Comparison

Tick vs Due Pal

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

Head to head
About

Tick

Organize your life with a visually engaging to-do list app featuring animated tiles and customizable themes. Set date or location-based reminders, share lists with others, and manage tasks with priorities and notes.

Highlights
  • Animated tile home screen
  • Customizable color themes
  • iCloud sync and sharing
  • Date and location reminders
  • Priority levels
  • Notes for context
  • Drag-to-reorder functionality
Features
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Featured on Wired, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Lifehacker, iMore, AppAdvice, and many others. "Being ultra-organized just got more fun" — The Washington Post. "Tick is a customizable, icon-based to-do list app filled with animations that appeals equally to logic and emotion." — Wired. Tick is a powerful and beautifully designed to-do app, rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26 with a modern Liquid Glass interface. Organize your life with colorful animated tiles, set reminders for the right moment, and share lists with family and friends over iCloud. ORGANIZE ◉ Animated tile home — each list is a vibrant tile with its own animated icon: the shopping cart rolls, the paws walk, the credit card swipes, and many more. ◉ Priorities and notes — flag todos as Low, Medium, or High, and attach notes for extra context. ◉ At-a-glance badges — every todo shows tappable badges for its due date, repeat, priority, and notes, so you see what's set without opening it. ◉ Drag to rearrange — reorder your lists and todos simply by dragging them. ◉ Choose your layout — show 2 or 3 lists per row, right from Settings. REMIND ◉ Date reminders — get notified at a specific time, with daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly repeats. ◉ Mark done from the notification — press and hold a reminder, then tap Mark Done to complete a todo without opening the app. SHARE AND SYNC ◉ iCloud sync — your lists stay up to date across all your devices, automatically. ◉ Shared lists — share any list with other iCloud users; todos, reminders, and notes all travel together in real time. PERSONALIZE ◉ Color themes — apply a theme to color all your lists at once, or pick an individual color per list. ◉ Custom icons — choose an animated icon for each list from a curated set. ◉ Appearance — light, dark, or system, and turn animations on or off. TICK PRO Unlock everything with a single one-time purchase: ◉ All premium icons and color themes. ◉ Copy any list as text — paste your todos into Notes, Messages, and more. ◉ Pay once, yours forever — restores across all your devices. WORKS GREAT ON iOS ◉ Home Screen widget — keep any list on your Home Screen, in its own color. ◉ Home Screen quick actions — long-press the app icon to start a new list or todo instantly. ◉ Spotlight and Siri — find your lists in Spotlight search, and ask Siri to open one hands-free. ◉ Dynamic Type and VoiceOver — full support for larger text and accessibility. ◉ Localized in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Danish, and Portuguese (Brazil). We'd love to hear from you — tap Send Feedback in Settings to get in touch.

About

Due Pal

This app provides a persistent visual countdown to your next scheduled event, designed to combat time blindness for individuals with ADHD. It offers customizable visual styles and smart reminders to help manage transitions between tasks and appointments.

Highlights
  • Persistent visual countdown
  • Always-visible on Lock Screen/Dynamic Island
  • Two visual styles: Flip Clock & Digital
  • Smart transition reminders
  • Flexible daily scheduling
  • High-contrast readable design
Features
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If you have ADHD, you know the feeling: you glance at the clock, it says 2:15. You look again — it's 4:47. Two and a half hours vanished. Your meeting started 17 minutes ago. This is time blindness. It isn't laziness or carelessness — your brain genuinely doesn't feel time passing. A clock tells you what time it is. DuePal shows you how much time you have left. HOW IT WORKS Set the anchor points of your day once: 9:30 — Stand-up 12:00 — Lunch 14:00 — Focus block 17:30 — Wrap up 18:30 — Pick up kids DuePal counts down to the next one, live. When it arrives, the countdown hands over to the next on its own — no timers to restart, no alarms to set again. Add a start time and a progress bar fills as the window runs out. ALWAYS IN SIGHT • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island, with a Skip button • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in every size • Apple Watch app with complications • Control Center control, Siri and Shortcuts You never have to remember to check. The countdown is already there. A HEADS-UP BEFORE EVERY SWITCH For ADHD brains the hard part isn't the task — it's switching. Get a heads-up minutes before each due, then a reminder when it arrives. On iOS 26 and later, dues can ring as real system alarms, even in Silent mode. WORKDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS Weekday dues skip your country's public holidays automatically — 20 countries and regions supported, including make-up workdays in mainland China and Taiwan. Skip a single day off with one tap. COUNTDOWNS FOR THE DAYS AHEAD Weekend, payday, the next public holiday, birthdays, trips and exams. Pin the one you care about to the top and to your widgets. MADE TO BE READ AT A GLANCE Six clock styles, from a flip clock to a progress ring, and twelve color themes. High contrast, large numbers, no clutter — you should know how much time you have in under a second. QUICK TO SET UP Start from routine templates or a quick 25-minute timer. iCloud keeps your dues the same on iPhone and iPad. WHO DUEPAL IS FOR Adults with ADHD who lose track of time between meetings and tasks. Students who miss class changes and study blocks. Parents juggling school pickup, meals and bedtime. Anyone who has set a 15-minute timer and been shocked when it went off "already." WHY NOT A REGULAR TIMER A timer counts a set length, stops at zero, and has to be started again every time. DuePal counts to the times of your whole day, repeats on workdays, knows your holidays and moves on to the next thing by itself. FREE AND PREMIUM DuePal is free to download. The free version includes one due, two countdowns of your own, the Live Activity, Dynamic Island and the Current Due widget. DuePal Premium adds unlimited dues and countdowns, Ring as Alarm, public-holiday skipping, the Apple Watch app and complications, the Countdowns widget, and every clock style and color theme. Choose a weekly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with a 3-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. If you bought DuePal before it was free, Premium is already yours. No ads, no account. Privacy: https://elevenapril.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://elevenapril.com/terms

Screenshots

Tick4 screens
Due Pal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Due Pal at 5.0 against Tick's 3.0. Due Pal also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 54%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Tick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Due Pal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Due Pal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Tick's written reviews are positive against 90% of Due Pal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tick ships an update every 2 weeks, Due Pal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tick versus Due Pal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickDue Pal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaphive GmbH帅 陈

Customer experience

Tick

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive53.5%
Neutral11.1%
Negative35.4%

Due Pal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tick

One-time1
  • Tick Pro$4.99
None

Due Pal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tick free?
Tick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Due Pal free?
Due Pal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tick or Due Pal?
Due Pal is rated higher. Tick averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Due Pal averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tick or Due Pal have ads?
Neither Tick nor Due Pal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tick or Due Pal?
Tick ships an update every 2 weeks, and Due Pal fortnightly. Most recently, Tick was updated on October 20, 2026 and Due Pal on October 19, 2026.

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