Comparison

Anticipāt vs Zoro.

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

Head to head
About

Anticipāt

This app helps you visualize and count down to important upcoming events. Personalize each countdown with photos, colors, and fonts, and receive timely reminders. It also offers a home screen widget for quick access and saves past events for reflection.

Highlights
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable event cards
  • Flexible time formats
  • Calendar import
  • Event reminders
  • Past event archive
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Anticipāt counts down to the days you're looking forward to. Add a trip, a concert, a birthday, or anything else worth the wait, and watch the days fall away on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island as the moment gets close. It's free. There are no ads, no subscription, and no account to create. NEW IN THIS VERSION Anticipāt has been redrawn. Your photo now gets the whole frame, with the countdown set below it on paper instead of printed on top of someone's holiday picture. Events sit in a ruled register you can scan at a glance, and there are five themes to print it all on, from cream paper to true black. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Count down to trips, concerts, birthdays, holidays, or anything you like. • Put a countdown on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets that update on their own. • See your next event on your Apple Watch with a watch-face complication. • Watch the final hours tick down by the minute, with a Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown on iPhones that support it. • Pick from five themes, and set a font and a colour on any single event. • Add a photo from your library or search free photos from Unsplash, then frame it exactly how you want it. • Get a reminder 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before, plus the day itself, and turn them off per event. • Share a countdown as a card for your group chat or your story, or copy a link a friend can open to add the same event. • Ask Siri how many days until something, or to add a countdown. • Keep birthdays and holidays recurring year after year, add notes, and import dates from your calendar. • Look back at your year with a shareable recap every December. YOUR EVENTS STAY YOURS Anticipāt works fully offline and stores nothing on our servers. Your events ride your device's normal iCloud backup, and you can export a file at any time. Turn on iCloud Sync and they keep in step across your own iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud, with no account to create. Photo search and calendar import use the network when it's there and step aside quietly when it isn't. Part of the Āpex Suite by HYTimes App Studio. Pay once, own forever. No subscriptions.

About

Zoro.

This task manager helps users cut through their to-do list by focusing on priorities and limiting work in progress. It offers a unique weekly review feature to reflect on accomplishments and identify stalled tasks. Data is stored privately via iCloud, with no server-side collection.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization (P1-P3)
  • Effort sizing (S/M/L)
  • Work-in-progress limits
  • Visible task aging
  • Weekly review reflection
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Cross-project task board
Features
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Most to-do apps help you collect tasks. Zoro helps you cut them. Zoro is a task manager for people who run more than one project at once: founders, freelancers, builders wearing too many hats. It keeps the few agile ideas that pay off for one person (priorities, effort sizes, work-in-progress limits, a weekly review) and drops the ceremony. No sprints, no story points, no velocity charts. WORK ACROSS PROJECTS, NOT INSIDE THEM Two spaces, personal and business, hold as many projects as you need. Every task carries a priority (P1–P3) and an effort size (S/M/L). One board holds product work next to invoices next to the launch plan, and the highest-leverage work rises to the top no matter which project it belongs to. THE METHOD • Three things today: you can only finish a few things a day, so Zoro asks for three • Size by effort, not time: S, M, L. Estimates in minutes are a trap • One cut at a time: a work-in-progress limit keeps you finishing before starting • Let nothing rot: tasks age visibly, so the work you're avoiding stares back • Sharpen weekly: a Friday review that reads your week back to you PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Your tasks live in your own iCloud, and Apple syncs them between your devices. Zoro has no servers that hold your data, no account to create, no analytics, no tracking. The App Privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because there is nothing to collect. We couldn't read your tasks if we wanted to. THE WEEKLY REVIEW Every Friday, Zoro assembles the facts: what you cut, what you added, what's been open too long, what you keep deferring, whether the big things are stalling. You reflect (plus, minus, next) and close the week. Over months, History becomes the honest story of how you actually work, and Trends shows the shape underneath. FREE, PROPERLY The whole method is free: unlimited tasks, unlimited projects, iCloud sync across iPhone, Mac, and the web, effort sizing, aging, the weekly reflection. No task caps. Ever. ZORO PRO Pro goes deeper into the practice: the full weekly insight cards (aging, avoidance, effort mix), every week kept in History, Trends over time, the stats dashboard, subtasks, and custom statuses. $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $59.99 once, with a 14-day free trial. Zoro is for people who want fewer tasks, done. Not more tasks, managed. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.getzoro.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.getzoro.app/privacy

Screenshots

Anticipāt4 screens
Zoro.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anticipāt at none against Zoro.'s 4. Zoro.'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zoro. sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Anticipāt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anticipāt ships an update every 2 weeks, Zoro. every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Anticipāt versus Zoro.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnticipātZoro.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDennis HodgsonLeadVibe LLC

Customer experience

Anticipāt

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Zoro.

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Anticipāt

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Zoro.

Subscriptions2
  • zoro Pro Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Zoro Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Zoro Pro — Founding Member$29.99
  • Zoro Pro (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Anticipāt free?
Anticipāt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Zoro. free?
Zoro. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Anticipāt or Zoro. have ads?
Neither Anticipāt nor Zoro. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anticipāt or Zoro.?
Anticipāt ships an update every 2 weeks, and Zoro. every 4 days. Most recently, Anticipāt was updated on October 13, 2026 and Zoro. on October 21, 2026.

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