Comparison

BreadCrumb vs Linger

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

Head to head
About

BreadCrumb

Organize your work into projects and easily resume tasks by capturing context. This app helps you track progress, save ideas, and maintain the details needed to pick up where you left off.

Highlights
  • Organize work into projects
  • Track progress (In Progress, Up Next, Stuck, Later)
  • Capture thoughts, links, and images
  • Add details, notes, and attachments
  • Set due dates and reminders
  • Contextual assistance for next steps
Features
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BreadCrumb helps you get things out of your head, keep them organized, and pick up where you left off. Your brain doesn’t think in neatly organized task lists. You might be thinking about work, a personal project, and an appointment—all in the same breath. That’s fine. Crumb can handle it. BRAIN DUMP WITHOUT SORTING IT FIRST Speak or type whatever’s on your mind. One project, five projects, a scattered stream of thoughts—it doesn’t matter. Crumb understands the different topics you’re talking about and can turn them into organized projects, tasks, and notes. It can also help update work you’ve already started, so you don’t have to navigate through everything yourself. Review what Crumb proposes and decide what to keep. CAPTURE IT WHENEVER IT HAPPENS Thoughts don’t wait until you’re sitting in front of your task manager. Capture ideas with Siri, quick actions, or directly in BreadCrumb. Share links, screenshots, images, and selected text from other apps into your Capture inbox. Get it out of your head now. Organize it when you’re ready. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Life interrupts. Projects get put aside. Sometimes days or weeks pass before you get back to something. Smart Re-entry helps you find your place again by surfacing where you left off and what deserves your attention next. Spend less time reconstructing the past and more time moving forward. KEEP YOUR PROJECTS MOVING See your work organized by what’s Up Next, In Progress, Stuck, Later, and Done. Keep notes, attachments, due dates, reminders, and important details connected to your projects so the context is there when you need it. TAKE ACTION WITHOUT LOSING YOUR PLACE Your tasks don’t always end inside BreadCrumb. Add actions to your tasks so you’re ready to take the next step. Send a message, get directions, open a link, or run an Apple Shortcut—all from the task you’re working on. Keep the details connected to your project and move from planning to doing without losing your place. GET UNSTUCK WITH CRUMB When you’re not sure what to do next, talk it through with Crumb. It can use the context of your projects to help you find a way forward. BreadCrumb isn’t about filling your day with more tasks. It’s about making it easier to return to what matters and keep moving. Pick up where you left off. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Linger

This app places reminders directly on your lock screen, ensuring they remain visible until completed. It uses natural language processing to understand scheduling and allows for quick completion with a simple swipe. Track your progress with visual streaks and archive past reminders.

Highlights
  • Persistent lock screen reminder cards
  • Natural language reminder scheduling
  • One-gesture completion
  • Habit streak tracking
  • Reminder archiving
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable colors and dark mode
Features
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Reminders that don't go away. Every reminder gets its own card on your Lock Screen, and it stays there until you deal with it. No badge to miss, no list you have to remember to open. Swipe the card away and it's done. If you have ever closed a reminders app and forgotten the reminder existed, Linger is built for exactly that. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Type "water the plants every Tuesday at 8am" and Linger reads the schedule out of the sentence. It shows you what it understood, so nothing gets silently misread. Every repeat you'd actually want is there — daily, weekdays, every Tuesday and Thursday, the 1st of the month — without a form to fill in. FINISHING IS ONE GESTURE Swipe the card off your Lock Screen and the reminder is complete. A repeat rolls forward to its next date on its own. You never have to open the app at all. SEE WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Every reminder keeps a grid of each day you ticked it off — months of it, readable at a glance. Streaks count themselves. It's the difference between thinking you've kept something up and knowing you have. PUT SOMETHING DOWN WITHOUT LOSING IT Archive takes a reminder off your Lock Screen and out of the list, and keeps its whole history. Bring it back whenever you like and the grid comes back with it. Something archived in March and restored in August returns on its next real date, not five months overdue. YOUR REMINDERS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. What you write is a file on your device and nowhere else — there is no copy of it on any server, ours included. ALSO • A Home Screen widget, so it's there before you unlock • Fourteen colours, so a glance tells you which is which • Dark mode, lit properly rather than dimmed • A backstop notification, so a reminder can never quietly vanish FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS Linger is free to use, with one reminder on your Lock Screen at a time. Linger Plus lifts that limit — keep as many as you like, each on its own card — and is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase. The yearly plan starts with seven days free: the whole app, nothing held back. We'll remind you the day before the trial ends, so it can't turn into a charge you didn't expect. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Linger Plus is available as a monthly subscription and a yearly subscription, both auto-renewing, and as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. The price in your local currency is shown on the purchase screen before anything is charged. A subscription renews at the end of each period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before that period ends. You can turn it off at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spicelabs.app/linger/privacy/

Screenshots

BreadCrumb4 screens
Linger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Linger at every 2 days against BreadCrumb's every 2 months. BreadCrumb's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BreadCrumb sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Linger sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BreadCrumb against 5.0 for Linger. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BreadCrumb ships an update every 2 months, Linger every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BreadCrumb versus Linger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreadCrumbLinger
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVisualanti Design & Co LLCNeel Chary

Customer experience

BreadCrumb

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Linger

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BreadCrumb

Subscriptions2
  • BreadCrumb Plus$4.991 Month
  • BreadCrumb Plus$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Linger

Subscriptions2
  • Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is BreadCrumb free?
BreadCrumb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linger free?
Linger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BreadCrumb or Linger?
BreadCrumb and Linger are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do BreadCrumb or Linger have ads?
Neither BreadCrumb nor Linger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BreadCrumb or Linger?
BreadCrumb ships an update every 2 months, and Linger every 2 days. Most recently, BreadCrumb was updated on November 13, 2026 and Linger on October 31, 2026.

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