Results in Folders vs Smolpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Results in Folders
This app helps you track various activities and goals with flexible modes like counting, timing, and timed intervals. Organize your progress with folders and visualize your achievements over time. Stay on track with customizable reminders and sync data across devices.
- Multiple tracking modes (counter, timer, timed intervals)
- Customizable daily, weekly, monthly, yearly goals
- Folder and subfolder organization
- Progress visualization and daily totals
- Apple Watch companion app
- Home Screen widgets
- Customizable reminders
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Results is a flexible activity and goal tracker that helps you measure what matters. Whether you're counting reps, timing workouts, tracking reading hours, or building daily habits — Results gives you a simple, powerful way to record progress and stay on target. Four tracking modes for any activity: • Counter — tap to count. Track pushups, glasses of water, pages read, or anything you want to tally up. • Timer — start and stop to record duration. Perfect for workouts, study sessions, meditation, or practice time. • Timer + Limit — set a countdown and get notified when time's up. Great for focused work intervals or timed exercises. • Timer + Counter — track both duration and count together. Ideal for sets and reps with rest timing. Set goals and see your progress: • Define daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly goals for any item • Color-coded progress shows green when you've hit your target • Today's totals visible right in the folder list — no need to open each item Organize your way: • Create folders and subfolders to group related activities • Mark favorites for quick access from the Favorites tab and Apple Watch • Move items between folders as your system evolves See your data from every angle: • Swipe between days, weeks, months, and years • Drill down from yearly to monthly to daily views • Latest tab shows all items with today's activity in one place • Recents tab shows your most recent tracking entries Apple Watch companion: • See your favorite items on your wrist • Tap to count or start/stop timers directly • Goal progress syncs automatically via iCloud Home Screen widget: • Small, medium, and large sizes • Shows today's tracked items with goal progress • Updates hourly and after every tracking action Reminders that keep you on track: • Set notification reminders per item at any time of day • Choose specific weekdays (Mon/Wed/Fri, weekends only, etc.) • Custom reminder messages • Timer+Limit completion alerts even when the app is in the background Your data, everywhere: • iCloud sync keeps everything up to date across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch • Automatic migration from Results 1.x — all your existing data carries over seamlessly
Smolpad
A minimalist Markdown editor that stores your notes as plain .md files, accessible across all your devices via iCloud. Offers beautiful writing tools and robust file management without bloat.
- Plain .md file storage
- iCloud sync
- Markdown syntax highlighting
- Task list checkboxes
- Folder organization and search
- File version history
- Menu bar app on Mac
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Smolpad is a smol Markdown editor with respect for your files. Every note is a plain .md file you can open with any app, on any device, forever. Your files are your own. No database. No lock-in. No bloat. Just a tiny, fast home for your notes on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. WRITE IN MARKDOWN, BEAUTIFULLY • Syntax dims as you type, or hides away entirely with one tap • Task lists become real checkboxes. Checkboxes that check. • Headings, bold, italic, code, quotes, and tables, styled as you write • A formatting bar for common touches, plus full keyboard shortcuts • Pictures too: drag or paste one in, resize it by its corner, and it lives as a plain file beside the note YOUR FILES, ANYWHERE • Notes sync through your own iCloud Drive, included free • Open your notes folder in Finder or Files any time • Organize with folders, pins, and instant search • A Trash for deleted notes, and a history of every note's earlier versions • Find notes in Spotlight, and open them with Siri or Shortcuts • Your notes never leave your devices except to your own cloud SMOL ON PURPOSE • On the Mac, Smolpad lives in your menu bar, one hotkey away • Tear off a note into its own window when you want to stay a while • On iPhone and iPad, it opens fast and stays out of your way • Eight hand-picked fonts and a clean, quiet interface MAKE IT YOURS WITH SMOLPAD PRO • Unlimited notes (the free tier includes ten) • Dropbox, pCloud, or Google Drive sync, in a folder that belongs to you • Notepads: open any folder of Markdown files as its own notepad, an Obsidian vault or a Bear export among them • Export to PDF, HTML, or rich text, and print • Widgets on the Mac, iPhone and iPad, Lock Screen widgets on iPhone, and Smolpad on Apple Watch • Twenty-nine editor themes, from Tokyo Night to Catppuccin • Seventeen app icons and the full menu bar icon set Smolpad Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The free tier is a real notes app, not a trial. Made by a smol team that believes plain text outlives everything. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smolpad.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smolpad at 5.0 against Results in Folders's 4.0. Smolpad also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Results in Folders's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). 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. Results in Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Smolpad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smolpad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Results in Folders ships an update every 2 months, Smolpad every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Results in Folders | Smolpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Garmash | BaconWorks, LLC |
Customer experience
Results in Folders
Smolpad
In-app purchases
Results in Folders
- Results in Folders Pro$4.99
Smolpad
- Smolpad Pro$1.491 Month
- Smolpad Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Smolpad Pro Lifetime$29.99
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