Comparison

Kanban Notes & Tasks vs Blue Hour

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kanban Notes & Tasks

This powerful kanban board app helps manage projects and tasks with a simple interface. It offers flexible boards, detailed task management, custom fields, and real-time collaboration for various professional and personal workflows.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom boards
  • Drag-and-drop column organization
  • Custom fields with 8 types
  • Subtask progress tracking
  • Real-time collaboration via CloudKit
  • File, image, and PDF attachments
  • Time tracking and completion timestamps
Features
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BOARDLY - PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT Transform how you manage projects with Boardly, the most powerful kanban board app for iOS. Whether you're managing software development, marketing campaigns, personal goals, or team workflows, Boardly gives you the tools professionals demand in a beautifully simple interface. FLEXIBLE KANBAN BOARDS • Create unlimited boards with custom colors and icons • Drag and drop columns to match your workflow • Horizontal scrolling for natural kanban navigation • Customizable board visibility and organization • Reorder boards and columns with ease COMPREHENSIVE TASK MANAGEMENT • Auto-generated ticket IDs (e.g., "MAI-1") for easy reference • Four priority levels with visual indicators (Low, Normal, High, Urgent) • Due dates with Today, Upcoming, and Past Due filters • Time tracking: estimated vs. actual hours • Rich descriptions and detailed notes • Completion tracking with automatic timestamps • Item dependencies to identify blockers CUSTOM FIELDS - MAKE IT YOURS • 8 field types: Text, Number, Date, Select, Multi-Select, Checkbox, URL, Email • Board-level field definitions • Required field validation • Custom icons for each field • Perfect for tracking client info, budgets, project codes, or any unique data POWERFUL ORGANIZATION • Unlimited subtasks with progress tracking • Board-scoped labels with custom colors • Full-text search across all content • Saved custom filters for repeated workflows • Smart filters: All Items, Today, Upcoming, Past Due • Multi-select for batch operations RICH ATTACHMENTS & MEDIA • Add files, images, and PDFs • Voice recording support • Preview attachments inline • Organized file management • Support for multiple file types REAL-TIME COLLABORATION • Share boards via CloudKit • Read-only or edit permissions • See who's collaborating with stacked avatars • Automatic sync across devices • Accept share invitations seamlessly • Privacy-focused: data stays on your device and iCloud PROFESSIONAL FEATURES • Complete undo/redo support • Full audit trail and history tracking • Smart notifications for due items • Export and search capabilities • Elegant sidebar navigation • Native iOS app built with SwiftUI for maximum performance • SQLite database for lightning-fast local-first experience PERFECT FOR: • Software development teams (sprints, backlogs, bugs) • Marketing and creative teams (campaigns, content calendars) • Product managers (roadmaps, feature planning) • Personal productivity (goals, habits, projects) • Event planning (tasks, timelines, vendors) • Academic projects (research, assignments, collaboration) • Freelancers tracking client work • Sales teams managing pipelines • HR teams handling recruitment • Any workflow that needs visual organization WHY CHOOSE BOARDLY? • Native iOS experience with SwiftUI • No subscription required - buy once, use forever • Privacy-focused architecture • Regular updates with new features • Comprehensive design system for consistent, beautiful UI • Lightning-fast performance with local-first database • Works offline, syncs when connected • Professional-grade features at an affordable price DOWNLOAD BOARDLY TODAY Join thousands of professionals who've transformed their project management with Boardly. From simple personal boards to complex team workflows, Boardly scales with you.

About

Blue Hour

Features
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Blue Hour turns time into light: a sun sinks toward the horizon as your timer runs, so you can feel how much is left without reading a number. Built kindly for ADHD and time-blindness, calm enough for classrooms and kids. No account, no ads, no streaks. Free forever, with a tip jar in Settings. RAISE THE SUN Drag the sun up to set your time, one minute to three hours, with soft detents you can feel. Prefer numbers? Tap the readout for a keypad. Three preset chips keep your rituals one tap away. THE SETTLING DUSK As the last light falls, the sky deepens and the screen dims a few gentle stops. At zero: two slow breaths of glow, a soft haptic, and an optional two-note chime. No alarm slam. Ever. THE LIGHT FOLLOWS YOU A Live Activity keeps the sinking sun on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. An optional nudge can tell you when time is up, even if you have looked away. Off by default. CYCLES, GENTLY Pomodoro in Blue Hour's language: work while the sun sets, then the break is a sunrise. The sky returns to morning, and the next round starts when you do. Rounds are counted in little suns, never quotas. START FROM ANYWHERE A Home Screen widget starts your usual timer in one tap. Siri and Shortcuts can start, pause, and resume without opening the app. FOR CLASSROOMS One tap opens the big display: a wall-sized countdown calm enough for a whole room, with a classroom preset set from one to twenty minutes. A QUIET LINE EACH DAWN Every day the idle sky carries one line from 412 public-domain quotations. Seneca, Thoreau, Lao Tzu, old proverbs. One per day. No feed, no push, no hustle. CALM BY CONSTRUCTION • Optional halfway and final-minute cues • Keeps the screen awake while the light falls, if you want • Wall-clock accurate: background it, come back, the light agrees • VoiceOver, Reduced Motion, and Dynamic Type are first-class FREE FOREVER Every feature, free. No premium tier, no subscription. If Blue Hour earns a place on your Home Screen, there is a tip jar in Settings. It unlocks nothing. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Blue Hour makes zero network calls, and its App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," the rare kind that means exactly what it says. The light keeps track for you.

Screenshots

Kanban Notes & Tasks4 screens
Blue Hour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blue Hour at Free against Kanban Notes & Tasks's $9.99. Kanban Notes & Tasks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Blue Hour is free to download; Kanban Notes & Tasks costs $9.99 up front. Blue Hour sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Kanban Notes & Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kanban Notes & Tasks versus Blue Hour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKanban Notes & TasksBlue Hour
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJakub KalamarzMoses Smith

In-app purchases

None

Kanban Notes & Tasks

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Blue Hour

One-time3
  • Coffee$1.99
  • Lunch$4.99
  • Legend$9.99

Questions

Is Kanban Notes & Tasks free?
Kanban Notes & Tasks costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blue Hour free?
Blue Hour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kanban Notes & Tasks or Blue Hour have ads?
Neither Kanban Notes & Tasks nor Blue Hour shows ads.

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