Monu vs First Thingy

MONU is a calm iOS planner built around one idea: your daily habits should connect to the person you're becoming. Most to-do apps are just inboxes for tasks — brilliant at capturing what you need to do, but they forget the point. MONU keeps your dreams at the top. Each dream breaks down into small, keepable habits. Those habits show up on your Today screen. And every time you keep one, the dream you're chasing moves a little closer. FOUR TABS. NOTHING YOU WON'T USE. Today, at a glance Your intention, habits, tasks, and calendar in one view. Switch between Day, Week, and Month — every date is tappable, so you can plan ahead. Vision & Dreams Write who you're becoming, then break each dream into small, keepable habits. View them as a list, or as an Ohtani-style Mandalart grid — a 3×3 goal map with your vision at the center and eight dreams around it. A Real Bucket List Life isn't only work. Sort your somedays into Need, Want, Adventure, and Growth, and tick them off as you live them. Focus Timer A gentle Pomodoro built right in. Pick 15, 25, 45, or 60 minutes, minimize it, and keep working — it resumes right where you left off. Calendar Sync Bring your Apple and Google events into your day, week, and month view, merged and de-duplicated so nothing shows up twice. Home Screen Widget Your progress ring, streak, and top tasks right on your home screen — a quiet nudge toward the day you meant to have. WHY MONU IS DIFFERENT A dream doesn't move forward when you check a box — it moves forward as its habits become consistent. Keep a habit for 21 days and it's built. You watch yourself change, not just clear a list. No feature soup. No dashboard fatigue. We cut everything that didn't earn its place, including features we'd already built. What's left is what matters. As James Clear puts it in Atomic Habits: your results reflect your systems, not just your goals. Free to download. No ads, no tracking. Works offline. Your data stays yours. Requires iPhone with iOS 18 or later.

Most productivity apps give you more ways to make longer lists. One Thing gives you one task. Set the one thing that matters most right now. Work on it. When you're done, mark it complete. If you give up, you have to say why — in your own words, saved permanently. That's it. Why only one task? Because you can only do one thing at a time anyway. The list is the lie. One Thing removes the lie. Why must you explain yourself? Because excuses are easy when no one is watching. One Thing is watching. Not to judge — to help you see the patterns you hide from yourself. The Honest Record Every task you've set, completed, or abandoned lives here. No editing. No deleting. Just the truth about how you spend your time and attention. Features: • Set one active task at a time — enforced • Abandoning requires a written explanation • Permanent honest record of all your tasks • Daily reminder at a time you choose • Light and dark mode • No account needed, no cloud sync, no tracking Your data stays on your device. Always.