Comparison

Recursa vs Relay GTD

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

Head to head
About

Recursa

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Life returns. You're ready. Recursa helps you track recurring family obligations โ€” from dentist visits to passport renewals โ€” so nothing falls through the cracks. KEY FEATURES โ€ข Horizon-Based Planning Organize tasks by time horizons (Today, This Week, This Month, This Quarter) instead of rigid due dates. Life is fuzzy โ€” your task manager should be too. โ€ข Family-Centric Track obligations per family member. Know exactly when each person's passport expires or when their next checkup is due. โ€ข Quick Capture Inbox Capture tasks instantly, then process them later. GTD-inspired workflow keeps you focused. โ€ข Smart Categories Organize by Health, Documents, Home, Finance, and more. Create custom categories that fit your life. โ€ข Calendar Sync Optionally sync obligations to Apple Calendar for a unified view of your schedule. โ€ข Privacy-First All data stored locally on your device. Optional iCloud sync keeps your data private and secure โ€” no accounts, no servers, no tracking. โ€ข Beautiful Design Warm, calming interface designed to reduce anxiety around life admin. Dark mode included. PERFECT FOR โ€ข Busy parents managing family schedules โ€ข Anyone tracking recurring appointments โ€ข People who want a calmer approach to life admin โ€ข GTD practitioners looking for a family-focused tool Recursa is free with no ads, no subscriptions, and no data collection. Your family's information stays on your device.

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Relay GTD

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Relay is a complete task, project and goal management app built for Getting Things Done. CAPTURE ANYTHING, ANYWHERE Type it into the app, share to Relay from any app's share sheet on iPhone and iPad, press Control+Option+N on a Mac to capture over whatever you are working in, or forward an email to your own private Relay address. Everything lands in the Inbox and waits there until you decide what it is. CLARIFY, THEN ENGAGE A short step-through turns each item into a next action, a project with a defined outcome, something you are waiting on, a Someday/Maybe item, reference, or something to drop. Engage then shows what you can do now, filtered by where you are, how much time you have, and whether you have the energy for it. GUIDED REVIEWS The weekly review is where most systems quietly fail, because it depends on remembering to check everything. Relay turns it into a wizard that walks you through clearing the Inbox, updating each project and checking your higher horizons, one step at a time. Trigger lists run you through the ordinary categories people skip, so open loops surface instead of staying in your head, and a five-minute daily review shapes each day. HORIZONS, NOT JUST A LIST Relay models the altitudes above the ground floor: the areas you are responsible for, the goals you are working towards, and the vision and purpose above them. A next action belongs to its project, and the project can link up to the goal or area it serves, so you can see what a piece of work is for and notice when a whole area has gone quiet. SHARED WORKSPACES A shared workspace is for a family, a couple or a small team: up to ten people, each with a Relay account of their own, invited with a link or by email. Delegate a task to someone: it lands in their Inbox and waits in your Waiting For. Each shared workspace has its own Agenda and a shared review. Comments on any item keep the discussion with the task. WIDGETS On iPhone and iPad, put a Relay list such as Inbox, Next Actions or your Soft Landscape on the Home Screen, tick something off without opening the app, or tap to capture. On a Mac, add a widget for Inbox, Next Actions, Soft Landscape, Scheduled, Waiting For or Projects. Widgets need iOS 17 or macOS 14. WORKS WITH THE APPS YOU ALREADY HAVE Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Todoist, Notion and Linear. Your calendar sits beside today's actions, and tasks you keep elsewhere come across without being retyped, into your Inbox first. ON EVERY DEVICE Relay runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Windows and on the web, on one account. Sign in with Google to use one account on every device; Sign in with Apple works everywhere except the Windows app. AI THAT WAITS TO BE ASKED Ask and it helps you clarify. It questions a vague capture, says when something you wrote as a task is really a project, and holds a project's "done when" to a standard someone else could check. It never writes your next actions for you, never rewrites your words, and reads nothing unless you ask. SUBSCRIPTION Relay is a paid product, and every account gets the whole app. New accounts get 30 days free, with no card needed, starting when you choose. After that, pay monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel yours on iPhone or iPad in Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions; on a Mac, in the App Store app, under your account. Terms of use: https://relaygtd.com/terms Privacy policy: https://relaygtd.com/privacy Getting Things Done and GTD are registered trademarks of the David Allen Company. Relay is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the David Allen Company.

Screenshots

Recursa4 screens
Relay GTD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recursa at none against Relay GTD's 2. Relay GTD's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Relay GTD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per month. Recursa asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Recursa versus Relay GTD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecursaRelay GTD
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViesturs ProskinsMichael Fraser Buffini

In-app purchases

None

Recursa

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Relay GTD

Subscriptions2
  • Relay Monthly1 Month trial$7.001 Month
  • Relay Yearly1 Month trial$50.001 Year

Questions

Is Recursa free?
Recursa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Relay GTD free?
Relay GTD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recursa or Relay GTD have ads?
Neither Recursa nor Relay GTD shows ads.

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