Project Manager vs Vaultlens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Project Manager
This privacy-focused project management tool offers multiple ways to organize tasks, including Kanban boards and calendars. It features a built-in Pomodoro timer for focus and real-time collaboration via iCloud. Enjoy seamless integration with popular calendar apps and hands-free control with Siri Shortcuts.
- Multiple project view modes (Kanban, Calendar, Dashboard)
- Built-in Pomodoro focus timer
- Smart Lists with saved filters
- Real-time team collaboration via iCloud
- Two-way calendar sync
- Siri Shortcuts for hands-free management
- Actionable notifications
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WorkFlow is the privacy-first project manager built natively for iPhone and iPad. Free to try for 30 days, then a single one-time purchase unlocks everything for good โ no subscription, no account, no trackers. Your data lives in your iCloud, never on our servers. TEN WAYS TO SEE YOUR WORK Board, Calendar, Gantt, Today, My Day, My Work, Inbox, Dashboard, Documents and Notepad โ pick the ones you use, put them on the tab bar in the order you like, and choose which one the app opens on. Tap the Board tab again to page through your columns; tap any other tab again to jump back to the top. A NOTEPAD THAT TURNS INTO WORK Jot it down first, sort it out later. Notes capture thoughts, links and shared text the moment they arrive; when one grows up, turn it into a task or a whole project with everything it held. A review sweep walks you through what's waiting. INBOX: EVERY CONVERSATION, NEWEST FIRST Every task with a comment thread, unread on top. Tasks with something new to read carry a badge on the board and the Inbox tab counts them. Open the thread and it clears. Comments merge safely across devices โ nothing you write gets overwritten by a sync. WORKS WITH AN AI ASSISTANT Pair WorkFlow with WorkFlow for Mac and an assistant such as Claude Code can work your tasks: read them, create projects, tick off subtasks and reply in the comments. Assign a task to it or write "@claude" in a comment from your phone โ the Mac starts a session on its own and the reply comes back as a notification on your iPhone. Only projects you haven't shared are ever in scope. Requires WorkFlow for Mac and your own assistant, sold separately. COLLABORATE IN REAL TIME Share any project through iCloud. Invite people by iMessage, email or link. See who's viewing and who's typing, assign with a tap, @mention, react with emoji โ and every action in the activity log says who did it. GANTT AND CALENDAR Your whole portfolio on a timeline with a Today marker and days-until-due on every project. Two-way sync with Apple Calendar, so a due date changed in either app changes in both. STAY FOCUSED A built-in focus timer with 15, 25, 45 and 50-minute presets and auto-cycling breaks; every minute is logged against the task. Time tracking per task. Smart nudges raise a task's priority as its deadline nears. Snooze what can wait. CAPTURE EVERYTHING Share a link or text from any app straight into a task. Attach photos, files and voice notes; annotate images in place. Subtasks with their own documents, tags, priorities, recurring tasks, dependencies, and a note pinned to the top of any card. SMART LISTS Save any combination of filters as a named list โ "Overdue", "This week", "Waiting on me" โ one tap away. MAKE IT YOURS A gallery of task card styles, custom header and tab layouts, project colours and icons. Import from CSV or Apple Reminders; export CSV or JSON. Siri Shortcuts and actionable notifications. Full VoiceOver support, dark mode and Reduce Motion. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Zero analytics. Zero trackers. Sharing uses Apple's own iCloud sharing, end to end. We can't see your tasks โ and we don't want to. EVERYTHING INCLUDED - Board, Calendar, Gantt, Today, My Day, My Work, Inbox, Dashboard, Documents, Notepad - Notepad with note-to-task and note-to-project conversion - Inbox with unread badges and safe comment merging - Works with AI assistants through WorkFlow for Mac - Real-time sharing with presence, @mentions and reactions - Focus timer, time tracking, smart nudges, snooze - Subtasks, dependencies, recurrence, tags, pinned notes - Attachments, voice notes, photo annotation, share sheet - Smart Lists, two-way calendar sync, Siri Shortcuts - CSV and JSON import/export, Apple Reminders import - Full offline support with iCloud sync Free for 30 days. One purchase after that โ every feature, every update, forever.
Vaultlens
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See what's happening inside your Obsidian vaults โ without opening Obsidian. Vaultlens is a fast, private inspector for the Obsidian vaults you keep in iCloud Drive. Point it at a vault folder and it reads the structure and metadata directly โ giving you a health score, activity trends, link maps, and signals of AI-agent editing, all computed on your iPhone. Private by design. Vaultlens has no servers, no analytics, and makes no network connections whatsoever. Your notes never leave your device. Nothing is collected, tracked, or shared โ because there's nothing to send it to. FREE โข Single-vault dashboard: file & folder counts, size, folder depth, file-type breakdown โข Most-recently-edited, last-scan time โข Activity heatmap (GitHub-style) โข iCloud sync status and .git / .obsidian detection โข Agent-activity summary and vault growth โข Link-map totals PRO โข Vault health score โ a 0โ100 read on freshness, conflicts, structure, and sync, with the full breakdown โข Multiple vaults + side-by-side comparison โข Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets โข Deep-scan link engine: word/line counts, tags, wikilink graph, orphans and broken links โข Agent signals: per-signal and edit-session breakdown, agent-vs-human classification, anomaly and conflict flags โข Shortcuts & Siri: vault summaries, rescans, and agent-config listing Works with whichever AI coding agent you use โ Vaultlens detects AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, GitHub Copilot and Cursor configuration, and surfaces only the ones your vault actually uses. SUBSCRIPTION AND PRICING Vaultlens Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription at ยฃ3.99 per month or ยฃ42.99 per year, or as Pro Lifetime, a one-time purchase of ยฃ99.99 that never renews. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://joe-heaton.github.io/vaultlens/privacy-policy.html Vaultlens is an independent, unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian (Dynalist Inc.).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Project Manager at every 2 days against Vaultlens's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Project Manager ships an update every 2 days, Vaultlens weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Manager | Vaultlens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days โ better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Opticell Limited | Joseph Heaton |
In-app purchases
Project Manager
No in-app purchases
Vaultlens
No in-app purchases









