Ivy vs Anchor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ivy
This app helps you focus on what matters by planning your day, tracking progress, and reviewing accomplishments. It offers features like repeating reminders, time-based goals, and voice input for planning. Celebrate your completed tasks with animations and build a journal of your day.
- Daily planning and commitment
- Repeating reminders and time-based goals
- Voice input for quick planning
- Focus Mode for time tracking
- Completion animations and haptics
- Journaling of completed tasks
- Review list for unfinished items
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Achieve more by taking on less. Start your day by choosing what truly matters and commit to it. Focus and feel the momentum build as you check things off. Finish with a beautiful record of a day well spent, while anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow. Add rich detail • Create repeating reminders. • Add notes, and set time- or count-based goals. • Promote to a Superaction and get an extra impactful animation on completion. • Schedule for a specific time of day, and get reminded with a notification or an alarm. Choose what matters • Quickly draft your plan just by talking with the voice input*. • Loosely slot anything in between auto-sorted scheduled items. • Commit when your plan feels right—you can still adjust as things come up. Focus and build momentum • Get rewarded with satisfying animations and haptics as you check things off. • Stay focused and track time as you go with Focus Mode. • Interact with your plan at a glance by enabling the Live Activity on your Lock Screen, or by adding the widget to your Home Screen. • Long press to quickly adjust—add something new, or bump to tomorrow or Review. Celebrate what you accomplished • Mark your day as done and enjoy a beautiful 3D animation. • Watch your completed plan transform into a journal—so you can see where your time went. • Easily adjust the record with the ability to edit when you did things—and for how long. • Anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow’s plan, or to be let go. A powerful review tool • See what you’ve delayed—rescheduled items are automatically bumped to the top. • Scrub through days to retroactively complete—or assign to a day in the future. • Make decisions one by one with Focus Mode—moving or deleting a task will automatically focus the next one. • Turn a fleeting thought into action—use the Lock Screen control to add to your review list with a single tap. Personalize your experience • Get reminded to get started—or to wrap up your day—with morning and evening notifications. • Give yourself extra time to work on your plan if you’re a night owl. • Pick from a selection of themes and handcrafted patterns. Work with other apps • Connect Ivy with the Calendar and Reminders apps. • Import content from other apps with the share extension, including markdown lists. Expect great things down the road • Dedicated iPad, Mac, and watchOS apps. • More ways to organize—interests, habits, projects, etc. • Expanded journaling tools. *Voice Input requires a device with Apple Intelligence. Try Ivy today with a two week free trial. Feedback is always welcome—reach us at hello@semantical.com. Download Ivy for free and try it without registration. After the trial period, an active subscription is required to continue using the app. A subscription unlocks full access to Ivy on all supported devices. • 14-day free trial. • Full access on all supported devices. • Monthly and annual subscription options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple Account subscription settings. Privacy and Terms of Use: https://semantical.com/privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Anchor
Organize your day with flexible time blocking. Capture tasks, group them into focus blocks, and sync with your calendar. Manage projects with dividers and notes, and pick up where you left off on other devices.
- Flexible time blocking
- Task capture with smart dates
- Project organization with dividers
- Calendar event integration
- Cross-device syncing
- Offline functionality
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A place for your tasks, projects, and daily plan. Anchor organizes your day around focus blocks. Group tasks into a block, give it some time in your calendar, and work through them at your own pace. When plans change, move things around. CAPTURE YOUR TASKS Type a task as it comes to mind. Use Smart Dates to add a date as you type, or hold New To Do and talk through several things at once. Anchor turns what you say into tasks, with projects, dates, and urgency levels, privately with Apple Intelligence.* KEEP PROJECTS ORGANIZED Keep related tasks in projects. Add dividers to separate sections, notes to hold the details, and urgency levels to show what needs attention. Drag tasks into the order that works for you. PLAN WITH FOCUS BLOCKS Bring tasks into a block alongside your calendar events. Set up repeating blocks for the regular parts of your week. Focus on one block at a time, and move unfinished tasks forward when you need to. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Your tasks, projects, and focus blocks sync through your private iCloud. Anchor is also available on Mac, so you can continue there. CONNECTED TO YOUR DAY • Apple Calendar and Reminders sync • Widgets and Live Activity • Siri shortcuts • Repeating blocks and custom icons • Works offline • No separate Anchor account required Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. MADE INDEPENDENTLY Anchor is designed and built by an independent developer. No ads, no venture capital. Just an app that keeps getting better with feedback from the people who use it. *Voice capture requires Super Anchor and a compatible iPhone with Apple Intelligence enabled, using a supported language. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Anchor at free with in-app purchases against Ivy's subscription. Ivy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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
Both are free to download. Ivy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Anchor sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ivy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 24 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ivy ships an update every 10 days, Anchor every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Ivy | Anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | 4.8 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Semantical | Alessandro Pluda |
Customer experience
Ivy
Anchor
In-app purchases
Ivy
- 1 Month$3.991 Month
- 1 Year14 Days trial$29.991 Year
Anchor
- Super Anchor Lifetime$29.99
- Super Anchor Lifetime$49.99









