Comparison

Buckets vs Snagbox

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

Snagbox

This app provides a private, offline library to save links, notes, photos, PDFs, and other files. It offers robust search and organization features, with optional iCloud sync for cross-device access. Designed for privacy, it requires no account or sign-up.

Highlights
  • Save links, notes, photos, videos, PDFs
  • One-tap saving from Share Sheet
  • Preview of saved items
  • Searchable content including PDFs and photos
  • Optional iCloud sync
  • Offline functionality
  • App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
Features
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Save links, articles, notes, PDFs, photos and videos to one private library on your iPhone. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Nothing leaves your device unless you turn on iCloud sync. Snagbox is a bookmark manager and read-later app for everything you want to keep, and find again in seconds. Read-later apps come and go. Snagbox has no servers to switch off. SAVE FROM ANY APP IN ONE TAP - Share Sheet: Safari, YouTube, Instagram, Mail, Files and any app with a share button - Paste a link and Snagbox fetches the title, description and image - Take a photo straight into Snagbox; it never touches your Photos library - Save with Shortcuts, Siri or Back Tap - Grab whatever is on your clipboard EVERYTHING GETS A PREVIEW Links show their cover image and site icon. PDFs show the first page. Videos show a frame. Notes show the opening lines. Checklists show your progress. You recognize what you saved before you read a word. FIND IT AGAIN, FAST - Search titles, notes and link text as you type - Search inside PDFs and the text inside photos and screenshots - Filter by kind, category, tag or date - Find saved items from Spotlight on your Home Screen ORGANIZE LATER, OR NEVER Categories and tags are optional. Save now and sort whenever you like. Sensible categories and tags are ready on first launch. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account and no email address, ever - No analytics, no tracking, no third-party code - Works fully offline, on a plane or underground - Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID - Photos and videos you capture in Snagbox stay in Snagbox OPTIONAL iCLOUD SYNC Off by default. Turn it on and your library appears on your other Apple devices through your own iCloud account. We never see it: there is no server, no database and no company holding your things. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD iPad gets a real sidebar, a multi-column grid, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop and full pointer support. YOUR LIBRARY AT A GLANCE A dashboard shows what you saved and what you forgot: counts by kind, your busiest categories and tags, what you added this month and what has waited the longest. GREAT FOR - Articles and videos to read or watch later - Receipts, tickets, warranties and manuals - Research for a project, a trip, a renovation or a purchase - Recipes, workouts, wishlists and gift ideas - Screenshots that would vanish into your camera roll - Anything you would otherwise text to yourself Snagbox is free to start. Snagbox Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Privacy Policy: https://snagbox.mrb-lab.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://snagbox.mrb-lab.com/terms

Screenshots

Buckets4 screens
Snagbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

Buckets and Snagbox are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Snagbox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 Snagbox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Buckets versus Snagbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBucketsSnagbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRami SalamehMd Rakib Bhuiyan

Customer experience

Buckets

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

Snagbox

All ratings3 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

Snagbox

Subscriptions2
  • Snagbox Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Snagbox Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Snagbox Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snagbox free?
Snagbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Buckets or Snagbox?
Buckets and Snagbox are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Buckets or Snagbox have ads?
Neither Buckets nor Snagbox shows ads.

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