Comparison

Hue Plan vs SmallButBig

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

Head to head
About

Hue Plan

Features
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Hue Plan is a pastel time-blocking planner that lets you plan your day in colorful time blocks. β–  Plan in color Long-press and drag to create an event. Pastel category colors make your whole day clear at a glance. β–  Day Β· Week Β· Month A timeline day view, your whole week at a glance, and a color-dot month calendar. See it your way. β–  Check it off, like a to-do Manage events with Plan Β· Done Β· Cancel. Your calendar and to-dos, all in one place. β–  Insights Completion rate, time distribution by category, and weekly/monthly/yearly stats to reflect on your time. β–  Widgets Β· Apple Watch Check today's plan right from your Home Screen and your wrist. β–  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 β€” and removes ads.

About

SmallButBig

This app transforms your to-do lists into a visual timeline, helping you focus on one task at a time. It allows for detailed planning, light tracking of actual time spent, and provides honest records of your efforts, even when plans change.

Highlights
  • One task at a time scheduling
  • Three-stage planning (Someday, Date, Date & Time)
  • Lightweight time tracking
  • Honest record of actual time spent
  • Flexible task splitting and merging
  • Project management with Gantt charts
  • Habit tracking and pooled tasks
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Small days add up to big dreams.  An app for anyone working toward a big dream, one small day at a time. Made by one developer, shaped by the people who use it. β–  Why I made it  Right after high school, I skipped college and worked various jobs to earn money first. Then I chose experience over money and started college relatively late. I now study economics at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea and am preparing to study in the U.S., dreaming of corporate finance on Wall Street in New York. Applying to top schools meant keeping a 3.98/4.0 GPA while managing many projects at once: assignments, volunteering, an on-campus job, tutoring low-income students, hackathons and public policy work. With so much I wanted to do and was responsible for, using each day well mattered.  But my tasks lived in a to-do app, my appointments in a calendar and my long-term goals somewhere else, so I kept switching apps to check, and things slipped through.  I needed one tool to track tasks, events, steady habits and workouts, see projects in one place from different angles, and fit it all into a timetable. So I used the coding I'd briefly done before college to build the app myself and solve my own problem.  The app my friends and I were using somehow reached 450 downloads within two weeks of its official launch, with people in Korea, Japan, the U.S., Canada, Israel and beyond using it and sending valuable feedback. Grateful and feeling responsible, I'm now on leave from school to develop it full-time. A precious chance has come, and I really want to build it well. β–  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. β–  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. β–  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. β€” 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 8 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· 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 8 days, SmallButBig every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
Hue Plan versus SmallButBig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHue PlanSmallButBig
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”88.9% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationβ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size13 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMINSEO CHOIJunbeom Lim

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 8 days, and SmallButBig every 3 days. Most recently, Hue Plan was updated on October 24, 2026 and SmallButBig on October 25, 2026.

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