SmallButBig vs Kapi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmallButBig
This app transforms your to-do lists into a visual timeline, helping you focus on one task at a time. It allows for detailed planning, light tracking of actual time spent, and provides honest records of your efforts, even when plans change.
- One task at a time scheduling
- Three-stage planning (Someday, Date, Date & Time)
- Lightweight time tracking
- Honest record of actual time spent
- Flexible task splitting and merging
- Project management with Gantt charts
- Habit tracking and pooled tasks
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A big goal never arrives overnight. Getting one small day right — that's all this app does. SmallButBig turns a list into a timeline — decide when, track how long it took, and see the gap. ■ Requires a purchase There is no free version. Every feature below unlocks with a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. ■ One thing at a time · Tasks can't overlap. Drop one on a busy hour and it snaps to the nearest free slot. · Only one timer runs at a time. Start something else and the running one is settled first. ■ Planning in three stages · Someday → a date → a date and time. You never have to invent an hour you don't have. · Undated work waits in the inbox; day-only work waits in that day's drawer. ■ Tracking has to be light to last · No need to keep the app open — only a start and an end time are stored, and the Lock Screen counts. · Most things take about as long as planned — "Same as planned" is one tap. · If the timer already filled it in, finishing doesn't ask again. ■ An honest record · Even off plan, your best effort still leaves a number. · Actual time is asked when you finish a task, not when you create it. · Unfinished work rolls down to today, but the original plan stays frozen in its week. Last week's slip doesn't become this week's score. ■ When the plan breaks · Finish early and the card shrinks, freeing the rest of the block; run over and the overflow shows below it. · Split a card and each checklist item becomes a real task. Finished ones keep their slot; unfinished ones drop their time to the inbox. · Scattered pieces merge back into one, with a preview of what you'd lose. · Repeating events edit as "this one" or "this and all following". ■ What a day is made of · Alerts — at the start, 5/10/30/60 minutes before, or a time you pick. · Transit blocks — a mode and duration attach travel time ahead of the event. Split into legs (walk → bus → subway), each with notes. · Subtasks — attach steps or things to bring, and tick them off on the card. · Deadlines — when you'll do it and when it's due are separate axes. Move the date; the deadline stays. · Uses left — stock "Workout ×10" and each drag onto the timeline spends one. ■ Several projects at once · The whole folder tree lies open — drag straight into any depth, never across two screens. · Big work nests as tasks under tasks — split as fine as you like, nothing leaves the project. · Projects with start and end dates line up as a Gantt chart, today marked and days left per bar. · You see "3 of 7" and hours spent without opening a folder. When a stretch is over, file the lot into a month folder. ■ Looking back · Five categories: Focus, Admin, Growth, People and Rest. One axis — what that time was to you — so the weekly report becomes next week's decision. · When a week ends, planned and actual hours stand side by side, by category and by project. · Where the time leaked: open a project parent to child and follow the hours down. ■ Out of your way · Year → month → week → day. Two fingers move between the overview and the hour. · iPhone and iPad share the same data over iCloud. · 15 languages, switched instantly inside the app — no reinstall. · The Mac app is sold separately on the Mac App Store. ■ Purchases Using the app requires a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled before the period ends; manage them in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://lim394.github.io/smallbutbig-legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Kapi
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See how much time you spend studying, working and resting. Kapi measures each activity with a stopwatch that counts up, then shows your daily timeline and weekly activity totals. Every saved activity adds a little capybara to your daily room. START NOW, NAME IT WHEN YOU FINISH Tap to start the stopwatch. Finish when you are done, then choose an activity or give it your own name. Time spent naming the activity is not added to its duration. Your start time stays saved when you leave the app. LOOK BACK AT YOUR DAY AND WEEK See when each activity happened and how long it lasted. Review daily bars and activity totals in the weekly view. Add a missed activity or edit a saved activity and its start and end times. A LITTLE KAPI FOR EACH ACTIVITY Choose from 12 activities, including study, work, cooking, gaming, exercise and rest. Your saved activities bring capybaras into your daily room. Tap a Kapi to revisit its record. YOUR STOPWATCH ON THE HOME SCREEN Add a Kapi widget to see elapsed time and open the app. On iOS 17 or later, start and finish from the widget, then open Kapi to name the activity. RECORD WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Recording works offline, and activity records are stored on your device. Cloud sync and in-app export are not available. Removing the app can remove its local records; device backups are managed by your operating system. Available in English and Korean, following your device or app language settings. Support: pycraft114@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Kapi at daily against SmallButBig's every 2 days. Kapi also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmallButBig ships an update every 2 days, Kapi daily. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.
| Parameter | SmallButBig | Kapi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junbeom Lim | Chan Woo Park |
In-app purchases
SmallButBig
No in-app purchases
Kapi
No in-app purchases









