Chip vs Rise+

Chip is the to-do app for people who hate to-do apps. One task at a time, right on your lock screen, with distracting apps blocked until it's done. No projects. No tags. No inbox to process. No methodology to learn. Type the one thing you want to do, and start. When it's done, mark it done. That's the whole app. Chip puts your active task — your chip — on your lock screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on home-screen widgets, where you'll actually see it. Focus Mode quietly hides the apps that would pull you away. When you finish, the next chip in your queue takes its place automatically. No reorganizing. No weekly review. No tax for using the tool. WHY THIS WORKS The hardest part of most to-do list and task manager apps isn't doing the work — it's maintaining the app. Tagging, sorting, re-prioritizing, processing the inbox, keeping the system "current." That overhead is invisible until you've spent twenty minutes managing your task manager and not done a single task. Chip removes the overhead entirely. There's nothing to maintain because there's nothing to organize. One chip is active. Up to ten can queue behind it. Five routines, five scheduled reminders — caps on purpose. The structure is small so you don't end up curating it instead of using it. WHAT'S INSIDE • One chip on your lock screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on home-screen widgets • Focus Mode — an app blocker that hides distracting apps while a chip is active • Routines — recurring tasks that put a chip on your lock screen at the times you choose • Scheduled chips — one-off reminders that fire at a specific date and time • A daily planning prompt that gently asks "what's your one thing today?" • Siri Shortcuts to start a chip by voice • A 7-day chart of what you've actually done BUILT FOR ADHD BRAINS, USEFUL FOR ANYONE ADHD brains know the failure loop: install a productivity app, set it up beautifully, never open it again. The setup is the work, and the work is exhausting. Chip removes the setup entirely — an ADHD-friendly task app with zero maintenance. If you don't have ADHD, Chip is still the calm, single-tasking home for the thing that matters today. No streaks. No 47-item list. No "productivity system" demanding your attention before you've done anything. DESIGNED FOR iOS Chip lives where your attention already is — the lock screen, the Dynamic Island, the home screen. The Live Activity shows your active chip with a one-tap "done" button. Widgets in medium and large sizes let you complete chips without opening the app. Everything syncs across your iPhone and iPad through iCloud. FREE AND PRO Chip is free forever. The free tier covers the active chip loop, the queue, widgets, the Live Activity, stats, and Siri Shortcuts. Chip Pro unlocks: • Routines — recurring chips on the schedule you choose • Scheduled chips — one-off reminders at a specific date and time • Daily prompt — the morning nudge for the one thing today • Focus Mode blocking — the actual app-blocking Available as a monthly or annual subscription. Cancel anytime. Privacy: Chip stores your chips locally and syncs through your private iCloud account. We don't sell your data, run ads, or track you across the web. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your head is not the place to store your day. Rise+ is a planner built for ADHD brains — say what's on your mind and it becomes a scheduled task, meeting, event or routine, so fewer things slip. HOW IT WORKS Tap the mic and talk, or take a photo of a flyer, whiteboard or screenshot. Rise+ listens or reads, and pulls out the date, time, place and reminder. BUILT AROUND HOW YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY WORKS • Voice, text or photo capture — say it once, forget it • Tasks, meetings, events and routines together — with a one-tap filter by type • A Today view built around "right now," not a wall of everything at once • A board on Today: pin quick notes like paper on a corkboard, keep several boards, and turn any task into a note • Month view at the top of Week: see at a glance which days are full • Miss something? On a new day it loses its time and moves into Later, and a gentle prompt offers to replan it — today, tomorrow, a smaller first step, or let it go. No red "overdue," no guilt • Week view shows your real load, flags clashes before they happen, and offers to rebalance the week • Steps inside any item — say “add to the move: book the van” and it lands as a step in that item, not as a new task • Multiple reminders per item, plus real alarms that actually go off (iOS 26+) • Routines with their own alarms, repeating every day, week, month or year — a wake-up alarm, rent day, a yearly check-up • Two-way sync with your iOS Calendar; your other calendars show up too • Import your Apple Reminders lists — check something off in Rise+ and it's checked off there too • Focus sprints with Live Activity and Dynamic Island support • A "right now" Live Activity on your Lock Screen • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your next block, with one tap to capture • Think out loud: talk to Rise+ when your head is too full to sort itself, and get a short summary back • Break a task into small first steps when starting feels like the hard part • Share tasks with people via QR code, a 6-digit code, or nearby • Routine streaks and a 14-day view of the days you showed up • Profile: your last 7 days in simple charts — what you finished each day, when you flow best, routine streaks and what slipped to Later • Read my week: once a week, a short and kind note on your week with one thing to try next — after a few days of use Rise+ is built for adults who recognize themselves in ADHD patterns — remembering things that slip through, starting what keeps getting put off, keeping routines going. It is a planner, not a treatment, and it does not diagnose or replace clinical care. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy: https://apptoic.com/riseplus-policies/