1Task vs Buddy
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.
Buddy
This app transforms your thoughts into actionable plans. Simply speak or type your to-dos, and it intelligently breaks them down into manageable tasks for your day or week. It adapts its communication style based on your age, making planning accessible for everyone.
- Conversational task planning
- AI-driven task breakdown
- Adaptive communication for different age groups
- Save content from any app
- Customizable assistant persona
- Task completion tracking
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Some days you know exactly what to do. Other days you have a vague, heavy something you have been avoiding for a week, and every planner app you own just gives you an empty box and a cursor. Buddy is the planner you talk to. Say what is on your mind, out loud or typed. Buddy asks a couple of questions and turns it into a plan for today, broken into pieces that actually fit an afternoon. HOW IT WORKS 1. Talk or type. "I have a systems design interview Thursday and I have not started." "I have a spelling test and football practice." 2. Buddy talks it through with you and suggests a handful of tasks, for today or the week ahead. 3. You decide what goes in. Nothing lands on your day until you say yes. Then your day is a plan: Morning, Afternoon and Evening, with times if you want them. Tap a task to finish it. SAVE IT FROM ANYWHERE Share a link or a picture to Buddy from any app and it lands in Saved links. Open it later, say what you wanted from it, and Buddy turns that into a task. Nothing is fetched, and your saved list stays on your phone. IT ADAPTS TO WHOEVER OPENS IT Buddy asks your first name and your age band once, then gets out of the way. - Around 7 to 12: short sentences, plain words, emoji, and a bit of celebration when you finish - Students: assignments, revision, exam prep - Working: interview prep, certifications, side projects, deep-work blocks SEND A PLAN FROM YOUR AI ASSISTANT Planning with Claude, Claude Code or Cursor? Signed in and 18 or over, ask it to send the plan to Buddy. Tasks wait in Drafts until you add them. No assistant can see your plan. FIFTY-SIX LANGUAGES Buddy runs in 56 languages, from Hindi and Thai to Polish and Swahili. Pick one in Account, or let it follow your phone. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE - Your whole day planner, forever - 15 chats with Buddy a day, typed or dictated, and eight short Talk sessions - Explore: ready-made tasks and plans by topic, added in one tap or saved with a swipe - Notes for lists and ideas in folders. A photo stays on this phone, and Buddy never reads a note - Add and edit tasks with notes, emoji, times, up to three alerts, and repeats that pick their days and end when you say - Calendar view, completion streak, and Catch up for what slipped - A Lock Screen and Dynamic Island card for a timed task while it runs - Archive, Recently deleted, an activity log, and a lock that keeps a task out of the conversation - Eight themes, light and dark, sounds, larger text, VoiceOver throughout - Share a task or your day, or let another signed-in adult know when you finish one BUDDY PRO Pro is the longer conversation. - Unlimited chats, typed or spoken - Longer Talk sessions, with Buddy answering out loud - High Thinking for a plan that reaches months ahead (teens and adults) One-time talk top-ups from $5 add talk time to Buddy Pro for 30 days. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your tasks and notes live on your phone, unless you turn on cloud backup. There is no account to create, no ads, and no tracking or analytics of any kind. What you say or show to Buddy goes to OpenAI so it can reply, with this week's tasks and the day a Talk is opened on, so the plan fits your day. Lock a task, or turn on Keep my plan private, and it is left out. Sign in with Google, Apple, or a phone number is optional, and only from age 13 for a phone number. It remembers your name and a few settings. It does not unlock Pro. Tasks an assistant sends wait on our server until collected. SUBSCRIPTION Buddy Pro is $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. It renews unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://buddydayplanner.com/privacy.html The planner is free and stays free. Pro is there if talking it through helps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: 1Task at free against Buddy's freemium. Buddy's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). 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
Both are free to download. 1Task sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Buddy sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 1Task against 5.0 for Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
1Task ships an update every 4 days, Buddy daily. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1Task | Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brekky Labs, LLC | Yuvraj Barsara |
In-app purchases
1Task
- A kind tip$1.99
- A generous tip$4.99
- A lavish tip$9.99
Buddy
- Buddy Pro$4.991 Month
- Buddy Pro$49.991 Year
- Talk top-up $5$4.99
- Talk top-up $10$9.99
- Talk top-up $25$24.99
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- Talk top-up $50$49.99
- Talk top-up $100$99.99









