Brain Dump vs JOT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Dump
This app helps you utilize small pockets of time by intelligently suggesting tasks based on your available time, energy, and location. It uses AI to sort your thoughts into actionable items, eliminating the need for manual organization.
- Voice and text input with AI sorting
- Intelligent task suggestion based on context
- AI-powered daily planning
- Auto-generated next steps
- Deadline-aware task view
- Home screen widget and Control Center integration
- iCloud sync across devices
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``` Stop staring at your to-do list trying to decide what to do next. Sukima is the app that picks one thing for you, in the moment you're in. When you have a 15-minute gap between meetings, an hour at home before bed, or a quiet morning before the day starts, Sukima tells you what to do with it. Based on your time, your energy, and where you are. HOW IT WORKS Get everything out of your head, by voice or by text. Sukima's AI sorts it once into tasks, projects, goals, and ideas, with priorities, deadlines, and next steps. Then, forever after, it picks what fits the moment you're in. WHAT MAKES SUKIMA DIFFERENT Every other productivity app asks you to organize first. Pick categories. Choose a methodology. Tag everything. Sukima inverts that. You tell it everything once, the AI sorts for you, then when your brain is loud and you can't decide what's next, Sukima decides for you. No system to learn. No methodology to master. No setup ritual. THE NAME Sukima (隙間) is the Japanese word for the small breathing-room gap between things. The pause. The interval. The whole app is built around one insight: you have more usable time than you think, scattered through your day in small windows. The right tool helps you find those gaps and fill them, without making you build a system first. FEATURES - Voice and text capture (AI sorts what you say or type) - "Pick" tab picks one thing based on your time, energy, and location - AI daily planning each morning - Auto-generated next steps for every item - Deadline-aware Today view - Home Screen widget and Control Center tile - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, web PRICING Free to start. $9.99/month or $79.99/year for unlimited AI sorting, unlimited Picks, and AI daily planning. Sukima. The app that picks for you, when you can't. SUBSCRIPTION Sukima Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. Monthly and annual plans are available, with the price and length shown on the product page before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, and the subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://sukima.ai/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
JOT
This app helps you focus on completing one important task each day, aligned with your long-term goals. It guides you to set daily priorities based on your core objectives and tracks your progress with visual feedback.
- Set one daily task
- Define three core quarterly pillars
- Prioritized backlog with a cap
- Contribution-style progress heatmap
- Customizable daily reminders
- Private by design, no account needed
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JOT stands for Just One Thing — and that's exactly what you get. One to-do per day. Not a list. Not a system. One thing that actually matters. Most to-do apps help you collect tasks. JOT helps you finish the one that counts. HOW IT WORKS • Set three Core Pillars — the things you're actually working toward this quarter, like "Ship my side project," "Run a half marathon," or "Be present with my family." • Each morning, set your JOT: one task, usually serving one of your pillars (or the built-in Chores & Errands, because life happens). • Do it. Mark it done. That's the whole app. ALWAYS IN SIGHT A home-screen widget shows today's JOT at a glance — and gently asks for one when you haven't set it. Done for the day? The widget says so. PILLARS THAT KEEP YOU HONEST Your three pillars can only be changed once per calendar quarter — a deliberate constraint that forces you to commit to what matters instead of reshuffling your priorities every week. Past quarters are kept as history, so you can see how your focus has evolved. A BACKLOG WITH A POINT OF VIEW Ideas for future days go in the backlog, ordered by priority — and it's capped at ten. If you have more than ten todos, they were probably never getting done anyway. Pull one in with a tap whenever you're picking your day's JOT. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY A contribution-style heatmap shows every day you followed through, with streaks and a per-pillar breakdown each quarter. Tap any pillar to see exactly what you did and when — or slide back through past days right on the dashboard, and check off something you finished but forgot to record. REMINDERS THAT KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP Three daily nudges at times you choose. Haven't set a JOT? It reminds you to set one. Set but not done? It nudges you to finish. Done? Silence. You've earned it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics. No servers. Your data lives on your device and syncs quickly across your devices through your own iCloud — we never see it, because there's nothing for us to see it with. One thing a day, pointed at what matters. That's JOT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JOT at 5.0 against Brain Dump's 4.5. JOT also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Brain Dump's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Brain Dump sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. JOT asks for nothing beyond the download.
JOT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Dump has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Brain Dump ships an update weekly, JOT fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Dump | JOT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | J&B Creations LLC | Seven Six Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Brain Dump
JOT
In-app purchases
Brain Dump
- Sukima Pro$6.991 Month
- Sukima Pro$7.997 Days
- Sukima Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Sukima Pro$49.991 Year
- Sukima Pro Annual$79.991 Year
JOT
No in-app purchases









