DoMind vs Helium

DoMind is a personal planner for iOS and Android that brings notes, todos, habits, events, occasions, chores, and a private photo journal together. Its Today’s Overview collects habits due, chores, todos with deadlines, and upcoming events in one view. Notes can be grouped, reordered, searched, formatted with rich text, and saved with photos. Habits can use daily, weekly, monthly, or custom schedules, including multiple time slots per day. Events are one-time entries; occasions such as birthdays repeat yearly and can hold notes and photos for each year. Students can track assignments, recurring study habits, exam events, and searchable class notes. DoMind works offline, and an account is not required. Backups are manual through Google Drive on Android or iCloud on iOS; cross-device sync is unavailable and restoration is manual. Images are stored locally and compressed, which may affect quality. The free plan includes all features with limited entries per category. Premium costs $2.99/mo or $19.99/yr, and Lifetime costs $79.99 once.

Helium is a free planner for organizing classes, homework, grades, notes, and academic workload. Its grade tools calculate results in real time, let students test hypothetical scores, and estimate what is needed on a final to reach a target grade. Scheduling offers Month, Week, 3-Day, Day, and Agenda views with color coding, filters, search, and drag-and-drop. Push notifications on iOS, Android, and web, or email reminders, can cover assignments, classes, exams, and events. Helium supports two-way syncing with Google, Apple, other calendars, and iCal sources. Notes can include headings, lists, quotes, links, and search, and can connect to classes or assignments. The open-source service provides a public REST API for actions available in its apps, though it does not maintain official tooling or pre-built integrations. Users can access, export, or delete their data, and full schedules can be exported as JSON. Data is stored and processed on servers in the United States. Helium says it suits middle school, high school, college, university, graduate school, and homeschool students.