TimeGuide vs Prism Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeGuide
This app combines tasks, events, and routines into a single, intuitive interface. It offers a clean design with features like repeating tasks, calendar sync, and visual priority to help you manage your schedule effectively.
- Repeating tasks and events
- Visual priority highlighting
- Intuitive add-task flow
- Two-way calendar sync
- Cross-device iCloud sync
- Customizable widgets
- Multiple layout modes
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TimeGuide is a simpler way to see your tasks, events, and routines. Part planner, part calendar, and part task manager, adding to and editing your schedule with TimeGuide is fast and intuitive. Featuring a clean design, repeating tasks and two-way calendar sync on a dynamically scaling timeline. TimeGuide Features: • Repeating Tasks & Events - Your daily routines can coexist with important events giving you a big picture view of your time • Visual Priority - Highlighted tasks and calendar events are given visual significance so they aren’t drowned out by simple tasks or routines • Intuitive Add-Task Flow - Add new tasks & events in seconds • Mark Complete - Mark finished items complete to hide them from the timeline (even calendar events) • Calendar Month View - Get a bigger picture of your time • Subtasks - Auto-nested items make adding subtasks effortless. Add subtasks even to calendar events, or un-nest them in settings to see everything laid out • Calendar Sync - Add and edit events from your other calendars like Apple, Google, and Outlook • Cross-Device Sync - Tasks sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud sync • Per-Calendar Notifications - Silence notifications on an individual basis in Calendar Setup • Dynamic Timeline - Expanding and contracting layout keeps your day visible, while still letting you visualize your free time • Multiple Layouts - Minimal Mode and List Mode to fit your style • Customizable Colors - Light and Dark modes, with total freedom for accent colors • Widgets - Stylish up-to-date widgets with smooth progress bars and countdown timers to keep you on pace and on-track • Distraction Free - Made to live in the background of your life, so you can actually be productive Try all of TimeGuide free for 7 days then keep using it in read-only mode forever, or unlock Full Access for a single affordable lifetime purchase. Use of this app is subject to Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Prism Notes
Capture thoughts and links quickly with a familiar texting interface. Organize ideas with AI-suggested tags and develop them across linked threads. Review notes to keep what matters and easily search by keyword or meaning.
- Texting-like note capture
- AI-suggested tags
- Threaded idea development
- Review mode for notes
- Sync across devices
- Natural language reminders
- Lock screen capture
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Prism is the private place for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free to try! Features: - Private and on-device - Opt in to iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac - Voice transcription and voice memos - Lock screen widgets for text and voice capture - AI-suggested tags to make organizing easy or automatic AI tagging (requires apple intelligence) - Review mode to keep notes alive or let them go - Threads to evolve a thought and link them together - Search by keyword - Natural language reminders - just say "remind me tomorrow at 2pm" (requires apple intelligence)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Prism Notes at free against TimeGuide's free with in-app purchases. Prism Notes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (29 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. TimeGuide sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Prism Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TimeGuide against 4.9 for Prism Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prism Notes has 29 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TimeGuide ships an update every 2 weeks, Prism Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on July 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeGuide | Prism Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.9 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Grant | Tommy Joseph |
Customer experience
TimeGuide
Prism Notes
In-app purchases
TimeGuide
- TimeGuide Pro (Yearly)$4.991 Year
- TimeGuide Pro (Lifetime)$19.99
- TimeGuide Pro (Lifetime Offer)$19.99
Prism Notes
- Lifetime Unlock$6.99
- Lifetime Unlock$12.99





