Comparison

Hue Plan vs SmallButBig

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

Head to head
About

Hue Plan

This app helps you organize your day using a visually appealing time-blocking method with customizable pastel colors. It offers daily, weekly, and monthly views, task management, and insightful statistics on your time usage. Syncs across devices and includes widget support.

Highlights
  • Color-coded time blocking
  • Day, week, and month views
  • Task management (Plan, Done, Cancel)
  • Time usage insights and stats
  • Home Screen and Apple Watch widgets
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Hue Plan is a pastel time-blocking planner that lets you plan your day in colorful time blocks. ■ Plan in color Long-press and drag to create an event. Pastel category colors make your whole day clear at a glance. ■ Day · Week · Month A timeline day view, your whole week at a glance, and a color-dot month calendar. See it your way. ■ Check it off, like a to-do Manage events with Plan · Done · Cancel. Your calendar and to-dos, all in one place. ■ Insights Completion rate, time distribution by category, and weekly/monthly/yearly stats to reflect on your time. ■ Widgets · Apple Watch Check today's plan right from your Home Screen and your wrist. ■ iCloud sync One seamless plan across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Free includes the day view and diary. Premium unlocks week and month views, Insights, widgets, Apple Watch, iCloud sync, and auto backup — and removes ads.

About

SmallButBig

Organize your day with a visual timetable that integrates tasks, projects, and events. Plan and track everything from daily to-dos to long-term goals with detailed views and reminders.

Highlights
  • Visual timetable and Gantt view
  • Task and project grouping
  • Event and routine planning
  • Alarms and time tracking
  • Inbox Map for tasks
  • Workout and self-care routines
Features
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Dreams up here, reality down here? Between the two, there's today.  What if the tasks that keep piling up and the schedule that overwhelms you sat on one timetable, all at a glance?  Sort countless tasks and group them, and what do they become? Projects. Each project has a purpose. This app lays out your purposes, projects and tasks top-down, at a glance — Gantt view, Workflow, hierarchy, Inbox Map — from whichever angle you need.  What does a truly important event need? Things to do beforehand, things to bring, travel time, things to do during it, and more. With alarms and time tracking, this app makes sure you don't miss any of it.  What does it mean to spend a day well? Isn't it pouring out your thoughts as the day begins, spending the day focused only on what you have to do, and, as it ends, looking back on today to get ready for tomorrow?  Why a timetable? A day splits into what you can control and what you can't. You may be tied to a place, or your attention may inevitably be tied up somewhere. The reasons vary. But just seeing at a glance what you can do, and what you should do, in each block of time lets you choose and focus.  Events, workouts, routines, tasks, projects, goals: everything has a when. Some belong to this year, some to Q1, some to this month, some to this week, others to Wednesday, and some to Wednesday at 11 a.m. Most planning tools just keep your tasks in an inbox. So they pile up and weigh on your mind. Take the old inbox, which never took responsibility for anything, add a "when," and you get Inbox Map, which holds everything at a glance. If a task is in this week's inbox, it shows up right on this week's timetable too. Want to place a task on the timetable? Just drag it there.  Why workouts and routines? Focus takes stamina too. Without regular exercise, you'll burn out sooner or later. Without routines, you can't take care of yourself.  Until the day you smile ■ Why is the app called SmallButBig?  SmallButBig means small, but big. A day is small, but I believed no big dream comes true unless small days add up.  The icon's small checks once formed one big check; now three checks form a smiling face: an app that stays with you through small days until the day you smile. ■ Made together - Every word from the people who use the app becomes a guide for the next update. - When a bug is reported, my rule is to fix it that same day and submit it for review, so you can update the very next day. If you report it on a weekend, though, you'll get the update on Tuesday morning. - Every bit of revenue the app makes goes into developing new products and features. - Prices may also rise as the product's quality improves, but as long as you keep the subscription you first bought, you keep your first price, regardless of those increases. - If the price is a burden or you're going through a hard time, please email me at smallbutbig.app@gmail.com and tell me about your situation. - The Mac app is sold separately on the Mac App Store. ■ Requires a purchase  There is no free version. Every feature requires a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled before the period ends; cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Prices are shown on the in-app purchase screen. — Junbeom Lim Privacy Policy: https://lim394.github.io/smallbutbig-legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hue Plan4 screens
SmallButBig4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SmallButBig at none against Hue Plan's shown. SmallButBig also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hue Plan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SmallButBig sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hue Plan ships an update every 6 days, SmallButBig every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Hue Plan versus SmallButBig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHue PlanSmallButBig
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better92.3% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMINSEO CHOIJunbeom Lim

Customer experience

Hue Plan

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SmallButBig

Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hue Plan

One-time1
  • 프리미엄 (평생 이용)$2.99
3 purchases

SmallButBig

Subscriptions2
  • Basic Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Basic Yearly$47.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$191.99

Questions

Is Hue Plan free?
Hue Plan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SmallButBig free?
SmallButBig is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hue Plan or SmallButBig have ads?
Hue Plan shows ads; SmallButBig does not.
Which is updated more often, Hue Plan or SmallButBig?
Hue Plan ships an update every 6 days, and SmallButBig every 3 days. Most recently, Hue Plan was updated on November 5, 2026 and SmallButBig on November 6, 2026.

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