Comparison

Superior 15 vs Cairn

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

Head to head
About

Superior 15

This app divides your day into 15-minute segments, allowing you to log activities and categorize them. It provides visual statistics to reveal how your time is spent, promoting a new approach to productivity without complex planning.

Highlights
  • 15-minute time blocking
  • Activity logging
  • Categorization of tasks
  • Visual statistics
  • No account required
  • Simple interface
Features
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A time tracker that splits your day into 15-minute blocks. That's the whole idea. 96 blocks a day, from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. You write down what you did in each one. Nothing more complicated than that. We promise it will change the way you work, the way you doomscroll, and the way you function. Not because it nags you, but because for the first time you'll see, in plain numbers, exactly where your time goes. This is a new way to be productive. You don't plan your day. You track it, fifteen minutes at a time. (4x 15 minute blocks make an hour. A day equals 96 blocks.) HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the app, no account, no sign-up. 2. Tap any 15-minute block and type what you just did, like "deep work," "lunch," or "doomscrolling." 3. Give the block a category, like Work, Gym, or Sleep, so you can see where your time goes. 4. Did one thing for hours? Fill the whole stretch with a single category in one step. 5. Open Stats and watch your real day show up in color. Five minutes of tracking a day. That's the entire commitment.

About

Cairn

Manage tasks and notes directly within your existing Markdown files. This app offers focused views, quick capture, and robust task management features, all while keeping your data private and locally stored. It integrates seamlessly with Obsidian and other file sync services.

Highlights
  • Native Markdown task and note management
  • Works with Obsidian vaults or any folder
  • Quick capture with date, tag, and priority parsing
  • Multiple task views (Today, Upcoming, Inbox, Pool)
  • Full support for sub-tasks and recurring tasks
  • Local reminders and Live Activity integration
  • Data stays local, no cloud sync required
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Cairn is a fast, native task and note companion that lives on top of the Markdown files you already own. Point it at your Obsidian vault — or any folder of Markdown notes — and your tasks and notes appear in clean, focused views. Everything you do in Cairn is written straight back to your files as plain text, in the Obsidian Tasks format. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no Cairn cloud database — your tasks live in your own files • Cairn does not send your notes or tasks to the developer • Careful, patch-based edits change only the content you touched, preserving the rest of your note • Works alongside Obsidian, iCloud Drive, Git, or any sync you already use CAPTURE, BROWSE, AND PLAN • Browse and edit Markdown notes directly in your vault • Quick capture into your daily note, with date, tag, and priority tokens parsed as you type • Choose where longer captures are saved • Today, Upcoming, Inbox, and Pool views, plus a global filter for folders, tags, dates, priority, and status • Full support for sub-tasks and task hierarchies • Recurring tasks in Obsidian Tasks format, with safe completion handling • Convert upcoming calendar events into tasks, or mirror your dated tasks into a calendar you choose (optional) STAY ON TRACK • Local reminders for due tasks — including sunrise-relative reminders computed entirely on your device • A Live Activity keeps today's progress on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets and a Control Center quick-capture control • Search across every task in your vault MADE FOR OBSIDIAN — NOT ONLY OBSIDIAN Cairn reads and writes the Obsidian Tasks plugin format (due, scheduled, start, and done dates, priorities, recurrence, tags), so your vault stays fully compatible with your desktop setup. Don't use Obsidian? Create a plain task folder in the Files app and Cairn works as a stand-alone Markdown to-do app. Cairn asks for access only to the folder you pick. Calendar access and location (used to compute local sunrise times) are optional and processed on your device. If you choose iCloud Drive or another Files or calendar provider, that provider's own sync and privacy terms apply.

Screenshots

Superior 154 screens
Cairn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Superior 15 at 3 against Cairn's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Superior 15 against 5.0 for Cairn. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Superior 15 ships an update every 10 days, Cairn every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Superior 15 versus Cairn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperior 15Cairn
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMateo LandryYoung Hun JEONG

Customer experience

Superior 15

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cairn

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Superior 15

No in-app purchases

None

Cairn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Superior 15 free?
Superior 15 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cairn free?
Cairn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Superior 15 or Cairn?
Superior 15 and Cairn are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Superior 15 or Cairn have ads?
Neither Superior 15 nor Cairn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Superior 15 or Cairn?
Superior 15 ships an update every 10 days, and Cairn every 6 days. Most recently, Superior 15 was updated on October 4, 2026 and Cairn on October 17, 2026.

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