Comparison

Duelight vs Manabuild

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

Head to head
About

Duelight

Capture, organize, and visualize your tasks with voice or text input. Utilize tags and priorities to structure your to-do list, all displayed on an interactive canvas. Seamlessly syncs across all your devices for unified task management.

Highlights
  • Task capture via voice or text
  • Organize with tags and priorities
  • Interactive canvas visualization
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Smart task management
Features
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Duelight helps you capture, organize, and visualize your tasks. Create tasks with voice or text, organize with tags and priorities, and see everything on an interactive canvas. Syncs across all your devices.

About

Manabuild

Features
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Manabuild turns your workbooks and textbooks into daily tasks so you can finish them on schedule. Just enter how much a material covers and when you want to finish it, and Manabuild works out what to study today. - Know what to do today, the moment you open the app • See today's range for each material (for example, Q25–Q33) • Daily amounts are worked out backward from your deadline • Amounts are recalculated as you make progress • Weekday weights, holidays, and pause periods are taken into account • Tap the circle to mark a task done, or log just the amount you finished - Review at the right time, automatically • Ranges you studied come back on Today after set intervals (1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days by default) • Change the intervals and the number of reviews as you like - Keep each material on pace • Scan a barcode to fill in the title and cover automatically • Set amounts per chapter, the number of rounds, and the unit (questions, pages, words, and more) • See progress, deadline, and study time at a glance • Organize materials by subject - See the road to your goal • Add goals such as exams with their dates, and link materials to them • See the days left and the achievement rate for each goal - Pomodoro timer • A Pomodoro timer with focus, break, and set count, plus a count-up timer • Time remaining also appears on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • A vibration lets you know when focus and break switch • When you finish, log how far you got and it is added to your study time - Watch your progress build up • Days recorded and your current streak • A grid of the days and hours you studied • Monthly study time and progress by goal and subject - And more • Check and fix past records on the calendar • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Morning and evening reminders (each can be turned off) • Automatic backup to iCloud, so you can restore your data on a new iPhone or after reinstalling • No account needed • Available in Japanese and English, with Dark Mode support - About the Supporter Plan All study features are available without a subscription. Subscribing to the Supporter Plan (an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription) removes the ads in the app. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account. • The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • You can cancel at any time in the iPhone Settings app: your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aidi1206.github.io/manabuild-privacy/

Screenshots

Duelight4 screens
Manabuild4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Duelight at none against Manabuild's shown. Manabuild's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Duelight ships an update every 6 days, Manabuild every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Duelight versus Manabuild: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuelightManabuild
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFaraz sharafiTADAMUNE ITO

In-app purchases

None

Duelight

No in-app purchases

None

Manabuild

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Duelight free?
Duelight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Manabuild free?
Manabuild is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Duelight or Manabuild have ads?
Manabuild shows ads; Duelight does not.
Which is updated more often, Duelight or Manabuild?
Duelight ships an update every 6 days, and Manabuild every 5 days. Most recently, Duelight was updated on October 31, 2026 and Manabuild on October 31, 2026.

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