Comparison

Next 5 Days vs Skrive

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

Head to head
About

Next 5 Days

This minimalist to-do app helps you stay organized by only displaying tasks for the next five days. It offers effortless task management with a clean, distraction-free interface, preventing overwhelm from endless lists.

Highlights
  • Tasks for next five days only
  • Effortless task management
  • Clean and distraction-free design
  • No endless scrolling
  • Add and check off tasks
Features
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Next Five Days is the minimalist to-do app that keeps you focused. Instead of overwhelming lists, it only shows your tasks for the next five days—nothing more. - See only what’s next – No endless scrolling, just your upcoming tasks. - Effortless task management – Add, check off, and move forward. - Clean & distraction-free – A beautifully minimal design with no unnecessary features. Stay organized without the clutter. Download Next Five Days today.

About

Skrive

A straightforward and secure journaling app focused on daily writing. It offers a clean interface with no distractions, allowing users to easily record thoughts and memories. Entries are encrypted and can be exported as plain text.

Highlights
  • One entry per day
  • Plain text writing
  • Clean interface
  • Searchable history
  • Device encryption
  • Plain text export
  • Cross-device sync (Pro)
Features
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Skrive is a simple, secure journal built for daily writing. One entry per day, plain text, nothing in the way. Keeping a daily journal is one of the most rewarding habits you can build. It sharpens how you think and write, helps you process stress, and gives you a record of your life to look back on. Regular journaling has been shown to improve memory, boost mental clarity, and support mental health. Skrive exists to make that habit as easy as possible to keep. There are no tags, no folders, no formatting options. Just a clean writing surface that opens fast and gets out of the way. The focus is entirely on the words you write. Every entry is dated, and your full journal history is always at your fingertips. Scroll back through past entries or search for a specific memory, moment, or thought you wrote down months ago. Skrive is free to use with no limits on how much you write. Your entries are encrypted and stored securely on your device, and you can export everything as plain text at any time. Your journal belongs to you. Skrive Pro adds sync across all your devices. Write on your iPhone, continue on your iPad or your Mac. Everything is encrypted end to end before it ever leaves your device, and stored on servers in Europe. Only you hold the key. Only you can read what you write. Skrive is made by an independent developer who journals every day. It is a small app, built with care. Website: https://skrive.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Next 5 Days3 screens
Skrive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Next 5 Days at none against Skrive's 2. Next 5 Days also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). Skrive's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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. Skrive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Next 5 Days asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Next 5 Days against 5.0 for Skrive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Next 5 Days versus Skrive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNext 5 DaysSkrive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarkDid, LLCIsak Solheim

Customer experience

Next 5 Days

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Skrive

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Next 5 Days

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Skrive

Subscriptions2
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$3.991 Month
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Next 5 Days free?
Next 5 Days is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skrive free?
Skrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Next 5 Days or Skrive?
Next 5 Days and Skrive are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Next 5 Days or Skrive have ads?
Neither Next 5 Days nor Skrive shows ads.

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