Comparison

SmartTool vs Buckets

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

Head to head
About

SmartTool

This AI-powered app lets you create tasks, reminders, and manage your schedule using only your voice. It automatically organizes spoken input into to-do lists, notes, shopping lists, and expense tracking, offering hands-free productivity.

Highlights
  • Voice commands for task creation
  • AI-powered natural language understanding
  • Daily planner and schedule view
  • Customizable reminders and alarms
  • Shopping list creation and management
  • Expense tracking and payment alerts
  • Calendar event synchronization
Features
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Still forgetting tasks while your hands are full? SmartTool is the AI voice todo list that turns what you say into tasks, reminders, and your today schedule — no typing needed. Just say "remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at 3" and SmartTool builds your list instantly. The voice reminder app for daily work, errands, bills, and everything in between. VOICE TODO LIST — HANDS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY SmartTool is more than a voice todo app — it's your personal list maker powered by AI. Speak tasks while cooking, driving, or multitasking. Smart AI understands natural language and organizes your ai todo list automatically: tasks, reminders, notes, event calendar entries, shopping lists, and expenses. DAILY PLANNER, REMINDERS & ALARMS • Voice commands — add to your voice todo list without touching your phone • "Remind me" — set any task reminder by speaking naturally • Reminder app with alarm — custom sounds, repeat options, and advance alerts • Today schedule app — see everything due today in one glance • AI todo app — smart voice-to-task conversion with priorities and subtasks • Recurring reminders — daily habits, bills, and medications on autopilot • Event calendar sync — create calendar events from voice commands • Notes + tasks together — meetings, homework, and assignments in one place SHOPPING LISTS & EXPENSE TRACKING • Shopping list app — build grocery and food shop lists by voice or by hand • Free shopping list apps free experience — check off items as you shop • Expense tracker — log bills and payments with due dates • Expense tracking app with reminders — never miss a payment • Expenses daily record — track spending and stay on budget • Expense manager — set currency, categories, and payment alerts SMART AI FOR STRESS-FREE PLANNING My voice today becomes my organized tomorrow. SmartTool's AI daily planner turns spoken chaos into calm — office meetings, homework, medication, policy renewals, and errands. Whether you need a simple reminder app or a full ai todo list with calendar sync, SmartTool keeps every task on track. PERFECT FOR • Students managing homework, assignments, and today's schedule • Professionals juggling meetings, deadlines, and event calendar entries • Shoppers who need a fast shopping list app or food shop list on the go • Anyone who prefers voice over typing for their todo list and reminders • People tracking daily expenses who want an expense manager with alerts WHY PERMISSIONS? • Microphone — record voice notes and convert them into tasks and reminders • Calendar — create event calendar entries from voice commands • Notifications — send reminder alerts and alarms at scheduled times • Photos / Media / Files — back up or restore your tasks and reminders Download SmartTool — the AI voice todo list and voice reminder app that helps you remind me, plan my day, shop smarter, and track expenses. Your hands-free daily planner starts now. Terms of Use: https://remindai.blogspot.com/p/terms-of-use.html

About

Buckets

This app helps you manage your time by setting weekly intentions for different life areas. It allows you to block out time, run focus sessions, and confirm actual time spent, ensuring your week reflects your priorities. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Set weekly intentions for life areas
  • Block time on your calendar
  • Run focus sessions with a timer
  • Confirm actual time spent
  • Calendar mirroring
  • Health app integration for workouts
  • Data export to JSON
Features
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Where does your week actually go? Buckets holds the parts of your life that matter, work, movement, sleep, family, and gives each one a weekly intention: how much time you actually want to pour in. Then it helps you protect that time before the week gets noisy. HOW IT WORKS Bucket. One area of your life, with a weekly intention. Work. Movement. Sleep. Family. Study. Faith. Whatever yours are. Block. You protect time for a Bucket by placing a Block on your calendar, in advance. A promise made to yourself while the week is still quiet. Session. When the Block arrives you start a focus session, and the timer runs. Work, move, rest, read. The session just holds the time. Pour. When you finish you confirm what actually happened, and only then does it pour into the Bucket. A Pour is never recorded without you. That last part is the whole point. Buckets does not watch you, guess at you, or fill itself in behind your back. Your week is only as full as you say it is, which is what makes the number worth looking at. YOUR WEEK, IN ONE PLACE Vessels for each Bucket that fill as the week goes on A plan timeline where you drag a Bucket onto the day to protect time Your existing calendar shown alongside, so open space stays honest Widgets for today's plan, one Bucket's ring, and how the week is filling A Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the running session Morning and evening moments, a daily reflection, and a weekly close Shortcuts for starting and finishing a session by voice ON YOUR DEVICE, AND NOWHERE ELSE No account. No sign up. No server. Every Bucket, Block, Session and Pour lives in the app's own database on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sold, nothing leaves the device unless you choose to connect your calendar or Health. FREE, AND PRO Free holds one Bucket, with the full day, sessions, reflections, and every Pour you ever confirm. Buckets Pro holds as many Buckets as your life has parts, plus repeating Blocks, calendar mirroring, workouts that arrive ready to pour from Health, and export of every confirmed Pour as plain readable JSON. Built by one person, in Swift, for iPhone on iOS 18 and later. SUBSCRIPTION Buckets Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Buckets Pro (Yearly): $39.99 per year, with a 1 week free trial for new subscribers. Buckets Pro (Monthly): $6.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. If you take the free trial, any unused portion of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

SmartTool4 screens
Buckets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Buckets at none against SmartTool's shown. SmartTool's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. SmartTool sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and Buckets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SmartTool against 5.0 for Buckets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SmartTool versus Buckets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartToolBuckets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJunaid YounasRami Salameh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SmartTool

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
2 purchases

Buckets

Subscriptions2
  • Buckets Pro$6.991 Month
  • Buckets Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is SmartTool free?
SmartTool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SmartTool or Buckets?
SmartTool and Buckets are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do SmartTool or Buckets have ads?
SmartTool shows ads; Buckets does not.

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