Iris vs plottwist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Iris
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Remember what you worked on before the details disappear. Iris is a private, local-first work journal that makes it easy to capture small work updates, keep track of your progress, and build a useful record of what youβve accomplished over time. Record a quick voice note or type an update, and Iris can organize it into clearer highlights, impact, blockers, people, and next steps. As your notes build up, turn your work history into weekly updates, monthly summaries, achievement records, or performance review drafts. With Iris, you can: - Capture quick work notes whenever something worth remembering happens - Record short voice notes and turn them into editable transcripts - Tag notes by project to keep different areas of your work organized - Organize messy notes into highlights, impact, blockers, people, and next steps - See your recent work, activity, and follow-ups from Home - Generate weekly recaps and manager updates - Create monthly summaries and achievement records - Turn your work history into yearly summaries and performance review drafts - Set reminders to build a consistent logging habit Built for the way work actually happens You donβt need to maintain a detailed journal every day. Capture a quick update when something moves forward, you solve a problem, receive useful feedback, unblock someone, or finish something you may want to remember later. Over time, Iris gives you a clearer record of your work β without turning work tracking into another heavy productivity system. Private by design Your journal entries and saved summaries are stored locally on your device. AI features are optional and only run when you choose to use them, including voice transcription, note organization, and summary generation. Iris does not store your raw journal entries or voice recordings. Iris Plus is available for higher AI usage limits and additional summary features. Privacy Policy: https://iris-ai.xyz/mobile-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
plottwist
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plottwist is a daily planner for moms, built for the days that never go to plan. Most planners assume your day goes to plan, then punish you when it doesn't. Everything turns red. Everything rolls over. You end the day feeling behind on a list you never had a fair shot at. plottwist starts from the opposite idea. ONE TAP REBUILDS YOUR DAY School calls at 2pm. The sitter cancels. You're just done. Tap Plot Twist, say what happened, and your whole schedule redeals itself around what actually matters. Your locked work hours stay put. Everything else bends. Nothing moves until you say so. PLAN BY ENERGY, NOT JUST TIME You had six free hours yesterday and still couldn't face the Costco run. That isn't laziness, it's an empty cup. In plottwist every task costs drops of energy, rest refills them, and you get a warning before you overdraw, not a guilt trip afterward. NOTHING TURNS RED. EVER. Tasks you can't get to don't become overdue. They wait on the Shelf, guilt free, until you have the energy for them. Bring anything back to your day whenever you're ready. MEET JUNIE Tell Junie your day in a sentence, in your own words, and she shapes it around your real hours. Brain-dump everything rattling around and she sorts it into a real day. She checks in gently, never scolds, and only inside the hours you choose. When the day changes, she rebuilds it with you. THE INVISIBLE WORK, FINALLY COUNTED The appointments you booked. The forms you remembered. The dozen things nobody asked you to track. Every week plottwist counts the mental load you carry and hands you a card that says what you already knew. It's a gentle read, never a scorecard. YOUR CALENDAR, WITHOUT THE REWRITE Already keep a calendar? plottwist reads events from every calendar on your iPhone, Apple, Google, or Outlook, and shows them on your day. Read only. Nothing in your calendar is ever changed. BUILT FOR MOMS, BY A MOM plottwist started at a cafe table in San Antonio, on International Women's Day, at a build day for women. One mom trying to hold a whole family's day in her head, building the thing she needed. YOUR DAY STAYS YOURS Your day lives on your iPhone and syncs through your own iCloud account, which we can't see into. Junie's full brain runs on our server, so what you send her is answered and discarded, never stored and never used to train AI models. You choose whether to turn it on, and you can erase everything we hold from Settings at any time. We never sell your data. MEMBERSHIP plottwist is a membership with a 7-day free trial. Monthly $8.99 Β· Annual $59.99 Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms: https://plottwist.day/terms Privacy: https://plottwist.day/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: plottwist at every 2 days against Iris's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Iris sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and plottwist sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Iris ships an update every 3 weeks, plottwist every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Iris | plottwist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KENNETH CHIN WEI YOW | RUSSELL KEITH MITCHELL |
In-app purchases
Iris
- Iris Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
- Iris Plus Yearly$29.991 Year
plottwist
- plottwist Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- plottwist Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- plottwist Lifetime$99.99









