Comparison

Methodica vs Spoon Manager

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

Head to head
About

Methodica

Features
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Methodica: Organize Your Life, Focus on What Matters Methodica is your personal productivity companion, designed to help you stay organized, motivated, and in control of your time. With an intuitive interface and a complete set of tools, you can easily manage your schedule, plan your tasks, and keep your life priorities in balance, all in one place. No login, no tracking, complete privacy: All data is stored entirely on your device. Nothing is sent online. Methodica was originally created to meet the developer's personal need for a simple, powerful productivity system, and later released hoping it could help others as well. What you can do with Methodica: Plan your day with ease: Create and manage events with daily, weekly, and monthly calendar views. Stay on top of your tasks: Use a clean, visual Kanban board to track progress and organize your workflow. Focus on what truly matters: Define the key areas of your life (Work, Health, Family, and more) and balance your time through a simple, visual Priority Square. Maximize your focus and productivity: Use the built-in Focus Timer with Pomodoro technique to stay concentrated on your work. Track your focus sessions, take strategic breaks, and automatically log your productive time to the calendar. Track your finances with clarity: Manage your income and expenses with a dedicated financial overview. Monitor your spending, create recurring transactions, visualize your budget, and keep your financial life under control, all privately and directly on your device. See your day at a glance: A smart dashboard shows your schedule, active tasks, and progress in real time. Whether you want to improve your organization, find balance in your daily routine, maintain focus on important work, or keep your finances in check, Methodica gives you the clarity and structure you need. Made for people who want a simple, powerful, and meaningful way to manage their time.

About

Spoon Manager

Track your daily energy levels and activities to understand patterns and plan your day. Features include mood check-ins, task management, habit tracking, and calendar integration. Designed for individuals managing chronic illness or fatigue.

Highlights
  • Daily energy check-ins
  • Task and habit tracking
  • Mood and gratitude journaling
  • Calendar integration
  • Customizable dashboard widgets
  • Pattern analysis charts
Features
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Spoon Manager is an easy-to-use energy tracker based on Spoon Theory. Check in on your energy each morning and night, record what you do, spot your patterns, and plan your day with confidence. Whether you're managing chronic illness, chronic pain, fatigue, ME/CFS, autism, ADHD, or anything else that affects your energy, Spoon Manager helps you stay in control. It's a calm, native app for iPhone and iPad — no accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays on your device. WHAT'S INSIDE • Morning & night check-ins. Each morning, log how many spoons you're starting with; each night, log what's left. See how your days really go instead of guessing — and catch a low patch before it becomes a crash. • An optional pulse reading. Rest a fingertip on the camera for a wearable-free resting heart-rate check-in — a wellness reading, not a medical measurement. No watch or band required. • To-dos that meet your brain halfway. Break a big task into small steps, name the first move, jot why it matters, add a reward, and estimate the time — with dates, reminders, and repeats. • Habits, your way. Count-based or simple, shown as a visual heatmap with streaks that forgive a rest day. • Routines. Run a morning or wind-down routine step by step, at your own pace. • A daily journal. A calm space to reflect, with a one-tap mood check-in, "what shaped today" factors, gratitude, and a morning intention. • Calendar. Day, week, and month views with your Apple Calendar — and, if you like, your Google Calendar — shown right alongside your day. • Goals. Link the to-dos and habits that move a goal and watch its progress bar fill. • See your patterns. Charts bring your energy, mood, and habits together so you can spot what helps and what drains you. • Build-your-own home. Arrange and resize a dashboard of widgets, plus home-screen and lock-screen widgets for your spoons and your week. • Make it yours. Color themes with light and dark mode, an optional Face ID lock, and journal export anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Spoon Manager is built to need none of your data. There are no accounts, no server, no ads, and no analytics or tracking SDKs. Everything you create stays on your device. The one time Spoon Manager goes online is if you choose to connect Google Calendar — a read-only link that shows your events in the app and never sends your data to us. Made by a small independent developer.

Screenshots

Methodica4 screens
Spoon Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Methodica at 15.1 against Spoon Manager's 17.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Methodica ships an update weekly, Spoon Manager every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Methodica versus Spoon Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMethodicaSpoon Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGiacomo CavalliniJohn Traugott

In-app purchases

None

Methodica

No in-app purchases

None

Spoon Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Methodica free?
Methodica is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spoon Manager free?
Spoon Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Methodica or Spoon Manager have ads?
Neither Methodica nor Spoon Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Methodica or Spoon Manager?
Methodica ships an update weekly, and Spoon Manager every 5 days. Most recently, Methodica was updated on November 9, 2026 and Spoon Manager on November 5, 2026.

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