Comparison

SoBusy vs Tertiary Planner

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

Head to head
About

SoBusy

Features
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SoBusy is a focused day planner designed to help you organize your time with clarity. Plan your schedule on a clean daily timeline, scan your month at a glance, and keep important events and tasks easy to find. Whether you are managing work, personal routines, or both, SoBusy keeps planning simple and structured. Features: • Daily timeline for clear schedule planning • Monthly calendar view for broader visibility • Built-in to-dos with overdue tracking and daily organization • Recurring events and routines • Favorites for quick access to important events • Tags for better organization • Smart alerts, reminders, and time-to-leave notifications • Event notes, locations, and attachments • Birthdays from your contacts and regional holiday calendars • Apple Calendar sync for seamless two-way integration • Backup and restore support SoBusy is built for people who want a planner that feels straightforward, flexible, and easy to use every day.

About

Tertiary Planner

Features
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Tertiary Planner is a fast, private to-do and planner app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Type or speak what you need — "Lunch with Sam tomorrow at 1pm" — and the on-device assistant words it nicely and saves it as an appointment or a to-do, straight into your list. On supported devices it uses Apple Intelligence, running entirely ON DEVICE, to understand your intent and word your items clearly. On other devices the same on-device parsing (Apple's Natural Language and Speech frameworks) does the job. Either way, nothing you type or say ever leaves your device to any third party. FEATURES • One Planner page with To-Do and Appointment tabs, each filterable by your lists • Capture bar at the bottom — type or dictate, and the assistant drafts and saves the entry; Undo reverts it • Apple Intelligence on-device intent understanding (with an on-device fallback) • Voice capture using native iOS speech recognition • Your own lists and sub-lists — create, rename, pin, reorder and nest them • Assign items to people; items added in someone's list go to that person • To-Do priorities — Critical, High, Medium or Low; Critical and High are pinned automatically • Pin anything to the top; drag to rearrange everything by hand • Smart views: All Tasks, Pinned, Today and Upcoming show your own queue • Upcoming — everything with a date, broken down by day, with anything overdue on top • Calendar — a month view with each day's appointments written into the day, plus a List view • Meeting links — paste a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams link and tap Join on the appointment • Singapore public holidays marked on the calendar • Today's appointments — a morning summary and an alert just before each appointment starts • Advance reminders — a notification before anything with a date is due (1, 3 or 7 days ahead) • Optional mirror of appointments into your system Calendar (EventKit only) • Search across titles, notes, assignee and list names • Duplicate check — spots the same title on the same day and offers to archive the extras • Check off an item and it is automatically archived; restore anytime • iCloud sync — your items stay up to date on every device signed in to your iCloud • Light, Dark or System appearance, with a choice of accent colours PRIVACY Your data belongs to you. All intelligence runs on your device. Items are stored on your device and synced only through your personal, private iCloud database, which only you can access — we never see your data. No third-party AI services, no accounts, no tracking. Developed by Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd.

Screenshots

SoBusy4 screens
Tertiary Planner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tertiary Planner at every 2 days against SoBusy's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SoBusy ships an update every 2 weeks, Tertiary Planner every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
SoBusy versus Tertiary Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoBusyTertiary Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikita EgererAlfred Ang

In-app purchases

None

SoBusy

No in-app purchases

None

Tertiary Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SoBusy free?
SoBusy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tertiary Planner free?
Tertiary Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SoBusy or Tertiary Planner have ads?
Neither SoBusy nor Tertiary Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SoBusy or Tertiary Planner?
SoBusy ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tertiary Planner every 2 days. Most recently, SoBusy was updated on October 7, 2026 and Tertiary Planner on October 17, 2026.

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