Projectholic vs Recal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Projectholic
Manage projects with visual timelines, Kanban boards, and focus timers. Track time spent, analyze stats, and define project outcomes. Designed for creators and solo operators to turn goals into results.
- Kanban Board with Drag & Drop
- Focus Timer & Time Visuals
- Stats Dashboard
- Project Outcomes & Milestones
- Gantt Chart
- Smart Recurring & Multi-Day Tasks
- Time = Budget tracking
- iCloud Sync
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Projectholic — Project Planner, Gantt & Focus Timer The all-in-one project management app for creators, founders, and solo operators. Plan projects on a visual timeline, drag tasks across a Kanban board, run focus sessions, and see exactly where your week went — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Stop juggling Notion, Things, and a stopwatch. Projectholic gives you one place to define a goal, break it into tasks, schedule it, and actually finish it. WHY CREATORS CHOOSE PROJECTHOLIC ◆ Kanban Board with Drag & Drop (NEW) A frictionless inbox → today → follow-up flow. Drop a half-baked idea into Inbox, drag it onto a time block, done. Built for the way solo operators actually think. ◆ Focus Timer & Time Visuals (NEW) Start a focus session on any task and watch the time bar fill in real time. See exactly where your day went — by project, by category, by hour. ◆ Stats Dashboard (NEW) A weekly debrief in one screen: planned vs. actual hours, focus time per project, completion rate, and where your effort leaks. ◆ Project Outcomes & Milestones (NEW) Define the outcome that matters before you start. Track milestones, see momentum at a glance, and end every project with a clear "did I ship it" answer. ◆ Gantt Chart for iPad & Mac Plan multi-week projects on a true visual timeline. Pinch to zoom, drag to resize phases, edit subtasks inline, and re-anchor your schedule the moment scope shifts. ◆ Smart Recurring & Multi-Day Tasks Skip weekends, repeat weekly, spill long tasks across days automatically. Designed for real working rhythms — not rigid calendar grids. ◆ Time = Budget Compare planned hours against time actually spent on every task and project. Reveal where your effort goes — and where it's wasted. ◆ iCloud Sync, Built-In Plan on iPhone, schedule on iPad, review on Mac. Everything syncs instantly via your private iCloud — no extra account, no extra subscription. MADE FOR • Indie hackers and solopreneurs running multiple bets • Designers, writers, and creators with project-shaped work • PhD students, researchers, and consultants tracking deep work • ADHD brains who need structure that bends, not breaks TURN GOALS INTO RESULTS Hit focus. Boost productivity. Own your schedule. Projectholic Terms of Use: https://feiou.github.io/ProjectholicApp/terms-of-use.html Projectholic Privacy Policy: https://feiou.github.io/ProjectholicApp/privacy-policy.html
Recal
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Take the busywork out of Apple Calendar with focused tools for recurring routines, reviewing time, and tidying crowded calendars. Recal works with the calendars you already use. Choose a date range, one or more calendars, an event type, and an optional title filter, then work with just the events that matter. QUICK EVENTS Turn reusable templates into scheduled events, or quickly update existing events. Set titles, dates, times, all-day status, time zones, calendars, notes, and reusable custom values. TEMPLATE EVENTS Build templates for regular work, routines, and repeated items. Add repeat schedules and lists of values, and keep your templates available across devices with private iCloud sync. CALCULATE HOURS Review matching timed events and total the time spent. With Recal Pro, apply an hourly rate to calculate costs. MOVE EVENTS Find matching events and preview changes before moving them to another calendar, date, time, or time zone. CONDENSE EVENTS Replace a busy group of events with one all-day summary for each day, while preserving the details in its notes. Recal shows the proposed changes first and requires explicit confirmation before modifying your calendars. MADE FOR APPLE DEVICES Use Recal on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, with a familiar interface designed for each device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recal asks for calendar access only when you choose to grant it. It makes only the event changes you request and includes no third-party trackers. Recal is useful for free. Optional Recal Pro purchases provide unlimited templates and template values, hourly cost calculations, Move Events, Condense Events, and other advanced features. Apple's standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Projectholic at every 9 days against Recal's every 3 months. Projectholic also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Recal's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Projectholic sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Recal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Projectholic ships an update every 9 days, Recal every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Projectholic | Recal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Feiou Su | Dejal Systems, LLC |
In-app purchases
Projectholic
- Monthly Access with AI$5.991 Month
- Annual Access Limited Time Offer7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Annual Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Lifetime Access Original Price$34.99
- Projectholic Pro Lifetime$49.99
Recal
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99









