Best Decision vs Smart Decision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Decision
This app helps you make objective choices by analyzing your options based on your defined criteria and their importance. It guides you through a simple three-step process to identify the best decision and presents results in a clear, sorted list.
- 3-step decision making process
- Define custom criteria and importance
- Unlimited decisions, options, and criteria
- Decision templates
- Data sync across devices via iCloud
- Secure with Touch ID/Face ID
- Share results via message, email, PDF
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Buying new MacBook? Wondering which house is best for your family? Choosing holidays: tropical beach or a spirited trip through Asia? Always make Best Decision! Best Decision is an extremely easy choice-making analytics app. It will tell you which decision is objectively the best, then YOU choose whatever you please. The decision making process in Best Decision is trimmed down to the necessary minimum. It’s a 3-step-down staircase: 1. enter all the choices you’re considering 2. enter all the relevant criteria and their importance 3. estimate how well each option meets each criterion Best Decision takes it from here and the math does the job. As an outcome, you get plain & simple result: your Best Decision and all the other options in order of how well they suit you. So if you are about to make an important decision, let Best Decision's algorithms do the hard work for you. GET IT NOW! Most important FEATURES of Best Decision: 1. UNIVERSAL APP for all your iOS and macOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac) 2. uses iCloud to automatically SYNC your data between all your devices 3. suitable for COMPLEX and SIMPLE DECISIONS 4. highly FLEXIBLE: + can store unlimited number of decisions, options and criteria + is suitable for different types of decisions + allows to define personal criteria together with their importance + allows to modify all previous inputs + allows to change the order of decisions, options and criteria (tap and hold) 5. Decision TEMPLATES 6. Touch ID, Face ID or password-protect so YOU DECIDE who can access your decisions 7. USER FRIENDLY: guides you easily through the decision making process 8. presents OBJECTIVELY BEST OPTION in comparison with all other sorted by rating results 9. you can SHARE calculated verdict by Message, send it by mail, generate to PDF or save to Photos 10. use 3D Touch ACTIONS on icon to quickly go to the last 3 decisions or create a new one 11. find any decision in your SPOTLIGHT SEARCH by name or considered option 12. work more efficiently with SLIDE OVER and SPLIT VIEW on your iPad
Smart Decision
This app helps you make informed choices by comparing options based on your defined criteria. It supports various criterion types and allows you to weight their importance for a clear, ranked outcome.
- Define options and criteria
- Six criterion types supported
- Weighted importance for criteria
- Real-time result updates
- iCloud Sync across devices
- Free to use with optional tips
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Make rational decisions based on the criteria relevant to you. Define the available Options and the Criteria on which the Decision should be based and let Smart Decision do the math and determine your best choice. Options are the items/alternatives you want to compare, ultimately deciding which is the preferred one. Criteria are the standards on which the Decision should be based. Smart Decision supports six different Criterion types: - Requirement: for essential characteristics a viable option should have - Binary: Yes or No, e.g. WiFi connectivity - Ranking: option order from hightest to lowest - Rating: rate each option with zero to five stars - Value [prefer lower]: e.g. price or power consumption - Value [prefer higher]: e.g. storage capacity or processor speed Each Criterion can be given a weight (from one to five, according to its importance) to be applied in the result calculation. The result is a ranking of all Options sorted by the percentage of the maximum possible score achieved by each Option. It is updated automatically as you evaluate each Criterion for each Option, so you get immediate feedback about the impact of every change. Smart Decision supports iCloud Sync, so your Decisions are kept up to date on all your iOS devices. Smart Decision is totally free, In-App-Purchases allow you to tip the developer and have no impact on the app's functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Decision at 5.0 against Best Decision's 4.6. Smart Decision also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Best Decision's advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Best Decision sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Smart Decision sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Decision holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Decision has 98 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Best Decision's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smart Decision's.
Best Decision ships an update every 2 months, Smart Decision every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Decision | Smart Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (98 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 98 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukasz Kowalski | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
Best Decision
Smart Decision
Bugs and requests
Best Decision
Reported bugs
10 issues- App keeps crashing when entering choices
- N/A option negatively affects results
- Inability to sort/rearrange items in a list
- Verdict displayed incorrectly (repeated or missing options)
- Option C score not displayed correctly
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- Option C marked as best with incorrect score
- Emailing results doesn't work
- Syncing with iCloud stopped at 20 items
- Poor user interface: clicking decision text renames it
- Verdicts do not show properly, sometimes missing or repeated
Requested features
22 requests- CSV export for analysis
- Display logic in a simple table
- Sort alphabetic or manually
- Copy and paste projects
- Build in a radar / gap analysis chart
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- Create correlation line chart
- Manually change order of items
- Sort Criteria list
- Export and import information without iCloud
- 3D Touch in Criteria list for ratings
- Probability value of options for SWOT analysis
- Ability to email whole decision
- Sync between devices
- Evaluate trade-offs
- More specific numbering by use of scaling
- Graphic like diagrams
- Allow less than six criteria
- Final analysis not leaving out options
- List options in numerical order
- Reorganize order of criterion/options
- Tap option name to scroll full name
- Improve poor user interface (e.g., renaming text)
Smart Decision
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Decision
- Golden Membership One-time Pay$1.99
Smart Decision
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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