Comparison

REA vs Ease

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

Head to head
About

REA

Features
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REA goes beyond traditional to-do lists. It is an energy-aware planner designed to align your daily tasks with your actual mental and physical capacity. Start your day with an Energy Check-in. Tell REA how you feel, and our AI will automatically suggest which tasks to tackle and which to postpone, preventing burnout and maximizing productivity when you feel best. Key Features: โ€ข Energy Check-In: Measure your daily physical and mental energy. โ€ข Adaptive AI Planner: Tasks are automatically rescheduled based on your current capacity. โ€ข Holistic Organization: Balance work, self-care, and personal goals. โ€ข Burnout Prevention: Smart algorithms ensure you do not overcommit on low-energy days. Plan smarter, not harder. Align your life with your energy using REA.

About

Ease

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Most day planners hand you an empty timeline and wish you luck. Ease hands you a method โ€” and asks one question at a time. It's a planner for anyone who has downloaded a planner before, used it for four days, and quietly stopped. ONE QUESTION AT A TIME Ease never opens on a dashboard. It works out where you are in your day and shows the smallest thing that matters right now. Tonight โ€” plan tomorrow. Say tomorrow out loud and AI turns it into a timed plan, while today is still fresh. Mornings stop being a decision. Morning โ€” start from how today feels. Rough, Okay or Good. Ease sizes the day to the energy you actually have, not the energy you planned for. Through the day โ€” follow the line. A visual day you take one block at a time. Fall behind and it reflows gently instead of collapsing into a wall of red. When you come back โ€” it asks, it doesn't assume. Disappeared for three hours? Ease never quietly ticks things off, and never decides for you that something is done, late or lost. It asks what happened, and "I don't know" is a real answer. End of day โ€” check in. Twenty seconds on how it went, and tomorrow gets planned while you still remember today. BUILT TO BE KIND Minutes, not a to-do count. Ease weighs what you're planning against the hours you actually have. That's the burnout guard, and it's arithmetic rather than a lecture. Say it and it lands. Speak "gym 7am 45 min" and it arrives timed and placed. Too big to start? Tap Breakdown and a task becomes a few small steps. Tick each one off and the next shows up. Screenshot it and it's a task. Ease reads the words off the picture for a title, and one tap lifts the object itself โ€” the card, the shoes, the lamp โ€” onto your timeline. Nothing nags. Miss a task and it carries over kindly. Nothing goes red, nothing scolds, no streak to break. A focus timer that goes quiet with you. Sessions, breaks and a twenty-three-layer ambient mixer. Sound follows the clock โ€” pause the timer, the sound pauses too. Turn your phone on its side and it's a desk clock. It learns when you're at your best. After a few weeks, Ease shows you which parts of your day actually hold โ€” your most productive hours, worked out on your device from your own history. It shows you. It never rewrites your plan behind your back. ALSO IN THE BOX Apple Watch โ€” what's on now, one tap to tick it off, and a task spoken straight onto your wrist Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets โ€” today's plan, the step you're on, voice capture and a live focus timer Read-only calendar overlay, so your meetings show up in the day Full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support from the first screen PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No ads, no trackers, no analytics SDK. Your tasks, check-ins and pictures live on your devices and sync through your own iCloud account โ€” never through a server of ours. One exception, said plainly: when you plan a day by speaking or typing it, that text goes to our own server, where an AI model sorts it into tasks. It is not stored, not logged, and not tied to you. Everything else happens on your device, speech recognition and screenshot reading included. Turn off your connection and Ease still plans your day. Ease never asks for your photo library. It reads only the one picture you hand it, on your device. EASE PLUS The daily method is free, forever โ€” planning by hand or by voice, the focus timer, the widgets, every insight. Ease Plus adds the AI co-planner (try it free for about 30 messages; Plus plans about 120 a day), AI Breakdown, repeating tasks, and the rest of the sound palette: twenty of the twenty-three layers, including all eleven music tracks. Rain, a fireplace and a purring cat are free forever. That's the whole list. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

REA4 screens
Ease4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ease at every 3 days against REA's every 11 days. REA's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. REA sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Ease sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

REA ships an update every 11 days, Ease every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
REA versus Ease: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterREAEase
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.6 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB187 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMICHAL STANKIEWICZQuang Tran

In-app purchases

10 purchases

REA

One-time10
  • Level Up!$0.99
  • Radio "ME"$0.99
  • Adept's Guild$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Digital Fortress$0.99
  • Coin Forge$0.99
  • Foundations of Tomorrow$0.99
  • Celebration Guild$0.99
  • Forge of Creation$0.99
  • Little Human Project$0.99
  • The Stoic Investor$0.99
2 purchases

Ease

Subscriptions2
  • Plus, monthly$3.991 Month
  • Plus, yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is REA free?
REA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ease free?
Ease is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do REA or Ease have ads?
Neither REA nor Ease shows ads.
Which is updated more often, REA or Ease?
REA ships an update every 11 days, and Ease every 3 days. Most recently, REA was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ease on November 6, 2026.

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