Comparison

BetterKeeper vs SmallButBig

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

Head to head
About

BetterKeeper

Manage tasks, notes, projects, and track your time in a single, private application. It syncs via iCloud, offering a native Apple experience across devices. Collaborate on projects easily by sharing iCloud links.

Highlights
  • Task and reminder management
  • Project organization with collaboration
  • Rich note-taking with templates
  • Integrated time tracking
  • Private iCloud syncing
  • Native Apple experience
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Tasks, notes, projects and time tracking — one Apple-native app, synced through your private iCloud. Nothing stored on our servers. Try free for 30 days. Most people juggle four apps to do what one should. BetterKeeper brings it together. —————————————————— TASKS & REMINDERS Deadlines, recurring tasks, and reminders. Everything you need to stay on top of your work. PROJECTS Group tasks and notes into projects. Share any project via iCloud link — no account needed for collaborators. NOTES Capture ideas instantly with rich formatting, attachments, and templates. Right where your tasks live. TIME TRACKING Built-in timer, no separate app needed. See where your time goes, per task or per project. —————————————————— PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data syncs through your personal iCloud. We don't store anything on our servers. Ever. NATIVE APPLE EXPERIENCE Built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Not a web app wearing a native disguise — real AppKit and SwiftUI, all the way down. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Your tasks and projects, glanceable from your home screen. CALENDAR & TEMPLATE VIEWS See your work in calendar view. Reuse common workflows with task templates. —————————————————— TRY FREE FOR 30 DAYS No credit card required. If you love it, continue for $4.99/month or $29.99/year.

About

SmallButBig

This app transforms your to-do lists into a visual timeline, helping you focus on one task at a time. It allows for detailed planning, light tracking of actual time spent, and provides honest records of your efforts, even when plans change.

Highlights
  • One task at a time scheduling
  • Three-stage planning (Someday, Date, Date & Time)
  • Lightweight time tracking
  • Honest record of actual time spent
  • Flexible task splitting and merging
  • Project management with Gantt charts
  • Habit tracking and pooled tasks
Features
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Small days add up to big dreams.  An app for anyone working toward a big dream, one small day at a time. Made by one developer, shaped by the people who use it. ■ Why I made it  Right after high school, I skipped college and worked various jobs to earn money first. Then I chose experience over money and started college relatively late. I now study economics at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea and am preparing to study in the U.S., dreaming of corporate finance on Wall Street in New York. Applying to top schools meant keeping a 3.98/4.0 GPA while managing many projects at once: assignments, volunteering, an on-campus job, tutoring low-income students, hackathons and public policy work. With so much I wanted to do and was responsible for, using each day well mattered.  But my tasks lived in a to-do app, my appointments in a calendar and my long-term goals somewhere else, so I kept switching apps to check, and things slipped through.  I needed one tool to track tasks, events, steady habits and workouts, see projects in one place from different angles, and fit it all into a timetable. So I used the coding I'd briefly done before college to build the app myself and solve my own problem.  The app my friends and I were using somehow reached 450 downloads within two weeks of its official launch, with people in Korea, Japan, the U.S., Canada, Israel and beyond using it and sending valuable feedback. Grateful and feeling responsible, I'm now on leave from school to develop it full-time. A precious chance has come, and I really want to build it well. ■ Why is the app called SmallButBig?  SmallButBig means small, but big. A day is small, but I believed no big dream comes true unless small days add up.  The icon's small checks once formed one big check; now three checks form a smiling face: an app that stays with you through small days until the day you smile. ■ Made together - Every word from the people who use the app becomes a guide for the next update. - When a bug is reported, my rule is to fix it that same day and submit it for review, so you can update the very next day. If you report it on a weekend, though, you'll get the update on Tuesday morning. - Every bit of revenue the app makes goes into developing new products and features. - Prices may also rise as the product's quality improves, but as long as you keep the subscription you first bought, you keep your first price, regardless of those increases. - If the price is a burden or you're going through a hard time, please email me at smallbutbig.app@gmail.com and tell me about your situation. - The Mac app is sold separately on the Mac App Store. ■ Requires a purchase  There is no free version. Every feature requires a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled before the period ends; cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Prices are shown on the in-app purchase screen. — Junbeom Lim Privacy Policy: https://lim394.github.io/smallbutbig-legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BetterKeeper4 screens
SmallButBig4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SmallButBig at every 3 days against BetterKeeper's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. BetterKeeper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and SmallButBig sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BetterKeeper ships an update every 4 weeks, SmallButBig every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BetterKeeper versus SmallButBig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBetterKeeperSmallButBig
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHiTech ServiceJunbeom Lim

Customer experience

BetterKeeper

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

SmallButBig

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BetterKeeper

Subscriptions2
  • Beeter Keeper Paid Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • BetterKeeper Paid Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

SmallButBig

Subscriptions2
  • Basic Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Basic Yearly$47.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$191.99

Questions

Is BetterKeeper free?
BetterKeeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SmallButBig free?
SmallButBig is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BetterKeeper or SmallButBig have ads?
Neither BetterKeeper nor SmallButBig shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BetterKeeper or SmallButBig?
BetterKeeper ships an update every 4 weeks, and SmallButBig every 3 days. Most recently, BetterKeeper was updated on October 24, 2026 and SmallButBig on October 25, 2026.

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