Ikiru is a simple but powerful app for making lists, keeping notes and setting reminders. It aims to help you live a productive and meaningful life, by enabling you to focus on the things that are most important to you.
IKIRU IS VERSATILE
Use it to create to do lists, shopping lists, take notes, store contact information, keep track of books to read, or movies to watch... or anything else you'd want to make a list for.
IKIRU IS BEAUTIFUL
With a clean and easy to use design, choose from over 2000 icons to assign to your lists.
IKIRU IS POWERFUL
- create lists within lists
- assign a due date and reminder to list items
- view all items with a due date in one convenient timeline
- add a photo to list items
- drag and drop to sort list items, or automatically keep a list sorted alphabetically, by modification date, completion date, and more
- easily copy or move items from one list to another
- mark items incomplete to return them to their original position in the list (this makes lists easy to reuse)
- send a list via email, and the receiver can import your list into their copy of Ikiru
- view items with due dates on your Apple Watch
IKIRU KEEPS YOUR DATA SAFE
- automatically back up and sync lists between iOS devices using iCloud
- use Touch ID or a custom passcode to protect your information
IKIRU HAS PURPOSE
The word "ikiru" (ee-kee-roo) means "to live" in Japanese. It's also the title of an Akira Kurosawa film about a man who decides to do something meaningful with his life. Ikiru (the app) is my attempt at doing something meaningful with my life, and hopefully help others live meaningful and productive lives.
IKIRU HAS HISTORY
In 2010 I released a list-making app called "Paperless". From busy moms to airplane pilots to people who needed a little help remembering things after suffering a brain injury, Paperless has been used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Ikiru is built upon that legacy - incorporating the best ideas from Paperless, greatly improving upon them, and adding big features that people have requested.
IKIRU NEEDS LOVE
If you find Ikiru useful, please rate and review it in the App Store. Thank you!
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Is Ikiru free?
Ikiru is not free (it costs 6.99), however it doesn't contain in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Ikiru legit?
🤔 The Ikiru app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
The features of this app are great; you can build lists within lists and the interface is user friendly, but the two main issues I found challenging were the limited options for reminders (for example, you cannot set a reminder for every 4 months, or every third Monday, etc.); the only options are every day, week, month, year. This was a minor annoyance compared to that of the second issue of getting multiple reminders for the same item, or worse yet, getting reminders for items deleted as though they were never deleted. For these reasons, I decided to delete the app for good and to use something else. Disappointing.
Could have been a great app
Could have been a great app, but unfortunately not a lot of development and enhancements happened in the last few years I have had it. You still can’t tag, you can’t even view parent of your note which is very limiting in searching something that has unlimited layering.
Most annoying bugs have not been fixed. On my iPad pro, once you turn on faceID the app never opens on the first try! You have to close it and reopen it. Not only that but once you turn on faceID lock you can’t go back and disable it. When you try to do that from the interface the UI just blinks and takes you nowhere. Also constant issues with losing synch between devices.
I'm revising my review below from one to three stars
I'm changing my review as I have resolved some of the issues I was having and have increased my rating from one to three stars. I LOVED this app and have been using it for years but it started to crash constantly. When my iPhone 7+ started playing up recently I increased my iCloud memory to 1Tb to ensure I had backup. I had so many problems backing up to my support phone that I had virtually given up on this App. After much help from Apple and the purchase of a new iPhone 14 I have overcome most of the issues and I can again access the App and still use it as I have SO much data on there but it just shuts after a few minutes. It's VERY frustrating. The App seems to be unsupported but I would gladly pay a small annual subscription as it is so comprehensive. Maybe the developer has been seriously ill or heaven forbid has died. I have dozens of lists here in fact I use it as a pictorial inventory for hobby collections like numismatics (google it). I have lists within lists for everything from storage lockers to shopping lists and recipes. It's simply amazing. I'm just FRUSTRATED to hell that I have to keep reopening it every couple of minutes! Original review - Best avoided, unsupported for years. I used to use this app extensively and had many VERY detailed lists. It WAS an AWESOME app but was never well supported. Recently it stopped syncing and when I changed my phone I could not transfer my lists. As far as I can tell all the good reviews are years old and the app is redundant. I’m surprised Apple still list it.
Support Sucks!!
Pretty good app, but support for problems does NOT exist. I’m not talking about “how to” or feature request, but report of a genuine problem that is causing data to be lost. Totally unacceptable. I guess some developers think it’s enough to take your money, and the hell with you if you have a problem. I’m surprised Apple doesn’t have a better policy for app developer supporting their app. If I could give this zero stars I would.
Everything is fixed now I’m happy
All good now
Great app. One of a kind.
Not many apps out there have this sleek look and allow you to make folders, sub folders etc. My suggestion would be to have a “highlight” option for to do items that you want to mark as priority. Perhaps an option on a swipe that results in background colour for that item being a few shades different than other items that are not “highlighted”.
Besides that this app is awesome for the price. I have purchased it twice now.
I give this app a 4.5!
Simple But Extremely Functional
I have tried numerous checklist/reminder apps and this one, in my opinion, is the best there is. Great value for the price. The app is very powerful and does exactly what you need. I love the various sorting abilities, and the strike through to show when there are no more outstanding items. A few things need improving - functions which will hopefully show up in future releases:
No ability to add interval repeats (e.g. you can specify every month, but not every 2 months - workaround: use iOS Reminders app.
When viewing a reminder, does not display repeating type (e.g. whether the reminder repeats weekly or monthly - you have to select the setting to view how often it repeats).
Only items with a reminder are displayed on Apple Watch. I can't use my watch to check off my grocery list - workaround: use my phone.
I’m not a big fan of the swipe to complete items. Checkboxes with a quick tap are much easier but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
Ok for iPhone
Great for iPhone but does NOT put lists on Apple Watch. That is a fail and should NOT be listed as compatible for Apple Watch.
Wish I could get my money back.
After Paperless I was expecting more functionality in this app not less.
Many issues with this App: hard to read, frustrations with functionality (never could make anything complete). Don’t waste your money. I’ll be deleting it and going back to Paperless.
The list app I’ve been looking for!
I love this app. It’s intuitive to use, beautiful to look at, AND it lets me duplicate lists. Also has list-within-list functionality. I have tried A LOT of list apps but this is one is my favourite. Worth every penny - thanks for making it!