Comparison

DooNuts vs Bracer

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

Head to head
About

DooNuts

Features
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DooNuts turns your todo list into a nut harvest. Every todo is a nut. When it's done, tap the nut: the squirrel carries it to the basket – and your pile grows. PLAN SIMPLY • Today shows what's due today, category by category. • Later gathers everything with a date, week by week and month by month. • As many categories as you like, each with its own nut: Work as a walnut, Home as a hazelnut, Sports as a pine nut … • Checklists: open a nut and tick off the small steps one by one. • Hold a nut to move it – into a new order or another category. • Repeating nuts: daily, weekly, monthly – they come back on their own. • A calendar with every nut at a glance, per category too. • Reminders at the time you choose, notes on every nut. • Search across everything. HARVEST, DON'T JUST CHECK OFF • Every finished nut lands in the basket. This season's harvest grows into a pile of nuts, next to the harvest of all time – category by category. • Music if you like: with the melody on, each nut that lands in the basket and each tap on your pile plays the next note of the day's melody – or keep it to a simple plop. • Seven classical melodies, one for each day of the week – played on a piano sampled note by note just for DooNuts. The note button switches melodies; the info button tells you what's playing. • Tap the squirrel – it's happy to see you. A SCENE THAT LIVES WITH THE DAY • The view of the waterfall changes with the season, the time of day and the real weather: sun, clouds, wind, rain, thunderstorms – plus snowy winters, sunsets and starry nights. • The habitat: visit the squirrel and the deer by the river. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • Open like a book: one screen becomes two. Your list on the left; on the right your week or your harvest, with your nut pile – one forest across both screens. Nibbit the squirrel carries your finished nuts across to the pile. • Half open like a laptop: the river comes alive above. Below, switch between your list and a music box: your nut pile becomes an instrument to tap, and after dark a soft night light. • Open and held upright: your list on top, your nut pile below. • Closed: everything fits the outer display. As you close it, Nibbit climbs down the side of your list; open it again and he climbs back to his seat. CALM AND PRIVATE • Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking. • Your location is used for the weather only – and only if you allow it. • English, German and Japanese. DOONUTS PRO DooNuts Pro is all about the look and the sound: • Three more critters: a flying squirrel, a ground squirrel and a dormouse. • Three more instruments for the melody: pizzicato strings, vibraphone and synthesizer. • Set the scenery yourself: any season, any time of day, any weather. • Seven more app icons. Pro is a growing collection: new critters, instruments and icons join it over time. DooNuts Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription – the yearly one with 7 days free for first-time subscribers – or a one-time purchase that's yours for good, no subscription. The app shows the price in your currency before you buy. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple account; manage or cancel it in your account settings. Everything that matters stays free – Pro takes nothing away. Privacy policy: https://juliannoxlabs.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Weather data by Apple Weather. DooNuts is made by JulianNoxLabs – independent software by Julian Laping. // crafting digital tools and sound

About

Bracer

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Your watch is the key to your social apps. Pick the apps that pull you in. Bracer puts a shield over them on your iPhone, and the only thing that opens them is a tap on your watch. The watch gives you a few minutes of scrolling, then the shield comes back on its own. No passcode. No “ignore limit for today”. Nothing to type your way around. If your watch isn’t with you, the apps stay closed. HOW IT WORKS • Choose the apps that eat your time. Any app, or whole categories at once. • They rest behind a shield on your iPhone. • Tap Unlock on your watch: the apps open for the minutes you chose, ten by default. Time in other apps doesn’t count. • When the minutes run out, the shield returns by itself. Want more? Ask your wrist again. A STRICTER KEY, WHEN YOU WANT ONE • Lock for… an hour, three hours, or until morning. No cancel, not even from the watch. • Key strictness: every key turns at once, or each one waits longer than the last, or three a day and then nothing until 7:00. NUMBERS THAT ARE ON YOUR SIDE • How long your apps have been resting, live, on your phone and on your watch face. • How often you reached for a resting app, and the keys you used, today and this week. • Your week: your longest rest, reaches day by day, which apps you reached for, and how often your watch said not yet. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, no servers, no analytics. Bracer uses Apple’s Screen Time on your own device and never learns which apps you picked or how long you use them. FREE AND PRO Free rests one app. Bracer Pro rests as many apps and categories as you like and adds Lock for…, Key strictness and Your week. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription with a free trial, or a one-time purchase. Prices are shown in the app before you decide. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and are charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel them in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of use: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Bracer needs an iPhone with iOS 18 or later and an Apple Watch with watchOS 11 or later. Without a watch there is no key, so nothing gets locked.

Screenshots

DooNuts4 screens
Bracer4 screens

Verdict

The call

DooNuts and Bracer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. DooNuts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Bracer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DooNuts versus Bracer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDooNutsBracer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJulian LapingPavel Lineitsev

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DooNuts

Subscriptions2
  • DooNuts Pro (Month)$1.991 Month
  • DooNuts Pro (Year)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • DooNuts Pro (Forever)$29.99
3 purchases

Bracer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever$59.99

Questions

Is DooNuts free?
DooNuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bracer free?
Bracer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DooNuts or Bracer have ads?
Neither DooNuts nor Bracer shows ads.

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