Comparison

Takt vs Neat! Chore Timeline

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

Head to head
About

Takt

Track recurring life tasks like medication, chores, and plant watering with flexible intervals. Get reminders before tasks are missed and view time since last completion. Data is kept private on your device with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Flexible recurring task intervals
  • Time since last done tracking
  • Per-task reminders
  • Widgets and Apple Watch support
  • Optional iCloud sync
  • CSV export and import
  • No ads or third-party tracking
Features
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Takt is for recurring life tasks that do not happen every day: medication, chores, plant watering, filters, maintenance, and personal check-ins. Log once, see how long it has been, and get reminded before things slip. No streak pressure, no account, no ads, and no third-party tracking. WHY TAKT • Built for recurring tasks and interval reminders, not daily checklist streaks • See time since last done for every task • Log in one tap on iPhone, widgets, Apple Watch, and Shortcuts • Keep private data on your devices with optional iCloud sync COMMON USES • Medication, pills, supplements, and health check-ins • Cleaning, chores, laundry, filters, and home maintenance • Plant watering and pet care routines • Anything that repeats every few days, weeks, or months KEY FEATURES • Flexible intervals: days, weeks, months, or custom timing • Due-soon and overdue views • Per-task reminders • History with search and filters • Insights for streaks, cadence drift, and patterns • Widgets, Apple Watch, and Shortcuts • CSV export and import FREE AND PRO Takt is useful for free. Takt Pro unlocks unlimited active tasks, deeper insights, share cards, widgets, Apple Watch surfaces, and Shortcuts. Takt Pro is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring billing. Support: https://ios.dnesdan.cz/takt/ Privacy Policy: https://ios.dnesdan.cz/takt/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://ios.dnesdan.cz/takt/terms-of-use Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Neat! Chore Timeline

Features
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Your household on one timeline. Most chores aren't one-offs — they come back. A normal to-do app treats "clean the bathroom" as something you tick once and forget. Neat! is built around repetition, and around the only question that actually matters: what's due now? Free. No account. No subscription. Works offline and syncs through your own iCloud. COLOUR INSTEAD OF DATES Every chore gets a bar that drifts from green through amber to red the longer it goes undone. Green is fine. Amber means it's getting time. Red means it's genuinely been too long. You never read a date or work down a list — you just see it. THE TIMELINE • All your rooms stacked, from today out past two weeks • A full week visible without scrolling • Tick off with one tap, undo immediately • Collapse rooms, filter to one, or filter by what's late "WHAT CAN I DO RIGHT NOW?" Tell Neat! how many minutes you have and it suggests a plan that actually fits. It starts in the room that's been waiting longest, groups chores in the same room or using the same kit, and accounts for the time switching between them costs. • From five minutes to a whole morning • Knows about the vacuum, the mop, the cloth, the machine • Tick things off straight from the suggestion NOT TODAY Bad day? Swipe a chore aside with "Not today" and it moves on by one — without disturbing the underlying schedule. Ill, busy, not in the mood: that happens. The app shouldn't be the thing that holds it against you. CHECKLISTS FOR THE BIG JOBS "Clean the bathroom" isn't one tick, it's eight small ones. Give a chore a checklist and it only counts as done when everything is. Get called away halfway through and tomorrow you'll know exactly where you stopped. • Progress shows on the timeline, e.g. 3/8 • Ticks clear themselves for the next round • Cleaning the oven and the bathroom come with a checklist ready made ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The widget shows what's due today without opening the app: how much is late, how long it all takes together, and what's at the top of the list. • Small and medium for the home screen • Also a strip for the lock screen • Refreshes itself the moment you tick something ONE NOTIFICATION, NOT TEN No separate ping per task. One calm summary a day, at a time you choose, plus a weekly recap. Or no notifications at all — also fine. SEEING THAT IT WORKS The dashboard shows how much you got done this week and how long it took, with a chart per day. It also points out which chore gets forgotten most and which is furthest behind — usually a sign you scheduled it too frequently, not that you're failing. SET UP IN A MINUTE No empty screen waiting for you to type in thirty chores. Pick your rooms and Neat! fills in chores with realistic durations and frequencies. The everyday basics are already on — tick whatever else you want to track and you've started. RECURRENCE YOU CONTROL • Every few days, every week, or on fixed weekdays • Shifts with when you actually finish, or stays on a fixed schedule • Set how many days of slack each chore gets • Calendar view if you'd rather look month by month ON ALL YOUR DEVICES, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT If you're signed in to iCloud on your iPhone, Neat! syncs through your own iCloud account. Your chores come back on a new phone without you ever inventing a password for us. Not signed in, or don't want syncing? Everything carries on working locally. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU CLEAN YOUR BATHROOM That's the point. No account with us, no server, no analytics, no ads, no trackers. Syncing runs through your own private iCloud, which we can't reach. The app works in airplane mode — the internet is never a requirement. Dutch and English, switchable in the app. Dark mode that follows your iPhone. For iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Made in the Netherlands.

Screenshots

Takt4 screens
Neat! Chore Timeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Neat! Chore Timeline at none against Takt's 1. Takt's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Takt sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Neat! Chore Timeline asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
Takt versus Neat! Chore Timeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaktNeat! Chore Timeline
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAN URBANEKDejan Vermeij

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Takt

One-time1
  • Takt Pro One-Time Unlock$2.99
None

Neat! Chore Timeline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Takt free?
Takt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Neat! Chore Timeline free?
Neat! Chore Timeline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Takt or Neat! Chore Timeline have ads?
Neither Takt nor Neat! Chore Timeline shows ads.

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