Comparison

OcthoMind vs Buckets

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

Head to head
About

OcthoMind

Features
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Organize your thoughts, plan your academic research, or visualize your daily agendas in seconds! OctoMind is a next-generation visual thinking tool that transforms your complex ideas into sleek, structured, and easy-to-manage mind maps. Tailored specifically for academics, students, project managers, and creative professionals. WHY OCTOMIND? • 100% LOCAL PRIVACY (Offline-First): Your mind maps and personal notes are never uploaded to cloud servers. All your data remains securely stored on your device. • MULTI-MAP DASHBOARD: Create, rename, and delete unlimited independent maps for different courses or projects, and switch between them instantly. • COLLABORATIVE NOTES & OUTLINE: Add detailed rich text notes to any node, and check your map structure as a hierarchical tree outline in the side drawer. • RETINA-QUALITY EXPORTING: Save and share your maps via the native iOS Share Sheet as vector SVG, high-resolution Retina PNG, or print-quality PDF files. • PREMIUM HAPTIC UI: Experience a fully native iOS look and feel with a beautiful dark mode, smooth canvas animations, and precise tactile haptic feedback. BEST FOR: - Academic lecture notes & research structuring - Project planning & workflow visualization - Brainstorming sessions & conceptual drafting - Meeting agendas & interactive checklists Subscription & Pricing: You can start mapping for free. To unlock unlimited maps and high-res vector PDF, SVG, and PNG exports, you can upgrade to PRO via our Monthly Subscription (comes with a 3- Day Free Trial) or One-Time Lifetime Purchase. Transactions are securely managed via the official Apple StoreKit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

OcthoMind4 screens
Buckets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Buckets at none against OcthoMind's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. OcthoMind sells 2 one-off in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
OcthoMind versus Buckets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOcthoMindBuckets
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVOLKAN TEZKANRami Salameh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

OcthoMind

One-time2
  • Mount$2.99
  • alltime$19.99
2 purchases

Buckets

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

Questions

Is OcthoMind free?
OcthoMind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OcthoMind or Buckets have ads?
OcthoMind shows ads; Buckets does not.

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