Comparison

Rise vs Take a Stack

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

Head to head
About

Rise

This app helps you build structured, flexible daily plans around recurring activities and personal goals. It adapts to your schedule and priorities, offering insights into time distribution and a built-in focus timer. Designed for intentional living without rigidity.

Highlights
  • Create structured daily plans from recurring activities
  • Integrate with real calendar events
  • Visualize time distribution across projects
  • Flexible planning adapting to schedule and priorities
  • Built-in focus timer
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Privacy-first design with no accounts
Features
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Rise — The Routine Planner for the Agentic Era. We can do more than ever now. One person can have a full-time job, study something new, build a startup, work out, care for a family, improve their health, and still have more ideas waiting for their turn. That’s exciting. It’s also a lot. We’re entering the agentic age with tools that help us move faster, but our time is still limited. And we’re still trying to manage everything with to-do lists. A to-do list doesn’t know how much time you have or help you balance competing priorities. It just keeps growing. Rise takes a different approach. Understand your time Before making another plan, step back. What are you spending your time on? What keeps getting pushed aside? Are the things that matter getting any space in your week? Rise doesn’t decide how your life should be organized. You do. Track your time by projects, goals, clients, habits, areas of life—or anything else that makes sense to you. Rise shows you how your time is distributed, so you can see whether it matches your priorities. Plan for real life Most plans work until the day begins. A meeting appears. Something takes longer. A new priority comes in. Suddenly, the plan no longer fits. Rise helps you plan around the time you actually have. When the day changes, your plan can change with it. Here’s how Rise works 1. Define your goals and activities Start with the things you want to make time for—a project, a new skill, your health, people you care about, or simply something you enjoy. Turn each one into an activity you can return to regularly. Describe it naturally, and Rise helps you set it up. 2. Set your time, schedule, and priorities Decide how much time to give each activity, how often it should happen, and whether its timing is fixed or flexible. Organize everything your way. See what’s competing for your time and decide what should come first. 3. Turn your plans into structured days Choose what you want to accomplish, and Rise fits it around the events in your Apple Calendar. In minutes, you have a realistic plan. If a meeting appears, something takes longer, or priorities shift, adjust it and keep going. Describe routines naturally Rise uses Apple Intelligence to turn your words into recurring routines. For example: • “Workout every morning for 45 minutes with a 10-minute cooldown.” • “Study Spanish Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7 AM for 90 minutes.” • “Deep work on weekdays after lunch for 2 hours.” • “Therapy every other Tuesday afternoon with reminders.” • “Read for 30 minutes whenever I have free time.” • “Review my budget on the 1st and 15th of each month.” No long forms. No complicated setup. Just describe what you want to do. Organize things your way Use folders for projects, clients, goals, habits, responsibilities, or anything else you want to track. Rise gives you the structure, but you decide what that structure means. Plan your day Each morning, choose what you want to accomplish. Rise works around your Apple Calendar events and fits activities into the time that’s actually available. A few minutes later, you have a structured day—not just a list of things you hope to finish. Features • Create recurring routines with Apple Intelligence • Describe routines in natural language • Build a structured daily plan in minutes • Plan around your Apple Calendar events • Adjust your plan when the day changes • Organize activities in your own way • Set fixed or flexible schedules • Use a built-in focus timer for every routine • See how your time is distributed • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Privacy first—no account required Rise isn’t another place to collect tasks. It helps you answer a better question: How do I fit everything I care about into the time I actually have? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Take a Stack

Features
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Save an immutable script and selection manifest, then compare the current project against it. See changed copy, reordered lines, different takes, gap changes and unavailable audio before you deliver again. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open a script and choose Delivery checkpoints. 2. Name and save a checkpoint of the current script, selected takes and gaps. 3. Edit a line or continue recording through the normal project workflow. 4. Return to the checkpoint, filter changed lines and share a detailed change report. Keep line-by-line recording, take selection, Alt Take Rescue, recording tools, stitching, mastering and audio exports. Checkpoints do not alter your selections. WHAT TO KNOW Checkpoints are manifests, not audio backups. They do not copy or restore recordings, measure listening quality or export a mix. Audio contents and export or processing settings are not compared. File presence does not verify playback. Keep separate exported-audio backups. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Rise4 screens
Take a Stack3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rise at Free against Take a Stack's $3.99. Take a Stack's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Rise is free to download; Take a Stack costs $3.99 up front. Rise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Take a Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rise versus Take a Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiseTake a Stack
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr MartirosovRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Rise

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Rise Essentials$24.99
None

Take a Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Take a Stack free?
Take a Stack costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rise or Take a Stack have ads?
Neither Rise nor Take a Stack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rise or Take a Stack?
Rise ships an update weekly, and Take a Stack weekly. Most recently, Rise was updated on September 28, 2026 and Take a Stack on September 28, 2026.

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