Taco vs Ink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Taco
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Taco is a focused task manager built around weekly planning and priorities — not endless lists. Instead of overwhelming you with everything at once, Taco helps you decide what matters this week with a simple P1/P2/P3 priority system. One task per priority level. That's it. Focus on what's important. Weekly Planning Plan your week with intention. Assign tasks to this week or next, set a weekly objective, and switch between Planning and Focus modes to see your work the way you need to. P1 / P2 / P3 Priorities Pick your top 3 tasks for the week. P1 is your current focus, P2 is up next, P3 is after that. When you finish P1, everything cascades up automatically. Projects Organize tasks into projects. Share projects with teammates and collaborate in real time. Set project schedules to show or hide projects based on the day and time. Goals & Reflections Track yearly goals with progress indicators. Add reflections to look back on what you've accomplished. Quick Add Capture tasks fast with the quick-add bar. Add multiple tasks at once without leaving your flow. Customization Choose from built-in color themes or create your own. Switch between light and dark mode. Adjust corner radius to match your style. GitHub Integration Link repositories to projects and connect pull requests to tasks for a seamless developer workflow. Privacy First Your task content is encrypted. Passwordless login via email OTP or Google Sign-In. No passwords to remember or leak.
Ink
Transform spoken words into organized notes and lists with AI-powered transcription and editing. Features include collaborative sharing, customizable shelving, and multiple daily planning views. Print beautifully formatted documents and track your productivity habits.
- Voice-to-text transcription
- AI-powered editing
- Collaborative list sharing
- Customizable shelves for organization
- Multiple daily planning views
- Printable notes and lists
- Productivity statistics tracking
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Ink turns your voice into finished notes and lists. No re-typing, no cleanup. Tap the microphone, speak naturally, and watch your words land as a clean list, a note, or a tidy paragraph. Ink shapes the transcript while you watch, so you see the result before it's saved. WHAT'S INCLUDED, WHAT'S PRO Notes, to-dos, reminders, repeats, links, shelves, Markdown export, and iCloud sync are free, no account required. Pro adds dictation with AI formatting, file import, your own templates, version history, a focus timer, ledger mode, the richer copy formats, shared lists, Today layouts you can arrange, font packs, accent colors, and paper tones. Your 14 days of Pro don't begin when you install. They begin the first time you open something Pro, so the two weeks are two weeks you spend. EARLIER VERSIONS OF EVERY PAGE Ink keeps a version of a page as you leave it. Read last week's draft beside today's, lift a paragraph back out, or bring the whole thing back as a new page, which leaves everything you have written since where it is. Stored on your device, the newest 50 per page. THE INDEX AT THE BACK OF THE NOTEBOOK Every unfinished checkbox scattered through your notes, gathered on one page. Every passage you marked, on another. Check something off and it leaves the index on its own. Nothing to file, nothing to keep tidy. TEMPLATES FOR THE THINGS YOU DO AGAIN Turn a list you already keep into one you can run again. Ink clears last time's checkmarks and amounts, then asks for a name and a date, so "book transport seven days before" lands on the right day this time. PULL THE WORDS OUT OF A FILE Send a PDF, a document, or a photo of a page to Ink, or tap + and choose Import, and it reads the words into a note. Ink keeps the words, not the file. Scans and photos are read on your device, so nothing is sent anywhere. ON YOUR WRIST Ink on Apple Watch shows what's due and lets you check it off without reaching for your phone. Put the next thing on your watch face and it's there at a glance. ASK SIRI, WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Say "Add an item to Ink" or "Show my Ink today" and it happens. Every action works in Shortcuts and on the Action Button, and your notes turn up in Spotlight. DATES YOU CAN JUST TYPE Write "Dentist Friday 4pm" or "rent next week" and Ink reads the date and leaves the title clean. A chip shows what it heard, so you can wave it off and keep your exact words. DESIGNED LIKE A BOOK, NOT AN APP Ink draws from print: warm cream paper, ink-dark serif type, the editorial details of well-made books. Four Today layouts to open to, from a newsprint spread to a magazine front page. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU MEAN IT Bold, italic, strikethrough, underline. Section headers. Checklists inside a note, tap a line to check it off. REMINDERS, ONLY IF YOU ASK One quiet notification on the day something is due, at the time you choose. Off by default. Set an item to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly and it comes back on its own. A TIMER FOR SITTING DOWN TO WORK Set 15, 25, 45, or 60 minutes and Ink keeps a quiet countdown, then sounds a soft chime you choose. SHARE A LIST, KEEP IT IN SYNC Invite another Ink user by email. Check off, add, reorder, even dictate, and both copies stay in sync. A quiet byline shows who added each item. LISTS THAT KEEP A LEDGER Flip a list into Ledger mode and it keeps score. Type signed amounts (+$25, -$10, +200) and Ink totals each section, then the whole list. BRING IT WITH YOU, OR TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE • Import PDFs, HTML, rich text, Markdown, plain text, and photos of a page • Copy any note or list as Markdown, or as plain text, HTML, or rich text with Pro • One-tap JSON backup and one-tap restore • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac • Universal purchase, buy once, use everywhere Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Taco at none against Ink's 2. Taco also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Ink's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price 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
Both are free to download. Ink sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Taco asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Taco | Ink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naser Haddad | Sean Trapani |
In-app purchases
Taco
No in-app purchases
Ink
- Ink Monthly$4.991 Month
- Ink Annual$49.991 Year









