Decisions & goals August 2026

5 underrated apps for a decision you keep putting off

A decision stalls when every option is still in your head at the same time. These five each get them out of it differently: two columns, a strategy page, one canvas, a scoring sheet, or a grid of urgent against important.

The underrated apps for a decision you keep putting off are Pros & Cons, SWOT Pal, Lean Canvas, Best Decision and Eisenhower Matrix. I built SWOT Pal; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published August 2026 · apps and prices last checked 6 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   Pros & Cons

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.3 (327)

   Pros & Cons lays the two sides out and weighs them, for the choice you have been turning over since last month.

   Skip it if you want to keep old decisions: an update wiped them for several reviewers, and the app has gone a long time without another one.

   Official site ↗More lists with Pros & Cons

   
2. 

   SWOT Pal Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Productivity · App Store 5.0 (8)

   SWOT Pal takes a company name and returns a strategy you can defend, with every claim traced back to a real source.

   App Store ↗More lists with SWOT Pal

   
3. 

   Lean Canvas

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Business · App Store 4.7 (114)

   Lean Canvas puts the whole business idea on one page, so you find out which part you cannot actually answer.

   Skip it if you want to type on a phone — it forces landscape while the keyboard stays portrait, which is the complaint nearly every reviewer leads with.

   Official site ↗More lists with Lean Canvas

   
4. 

   Best Decision

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.6 (99)

   Best Decision scores each option against what you actually care about, instead of leaving you to re-rank them in your head every night.

   Skip it if your decision has more than a handful of criteria, or you want to reorder them — reviewers who outgrew the template went back to a spreadsheet.

   Official site ↗More lists with Best Decision

   
5. 

   Eisenhower Matrix

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.6 (98)

   Eisenhower Matrix sorts by urgent against important, which is the decision underneath most of the others.

   Skip it if you want two-way sync with Apple Reminders — it imports and does not push back, and there is no widget for adding a task from the home screen.

   Official site ↗More lists with Eisenhower Matrix

   

SWOT Pal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.