Comparison

Simple Todo vs Make Time for Yourself

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

Head to head
About

Simple Todo

This app consolidates your Apple Reminders and Calendar events into a single, organized dashboard. It allows for easy viewing of weekly and monthly schedules, quick task creation, and customization of appearance and displayed lists. Seamless synchronization with Apple's native apps ensures your tasks are always up-to-date across devices.

Highlights
  • Time-based task dashboard
  • Apple Reminders and Calendar integration
  • Weekly agenda and monthly calendar views
  • Customizable list and calendar selection
  • Create, edit, and reschedule reminders
  • Adjustable text size and appearance modes
  • iPhone, iPad, and Mac support
Features
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See and manage Apple Reminders and Calendar events together in one clear workspace. Simple Todo automatically organizes what matters into four boxes: 1–3 Days, This Week, Later, and TBD, so you can understand your priorities at a glance. KEY FEATURES • Apple Reminders and Calendar together • Automatic four-box organization • Today view and date-based daily journal • One daily photo with caption, capture time, and location • Monthly and weekly views with week numbers • Natural completion flow with undo • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complications • Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and Action button support • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Simple Todo is designed for people who prefer fast clarity and simple daily organization over complex project management. The app does not use advertising tracking. Reminders and Calendar access is used only to provide the features you choose.

About

Make Time for Yourself

This app offers a peaceful fishing-themed focus timer to help you concentrate. Set your session duration, choose from calming waterside scenes and ambient sounds, and collect interactive fish after each completed focus. Your progress is saved locally, and optional features like app blocking are available.

Highlights
  • Fishing-themed focus timer
  • Ambient waterside scenes and sounds
  • Interactive fish collection
  • Focus session presets and custom steps
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Optional app and category blocking
  • Focus history and daily totals
Features
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A little focus. A little wonder. Open a book, choose one task and cast your line at a quiet waterside. Spend the next few minutes on what matters. When your session ends, discover a fish to add to your collection. Make Time for Yourself brings a cozy fishing ritual to your focus timer, with gently moving scenery, nature sounds and small discoveries worth returning for. FIND YOUR OWN PACE • Set a session from 10 to 120 minutes: a 25-minute study block, a chapter of a book or time for deeper work. • Choose a river or sea, daylight or sunset, and the sounds that suit your mood. • Return to your last settings or prepare a waterside from a past session. • Optionally block apps and categories during focus. You choose the permission and what to restrict. MAKE FOCUSED TIME TANGIBLE • Discover 48 real-world fish and 16 fantasy fish in the base catalog. • Revisit the waterside, companion and focused time behind your discoveries. • See today's focused minutes and completed sessions, and keep your session history. TAKE YOUR FOCUS SOMEWHERE NEW Optional region packs bring four destinations to your waterside: Korea, Japan, Finland and Italy. • Each region has eight scenes: spring, summer, autumn and winter, in daylight and at sunset. • Seasonal outfits, changing scenery and regional ambience make each visit feel different. • Discover four fish in each region: 16 regional species to collect. • Choose a destination straight from Home, or find your next place in the Places tab. A LITTLE COMPANY The optional Waterside Guardians pack includes Noeul, Olive and Mongdol, time spent with your companions, Focus Sets, weekly and monthly reports, private share cards and Strict Lock. CHOOSE WHAT MAKES IT YOURS The timer, base watersides and nature sounds, base catalog, today's summary, session history and standard focus blocking are included without additional purchases. Region packs and Waterside Guardians are available as separate one-time purchases. All Waterside Pass includes every current feature and all future features and content released in this app, including new regions and Guardians. • Monthly or annual subscription: full access while your subscription is active. • Lifetime purchase: permanent access to all current and future features and content with one purchase. Your existing individual purchases remain yours. Discovered fish and session records stay with you even after a subscription ends. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple account. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscriptions are available in the app. Available in Korean and English on iPhone and iPad. Check remaining time with widgets and Live Activities. Some system features depend on your device and OS. Support: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/support Privacy Policy: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Simple Todo4 screens
Make Time for Yourself4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Todo at none against Make Time for Yourself's 1. Simple Todo also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 11 days) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Make Time for Yourself sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Todo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Todo ships an update daily, Make Time for Yourself every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simple Todo versus Make Time for Yourself: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple TodoMake Time for Yourself
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB522 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKIM HYUN CHULSnapWorks Lab

Customer experience

Simple Todo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Make Time for Yourself

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Todo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Make Time for Yourself

One-time1
  • Waterside Guardians$1.99

Questions

Is Simple Todo free?
Simple Todo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Make Time for Yourself free?
Make Time for Yourself is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Todo or Make Time for Yourself have ads?
Neither Simple Todo nor Make Time for Yourself shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Todo or Make Time for Yourself?
Simple Todo ships an update daily, and Make Time for Yourself every 11 days. Most recently, Simple Todo was updated on October 9, 2026 and Make Time for Yourself on October 9, 2026.

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