1Task vs Kobako
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1Task
This productivity tool helps you concentrate on a single task at a time. Log your activities, track your focus sessions, and reflect on how different tasks impact your energy levels. Analyze your progress and identify what truly energizes you.
- Single-task focus timer
- Activity logging
- Session reflection
- Streak tracking
- Energy impact analysis
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A focus timer that only lets you work on one thing at a time. Type what you're doing. A timer starts. When you're done, rate how it felt and add a note. Your reflections build up over time. Look back at your streaks, focus time, and figure out which tasks leave you energized or drained.
Kobako
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Kobako — Japanese for “small box” — is a quick place to put an idea down before it slips away. Kapi, a capybara, lives there and looks after whatever you leave. CATCH IT IN A SECOND • Tap the bulb and type or dictate — the idea is saved before the thought is gone • Capture straight from a Home Screen widget or a Control Center button • Kapi notices a new idea and cheers you on EVERYTHING IN ONE FEED • New ideas land in Inbox and lie as cards right on the app’s Home • A row of folders sits above the feed: tap one to see only its ideas • Sort by newest, oldest, priority or due date • An idea that grows gets a fresh page laid over it — up to five, with the earlier thinking still readable underneath • Search finds any idea or folder in a few letters CLOSE IT, KEEP IT Tick a card when an idea is done, and it flies into Closed. Nothing disappears: finished ideas rest there, and any of them can be reopened. A QUIET FRIEND Kapi putters about his window library and naps while you are away; a tap wakes him. Once a day, around eight in the evening, he knocks to ask how the day went — and skips it if the app was already opened that evening. AT HOME ON EVERY SCREEN • iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo — two panes side by side on iPad in landscape and on the open Duo • Dark theme throughout; Reduce Motion honoured everywhere Kapi moves • 10 languages YOURS ALONE No account and no sign-in. Your ideas stay on your device. Questions or a hello: hello@kobako.app Terms of Use: https://kobako.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 1Task at every 4 days against Kobako's every 5 weeks. 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. 1Task sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Kobako sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
1Task ships an update every 4 days, Kobako every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1Task | Kobako |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brekky Labs, LLC | Aleksandr Gaidash |
In-app purchases
1Task
- A kind tip$1.99
- A generous tip$4.99
- A lavish tip$9.99
Kobako
- Kobako Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Kobako Plus Yearly$49.991 Year
- Supporter Pack$2.99
- Rich Capybara$9.99









