Brainee vs Sift for Reminders

Brainee is a second brain that works offline, with no account. Brain dump tasks, notes, events, files and links into one life organizer, sorted into Areas and Projects. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Open the app and start capturing. You get the structure of a big workspace app without having to build a system first. Plan a trip or keep a private journal with ready-made project types. BRAIN DUMP NOW, SORT IT LATER — Toss anything into the Inbox and move it to a project when you're ready — Share links, photos and PDFs from any app straight to a project, folder or the Inbox — Long-press the app icon to take a photo, add a task, write a note or create an event — Saved links get a preview card with title and image ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE IN AREAS & PROJECTS — Areas for the big parts of life: Work, Personal, Health, Travel, Finance, Home — Projects inside each Area, with status, due date and a progress ring — Each project keeps its Tasks, Notes, Events, Files and Links together — Nested folders and tags keep every list tidy — Linked items connect a task to its note, file or event — Re-file in seconds with drag and drop, multi-select and Move to Project TASKS, NOTES & FILES IN ONE PLACE — Tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks and multiple reminders — Recurring tasks that repeat by due date or by completion date — Rich notes with headings, lists, checklists, quotes and photos — Images and PDFs with thumbnails, a photo gallery and a PDF reader PLAN YOUR DAYS — Calendar with Day, 3-Day, Week and Month views, for all projects or just one — Upcoming: your tasks and events in one list, with search and filters by Project, Area, type and priority — Overdue and No date groups keep late and undated items in view — Home Screen widget shows what's next. Check off tasks without opening the app. — 12-hour or 24-hour time, in the app and the widget PLAN A TRIP — Trip projects come ready with an Itinerary by day, To Do, Packing list, Documents, Places, Links, Photos and Notes — Packing list with one-tap suggestions: documents & money, electronics, toiletries, clothing and more — Turn a shared map link into a Place — Pick a cover photo and watch the countdown to departure KEEP A PRIVATE JOURNAL — Journal projects hold dated entries, written with the same text styles as notes — Backdate an entry to any past day and time — Add a mood (Bright, Good, Steady, Tense or Low) and photos from your camera or library — Keep a day streak, and switch the chart between a 6-month heatmap, a month calendar and 2 weeks of mood bars — Scroll your entries as a timeline, with photos on each card, or search them all — Entries stay on your device, like the rest of your Brainee data — Switch a project between General, Trip and Journal at any time. Nothing is moved or deleted; each type just shows a different view. PRIVATE BY DESIGN — Works offline: your data lives on your device — No account, no ads, no tracking — A few extras, like link previews, trip cover photo search and purchases, need an internet connection — Dark and light mode, haptic feedback, iPhone and iPad — Available in English and Spanish FREE & PREMIUM Brainee is free to start: up to 3 Areas and 5 Projects, with limits on items per project. Premium unlocks unlimited Areas, Projects, tasks, notes, events, folders, links and Inbox items, plus files up to 100 MB and image compression. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once with Lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them. Let Brainee hold them for you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trybrainee.app/privacy

Sift is a fast triage layer on top of Apple Reminders. It uses the lists you already have, and there is nothing to migrate. Your tasks stay where they are. Sift reads and writes them through EventKit, Apple's own framework, so they remain ordinary reminders that Reminders, Siri and every other app you use can still see. Delete Sift tomorrow and Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it. THE EISENHOWER LENS Urgent against important, laid over the lists you already keep. Four quadrants, derived from a task's due date and its priority, and adjustable by hand whenever the derivation is wrong about your day. Pick the vocabulary that fits: plain verbs, the classic Eisenhower labels, or one word each. TRIAGE, NOT ANOTHER INBOX One card at a time, on the keyboard or under your thumb, until the pile is gone. Place it, snooze it, let it go. A task you are not going to do this week can be put out of sight without being deleted and without being a lie. THE DAILY REVIEW One short ritual that keeps the matrix honest, because a matrix nobody revisits is a drawing. It walks what is overdue, what has gone stale and what you are waiting on, and it ends by asking the only question that matters: what will you actually do today? RIGHT IN THE MENU BAR What is burning, one click from anywhere on the Mac, plus quick add without leaving what you are doing. ON THE PHONE The same matrix, the same quadrants, the same day. Everything a task can be doing has somewhere to be: snoozed until Tuesday, waiting on someone else, ignored until you are ready, or parked in someday. Every verb is one long press away. IT NEVER TOUCHES WHAT IT CANNOT SEE Tags, subtasks, attachments and flags are invisible to EventKit, so Sift neither shows them nor rewrites them. It never writes its own metadata into the notes field of your tasks. NO SERVER, NO ACCOUNT There is nothing to sign in to. Sift keeps a small lens beside your reminders (which quadrant a task sits in, whether it has been triaged, what is snoozed and until when, what you focused on, what you reviewed and when, the log of completed repeating occurrences, and your settings) and that lens lives in your own iCloud private database, which is how the Mac and the phone stay in step. Nobody else can read it, including us. There is no telemetry, no analytics and no advertising identifier. Free. No subscription.