Comparison

Tenets vs MakeYour

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

Head to head
About

Tenets

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Most planning tools optimise for output. Tenets starts with your values β€” and works backwards to what your year should actually look like. Tenets is a private, on-device life planning tool for people who want to live deliberately, not just productively. VALUES FIRST Before you plan a single goal, Tenets asks what your life stands for. Three reflective questions β€” with on-device Apple Intelligence to suggest values if you want the help β€” become the three to five principles everything else serves. Every domain you plan links back to a value, so your year is grounded in what matters, not just what's measurable. ANNUAL OKRS FOR YOUR LIFE Domains replace teams. Objectives stay ambitious. Key results stay honest. The framework that runs great organisations, applied to the one project that actually matters. A guided wizard proposes a full year structure in minutes β€” you decide what stays. A WEEKLY PULSE Ninety seconds. Energy level, a theme, values alignment, a short note β€” typed or dictated. The compound effect of staying honest with yourself, week by week. The dashboard tells you when a pulse is due; the widget keeps your progress on your desk. A MONTHLY REVIEW Rate each key result, then talk it through with the council β€” four on-device AI personas (the Auditor, the Scientist, the Witness, the Philosopher) that read your actual data and ask the questions a good coach would. Every review becomes a written record you can revisit. A LONG VIEW Time Machine shows year-over-year trends, monthly activity heatmaps, and key result history β€” the shape of your years, not just the last 30 days. IN SYNC, PRIVATELY Your plan follows you β€” Mac, iPhone, iPad β€” synced through your own private iCloud. No account with us, no server of ours, no analytics. All AI runs on-device with Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 / iOS 26; every feature has a full manual path without it). Works fully offline without iCloud, and your data is exportable as plain JSON at any time. BUILT FOR THE KEYBOARD ⌘K jumps to any domain, objective, or key result. ⌘1β€“βŒ˜5 switch views. ⌘N logs a pulse, βŒ˜β‡§R starts a review, ⌘Z undoes. Deliberate planning at the speed of thought. Now on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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MakeYour

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Stop downloading another tiny app. Make yours. MakeYour turns a sentence into a native tiny app inside one trusted iPhone app. Build trackers, checklists, calculators, reminder workflows, photo journals, live-data dashboards, ledgers, or gamesβ€”then keep and switch among them. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD β€’ Personal record collections with notes, numbers, dates, totals, completion, and reminders β€’ Task lists and local notification workflows β€’ Calculators and currency-conversion tools β€’ Credited BBC/NPR news collections with local search, topics, and bookmarks β€’ Stock and ETF watchlists with latest/delayed Twelve Data quotes and charts β€’ Income and expense ledgers with balances, budgets, and category totals β€’ Complete original platform and Snake games with touch controls and scoring β€’ Photo-first private journals and trackers using selected or captured images β€’ Latest daily FX watchlists with a chosen base currency, editable currencies, and threshold alerts β€’ Tap-initiated camera, QR/barcode/text scanning, one-time location, contact and text-file selection, today's steps, sharing, clipboard write, and haptic feedback β€’ Local voice notes with optional on-device-only transcription, editable review, and no network-recognition fallback β€’ Explicitly opted-in tiny apps that open from Apple Shortcuts or Siri through one authenticated foreground action β€’ Focused AI helpers that receive only text you explicitly review and send YOUR STYLE, NOT ONE TEMPLATE Generated apps can use different native themes, typography, backgrounds, layouts, spacing, surfaces, imagery, symbols, and colors while remaining accessible and familiar. BRING YOUR OWN OPENAI KEY Your API key is stored in iOS Keychain for this device only. AI requests travel directly from your iPhone to OpenAI. MakeYour does not operate an account or proxy server and never puts your key in a project file or prompt. Market Pocket includes AAPL demo access. Other symbols can use an optional Twelve Data key stored in the device-only Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Projects, records, bookmarks, watchlists, ledgers, voice notes, accepted transcripts, and selected or captured results stay on your iPhone. Device access starts only after you tap, scanned URLs are not opened automatically, and there is no background audio, speech, location, or motion monitoring. Speech transcription requires an available on-device language model and never falls back to network recognition. Sharing leaves MakeYour only after you choose a destination in Apple's share sheet. Before an in-app AI request, MakeYour shows the exact task and text that will be sent. An accepted transcript may become editable text, but its audio is never attached. Photos, records, other apps, and device data are not attached automatically. When generated versions include the visible Shortcuts access block, Apple's dynamic picker receives only opted-in tiny apps' stable IDs, display names, and validated icons. The fixed action requires local device authentication and opens MakeYour in the foreground. It receives no prompt, state, photos, voice notes, provider keys, or generated automation code. Removing the block or deleting a tiny app revokes that app's listing. SAFE NATIVE RUNTIME AI does not download or execute Swift, JavaScript, plug-ins, or arbitrary code. It creates a validated declarative app document. MakeYour renders that document using precompiled native SwiftUI components and a fixed capability allowlist. Network components use only fixed, precompiled providers: Frankfurter for latest daily FX reference rates, BBC/NPR for credited RSS feeds, Twelve Data for latest/delayed market data, and OpenAI for user-authorized AI. Market and currency values are not guaranteed real-time and are not financial advice. Camera capture, live scanning, pedometer data, and meaningful haptic feedback require supported physical iPhone hardware. Unsupported devices and Simulator show an honest unavailable state.

Screenshots

Tenets4 screens
MakeYour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tenets at 3 against MakeYour's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Tenets versus MakeYour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenetsMakeYour
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.118.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDamian SpendelWang LongWei

In-app purchases

None

Tenets

No in-app purchases

None

MakeYour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tenets free?
Tenets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MakeYour free?
MakeYour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tenets or MakeYour have ads?
Neither Tenets nor MakeYour shows ads.

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