Comparison

Buckets vs Renuvia

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

Head to head
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

About

Renuvia

This app helps you manage all your renewal dates, from subscriptions to contracts. It provides timely reminders and allows you to track decisions, attach proof, and record outcomes to avoid unexpected charges.

Highlights
  • Renewal Radar for action items
  • Decision tracking (Keep, Cancel, Review)
  • Attachment of proof and outcomes
  • Supports various renewal types
  • On-device OCR for data capture
  • Commitment cost visualization
  • Private by default, optional sync
Features
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Know what each renewal needs next. Renuvia brings upcoming commitments, decision deadlines and the evidence behind them into one clear place. MAKE THE NEXT DECISION • Review items that need action and those coming up in your Renewal Radar. • See an exact “Decide by” date only when your contract provides a cancellation deadline or notice period. If it is unknown, Renuvia says so instead of guessing. • Choose to keep, cancel, review, negotiate, switch or be reminded later. • Open the provider, record your decision and attach evidence when you complete an action. TRACK MORE THAN SUBSCRIPTIONS Keep an eye on digital subscriptions, free trials, memberships, insurance, warranties, domains, hosting, contracts, licences, vehicle services and other renewals. ADD DETAILS YOUR WAY Add an item manually, even when you are offline, or capture a screenshot, invoice, PDF or barcode. On-device OCR can suggest a company, date, amount and URL with confidence and source evidence for you to review. You confirm extracted details before saving. SEE UPCOMING COMMITMENTS Review monthly equivalents, annual committed costs and known commitments across the next 30, 60 and 90 days. Renuvia helps with renewal decisions; it is not a budgeting app. COUNT COMPLETED OUTCOMES Savings are recorded only after you mark a cancellation or switch complete before the commitment deadline. A plan to act is not counted as money saved. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Quick Add works without an account, network, OCR or AI. Documents stay in app-controlled storage. Telemetry never includes raw OCR text, screenshots, documents, names, dates, identifiers or financial values. Optional private iCloud sync and JSON/CSV export are available. Privacy Policy: https://lbernardo-dev.github.io/apps/en/case-studies/renuvia/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription Terms: https://lbernardo-dev.github.io/apps/en/case-studies/renuvia/subscriptions/ Support: https://lbernardo-dev.github.io/apps/en/case-studies/renuvia/support/

Screenshots

Buckets4 screens
Renuvia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Renuvia at free against Buckets's freemium. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Buckets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Renuvia sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Buckets against 5.0 for Renuvia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Buckets versus Renuvia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBucketsRenuvia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRami SalamehLester Romero Bernardo

Customer experience

Buckets

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Renuvia

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Buckets

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

Renuvia

Subscriptions3
  • Expirely Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Renuvia Pro Event Annual$12.991 Year
  • Expirely Pro Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Renuvia free?
Renuvia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Buckets or Renuvia?
Buckets and Renuvia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Buckets or Renuvia have ads?
Neither Buckets nor Renuvia shows ads.

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