Remainder vs Impression Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remainder
This app helps you plan your day by timeboxing tasks and meetings. It automatically adjusts your schedule based on actual task completion times and can block distracting apps during work periods. Premium features include AI-powered scheduling and advanced analytics.
- Time blocking for tasks and meetings
- Automatic schedule replanning
- Distracting app blocking
- Calendar synchronization
- Task completion tracking
- Detailed statistics
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Spend your time on purpose. Keep the Remainder. Remainder is a time blocking or timeboxing to-do list. It plans what and when you will do something, nearly doubling your likelihood of follow-through. Unlike other apps, it follows how long each task actually takes and silently replans your day accordingly. How it works. - Plan your day as blocks: tasks, meetings, breaks - Sync to your calendars, to flow tasks around meetings - Block distracting apps while working on a task, but greenlight the apps when you need them Describe it to plan it. - Braindump everything you need to do - Remainder lays out a full schedule of your day See where your time went. - Remainder manages your estimates and actual time - Track how much time you save - Monitor detailed stats and streaks Sync across devices - Be sure to get the Mac and iPad versions, so you don't always have to run it from your phone - Remainder privately updates in real time REMAINDER PLUS The free app plans your day, runs the timer, syncs your calendars, and blocks distracting apps. Remainder Plus adds AI day planning (describe your day and get a full schedule), per-task app greenlights, and the complete stats suite: time by project, estimate accuracy, and personal records. Plus is $4.99/week, $7.99/month, or $49.99/year. The yearly plan starts with a 1-week free trial. Prices may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the yearly free trial converts to a paid subscription the same way. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused trial time is forfeited when you purchase a plan. Terms of Use: https://remainder.co/term Privacy Policy: https://remainder.co/privacy It's not that productivity has inherent value. You don't owe the world your output. It's that it feels good to look back and know the day went where you meant it to.
Impression Journal
Capture fleeting thoughts, people, or observations and automatically link them to their location and time. Add photos, organize into folders, and revisit your memories on a map or timeline. Syncs seamlessly across devices.
- Location-aware note-taking
- Add photos to entries
- Organize notes into folders
- Map and timeline view
- Home screen widget
- Apple Watch companion app
- iCloud syncing
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WHAT IS IMPRESSION JOURNAL? Impression Journal is a fast, flexible way to capture the small stuff — a person you just met, a bird or flower you spotted, an idea passing through your head — and tie it to a place and a moment in time. Create an Impression with a name, a short description, and hashtags, and Impression Journal automatically timestamps and locates it for you. Prefer to talk? Just ask Siri for a "Quick Impression" to jot something down instantly, or a step-by-step "New Impression" to add notes and tags. More features: * Add a photo to any Impression * File Impressions into folders * Browse everything by Recents, Tags, Places, or Search * See all your Impressions plotted on a map * Track repeat encounters with an Impression as a timeline of sightings * Add a widget to your home screen to see nearby Impressions, filtered by folder and hashtags * Set up custom notifications to alert you when Impressions are nearby (full version only) * Everything syncs automatically over iCloud * Companion Apple Watch app allows you to capture a thought without pulling out your phone Whether you're putting names to faces at a conference, remembering the code for your storage unit, or just catching an idea before it slips away, Impression Journal keeps a searchable, location-aware record of the little things you'd otherwise forget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Impression Journal at none against Remainder's shown. Remainder's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Remainder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Impression Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Remainder against 5.0 for Impression Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remainder has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Remainder ships an update every 5 days, Impression Journal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remainder | Impression Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filter Company, LLC | tApps |
Customer experience
Remainder
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In-app purchases
Remainder
- Remainder Plus Weekly$4.997 Days
- Remainder Plus Monthly$7.991 Month
- Remainder Plus Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Remainder Plus Yearly - First Year1 Year trial$49.991 Year
Impression Journal
- Full Version$4.99
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