JustMe. vs Rubato
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JustMe.
Capture thoughts, create reminders, and build lists privately on your device. This app uses local rules to organize your typed information without servers or tracking. Export your data anytime.
- Private journaling
- Natural language reminders
- Shopping and to-do lists
- Link saving
- Voice note recording
- Data export
- PIN and biometric security
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JustMe. is the most secure way to chat with yourself. Think of it as a private messaging app where you are the only participant. Everything stays on your device -- no servers, no cloud processing, no artificial intelligence, no tracking. Your thoughts remain yours. This is not an AI chatbot. There is no algorithm reading your messages or generating responses. JustMe uses smart local rules to turn what you type into organized, actionable information -- all without your data ever leaving your iPhone. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Chat with yourself: Type freely to capture thoughts, ideas, and anything on your mind. Your messages are stored locally and never shared. - Create reminders with natural language: Just type naturally. Write "Tomorrow at 6pm doctor appointment" and JustMe will create a reminder with the right date, time, and title. Customize advance notifications so you never miss anything important. - Build shopping and to-do lists: Type "Shopping list: bread, milk, eggs" and get an organized list instantly. Check off items as you go. - Save links from anywhere: Paste a URL directly in the chat or use the Share Extension from Safari, social media, or any other app to save links to JustMe with one tap. - Record voice notes: Tap the microphone to capture your thoughts by voice. Voice notes are saved automatically and stored only on your device. - Save important notes: Mark any message as a note you want to keep. Access all your saved notes from a dedicated section. - Slash commands for power users: Type / to access quick commands -- /reminder, /list, /link, and /note -- for precise control over how your messages are categorized. - Search everything: Find any message, reminder, list, or link instantly with built-in search across all sections. PRIVACY AND SECURITY Your privacy is not a feature -- it is the foundation. JustMe was built from the ground up with one principle: your data belongs to you and no one else. - All data is stored locally on your device. - Sign in with Apple for anonymous, secure authentication. - 4-digit PIN protection. - Face ID and Touch ID support. - No external servers. No analytics. No data collection. - No artificial intelligence processes your information. EXPORT YOUR DATA Your data is yours to take anywhere. Export messages, reminders, links, and lists in TXT or CSV format. Use the exports with any external tool or service you choose -- on your terms. PREMIUM JustMe is free to use with generous limits. Upgrade to Premium to unlock: - Unlimited reminders (free plan includes 10). - Unlimited lists (free plan includes 1). - Unlimited saved links (free plan includes 5). - iCloud backup and sync across your Apple devices. Available as monthly, annual, or lifetime plans. AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH JustMe fully supports both English and Spanish, automatically adapting to your device language. Natural language parsing for reminders and lists works in both languages. Your thoughts deserve a private space. JustMe gives you exactly that -- nothing more, nothing less. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Rubato
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. • A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. • Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. • Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. • Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. • Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. • Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). • All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. • iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. • Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a ¥0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (¥2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rubato at every 2 days against JustMe.'s every 5 days. Rubato also leads on device support (3 vs 1). JustMe.'s advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. JustMe. sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
JustMe. ships an update every 5 days, Rubato every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JustMe. | Rubato |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juan Manuel Bravo | Yujiro Yonetsu |
In-app purchases
JustMe.
- JustMe Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- JustMe Premium Annual$19.991 Year
- JustMe Premium Lifetime$49.99
Rubato
- 14-Day TrialFree
- Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99









