Best Decision vs Protagonist
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
Protagonist
This app provides a structured framework for individuals and teams to make better, more informed decisions and prioritize tasks effectively. It offers a visual process to deepen understanding and track important factors, fostering a collaborative and self-managing work culture.
- Structure decision-making factors for analysis
- Clarify and visualize primary decision criteria
- Share decisions for collaborative input
- Prioritize projects and tasks with clear factors
- Facilitate in-depth discussions
- Generate decision proposals or reports
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Protagonist is designed to improve a company’s collaborative skill around decision making and prioritization. It gives individuals and teams a framework for making more informed decisions and for setting their own priorities more quickly and effectively. Within minutes of logging in, you can begin getting value out of Protagonist by setting up an important decision or creating a list of projects or steps to prioritize- using either the mobile app or web version of the app. A LITTLE STRUCTURE GOES A LONG WAY Important decisions are often poorly made despite the time spent considering them - particularly group decisions, because there is a lack of structure in the process. Often we make even important decisions with little structure… We all know the drill: we go around the room, debate a few points, often superficially (or sometimes one point to the exclusion of others), bring evidence in spurts and starts, discount or even forget certain criteria. In the end, we often make poor decisions because without a road map and a record of our thinking – our minds aren’t able to digest and process and hold on to all the factors. Protagonist provides a lightweight framework for a clear, visual process that can be used to deepen understanding and keep track of what is most important through a decision making process. STIMULATING A CREATIVE, SELF-MANAGING CULTURE People often have ideas at work, but get stuck because they aren’t sure how to bring them forward, or where they fit in the overall picture of the company’s priorities. Protagonist gives a whole team the ability to assess their ideas against other ideas before they bring them forward, improve them where they are weak, and bring them forward in a professional way. PROTAGONIST’S FEATURES... - Structure the factors in a decision-making process so that they can be more carefully analyzed. - Make the primary criteria for a decision clear and transparent and help assure each factor is given proper weight by visualizing it. - Share decisions and let others provide their perspective, creating a shared playing field and a visual way of relating to the decision. - Prioritize projects, steps to take, problems to solve - using a clear set of factors. - Provide a basis for effective discussion - going deeper rather than just wider as a decision is made. - Help make a decision understandable to others and help them have confidence in the decision once it is finalized. - Create a proposal or report based on the information behind the decision. The web version is available at https://protag.app. Enjoy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Protagonist at 5.0 against Best Decision's 4.6. Protagonist also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On price, ratings volume, 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 Protagonist sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Protagonist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Best Decision's written reviews are positive against 100% of Protagonist's.
Best Decision ships an update every 2 months, Protagonist every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Decision | Protagonist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (99 ratings) | 5.0 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 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 | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukasz Kowalski | Symbolic Frameworks, LLC |
Customer experience
Best Decision
Protagonist
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)
Protagonist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Decision
- Golden Membership One-time Pay$1.99
Protagonist
- Sharing Subscription$19.991 Year
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