Smartodo vs Phaseboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smartodo
Manage tasks and their relationships with visual graphs. This app uses AI to automate tasks and offers local-first storage for data control. Sync your data across devices via your own cloud drive.
- Visualize task dependencies
- Interactive graph view
- AI task automation
- Local-first data storage
- Cloud sync
- Powerful filtering
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Smartodo helps you manage task dependencies with local-first storage and AI that adapts to your workflow. - Visualize and manage task dependencies and relationships in interactive graphs - Use AI to automate tasks such as adding icons to all tasks - Your data stays under your control with local-first storage and sync through your own cloud drive - Create different views with powerful filters Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Phaseboard
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For the moments when products, prototypes, side projects, and late-night ideas are all alive at once. Phaseboard is a quiet, beautiful place to keep them, with each one's current stage, progress, and the one thing to do next. Every project breaks down the same way. From outermost to innermost: project, stage, task, subtask. Statuses roll up automatically as you check things off, so the dashboard always shows which projects deserve your time today. Phaseboard is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your projects sync privately through your own iCloud, with full offline support. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen views, and a Mac menu bar tile keep what you're working on always in sight. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://phaseboard.app/privacy Subscription and refund terms: https://phaseboard.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Smartodo at every 2 weeks against Phaseboard's every 2 months. Smartodo also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Smartodo sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Phaseboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smartodo ships an update every 2 weeks, Phaseboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smartodo | Phaseboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Synthetic Insights LLC | 东堃 许 |
In-app purchases
Smartodo
- Smartodo Pro$2.991 Month
Phaseboard
- Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Pro · Lifetime$14.99
