Comparison

NICE vs Parallelife

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

Head to head
About

NICE

This app helps you build reliable habits with local data storage and no account requirements. It offers features like editing, pausing, resuming, and undoing habit completions, with customizable notifications.

Highlights
  • Edit existing habits
  • Pause and resume habits
  • Undo accidental completions
  • Local notifications
  • Multi-habit selection
  • Widget integration
Features
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NICE 1.0.1 is a reliability and habit-management update. No account, sign-in, server connection, analytics SDK, advertising, or in-app purchase is used. All habit data remains in the local SwiftData store shared with the widget through the app group. What changed: • Users can edit an existing habit without deleting its completion history. • Users can pause and resume a habit. Paused days are displayed as rest days and are not counted as failures. • Local notifications are refreshed when the app opens or a habit changes. • Completing a habit removes its remaining reminders for that day while preserving future reminders. • Widget completion state now changes correctly when the calendar day changes. • Multi-habit selection and completion are separate actions. • Accidental completions can be undone. • The previously shown “pinned lock-screen” penalty has been removed because the app cannot programmatically pin a widget. Suggested review flow: 1. Create a habit and allow notifications. 2. On the Today screen, tap Edit to change its action, deadline, persona, intensity, or penalty. 3. Tap Pause, then Resume. 4. Mark the habit complete and use the undo option. 5. Add another habit to review the multi-habit selection and completion controls. Notification content and timing vary according to the selected persona, deadline, and intensity. Notifications are generated locally. No special account or review credentials are required.

About

Parallelife

Transform your to-do list into a personalized game. Build custom growth systems, run your own virtual shop, and earn rewards for completing real-world tasks and focus sessions. Track long-term achievements and customize your experience with themes and multiple profiles.

Highlights
  • Gamified task management
  • Customizable growth systems
  • Virtual shop with rewards
  • Focus session timer (Pomodoro)
  • Long-term achievement tracking
  • Multiple profile support
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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ParallelLife — Turn Your Life Into a Game You Designed Tired of plain, lifeless to-do lists? ParallelLife is a gamified task manager that lets you build a fully customizable "second life" while getting real things done. Tasks, Your Way: Create tasks with tags, priorities, and repeat rules (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly, or even "restart immediately on completion"). View your schedule in five calendar modes — Day, 3-Day, Week, Month, and Year. Build Your Own Growth System: Custom attribute bars, level curves, rarity tiers — you define every rule of this world. Complete a focus session (Pomodoro, countdown, or count-up) and earn the "coins" or attribute growth you designed for yourself. Run a Shop That's Entirely Yours: Stock your shop with items you create: in-game props that interact with attributes and levels (triggering effects, unlocking requirements, timed buffs), or real-world rewards for yourself — a bubble tea, an episode of your favorite show, a break you've earned. Spend the coins you earn through focus sessions to buy them, turning self-discipline into a rewarding kind of "shopping." Long-Term Achievements, Lasting Motivation: Set long-term goals — tasks completed, focus time logged, streaks kept, levels or attributes reached — tracked automatically across daily/weekly/monthly/yearly cycles, with built-in rewards that make your progress visible. A Space That's Truly Yours: Customize your theme color and wallpaper, and switch between multiple profiles to keep work, study, and life separate — all synced across your devices via iCloud.

Screenshots

NICE4 screens
Parallelife4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NICE at none against Parallelife's 1. Parallelife's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Parallelife sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NICE asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NICE against 5.0 for Parallelife. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NICE ships an update every 4 months, Parallelife every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
NICE versus Parallelife: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNICEParallelife
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB18 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKihyun Choi一帆 王

Customer experience

NICE

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Parallelife

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NICE

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Parallelife

One-time1
  • Pro Account$9.99

Questions

Is NICE free?
NICE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parallelife free?
Parallelife is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NICE or Parallelife?
NICE and Parallelife are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do NICE or Parallelife have ads?
Neither NICE nor Parallelife shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NICE or Parallelife?
NICE ships an update every 4 months, and Parallelife every 4 days. Most recently, NICE was updated on October 31, 2026 and Parallelife on October 31, 2026.

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