Comparison · November 2026
Questify vs Finch
Finch grows a bird when you look after yourself. Questify levels a hero when you finish real tasks. Different jobs, often the same person. Here's the honest version, written by one of the two teams.
| Questify | Finch | |
|---|---|---|
| What it's for | Getting real tasks started and finished: your to-do list as quests | Daily self-care check-ins, mood journaling and gentle habits |
| Your character | A hero that looks like you (Premium) and evolves through 20 earned forms | A pet bird you name, dress and send on adventures |
| Capture | The Orb: speak or type a brain dump, get three quests back | Pick from suggested self-care goals and reflections |
| Stakes | A weekly boss with a health bar that your finished tasks damage | Energy for your bird; no failure state |
| Bad days | Come back and pick one small quest; the focus stays on the next action | Gentle by design; nothing is lost |
| Group play | Guilds: up to six people, one shared streak and boss (Premium, beta) | Friends can send encouragement; not built around shared goals |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad | iPhone and Android |
| Price | Free task game. Premium $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr for personalized avatars and Guilds | Free core app. Finch Plus is a paid subscription |
Where Finch wins
If the problem you're solving is how you feel rather than what you finish, Finch is lovely, and its free tier is generous. The bird works because it's yours: you named it, you dressed it, and showing it off feels like showing off a pet, which is a big part of why it spread the way it did on TikTok. It also runs on Android, which we don't yet.
Finch is deliberately soft. Nothing punishes you, nothing times out, and for a lot of people that gentleness is the whole point. If a boss with a health bar sounds like pressure, trust that instinct and pick the bird.
Where Questify wins
Questify is built for the moment before a real task, not the reflection after one. You dump the whole chaotic day at the Orb and it hands back three things to do. Finishing one visibly damages a boss and moves a hero you can recognise as yourself through twenty forms. The stakes are light, but they exist, and for brains that need a reason to start, a reason is the product.
The other difference is what counts as progress. In Finch you grow by checking in. In Questify you grow by finishing the laundry, the invoice, the email you've been avoiding. If your to-do list is the thing that's broken, that's the loop you want.
So which should you pick?
Take Finch if you need a kind daily companion and your self-care is where things slip. Take Questify if you know exactly what you need to do and can't make yourself start it. Plenty of people run both: Finch in the morning, Questify for the day. Both are free to try tonight.
Questions people ask when they're choosing
Is Questify as gentle as Finch?
Can Questify do mood tracking or journaling?
Does Questify have a free version?
Is either app a treatment for ADHD?
Also compared: Habitica, Finch, Tiimo, Goblin Tools. Or see every gamified to-do app worth trying.
Finch is a trademark of its respective owners and is not affiliated with Questify. This comparison reflects publicly available information about Finch and our own product as of November 2026.