Comparison

Just Today vs Thicket

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

Head to head
About

Just Today

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Stop managing your to-do list. Start finishing one thing! Just Today is the anti-productivity app. Instead of giving you more ways to organize your chaos, it strips everything down to one simple question: What's your one thing today? HOW IT WORKS Pick one task each morning. Choose when you want to do it. When it's time, we'll send you a gentle nudge. Complete your task, snap a proof photo, and reflect on how it felt. That's your day. Done. Build a 7-day streak and unlock a second daily task. Keep going to unlock a third. Miss a day at a higher level? You go back down. Not as punishment โ€“ because doing one thing well is always better than doing three things poorly. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT One task at a time. You can't add ten things and stress about all of them. The constraint is the feature. Pick your time. Morning, Afternoon, Evening, or custom. We remind you when it's time to start, not when it's too late. Up Next. Capture ideas for tomorrow without cluttering today. Pick from your running list each morning or add something new. Proof of completion. A photo or screenshot that says "I actually did this." More honest than a checkbox. Mood reflections. After completing your task, log how you felt. Over time, see what kind of tasks energize you. Your Journey. Look back at your calendar of completions. Every green dot is a day you showed up. No failure states. Missed a day? "Tomorrow's a fresh start." No red marks, no guilt, no streaks lost with shame. DESIGNED TO FEEL DIFFERENT Warm cream backgrounds, amber accents, and sage green completions. Just Today feels like a deep breath, not a dashboard. Every screen is designed to reduce anxiety, not create it. YOUR PRIVACY, COMPLETELY No account required. No server. No analytics. No ads. Everything lives on your device. Your tasks, your moods, your journey โ€“ all yours. Built for busy professionals, students, parents, and anyone who's tired of never feeling like they've done enough. Some days, one thing is everything.

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Thicket

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Plant a tree and leave your phone alone. Lock it, pocket it, put it face down โ€” the tree keeps growing. Open something else and it dies. That is the whole idea, and it works because the stake is real. WHAT GROWS Every finished session becomes a tree in your grove. Days fill up, months fill out, and a year of attention turns into somewhere you can actually look at. Twenty species across six regions, and you cannot buy a single one. Each is earned by focusing โ€” some by total hours, some by finishing long sessions, some found by chance in the ones over ninety minutes. Your trees, your garden, all of it earned. Pinch a grove to look closer. Everything is drawn again as you go, so it stays sharp all the way in, and the shapes you earned are worth looking at. A GARDEN YOU ARRANGE Seeds come from finishing sessions, and they buy things to put in your grove โ€” a bench, a pond, a fire pit, a deer that only visits a forest left alone. Eighteen of them. A thing you place belongs to the day you placed it, so every grove ends up different, and you can buy the same bench again next week for another day. Hold anything to pick it up and move it wherever you like. It stays where you put it. THE APPS THAT ALWAYS WIN Pick the ones you cannot be trusted around. While a tree is growing they do not open, and the moment the session ends โ€” finished or given up on โ€” they open again. No schedules, no standing block, nothing left switched on behind you. You choose them in Apple's own picker, which means Thicket is never told which apps you picked. It only knows how many. Free, like everything else here that matters. DAY AND NIGHT After dark the grove gets a moon, stars and moonlight on the leaves. Not a dark mode โ€” a time of day. It follows your phone, or you can hold it at night all day if you like. LOCKING YOUR PHONE IS FOCUSING Most focus apps cannot tell putting your phone down apart from picking up another app. Thicket can. A locked screen is exactly what it asks of you, so nothing is lost. Wandering into another app is what it is there to stop โ€” and you get a warning with time to come back. QUIETLY BUILT ยท No account, no sign-up, no server ยท No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind ยท Backup to your own iCloud, so losing a phone is not losing a year ยท Your whole history and every statistic, free forever THE FULL VERSION Free gives you the timer, deep focus, app blocking, the lock screen timer, all your statistics, iCloud backup, and four species to plant. The full version opens the rest of the catalogue: all twenty species, all six regions, the whole garden. You still earn every one of them by focusing โ€” buying opens the catalogue, it never plants a tree for you. Thicket is made by one person. If something is wrong, write in and a real person answers. Privacy Policy: https://urosgruber.github.io/thicket/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Just Today4 screens
Thicket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Just Today at none against Thicket's 3. Thicket's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Thicket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Just Today asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Just Today ships an update every 2 weeks, Thicket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Just Today versus Thicket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJust TodayThicket
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size38 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKanishka AnandUros Gruber

In-app purchases

None

Just Today

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Thicket

Subscriptions2
  • Thicket Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Thicket Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Thicket Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Just Today free?
Just Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thicket free?
Thicket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Just Today or Thicket have ads?
Neither Just Today nor Thicket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Just Today or Thicket?
Just Today ships an update every 2 weeks, and Thicket every 3 days. Most recently, Just Today was updated on October 25, 2026 and Thicket on October 9, 2026.

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