open in any editor. Create tasks, write notes and view your calendar for free. Note editing is in beta. Start with a folder of your own or use your existing Obsidian vault, with nothing to import or convert. A real to-do list and task manager on every screen you use: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Widgets, notifications, a month calendar with your own events beside your tasks, kanban, search, and your notes in the same app. "After trying many apps and workflows, this is the first one that actually stuck and made me productive!" (user review) Works with your vault Reads and writes Obsidian Tasks emoji fields, Dataview fields, Task Genius and TaskNotes YAML frontmatter with your own field mapping. Every edit goes back to the original file. Home Screen widgets Today, overdue, a tag, a saved filter or any section of a space, in every size up to XL. Check a task off without opening the app. iPhone, iPad and Mac. Notifications and reminders Push notifications for due and scheduled work, several reminders on one task, and a daily summary. Calendar, built in Your device calendars (iCloud, Google, Exchange) sit beside your tasks in the month view, in spaces and in widgets. Events come from those calendars, not from files. Notes and daily notes Open, read and edit any note in your vault, next to the tasks inside it. Every workspace gets a daily note, one tap from search or the calendar agenda. Lists, kanban and search Spaces that stack task and event sections. Custom filtered lists, a kanban board with drag and drop, tags, contexts, projects, priorities, recurring tasks, and start, scheduled and due dates. Search and multi-condition filters across the whole vault. Archive completed tasks instead of deleting them. Quick capture Type a task the way you would say it and TaskForge fills in the date, priority and tag. Optional tools for your AI agent Use your own AI agent to turn meeting notes into tasks or update your task list. TaskForge generates a guide to your folder's format. The free taskforge desktop CLI and local MCP server, installed separately on your computer, give compatible agents tools to read and edit tasks and notes. These tools run locally without network access. They do not include an AI assistant or subscription. Your chosen AI provider's account requirements and data handling still apply. Privacy No TaskForge account, no analytics. Tasks and notes work offline. TaskForge does not upload your task or note files to its own servers. External sync and AI services handle data under their own terms. TaskForge Premium The task list, kanban, search and filters, notes and daily notes, quick capture, viewing your calendar, and priority names and colors are free. Premium unlocks Home Screen widgets, notifications and per-task reminders, creating and editing calendar events, your own custom spaces and lists, task defaults, accent color and app font, and editing many tasks at once. Buy it once and keep it, or subscribe monthly with a 7-day free trial. A monthly subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.md or Anthropic.

Screenshots

Brain MAX4 screens
TaskForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brain MAX at none against TaskForge's 3. Brain MAX also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). TaskForge's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. TaskForge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Brain MAX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brain MAX holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 108 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Brain MAX's written reviews are positive against 88% of TaskForge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brain MAX ships an update every 8 days, TaskForge every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brain MAX versus TaskForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain MAXTaskForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (41 ratings) — better4.7 (108 ratings)
Positive reviews96.2% of reviews — better88.2% of reviews
Number of ratings41108 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.415.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMango Technologies, Inc.Azhar Dewji

Customer experience

Brain MAX

All ratings41 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%

TaskForge

All ratings108 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative6.6%

In-app purchases

None

Brain MAX

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

TaskForge

Subscriptions2
  • TaskForge Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • TaskForge Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • TaskForge Premium (Lifetime)$49.99

Questions

Is Brain MAX free?
Brain MAX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaskForge free?
TaskForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brain MAX or TaskForge?
Brain MAX is rated higher. Brain MAX averages 4.9 out of 5 from 41 ratings, while TaskForge averages 4.7 from 108 ratings.
Do Brain MAX or TaskForge have ads?
Neither Brain MAX nor TaskForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brain MAX or TaskForge?
Brain MAX ships an update every 8 days, and TaskForge every 4 days. Most recently, Brain MAX was updated on October 19, 2026 and TaskForge on October 14, 2026.

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