Comparison

nudge. vs Automation Schedule

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

Head to head
About

nudge.

This app delivers a new, small real-world challenge each week, encouraging users to step outside their comfort zones. Users can choose between 'Chill' or 'Bold' challenges, share their experiences with friends and teams, and track their progress with streaks and badges.

Highlights
  • Weekly real-world challenges
  • Choose 'Chill' or 'Bold' challenge types
  • Share experiences with photos
  • Build streaks and earn badges
  • Connect with friends and join teams
  • Team-specific challenges
Features
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nudge. gives you one small real-world challenge every week. Something you can fit into an ordinary week: at work, on campus, at the gym, around your neighborhood. Talk to the neighbor you only ever wave at. Cook something you've never made. Find out the name of the tree you walk past every day. Small things that turn into the best part of your week. HOW IT WORKS • A new nudge every Monday. Pick Chill (low-key) or Bold (you make the first move). • Do it any day before Sunday night. • Post what happened in a sentence or two, add a photo if you want, and tag who was there. • See what everyone else did this week, react, and vouch for the good ones. KEEP IT GOING • Build a streak of weeks in a row. • Your year at a glance: every week you did it, on one calendar. • Badges for milestones along the way. DO IT TOGETHER • Add friends and see their weeks. • Join a team with an invite code: a residence hall, a club, a class, a workplace. Teams get their own feed and challenges from their team leader. FREE nudge. is free for everyone. Schools and organizations that run nudge. for their groups support it. Your posts are visible to the people you choose. We never sell your data.

About

Automation Schedule

Organize and manage your smart home automations with a clear, time-ordered schedule. View, edit, and add automations directly from a visual timeline, making complex home automation easier to understand and control.

Highlights
  • Time-ordered automation view
  • Edit and add automations directly
  • Sun-based automation timing
  • Calendar view for any day
  • Supports multiple homes
  • Universal iPhone and iPad app
Features
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The missing schedule view for Apple Home. Apple Home has automations. It doesn’t have a schedule. As your home gets more automated, an alphabetical list gets harder to make sense of. Automation Schedule puts everything in time order, so you can see what’s scheduled, make changes, and add new automations. YOUR RECURRING AUTOMATIONS, IN TIME ORDER Pick a day and see every recurring automation scheduled, from morning to night. • Edit an automation, turn it off, or add a new one without leaving the list. • Disabled automations stay where they belong, dimmed but still visible. • Sun-based automations appear at the actual time they’ll run. JUMP TO ANY DAY Tap a date to see everything scheduled for that day, or add a one-off right from the calendar. One-offs stand out, so they’re easy to spot among your recurring automations. MORE ROOM, MORE SCHEDULE On iPad, the timetable opens up to the full week—every day as a column, every automation placed at the hour it fires. STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Automation Schedule talks to HomeKit directly on your iPhone or iPad. There is no account, no server, and no analytics. Your home data never leaves your device. MORE OF WHAT YOU NEED • Switch between multiple homes • See sunrise- and sunset-based automations at the actual time they’ll run • Create and edit recurring and one-off automations • Changes appear in Apple Home too • Universal across iPhone and iPad One-time purchase. No subscription.

Screenshots

nudge.4 screens
Automation Schedule4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: nudge. at Free against Automation Schedule's $4.99. nudge. also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

nudge. is free to download; Automation Schedule costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

nudge. ships an update every 5 days, Automation Schedule every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
nudge. versus Automation Schedule: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameternudge.Automation Schedule
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMichael KowalczykGross Development Co.

Customer experience

nudge.

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Automation Schedule

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

nudge.

No in-app purchases

None

Automation Schedule

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is nudge. free?
nudge. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Automation Schedule free?
Automation Schedule costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, nudge. or Automation Schedule?
nudge. and Automation Schedule are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do nudge. or Automation Schedule have ads?
Neither nudge. nor Automation Schedule shows ads.
Which is updated more often, nudge. or Automation Schedule?
nudge. ships an update every 5 days, and Automation Schedule every 3 days. Most recently, nudge. was updated on October 31, 2026 and Automation Schedule on October 31, 2026.

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