Resolved vs visualOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resolved
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The planner you can't fall behind on. Plan tomorrow the night before, as small as you like. Tick it off as the day goes. Anything you don't touch for a week expires, so nothing piles up. Miss a day and nothing resets: Resolved asks what you want to do about it. Built with ADHD in mind, for anyone who wants to feel themselves moving toward something, at their own pace. WRITE WHAT YOU WANT Start with "I want to…" and finish it in your own words: get in the best shape of your life, save a deposit for a first home, get promoted this year. ONE LIST, AND NOTHING PILES UP Next is one list of everything that moves your aims forward, with no dates to fall behind on. New things go on top. Swipe right to bump one back up, left to let it go. Anything you don't touch for a week expires (or choose two weeks, three, or a month). Bump it, and it stays. PLAN TOMORROW TONIGHT Each night, pick tomorrow's plan from Next. Say how hard it'll be, Easy, Solid or Stretch, and lock it in. Set the bar as low as you like: a small plan you keep beats a big one you miss. TICK IT OFF. STAMP IT 100%. Pull down on Next and today's plan is there. Tick things off as the day goes. Tick off everything and it's a full clear, stamped 100%. Whatever you didn't get to goes back to the top of Next. Over time, you learn what you can really take on. EVERY WIN, KEPT Every line you tick is a win, kept on its day, and you can add wins nobody planned. Swipe back through your days to see what you did, or search them all. HABITS THAT DON'T RESET Practices repeat ("Gym mon wed fri", "Read 3 times a week"), and one can serve more than one aim. Each night, what's due comes back as a short deck of cards: done or missed. Prefer a checklist? Switch to one. Every practice has a sphere that changes colour as you keep showing up: red, amber, green, and fire for the ones you hardly ever miss. Miss a day and it drops back a little. Nothing resets to zero. WHEN SOMETHING SLIPS, IT ASKS Miss a practice a couple of times in a row and Resolved asks if you're still doing it: keep going, change it, or set it aside. It shows you why you said it mattered, in your own words. A miss tells you something. There's no streak to break. YOUR NOTES, BESIDE TODAY Keep anything you'd like to see in the morning, with headings, lists and links. Notes you leave alone expire too, and wait in the bin for 30 days. SEE WHAT GOES WITH A GOOD DAY A couple of questions about each day as a whole: did you do what you planned, how was your mood, was your energy enough for the day. Over a few weeks, Insights shows which of your practices go with your better days. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets show today's plan, Next, and what's left for tonight. Tick things off without opening the app. Turn on the morning brief and today's plan is waiting when you wake. A CARD FOR EVERY SEASON Every 90 days you hold an aim earns a card in your codex, and one more when it happens. Moments earn trading cards too: your first full clear, a Stretch cleared, a practice that catches fire. Share an aim's season or its wins as a short video for Reels or Stories. MEET EMBER Ember is a small fire who keeps you company each night. It shows you around the first time you meet something, and it never scolds. NO ACCOUNT. NO AI. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Your aims, plans and notes live on your iPhone and in its own backup. We count anonymous usage to improve the app, never what you write. FREE FOR 14 NIGHTS Your first 14 nights are free. After that, the nightly check-in needs a one-time purchase. Your aims, Next, wins and notes stay open either way. The founding price, paid once and kept for good, lasts until 1 January 2027. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gettingresolved.app/privacy
visualOS
This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.
- Infinite canvas for visual thinking
- Offline access and real file saving
- Syncs with your own cloud storage
- Organize notes, images, and to-dos
- Hierarchical boards within boards
- Markdown file support
- Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Resolved at Free against visualOS's $12.99. visualOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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
Resolved is free to download; visualOS costs $12.99 up front. Resolved sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. visualOS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resolved | visualOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hero Archetype Pty Ltd | Dorweiler & Reimertz GbR |
In-app purchases
Resolved
- Resolved Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Resolved Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Resolved Premium Lifetime$9.99
visualOS
No in-app purchases









