Comparison

Tadah vs Buckets

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

Head to head
About

Tadah

This app helps you understand and manage official mail like bills and notices. It extracts key information, provides clear action steps, and sets reminders for deadlines. It offers guides for common life events and supports household organization with privacy in mind.

Highlights
  • Scan and understand bills, notices, and forms
  • Extracts key information like amounts and deadlines
  • Provides step-by-step action checklists
  • Sets deadline reminders
  • Offers guides for life events
  • Supports household organization
  • Privacy-focused document handling
Features
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Official mail is written for the people who send it, not for the people who get it. Tadah reads a letter, bill, or notice and tells you three things: what it is, why you got it, and what to do next — in plain words, in English, Spanish, or Simplified Chinese. SCAN ANYTHING THAT ARRIVES Point your camera at a bill, a ticket, a school form, an insurance letter, a medical notice, a court or immigration document. Tadah pulls out the amount, the deadline, and the account or reference number you will actually need, and writes a short explanation of what triggered it. A CHECKLIST, NOT A WALL OF TEXT Every document becomes a short list of actions in order. Tap any step to see how and where to do it — the exact page to pay on, what to bring, and what to say on the phone. DEADLINES THAT REMIND YOU Due dates become reminders. Tadah handles the awkward cases: a deadline written as "within 90 days", a year the document never printed, an appointment in another timezone. GUIDES FOR THE THINGS NOBODY EXPLAINS Step-by-step help for moving, renting, a new job, a car, health coverage, and more — written for people navigating a system for the first time, with links to official .gov pages rather than someone's blog. FOR YOUR WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Keep a separate space for each person — a parent's medical letters, a child's school forms — and see all of it in one list, marked by who it belongs to. BUILT TO BE PRIVATE Your documents stay on your phone. When you scan, only the recognized text is sent for explanation — never the photo, and never your name or account. Usage statistics are opt-in: Tadah asks once, and sends nothing unless you say yes. TADAH PLUS An optional subscription that raises the scan and to-do limits, gives each person their own space, and keeps everything in sync across your devices. The core of Tadah is free and stays free — no account required to scan, explain, or set a reminder. Tadah organizes and explains documents. It is not legal, tax, medical, or immigration advice. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tadah-legal.pages.dev/privacy

About

Buckets

This app helps you manage your time by setting weekly intentions for different life areas. It allows you to block out time, run focus sessions, and confirm actual time spent, ensuring your week reflects your priorities. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Set weekly intentions for life areas
  • Block time on your calendar
  • Run focus sessions with a timer
  • Confirm actual time spent
  • Calendar mirroring
  • Health app integration for workouts
  • Data export to JSON
Features
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Where does your week actually go? Buckets holds the parts of your life that matter, work, movement, sleep, family, and gives each one a weekly intention: how much time you actually want to pour in. Then it helps you protect that time before the week gets noisy. HOW IT WORKS Bucket. One area of your life, with a weekly intention. Work. Movement. Sleep. Family. Study. Faith. Whatever yours are. Block. You protect time for a Bucket by placing a Block on your calendar, in advance. A promise made to yourself while the week is still quiet. Session. When the Block arrives you start a focus session, and the timer runs. Work, move, rest, read. The session just holds the time. Pour. When you finish you confirm what actually happened, and only then does it pour into the Bucket. A Pour is never recorded without you. That last part is the whole point. Buckets does not watch you, guess at you, or fill itself in behind your back. Your week is only as full as you say it is, which is what makes the number worth looking at. YOUR WEEK, IN ONE PLACE Vessels for each Bucket that fill as the week goes on A plan timeline where you drag a Bucket onto the day to protect time Your existing calendar shown alongside, so open space stays honest Widgets for today's plan, one Bucket's ring, and how the week is filling A Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the running session Morning and evening moments, a daily reflection, and a weekly close Shortcuts for starting and finishing a session by voice ON YOUR DEVICE, AND NOWHERE ELSE No account. No sign up. No server. Every Bucket, Block, Session and Pour lives in the app's own database on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sold, nothing leaves the device unless you choose to connect your calendar or Health. FREE, AND PRO Free holds one Bucket, with the full day, sessions, reflections, and every Pour you ever confirm. Buckets Pro holds as many Buckets as your life has parts, plus repeating Blocks, calendar mirroring, workouts that arrive ready to pour from Health, and export of every confirmed Pour as plain readable JSON. Built by one person, in Swift, for iPhone on iOS 18 and later. SUBSCRIPTION Buckets Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Buckets Pro (Yearly): $39.99 per year, with a 1 week free trial for new subscribers. Buckets Pro (Monthly): $6.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. If you take the free trial, any unused portion of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Tadah4 screens
Buckets4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tadah and Buckets are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Tadah sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Buckets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tadah against 5.0 for Buckets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tadah versus Buckets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTadahBuckets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRuiqi WangRami Salameh

Customer experience

Tadah

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Buckets

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tadah

Subscriptions2
  • Tadah Plus (Monthly)1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • Tadah Plus (Yearly)$59.991 Year
2 purchases

Buckets

Subscriptions2
  • Buckets Pro$6.991 Month
  • Buckets Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Tadah free?
Tadah is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tadah or Buckets?
Tadah and Buckets are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Tadah or Buckets have ads?
Neither Tadah nor Buckets shows ads.

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