Comparison

This Order vs Backtask

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

Head to head
About

This Order

Organize your day with a single, focused list combining tasks, calendar events, and reminders. It intelligently sorts your activities into Morning, Midday, and Evening, ensuring you always know what's next without feeling overwhelmed.

Highlights
  • Unified daily list of tasks, events, and reminders
  • Sorted into Morning, Midday, and Evening sections
  • Dateless tasks, today's tasks, and upcoming week views
  • Two-way sync with Apple Reminders
  • Customizable tags for organizing tasks
  • Toggle visibility of calendars and reminder lists
Features
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This Order brings your whole day into one calm, focused list — your tasks, your calendar events, and your reminders, side by side and sorted into the order you'll actually do them. No endless backlog. No guilt-inducing pile of everything you've ever meant to do. Just your dateless tasks, today, and the week ahead — organized into Morning, Midday, and Evening so you always know what's next. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • One unified day. Your tasks live alongside your real Calendar events and your Reminders, so nothing falls through the cracks and you never have to check three apps to know what your day looks like. • Sorted by time of day. Everything flows naturally into Morning, Midday, and Evening. Set your own boundaries for when each part of the day begins. • To-do, Today, and Later. A home for tasks without a date, everything urgent or due today, and what's coming up this week — three focused views so nothing crowds everything else out. • Real two-way Reminders. Reminders due today and over the next week appear right in your list. Check one off here and it's marked done in Apple Reminders too. • Your Calendar, in context. Events sit next to your tasks so your commitments and your intentions share the same timeline. • Tags that fit your life. Eight ready-made tags — Self, Work, Spouse, Kids, Friends, Household, Financial, and Hobbies — that you can rename, recolor, reorder, or replace with your own. Group your list by tag whenever you want a different view. • Pick what shows up. Toggle individual Calendars and Reminders lists on or off, so only the parts of your life you want to see make it into your day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks stay in your iCloud — synced across your devices, never sold and never shared. No accounts, no ads, no cross-app tracking. We use privacy-respecting, anonymous usage analytics to improve the app — and you can turn that off in Settings. BUILT FOR TODAY'S iPHONE Designed for the latest iOS with a clean, modern interface that stays out of your way and lets your day take center stage. This Order isn't about doing more. It's about seeing clearly what's in front of you — and doing it in the right order. FREE TRIAL & SUBSCRIPTION This Order is a paid subscription. A 3-day trial is available to new users. Continued use of the app after the trial requires an auto-renewing subscription. A one-time purchase is also available. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. TERMS OF USE (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Backtask

Features
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Recurring tasks you can count on. Native, private, synced with iCloud. Walk the pup, change the air filter, pay the rent, call your parents. Backtask reminds you when each task comes back around, and it doesn't guilt-trip you when you forget. That forgiving part is really the whole point. Most reminder apps just pile up on you. Miss a few days and you're stuck tapping "done" over and over to clear the backlog. Backtask works the other way around. Forget to check something off, and it quietly skips the ones you missed and marks today's as done, all in a single tap. You're caught up, and you never feel behind. It's careful in the other direction too. Tasks stay locked until they're actually due, so you can't tap a recurring task multiple times and push it weeks into the future. Every check-off is real, and so is every streak. At the top of your list there's a Today summary too. A small progress ring, and quick counts for what's overdue, due today, and coming up. It makes a plain to-do list feel like something worth finishing. Tap the ring and you get a focus view for the day: a quote up top, a big ring in the middle, and only the tasks that matter right now. Each one you finish slides off the list. A few things it does well: • Recurring tasks your way: every day, every few days, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly • Daily tasks can even repeat two or three times a day • Smart reminders that learn your routine and appear on time • A Home Screen widget that shows what's due • Streaks and stats with a month calendar for each task • A day streak that grows each day you clear everything • Colorful categories • Undo that works Your tasks stay yours. There's no account to create, no tracking, and no ads. Everything syncs between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac over your own iCloud. Backtask is free for up to 5 tasks, with all of the above included. If you need more room, Pro gets you unlimited tasks plus reminders that keep nudging until a task is actually done, for just .99 per year. Made in Kentucky by Seb Fontan (that's me). I read and reply to every email, and your feedback is always welcome. Backtask Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Your Apple Account is charged when you confirm the purchase, and it renews each year unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://backtask.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

This Order4 screens
Backtask4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: This Order at 18.0 against Backtask's 26.5. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. This Order sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Backtask sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

This Order ships an update every 9 days, Backtask weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
This Order versus Backtask: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThis OrderBacktask
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamantha BlackSeb Fontan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

This Order

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.491 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$47.99
1 purchases

Backtask

Subscriptions1
  • Backtask Pro$9.991 Year

Questions

Is This Order free?
This Order is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backtask free?
Backtask is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do This Order or Backtask have ads?
Neither This Order nor Backtask shows ads.
Which is updated more often, This Order or Backtask?
This Order ships an update every 9 days, and Backtask weekly. Most recently, This Order was updated on September 28, 2026 and Backtask on October 7, 2026.

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