Comparison

My To Do vs Literally Remember

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

Head to head
About

My To Do

This app captures your thoughts and tasks through voice input, transforming them into a digital to-do list. It offers a satisfying, paper-like experience with the ability to cross off items by hand with a swipe, and allows for personalization of pen styles and colors.

Highlights
  • Voice task capture
  • Hand-drawn strike-through
  • Customizable pen styles
  • Personalizable colors
  • Stream-of-consciousness input
Features
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Finally, a to-do list app that feels like paper. Remember the satisfaction of physically crossing something off? That scrrratch of pen on paper? Most apps took that away. We brought it back. Speak it, forget it Don't type—just talk. Speak your entire list in one stream-of-consciousness ramble and watch it transform into tasks. Morning thoughts, errands in the car, late-night ideas—say it and it's captured. Swipe to strike This is the good part. Drag your finger across each item to cross it off by hand—just like you would on paper. No tapping checkboxes. Just that satisfying strike-through you've been missing. Make it yours Choose your pen style. Pick your color. Make it look the way you want. Simple. Satisfying. Finally, an app that gets it.

About

Literally Remember

This app helps manage the mental load by proactively reminding you of upcoming tasks and deadlines. It connects to your calendar to provide timely nudges for events, appointments, and recurring obligations, freeing up your cognitive space.

Highlights
  • Proactive reminders for events and deadlines
  • Calendar integration (read-only)
  • Customizable notification styles (Snarky, Sweet, Gentle)
  • Themed interfaces with seasonal backgrounds
  • Categorized tabs for sorting tasks
  • Prep lists for specific events
  • Weekly and monthly recaps
Features
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The mental load, handled. Someone has to remember. It literally doesn't have to be you. The mental load is real. You're the family's calendar, alarm system, gift department, snack coordinator, and spirit-day early-warning system — all in your head, all the time, all unpaid. Literally Remember is the app that takes the remembering OFF your brain. Set it up once. Connect your calendar (read on your phone only — nothing ever leaves your device, and you choose exactly which calendars it sees). Then never open the app again. That's not a bug, that's the whole point. We push you what matters, before it matters: • "Maya's party" on your calendar becomes "order the gift" — 3 weeks out • Tomorrow's game becomes "uniform in the dryer TONIGHT, not at 7am" • Picture day becomes "locate the outfit tonight. You know why." • No-school days get flagged a week early, before the childcare panic • Dentist every 6 months, physicals yearly, teacher gifts twice a year — on autopilot, forever • Halloween costumes, camp registration (yes, JANUARY), flu shots, the holiday shipping cutoff — the whole seasonal gauntlet, handled before you'd have thought of it • We circle back: overdue things get a re-reminder instead of sulking at the bottom of your list — and when you start something, we point at the next step • A Monday briefing of your week, a Friday "you did things" recap, and any month planned in one sitting • A few good-morning pep talks a month. You stack of sunshine. • Tags that sort the chaos — by kid, gifts, school, health — plus any you make • Prep lists on every card: game day becomes: uniform, cleats, water bottle, snack Behind it: literally the bible™ — our growing playbook of every deadline, tradition, and "nobody told me" moment, built from moms who learned it the hard way. It gets smarter with every update. Pick your vibe: Snarky (recommended), Sweet, or Gentle — then dress it in seven themes, including Spooky Season, Sweater Weather, and Snow Day with thirteen hand-picked photo looks. Pick yours; it stays until you change it. Every nudge is written to make you smirk at 7am. And on Fridays at 5pm: "7 things handled this week. You go, girl" No account. No subscription. No data collected — literally, we couldn't see your stuff if we wanted to. One price, once. The mental load charges you daily. You do the loving. Let us do the remembering.

Screenshots

My To Do4 screens
Literally Remember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My To Do at Free against Literally Remember's $1.99. My To Do also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Literally Remember's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

My To Do is free to download; Literally Remember costs $1.99 up front. My To Do sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Literally Remember 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 My To Do against 5.0 for Literally Remember. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My To Do ships an update every 10 days, Literally Remember weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
My To Do versus Literally Remember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy To DoLiterally Remember
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperB Gilmore, LLCElise Markowitz

Customer experience

My To Do

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Literally Remember

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My To Do

One-time1
  • Lifetime To-Do List Access$9.99
None

Literally Remember

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My To Do free?
My To Do is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Literally Remember free?
Literally Remember costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, My To Do or Literally Remember?
My To Do and Literally Remember are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do My To Do or Literally Remember have ads?
Neither My To Do nor Literally Remember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My To Do or Literally Remember?
My To Do ships an update every 10 days, and Literally Remember weekly. Most recently, My To Do was updated on September 30, 2026 and Literally Remember on October 15, 2026.

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