Comparison

Islet vs Complete & Conquer

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

Head to head
About

Islet

This app helps you stay focused and productive with customizable timers and task management tools. Organize your work, track your progress with detailed statistics, and personalize your experience with beautiful themes and fonts. Build better focus habits for studying, working, or personal goals.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus timers (Pomodoro, stopwatch, deep focus)
  • Task management with lists, tags, due dates, and subtasks
  • Progress tracking with statistics and streaks
  • Beautiful themes and personalized fonts
  • Social features to build study circles
  • Calendar view and focus heatmap
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Islet helps you focus and get things done - your way. Whether you're studying, working, or building a new habit, Islet provides the tools you need to stay on track without the overwhelm. CUSTOMIZABLE FOCUS TIMERS: - Preset timers for quick sessions - Pomodoro technique with work/break cycles - Stopwatch mode for flexible focus - Deep focus mode option TASK MANAGEMENT: - Create and organise tasks with lists and tags - Set due dates and priorities - Track focus time spent on each task - Break tasks into subtasks BEAUTIFUL THEMES: - 9 handcrafted color themes to match your mood - Personalized fonts to choose from TRACK YOUR PROGRESS: - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom statistics - Session history and streaks - Achievements to celebrate your wins - Calendar view and color heatmap of your focus journey SOCIAL - Add friends and build your study circle Islet is designed for students, professionals, creators, and anyone who wants to build better focus habits. No complicated setup - just open the app and start your first session. Focus - your way.

About

Complete & Conquer

This to-do list app gamifies productivity with a retro, real-time strategy theme. Earn credits for completing tasks to build a base, deploy units, and unlock new tech. Neglected tasks lead to enemy attacks, motivating users to stay on track.

Highlights
  • Retro gamified to-do list
  • Earn credits for task completion
  • Build and defend a pixel-art base
  • Unlock tech tree and new hardware
  • Native iOS and macOS support
  • Scheduling, reminders, and priorities
Features
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If you're anything like me, you're an elder millennial who misses a simpler time. Mountain Dew, late nights, and the freedom to ignore anything that resembled responsibility. These days you might need a little push to get things done (I sure do). So I built one. Complete & Conquer is a native iOS and macOS to-do app with a retro, gamified twist, built on the nostalgia of the real-time strategy games we grew up on. Every task you finish earns credits. Spend them to put up buildings and deploy units, climb the tech tree to unlock new hardware, and watch a little pixel-art base grow straight out of your real-life productivity. There's a catch. There's always a catch. Ignore your tasks for too long and the enemy takes notice. Let things pile up and your base comes under attack, and the only way to push them back is to start finishing things again. Turns out crossing a boring errand off the list feels a lot better when it also means commanding an army. A few things worth knowing: • It's free, and the core always will be. Using Complete & Conquer as a to-do list and habit tracker will never cost a thing. No paywall on getting your life together. • It's a real task manager underneath, with scheduling, reminders, and priorities. It just happens to be fun to open. • The loop is simple and weirdly motivating: finish tasks, earn credits, build cool stuff, defend your base. • Native on both iPhone and Mac. A word about money, because I owe you one. When I launched this app I said the to-do core would stay free, and I meant it. Recurring objectives, unlimited tasks, the full base game through Tier 2, plus a small Home Screen widget and Lock Screen widgets — none of it costs anything, and none of it ever will. No paywall on getting your life together. But I'm one guy, not a venture-backed productivity empire, and the lights don't keep themselves on. So: Commander Pro, entirely optional, for commanders who want the deluxe treatment. What Pro adds: • iCloud sync — your base, tasks, and progress on both iPhone and Mac • Tier 3 endgame — advanced tech, the Orca, an elite-tier base • GSD Intel — a field-intelligence briefing with completion analytics, streaks, and a raid log • An interactive checklist widget and the rich medium widget — check off objectives without opening the app • Dynamic Island quick-deploy — see today's progress, page through objectives, and secure them right from the island • Raid tuning — Relaxed to Intense, plus quiet hours • The Mac menu bar companion (existing users keep it free — you were here first) It's $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $49.99 once for lifetime, at an early-supporter price that goes up later. One purchase covers both iPhone and Mac, because charging you twice for the same app felt like a raid on YOUR base. And if you never spend a dime? Genuinely fine. Complete your tasks, defend your base, tell a friend. That was always the deal. Full disclosure: I'm building this app instead of doing my own to-do list, so there's a steady stream of new features on the way. Whether that reflects well on the app or poorly on me remains to be seen. EULA for subscriptions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Islet4 screens
Complete & Conquer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Complete & Conquer at none against Islet's 1. Islet's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Islet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Complete & Conquer 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 Islet against 5.0 for Complete & Conquer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Islet ships an update every 2 days, Complete & Conquer monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Islet versus Complete & Conquer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIsletComplete & Conquer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB19 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMegan LiemANTHOLOGY GROUP LLC

Customer experience

Islet

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Complete & Conquer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Islet

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$4.99
None

Complete & Conquer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Islet free?
Islet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Complete & Conquer free?
Complete & Conquer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Islet or Complete & Conquer?
Islet and Complete & Conquer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Islet or Complete & Conquer have ads?
Neither Islet nor Complete & Conquer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Islet or Complete & Conquer?
Islet ships an update every 2 days, and Complete & Conquer monthly. Most recently, Islet was updated on November 5, 2026 and Complete & Conquer on October 31, 2026.

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