Anchor vs mmbl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anchor
Organize your day with focus blocks, capturing tasks and projects. Syncs with your calendar and is accessible across devices. Designed for efficient planning and task management.
- Focus block scheduling
- Task and project organization
- Smart date capture
- Calendar and reminders sync
- 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/
mmbl
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Turn a brain dump into a to-do list. Speak or type naturally, and mmbl organises your thoughts into tasks with dates, reminders and projects. Catch the thought before it wriggles away. Whether it’s a shopping list, a work deadline or everything you remembered on your walk home, get it down without organising each task by hand. LESS ADMIN BETWEEN THINKING AND DOING Say, “Buy cat food at five, email Sam tomorrow and add a packing list to Japan.” mmbl separates your thoughts into individual tasks and recognises dates, times, projects and tags. Review, make any changes and add everything at once. SEE WHAT’S NEXT Plan your day in Today, look ahead in Upcoming or see your project tasks in the calendar. Bring in events from calendars on your iPhone and sync dated tasks to Apple Calendar, so you can plan around what’s already booked. MAKE ROOM FOR THE THINGS YOU REPEAT Set tasks to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Keep track of regular chores, monthly bills and family birthdays, with flexible reminders that can give you a week’s notice. KEEP EVERYTHING EASY TO FIND • Capture by voice or keyboard • Turn one ramble into multiple tasks • Add dates and times using everyday language • Organise with projects, folders, tags and priorities • Break bigger tasks into subtasks • Search your tasks and revisit completed work • Choose colourful light and dark themes PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Start without creating an account. With on-device AI, task extraction and voice transcription happen on your iPhone. Recorded audio is deleted after transcription. Calendar sync and cloud AI are optional. You choose whether to connect your calendars or send capture text to a cloud AI provider. TRY EVERY FEATURE FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS After your trial, keep using mmbl free with up to five projects and ten open tasks per project. Want more room? Get mmbl Pro with a one-time purchase for unlimited projects and tasks, multi-task captures and every theme. No subscription. Download mmbl and get that first thought off your mind.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: mmbl at 15.0 against Anchor's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Anchor sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and mmbl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Anchor ships an update every 3 days, mmbl every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anchor | mmbl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (36 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alessandro Pluda | Chris Gregori |
In-app purchases
Anchor
- Super Anchor Lifetime$29.99
- Super Anchor Lifetime$49.99
mmbl
- mmbl Pro$24.99









