Ink vs TaskFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
TaskFlow
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TaskFlow is a to-do list and daily planner that helps you decide what to do first, and then do it. Type a task the way you would say it: "Call dentist tomorrow 3pm" sets the date and the time for you. TaskFlow sorts your open tasks into an Eisenhower Matrix, a built-in focus timer keeps you on one thing at a time, and a weekly review shows how your week went. EISENHOWER MATRIX • Your open tasks are sorted automatically into Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Eliminate, from their priority and due date • See at a glance what is urgent and what is important QUICK ADD IN PLAIN ENGLISH • Dates, times, priorities and categories are picked up from what you type: "tomorrow", "next week", "at 5pm", "high priority" • Subtasks, tags and notes for bigger tasks • Ready-made templates such as Morning Routine, Work Day and Weekly Review FOCUS TIMER • Pomodoro-style work and break sessions with durations you choose • Link a session to a task and watch your focus minutes add up PLAN YOUR DAY • Overdue, Today and Tomorrow at a glance, with a progress ring for today's plan • Calendar view and an hour-by-hour daily planner • Smart Lists: Overdue, High Priority, Due This Week, or your own filters by tag, priority and category • Smart Sort orders tasks by urgency (due date and priority) REVIEW YOUR WEEK • Weekly Review with a productivity score from 0 to 100, compared with last week • Statistics for completed tasks, focus time and habits HABITS AND NOTES • Simple daily habits with streaks and a heatmap • Color-coded quick notes with search REMINDERS • Reminders for individual tasks, plus an optional morning overview, evening summary and overdue alerts PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works offline, with no account and no sign-up • Your tasks stay on your device; no ads, no tracking • Export your tasks as a backup file (JSON) whenever you like TASKFLOW PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Everything above is free. Premium adds recurring tasks: • Repeat any task daily, on weekdays, weekly or monthly • Type "daily" or "every week" in quick add to make a task repeat • When you complete a repeating task, the next one is ready, with its reminder Plans (US prices; your local price is shown before you buy): • Weekly: $1.99 per week • Monthly: $4.99 per month • Annual: $29.99 per year • Lifetime: $69.99, one-time purchase New subscribers get a 7-day free trial on the weekly, monthly and annual plans. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://cinderspire.github.io/support/privacy-taskflow.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ink at every 5 days against TaskFlow's every 3 weeks. TaskFlow's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Ink sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and TaskFlow sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ink ships an update every 5 days, TaskFlow every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ink | TaskFlow |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean Trapani | Mustafa BILGIC |
In-app purchases
Ink
- Ink Monthly$4.991 Month
- Ink Annual$49.991 Year
TaskFlow
- TaskFlow Weekly Premium7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- TaskFlow Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- TaskFlow Annual Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- TaskFlow Premium Lifetime$69.99









