ToBlock vs Murmel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ToBlock
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Your tasks and your calendar on one timeline. You plan your day โ no algorithm does it for you. Most apps keep to-dos and events apart. You end up with a long list and no idea when any of it actually happens. ToBlock gives every task a time, a duration, and a fixed place in your day. No AI rebuilding your calendar overnight: you drag the blocks where they belong, and that's where they stay. ONE TIMELINE FOR EVERYTHING Every task with a time and duration appears alongside your Apple Calendar events. Overdue items carry forward. Drag to reschedule. Tap to adjust. YOUR DAY, WITHOUT OPENING AN APP Put ToBlock on your Home Screen and see today's tasks, tomorrow's plan, and your timeline at a glance. Choose from to-do, calendar, dashboard, and progress-ring widgets. PLAN TOMORROW IN TWO MINUTES Open Plan Tomorrow and your overdue and unscheduled tasks are already waiting. Drop the ones that matter into open slots and wake up with the day decided. NEVER DOUBLE-BOOK YOURSELF Drag a task onto a busy slot and ToBlock warns you, then moves it to your next free window with one tap. ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU THINK Tasks inside projects. Sub-tasks inside tasks. Notes on anything worth keeping. Build the structure that fits your head, then collapse it to focus. Save any hierarchy as a reusable template. CAPTURE NOW, SORT LATER Get an idea, task, or note out of your head before you decide what it is. Share it from Safari or any other app, or just ask Siri. It all lands in one Inbox, ready for when you want to sort. FOLLOW UP WITHOUT REMEMBERING TO Mark a task as Waiting and give it a follow-up date. It comes back on its own, at the right time. HABITS THAT ACTUALLY STICK Turn any recurring task into a tracked habit with streaks on a visual grid and a nudge when you beat your record. Rotation mode cycles through routines โ ideal for workouts, meal plans, and study schedules. TIME ANY TASK WITHOUT WATCHING THE CLOCK Start a timer on any task and let Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep it in view. End the day with a summary of where your hours actually went. ALSO INSIDE Siri Shortcuts and Action Button ยท share from any app ยท reminders by time or location ยท Stealth mode for a quieter, distraction-free look ยท iCloud sync across your Apple devices ยท no ads, no tracking, ever. TOBLOCK PRO Start with a 14-day free trial โ full access, no commitment. After that, ToBlock Pro is $0.99/month or $9.99/year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.toblock.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Murmel
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Said, noted. Speak an idea and the entry is ready. Murmel records, writes along and files a clean entry: title, note, due date and the right category. No account, no sign-in, no subscription. Transcript and sorting run on your iPhone, with Apple's speech recognition and Apple Intelligence. TALK INSTEAD OF TYPING One tap on the microphone and you're recording. The text appears live while you speak. You can also record with the Action button, Siri, the Shortcuts app or the quick menu on the app icon. Done before the processing is? Drop the recording in the queue and keep talking. TASK, REMINDER OR IDEA, RECOGNIZED BY ITSELF Apple Intelligence sorts and phrases each kind differently: a task gets an action as its title, a reminder keeps names and numbers word for word, an idea stays as open as you said it. After recording you see the result and save it with a tap, or change it first. DUE DATES FROM WHAT YOU SAID "Next Tuesday" becomes a date. The app does the math, the model doesn't guess. TAGS THAT ARE RECOGNIZED Create a tag for a project, a person or a place once, and next time it's set automatically. RECORD ON YOUR WRIST Complication, Control button or the Watch app. If the iPhone is away, the recording waits on your wrist and goes as soon as it's back. MANY LANGUAGES Murmel understands the languages Apple's speech recognition knows on your iPhone, and you choose with a single setting. MURMEL PRO Murmel is free: unlimited recording, transcript, sorting, tags, Watch and Shortcuts. A one-time purchase, no subscription, unlocks two things: โข Your own server: your own Whisper server transcribes, on your home network or over the internet. More accurate with dialects. โข Reminders: every entry also lands in Apple Reminders, one list per kind, and the checkmark works both ways. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracker. Without your own server, no recording and no text leaves your device. With your own server, the recording goes only there, never to us. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 26, Apple Watch with watchOS 26. Apple Intelligence is recommended; without it Murmel keeps working with simpler rules. Privacy: https://murmel.bognar.net/en/privacy/ Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ToBlock at 18.0 against Murmel's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. ToBlock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Murmel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ToBlock ships an update every 4 days, Murmel weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ToBlock | Murmel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days โ better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Livia Krauss | Peter Bognar |
In-app purchases
ToBlock
- Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
Murmel
- Murmel Pro$12.99









