Comparison

Nudge It! vs Rounds

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

Head to head
About

Nudge It!

This app uses personalized AI messages, inspired by your favorite sports teams, foods, and colleges, to help you stay on track with your tasks. It features an escalating motivation system and group accountability to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI motivation
  • Escalating task delay system
  • Group accountability and leaderboards
  • Voice dictation for tasks
  • SMS reminders for overdue tasks
  • Multiple motivation levels
  • Customizable color themes
Features
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Nudge It! is the accountability app for people who are really good at meaning to do things. Most productivity apps give you a gentle reminder. Nudge It gives you a personalized AI message using your favorite sport, food, and college team to keep you on track. THE PUNT SYSTEM You get 3 chances to delay a task. After delay #2 and #3, the AI gets increasingly direct — using your sport, food, and college team for personalized motivation. Texas A&M fan? It knows about tu. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - AI daily check-in every morning - Escalating motivation messages when you delay tasks - Personalized by sport, cuisine, and college team - Group accountability with friends and family - Voice dictation — speak your tasks - SMS reminders when tasks go overdue - 7 color themes - Push notifications MOTIVATION LEVELS Gentle — warm and encouraging Spicy — direct and humorous Maximum — firm, focused, and relentless GROUPS Create or join a group. See completion rates, send reactions, motivate each other, and compete on the leaderboard. PLANS Free — up to 10 tasks, basic delay system Pro — unlimited tasks, AI motivation, SMS reminders, groups ($4.99/month) Lifetime — pay once, own it forever ($29.99) Terms of Use: https://nudgeit.12thmilelabs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://nudgeit.12thmilelabs.com/privacy nudgeit.12thmilelabs.com

About

Rounds

This app helps bedside nurses manage timed tasks and patient care with customizable reminders and a clear overview of due activities. It prioritizes patient privacy by not collecting any personal data and operates entirely offline.

Highlights
  • Customizable unit setup
  • Condition-based task timing
  • Delivery and postpartum transition
  • Shift timeline log
  • PIN lock for privacy
  • Offline operation
Features
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I'm a bedside nurse with ADHD, which is a genuinely bad combination on a busy floor. A shift throws off more small timed tasks than I can hold in my head, and the ones that slip are never the ones you'd have chosen to drop. For years my answer was a paper brain sheet — scribbled at 0700, folded into a scrub pocket, and no help at all at 1400 when the recheck was actually due. Rounds is that brain sheet, except it keeps time for you. I built it for me first, which is why it works the way it does: reminders that make a noise instead of sitting quietly as a badge you'll notice at 1530. A list that lives outside your head so you're not spending working memory guarding it. And a screen that tells you plainly when there's genuinely nothing due, because "am I forgetting something?" is its own kind of exhausting. WHAT IT DOES • Set up your unit once. Your tasks, your timings. Every patient you admit after that starts from your setup — not someone else's idea of a shift. • Add a condition, get its checks. Magnesium, epidural, GBS, a fresh post-op — the timing comes with it, and you can change any of it. • Deliveries handled. Record a delivery and the labour reminders stop, the postpartum ones start, and you don't have to think about the switchover in the middle of everything else. • A timeline of what you actually did, in case report goes sideways. • PIN lock, so a phone left on the counter stays shut. Seven units, each with its own starting task list: Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, Antepartum, Med-Surg, ED, ICU, and Telemetry. ABOUT YOUR PATIENTS' PRIVACY — THE SHORT VERSION There is no field for a patient's name. There isn't going to be one. Patients are a room label and a cartoon avatar, and that's deliberate. Rounds has no accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no ads. It does not have permission to use the internet at all. That isn't a promise in a policy somewhere — it's in the app's manifest, and your phone enforces it. Nothing you type can leave your device, because there is nowhere for it to go and no way to send it. Uninstall the app and it's all gone. There's no copy anywhere, because there was never anywhere to put one. Some fields let you type free text. Please don't type patient names into them. Whatever your workplace's rules about protected health information are, they apply here too. WHAT ROUNDS IS NOT Rounds is not a medical device and it is not clinical decision support. It doesn't tell you what care to give, it doesn't interpret anything, and it isn't a substitute for your own judgement, your unit's policies, or the chart. It keeps track of your tasks and reminds you when you asked to be reminded. That's the whole job. It's also not a documentation system. Nothing in Rounds goes in the record. THE PRICE Free to download and use. No ads, no subscription, and nothing about you is for sale — "nothing leaves your phone" and "we sell your data" can't both be true, and I picked the first one. Nothing due right now? Good. Go drink some water.

Screenshots

Nudge It!4 screens
Rounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds at none against Nudge It!'s 2. Rounds also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Nudge It! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Rounds asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Nudge It! against 5.0 for Rounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rounds has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nudge It! ships an update every 9 days, Rounds every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Nudge It! versus Rounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNudge It!Rounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB26 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDeana BurkAshley Rorke

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Nudge It!

Subscriptions1
  • Nudge It! Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Nudge It! Pro Lifetime$29.99
None

Rounds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nudge It! free?
Nudge It! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nudge It! or Rounds?
Nudge It! and Rounds are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Nudge It! or Rounds have ads?
Neither Nudge It! nor Rounds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nudge It! or Rounds?
Nudge It! ships an update every 9 days, and Rounds every 2 weeks. Most recently, Nudge It! was updated on October 31, 2026 and Rounds on October 31, 2026.

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