Comparison

ADHD Planner vs NoteThing Planner

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

Head to head
About

ADHD Planner

This app offers a structured approach to managing tasks and ideas, organizing them into distinct categories like Areas, Outcomes, and Lists. It aims to reduce overwhelm by providing dedicated spaces for different types of thinking, from fleeting ideas to actionable tasks. Built for the Apple ecosystem, it integrates seamlessly with Spotlight and Shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Hierarchical organization (Areas, Outcomes, Tasks)
  • Dedicated spaces for Ideas and Lists
  • Integrated Notes
  • Today view with customizable sections
  • Apple ecosystem integration (Spotlight, Shortcuts)
  • Focus Filters for work/life separation
Features
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A powerful, completely free planner for tasks, projects, goals, lists...your life. It's built around a simple idea: different kinds of thinking deserve different places to live. A passing idea isn't a task. A reference list isn't a project. A note from a meeting isn't something you need to "do." When everything gets dumped into one inbox as a list of tasks, it all starts to feel equally urgent and equally easy to ignore. Outcomes gives each kind of thinking its own home, organized around what you're actually trying to achieve. GIVING YOU A HELPING HAND Many people switch to-do apps time and again, often due to one or more of the following: - Their inbox overflows. - They can't keep up with all the tasks in the app. - They roll over tasks from one day to the next over and over, making their "Today" list overflowing. Outcomes helps keep things in order with the following features: - Catch Up to make processing inbox items quick and easy. - Tidy Up to quickly go through all tasks based on context, providing hints for items that might be stale. - Wrap Up to handle tasks left over at the end of the day. - Fresh Start for any tasks that are left over from previous days. BEYOND TASKS • Inbox for quick capture, with nothing to organize yet. • Ideas as a parking lot for thoughts that aren't ready to become anything. • Lists for the things that aren't tasks -- books to read, gifts to buy, restaurants to try. • Notes attached where they belong, not floating in a separate app. • Today for what you've actually committed to broken into sections that mirror your personal day. BUILT FOR THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM Outcomes is native on iPhone. No separate account required. Spotlight reaches into your outcomes, tasks, and lists. Shortcuts and the Control Center control let you capture without opening the app. Focus Filters keep work and home from spilling into each other. If you've cycled through task managers looking for one that respects the difference between an idea and an obligation, this is built for you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

NoteThing Planner

This app combines notes, tasks, goals, and reminders into a single, focused experience. It offers a rich text editor, task management with flexible recurrence, habit tracking, and smart reminders. Enjoy a unified productivity toolkit across all your Apple devices with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Rich text and Markdown editor
  • Task management with recurring options
  • Habit and goal tracking
  • Smart reminders with quiet hours
  • Cross-device sync via iCloud
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Native Mac app
Features
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Notes, tasks, goals, and reminders — together in one beautiful app. NoteThing is the productivity toolkit that replaces four apps with one. Capture quick thoughts, stay on top of deadlines, track habits over time, and never miss a reminder — from a single focused experience that works the same on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. One purchase covers every Apple device you own. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account to create. NOTES • Rich text editor with formatting toolbar • Full Markdown mode with live preview • Folders and color-coded tags for organization • Fast search across every note TASKS • Due dates with flexible recurrence (daily, weekly, monthly, custom) • Smart notifications: at time, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day before • Completed recurring tasks automatically create the next occurrence • Upcoming view rolls all your deadlines into a single timeline GOALS • Track habits daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly • Yes/No tracking or quantity goals (push-ups, miles, dollars saved) • Four display styles: checkbox, tally marks, streak counter, progress bar • Complete history with charts and momentum REMINDERS • Recurring schedules with the same flexibility as tasks • Built-in quiet hours so notifications never wake you at 2 a.m. • Pause and resume individual reminders without losing their schedule • Smart batching keeps you under the system's 64-notification limit WORKS EVERYWHERE • One Universal Purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac • iCloud sync via your own Apple Account — never our servers • Home Screen widgets in three sizes • Native Mac app with keyboard shortcuts, multi-select, and file export • Family Sharing supported HONEST PRICING • Buy once, own forever • No subscriptions, ever • No in-app purchases or paywalled features • No account to create — just your Apple Account • No ads, no upsells, no nags • Free updates for the life of the app SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into English, French, French (Canada), German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Japanese, and Korean. PRIVATE BY DESIGN NoteThing does not collect or transmit any personal data. Your content lives on your device and — if you choose — in your private iCloud. There are no servers holding your content, no analytics SDKs, and no third-party trackers in the app. Stop juggling four subscriptions. Get the calm of a single tool that does everything you need, owned outright. NoteThing is the productivity app you'll actually use.

Screenshots

ADHD Planner4 screens
NoteThing Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ADHD Planner at Free against NoteThing Planner's $2.99. ADHD Planner also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). NoteThing Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

ADHD Planner is free to download; NoteThing Planner costs $2.99 up front. ADHD Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. NoteThing Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ADHD Planner ships an update weekly, NoteThing Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
ADHD Planner versus NoteThing Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADHD PlannerNoteThing Planner
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSliver Craftworks LLCCore Dump Software LLC

Customer experience

ADHD Planner

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

NoteThing Planner

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ADHD Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Outcomes monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Outcomes annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

NoteThing Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ADHD Planner free?
ADHD Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NoteThing Planner free?
NoteThing Planner costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ADHD Planner or NoteThing Planner?
ADHD Planner and NoteThing Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ADHD Planner or NoteThing Planner have ads?
Neither ADHD Planner nor NoteThing Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ADHD Planner or NoteThing Planner?
ADHD Planner ships an update weekly, and NoteThing Planner every 2 weeks. Most recently, ADHD Planner was updated on October 5, 2026 and NoteThing Planner on October 16, 2026.

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