Comparison

Terminal Journal vs ProjectBoard

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

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About

Terminal Journal

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Terminal Journal is a focused, offline-first journaling app with a retro terminal feel. Write daily entries with guided prompts, track goals and habits, and review progress with clear insights. Keep private reflections in your Vault, protected with Face ID/Touch ID/passcode. DISCLAIMER Due to the nature of the app being fully client-side and offline with zero tracking and minimal storage function, your data will be reset/lost if you delete and reinstall the app. Storage restoration features may be added in a near-future update. FEATURES โ€ข Guided and free journaling modes โ€ข Goal tracking with step progress โ€ข Habit tracking with calendar view โ€ข Insights graphs for consistency and trends โ€ข Vault for protected entries โ€ข Daily reminders and local notifications โ€ข Custom themes, fonts, and haptics โ€ข Fully offline, on-device experience PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays on your device. No account required.

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ProjectBoard

Features
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ProjectBoard โ€” projects, tasks, notes, and files in one place. Everything a project needs lives together: the tasks, the notes, the files, and the conversation. No more scattering one project across four apps. PLAN YOUR DAY, NOT JUST YOUR LIST Drag a task onto the calendar to block time for it. Let Plan My Day pack your tasks into the gaps you actually have free โ€” it reads your real calendar, so it schedules around meetings instead of pretending they don't exist. Start a focus session and work a block at a time. TASKS THAT MATCH HOW YOU THINK Subtasks for the steps. #tags across projects. Saved smart lists for the views you return to. An Inbox that catches anything you haven't sorted yet. WRITES THE BORING PARTS FOR YOU โ€” ON DEVICE Smart Fill turns a sentence into a task with the right date, project, and priority. Your Daily Brief tells you what matters this morning. Smart Inbox Triage sorts what piled up. Search understands what you meant, not just what you typed. It runs on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN A genuine Mac app โ€” split view, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts throughout. iPhone and iPad. An Apple Watch app for checking off work from your wrist. Home and Lock Screen widgets you can tap to complete a task. Shortcuts and voice for capture without opening anything. FILES WHERE YOU EXPECT THEM A ProjectBoard folder in Finder and the Files app, syncing both ways. Open documents straight in from Finder, or share them in from any app. Annotate with inline markup. BUILT FOR WORKING TOGETHER Share a project, chat alongside the work, and watch tasks and notes update live as your team moves. START FASTER Seven built-in project templates, or build your own with tasks that schedule themselves relative to your start date or deadline.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ProjectBoard at 4 against Terminal Journal's โ€”. ProjectBoard also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Terminal Journal versus ProjectBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerminal JournalProjectBoard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 months
Adsโ€”No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Devicesโ€”iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS26.218.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDANIEL NIKOLAS SZTURMRebecca Adormeh-Kwao

In-app purchases

None

Terminal Journal

No in-app purchases

None

ProjectBoard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Terminal Journal free?
Terminal Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ProjectBoard free?
ProjectBoard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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