Amazing Marvin vs SuperPlanner

Amazing Marvin is a personal productivity app for organizing tasks and planning work. It supports recurring tasks, time estimates, color coding, focus sessions, time blocking, workload planning, and review reports. Users can choose Day Planning, List-Based, Spontaneous, or GTD workflows, and adjust more than 300 settings, layouts, themes, colors, and feature controls. Calendar sync is available, and imports are supported from Todoist, TickTick, Asana, ClickUp, and Google Calendar. The app runs on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Marvin Pro starts at $8 per month; annual billing costs $96 per year and saves 33%. The 14-day trial provides full access without a credit card, but after the trial users cannot add or complete tasks until subscribing. Support includes personal email contact, and community channels include Facebook Group, Discord, and Reddit. Users can cancel through settings at any time.

SuperPlanner is a visual day planner and task manager for iOS and macOS. It uses time blocking to place activities and tasks on a timeline, with events from calendars already on the device shown alongside planned activities. Activities can have custom repetition rules, different times on different days, notifications, icons and colors. Tasks support priorities, lists, reminders, notes, images, tags and colors, and can be linked to activities or calendar events. A horizontal Day Summary displays current events, overdue items, anytime tasks and what comes next; overdue items can be moved to today, tomorrow, the next weekday or their next occurrence. The Mac app adds a menu bar Command Bar and global shortcut to search tasks, run commands or capture a task from another app. Widgets, Do Next suggestions and Live Activities on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen are also available. No sign-up is required. The maker says app data is stored locally and in the user’s private iCloud account, while anonymous crash, performance and analytics data is gathered. The free plan has limited features; Pro Monthly is $4.99 a month with a three-day free trial.