Comparison

Cria Planner vs TaskFace

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

Head to head
About

Cria Planner

Features
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One planner for your whole crew. Cria Planner is a shared family calendar, to-do list, meal planner, notebook and budget in one app, so the school run, the food shop and the summer trip stop living in five different apps. Free for two. PLAN TOGETHER Create a shared space for anything, from the household to the summer trip, and invite your people. Everyone sees the same events, the same lists and the same notes, updated the moment anyone changes anything. And everyone you invite gets the full app free — one subscription covers the whole family. MEALS AND THE FOOD SHOP Plan the week's meals, drag them between days when things change, and every ingredient lands on one shared shopping list — your grocery list, grouped by shop, with the sizes and prices it remembers from last time. Plan ahead from meals you have already cooked, or load a ready-made week. Keep proper recipes, link them to the meals that use them, and send one to another Cria Planner user in a tap. STOP CHASING EVERYONE Assign a task to someone and set a reminder that reaches their phone, not just yours. When they forget anyway, nudge them: one tap pings their phone right now, and they answer "On it" straight from the notification without opening the app. Built for busy households, forgetful teenagers, and keeping a gentle eye on parents and grandparents. SPLIT THE COSTS Give any space a budget. Log what everyone spends, split it between members — or with guests who don't need the app at all — then settle up in one round where each person ticks off what they've paid. Who owes who, solved. YOUR WHOLE DAY, ONE SCREEN My Day gathers today's events, due tasks and pinned notes from every space into a single feed. Open the app, see what matters, get on with your day. LET CRIA BUILD IT Describe the trip or the week ahead and the Cria assistant sets up the whole space for you, events and tasks and all. Included with Family. EVERYTHING ELSE - Organize: every space, meal plan and budget on one screen, with your favourites on top - Month, week and day calendar views, colour-coded by space - Quick add that reads plain English: type "dentist tomorrow 3pm" and the date sets itself - Import the events already sitting in your device calendar - Subtasks, five priority levels, drag to reorder, and a satisfying tick - Formatted notes with headings, lists, checklists, pictures and file attachments, lockable behind Face ID when they are private - Voice dictation into any note - Recurring events, snooze buttons on reminders, and a morning digest at 8am - Accent colours, dark mode, and an animal avatar for everyone in the space WORKS OFFLINE The full planner runs on your device with no account and no connection needed. Sign in, and everything syncs across your devices and criaplanner.com in any browser. PLANS Free - the whole planner, synced across your devices. Share any space with one other person, plan this week's meals and keep 5 recipes. Ads after your first week. Duo - the full app for two, ad-free: the meal planner a month ahead with its history and your meal library, unlimited recipes and week templates. Family - everything in Duo for your whole household, plus the Cria assistant and photos on your notes. Subscriptions are monthly or yearly, auto-renewing until cancelled, and yearly saves up to 30%. Prices are shown in your own currency in the app before you buy. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://criaplanner.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Made by Alpaca Media. A cria is a baby alpaca, which is where the name and the whole herd of avatars come from.

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TaskFace

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TaskFace keeps the top items of the built-in Reminders app on your Apple Watch face, all the time. Just raise your wrist to see what to do next. Your reminders stay where they are: adding with Siri, syncing across devices and viewing in the Reminders app all work as before. ā–  On your watch face • Shows your top reminders (up to 4 lines) in a watch face complication • Supported faces: Modular, Modular Compact, Infograph Modular • Show upcoming calendar events too. Choose how many lines, and how many of them are for events • Events stay for 1 hour after they start. All-day events fill spare lines. Holidays are not shown • 15 colors for reminders and events ā–  Arrange on iPhone • Drag to reorder — the order is saved as the priority in Reminders itself • Add, complete and rename right in TaskFace. Changes go to your watch face instantly • Check off an item on Apple Watch and you have 5 seconds to undo • A Home Screen widget shows the same list ā–  Always up to date • Set up one Shortcuts automation to refresh the face whenever you close Reminders, and you're done • Tap the complication to update it on the spot ā–  Your data • Uses only the reminders and calendars on your iPhone. The app stores nothing of its own • No account. No ads. No analytics • The app never connects to the internet. Nothing leaves your devices Requires an iPhone paired with an Apple Watch.

Screenshots

Cria Planner4 screens
TaskFace3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TaskFace at none against Cria Planner's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Cria Planner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and TaskFace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cria Planner ships an update weekly, TaskFace every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Cria Planner versus TaskFace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCria PlannerTaskFace
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlpaca Media LimitedJin Nakamura

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Cria Planner

Subscriptions4
  • Duo Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Family Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Duo Yearly1 Year trial$24.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly1 Year trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

TaskFace

One-time1
  • One Coffee$0.99

Questions

Is Cria Planner free?
Cria Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TaskFace free?
TaskFace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cria Planner or TaskFace have ads?
Cria Planner shows ads; TaskFace does not.
Which is updated more often, Cria Planner or TaskFace?
Cria Planner ships an update weekly, and TaskFace every 5 days. Most recently, Cria Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and TaskFace on October 10, 2026.

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