Comparison

Bites vs Beacon

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

Head to head
About

Bites

This app transforms personal goals into a gamified experience. Set diverse resolutions, track daily progress, and engage in friendly competition with others through leaderboards and private challenges. Earn points for consistent effort and achieve milestones across various life categories.

Highlights
  • Set daily, weekly, monthly, yearly goals
  • 30+ preset resolutions or custom goals
  • Single-tap activity logging
  • Streak bonuses and point system
  • Private competitions with friends/family
  • Real-time leaderboard updates
  • Categorized goal setting
Features
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Bites turns your New Year's resolutions into a fun, competitive game. Set your goals, track your progress daily, and compete with family and friends on the leaderboard. TRACK YOUR WAY • Set daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals • Choose from 30+ preset resolutions or create your own • Log activities with a single tap • Build streaks and earn bonus points COMPETE TOGETHER • Create private competitions with family and friends • Share a simple 6-character code to invite others • Watch the leaderboard update in real-time • Stay motivated by friendly competition EARN POINTS • Daily activities: 8 points • Weekly achievements: 30 points • Monthly milestones: 100 points • Yearly goals: 650 points • Streak bonuses: up to 500 points for a full year! CATEGORIES FOR EVERY GOAL • Lifestyle - Read more, learn a language, better sleep • Physical - Exercise, nutrition, hydration • Financial - Save money, budget, invest • Spiritual - Meditation, journaling, gratitude • Social - Family time, relationships, friendships • Charity - Volunteer, donate, help others Whether you want to read more books, hit the gym, save money, or spend more time with family - Bites helps you stay accountable and makes the journey fun. Start small. Stay consistent. Devour your goals one bite at a time.

About

Beacon

This app helps individuals with ADHD manage tasks and time effectively. It breaks down large tasks into smaller, manageable steps and uses gentle reminders to keep users on track without causing overwhelm or guilt. It integrates with existing Apple Reminders and Calendar.

Highlights
  • One task at a time display
  • Visual countdown timers
  • Guilt-free task management
  • Task shrinking for easier starts
  • Task parking lot
  • Integration with Apple Reminders/Calendar
  • Smart capture and energy tags
Features
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Your to-do list keeps growing, time keeps slipping, and starting feels impossible. Beacon is the calm, ADHD-friendly way to finally get things done, one gentle step at a time. Beacon is a reminders app built for the way real brains actually work, especially brains that get overwhelmed by long lists, lose track of time, or freeze at the thought of beginning. Think of it as a calm external brain: it remembers, times, and shrinks your tasks, so you do not have to hold it all in your head. WHY BEACON FEELS DIFFERENT One thing at a time. Beacon shows your next action, not your entire backlog. Less overwhelm, more starting. Time you can actually see. Every task has a calm countdown, so "later" stops turning into "too late." No red alarms, no panic. Kind on the hard days. Miss something? There is no shaming OVERDUE, no broken streak, no guilt. Beacon reframes gently and celebrates every win, the small ones too. Shrink the first step. Any task can collapse into a two-minute starting move, so the hardest part, beginning, gets easier. Park it, guilt-free. Not ready today? Set a task aside in the Parking Lot and Beacon brings it back softly when the time is right. Nothing gets lost. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY USE Beacon sits on top of Apple Reminders and Calendar, so you keep everything you already rely on. Say a reminder to Siri and it shows up in Beacon, sorted and doable. Check it off in Beacon and it syncs right back. No migration, no starting over. WHAT YOU GET Smart capture: brain-dump a messy thought and Beacon finds the task and the time for you. Focus timer and body-double sessions to help you start and keep going. Energy tags to match tasks to how you actually feel right now. Gentle, well-timed nudges instead of a wall of notifications. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen Live Activities, and an Apple Watch app, so your next step is always a glance away. Private by design: no account, no tracking, no cloud sync. The only thing Beacon ever sends is an anonymous crash report. WHO IT IS FOR Beacon was made for people with ADHD, and that turns out to be a lot of us: anyone who has felt buried by their own list, lost time without meaning to, or been too hard on themselves for it. If that sounds familiar, welcome. TRY BEACON FREE Start with a 7-day free trial, then keep going with an affordable subscription. Cancel anytime. Beacon. Your calm external brain. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Beacon Pro gives you full access with a 7-day free trial, then a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://waypointapps.app/beacon/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bites4 screens
Beacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bites at none against Beacon's 2. Beacon's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Beacon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bites asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bites against 5.0 for Beacon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bites ships an update every 2 weeks, Beacon every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bites versus Beacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitesBeacon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB15 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJamieson KnopfWaypoint Apps LLC

Customer experience

Bites

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beacon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bites

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Beacon

Subscriptions2
  • Beacon Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Beacon Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Bites free?
Bites is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beacon free?
Beacon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bites or Beacon?
Bites and Beacon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bites or Beacon have ads?
Neither Bites nor Beacon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bites or Beacon?
Bites ships an update every 2 weeks, and Beacon every 2 days. Most recently, Bites was updated on October 30, 2026 and Beacon on October 31, 2026.

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