# dayGLANCE — Planner, goals & habit tracker

> Privacy-first planner for Apple devices, syncing tasks and goals across platforms. (iPhone/iPad app by Jason Krellner.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dayglance/id6771540599 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jason Krellner](https://appshunter.io/developer/6771540601)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-07-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dayglance/id6771540599/reviews.md

## What is dayGLANCE?

dayGLANCE is a privacy-first day planner for people who want a powerful planning tool without giving their data to someone else's server. Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

No accounts. No analytics. Your tasks, goals, and schedule stay on your device and only leave it when you choose.

A 14-day free trial is included. After that, subscribe or buy a lifetime unlock. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings.

See your day clearly

dayGLANCE gives you a clean, focused view of your day with a timeline that shows exactly what's ahead. Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad, plus Control Center controls on iOS 18, put your schedule at a glance without opening the app. On Mac, a menu-bar tray keeps dayGLANCE a click away, with a live focus countdown. When it's time to execute, Focus Mode helps you focus on what matters right now.

Built for your Apple devices

Buy once, use everywhere: dayGLANCE runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac through Universal Purchase. iCloud keeps your tasks, habits, and plans in sync across your devices automatically. Your tasks are indexed in Spotlight, and app-icon Quick Actions let you add a scheduled or inbox task, start a focus session, or queue voice input in one gesture.

Goals and projects, connected to your day

Build goals, break them into projects, connect them to the tasks on your timeline. dayGLANCE bridges long-term planning and daily execution.

Voice-powered task management (not available in all countries)

Create, reschedule, and edit tasks by speaking. dayGLANCE supports your choice of AI provider (bring your own API key). No AI backend is operated by dayGLANCE, and all AI features are optional. The app is fully functional without AI.

Integrates with the tools you already use

Apple Calendar: Your device calendars (iCloud, Google, Nextcloud/CalDAV) surface color-coded on your timeline
Obsidian: Two-way task sync, write to daily notes, and link tasks to other vault notes
Apple Health: Read steps and sleep to track habit progress automatically
TRMNL: Display your day on an e-ink dashboard

Cloud sync on your terms

Optional cloud sync and remote backup keep your data under your control. GLANCEvault (a sync backend you can self-host for free) always encrypts your data client-side with AES-256-GCM (PBKDF2 key derivation) before it leaves your device, so the server stores only encrypted content. Prefer WebDAV? Bring your own server and turn on sync encryption for the same client-side protection (or leave it off if you wish). Or sync through iCloud Drive, kept in your personal iCloud account under Apple's encryption.

Connects to other GLANCE apps

dayGLANCE can talk to lastGLANCE (and other GLANCE apps as they ship) through GLANCEintents, a cross-app protocol that flows through your own WebDAV or GLANCEvault server, or iCloud Drive. Send a chore from lastGLANCE to your dayGLANCE timeline; complete it in dayGLANCE and lastGLANCE knows. Optional end-to-end encryption keyed to your sync passphrase. Off by default.

Self-hostable and open

dayGLANCE is open source and self-hostable via Docker. It can run entirely on your own infrastructure. Either way, your data stays yours.

## Key features

- Privacy-first design, no accounts or analytics
- Native integration on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Home Screen widgets and Control Center integration
- Goals and projects linked to daily tasks
- Optional voice-powered task management
- Integrations with Apple Calendar, Obsidian, and Apple Health
- User-controlled cloud sync options (GLANCEvault, WebDAV, iCloud Drive)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dayGLANCE Pro | $19.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dayGLANCE Pro | $79.99 | one-time |



## Frequently asked questions about dayGLANCE

### Does dayGLANCE have ads?

No, dayGLANCE does not contain advertisements. It is a privacy-focused application designed without ads.

### What is the pricing for dayGLANCE?

dayGLANCE offers a 14-day free trial. After the trial, users can subscribe to dayGLANCE Pro for $19.99 per year or purchase a lifetime unlock. This one-time purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

### How does dayGLANCE handle user data privacy?

dayGLANCE is designed with privacy as a core feature. It requires no accounts or analytics, and your data stays on your device unless you choose to sync it. Optional cloud sync features like GLANCEvault offer client-side encryption.

### On which Apple devices can I use dayGLANCE?

dayGLANCE is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, supporting Universal Purchase for a single purchase across all devices.

### How often is dayGLANCE updated?

The latest version of dayGLANCE is 4.1.0, released on July 29, 2026. Updates are frequent, ensuring ongoing improvements and compatibility.

### Can I sync my data across devices with dayGLANCE?

Yes, dayGLANCE offers optional cloud sync through iCloud Drive, WebDAV, or GLANCEvault. This ensures your tasks, habits, and plans are automatically kept in sync across your Apple devices.

### What integrations does dayGLANCE offer?

dayGLANCE integrates with Apple Calendar, Obsidian for two-way task sync, and Apple Health to track habit progress. It can also display your day on TRMNL e-ink dashboards.

### Is voice-powered task management available in dayGLANCE?

Yes, dayGLANCE supports voice-powered task management, allowing you to create and edit tasks by speaking. This feature is optional and requires you to bring your own AI provider API key, with no AI backend operated by dayGLANCE.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.7.0 — 2026-08-25

IN YOUR LANGUAGE: Everything outside the app window was still English. No longer: the widget gallery, Control Center controls, widget empty states, and the Snooze 15m and Mark Complete notification buttons now appear in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Reminder notifications are localized too, across all seven app languages, and switching languages rewrites reminders already scheduled so none of them fire in your previous language.

SIRI AND SHORTCUTS: dayGLANCE now appears in the Shortcuts app and answers Siri, with three actions: add an inbox task, add a scheduled task, and start a focus session. They feed Spotlight and Siri suggestions as well.

OTHER FIXES:
- Control Center controls now work. Scheduled Task, Inbox Task, and Voice Task did nothing at all when tapped.
- Quick Actions now work on a cold launch. Long-pressing the app icon and tapping a shortcut previously just opened the app unless it was still running in the background.
- Fixed a blank screen after iOS reclaimed the app's web view in the background.
- Day Dial: an hour label now fades when a sunrise or sunset mark sits on it, instead of the two overlapping into something unreadable.

### 4.6.0 — 2026-08-22

DAY DIAL: Tap GLANCE to see your whole day as a glowing 24-hour instrument: your tasks and events as arcs in their own colors, brighter ahead of now and receding behind it, with an orange needle sweeping the face in real time.

The dial also shows sunrise and sunset marks, hourly temperatures, stretches of rain or snow, your sleep window, and totals for Effort, Restore, Sleep, and Unblocked time.

Tap a block to see its details in the hub, tap again to complete it or jump to it in the planner. Swipe to browse days, and tap TODAY to snap back.

Ambient mode turns the dial into a screensaver: the status bar tucks away, the screen stays awake, controls fade, and a subtle pixel drift protects OLED displays. You can set it to start on its own after a few minutes of inactivity. Tap anywhere to wake.

Also fixed: additional calendars no longer disappear when syncing settings across devices.

### 4.5.0 — 2026-08-20

Your Live Activity just got smarter. The Dynamic Island and lock screen summary now refresh quietly in the background, so your day stays current even when you have not opened the app in a while, and yesterday's summary cleans itself up after midnight.

Also in this release:

• Connect multiple CalDAV and ICS calendars at once, all managed in one list
• Repeat tasks on more than one weekday, like Mon/Wed/Fri
• Recurring tasks now stay linked to their project and count toward its progress
• Project progress shows "not measurable" instead of a misleading zero
• The project planner remembers whether you show or hide completed tasks
• Portuguese is now available in both Brazilian and European variants

### 4.4.0 — 2026-08-17

Sharing into dayGLANCE: Sharing a link or some text into dayGLANCE used to flash an empty white panel and look like it had failed. It now shows a proper confirmation with what was captured, in light or dark to match your device. Two ways shares could go missing are fixed with it: 
• Sharing anything containing a line break, a paragraph from Notes for example, used to discard not just that share but every other share waiting alongside it. Nothing is lost now, and a share that cannot be read is kept for the next attempt instead of dropped.
• Sharing several things in a row without opening the app only kept the last one. Every share now arrives, and they open one at a time so you can file each one.

More languages: German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese were shipping in the app but never loading. They load now, and the remaining untranslated text is filled in. There is also a language picker in Settings, then App Settings, so you can choose directly rather than relying on what your device reports.

Improvements:
• PLANNER: hide the SCHEDULED list for a project, so a project you are working through does not push everything else off the screen.
• A task note that is only a phone number gets a call button on the task row.

Under the hood:
• A failed sync cycle now rolls back correctly, so the next one re-reads what it missed rather than stepping past it.
• Vault connections stagger their reconnects, so a server coming back does not take every device at the same instant.

### 4.3.0 — 2026-08-11

YOUR DAY IN THE DYNAMIC ISLAND: New opt-in Live Activity: the current or next block with a live countdown and progress ring, time completed, and your Effort/Restore balance, without opening the app. The ring is tinted indigo for Effort and green for Restore, with a bolt or leaf inside it, so a glance tells you what kind of block is running as well as how much is left. The Lock Screen gets a matching banner. Turn it on in Settings > Notifications. Computed entirely on your device. No server, no tracking.

SUMMARY STRIP: Floating pills over the timeline show unblocked time, your Effort/Restore balance, and per-tag totals that become done/planned as you complete tasks. On iPhone and iPad it collapses to a single pill, and it now appears in LIST as well as GRID.

DAY WINDOW: Set start and end markers to define your day. Unblocked time respects them, and they sync across your devices.

RESET APP DATA: Settings > Backups now has a way to erase everything on this device and start from empty, with an export reminder beside it. You can also delete the copy in iCloud, so nothing restores it here or on a reinstall.

ICLOUD ASKS BEFORE RESTORING: Reinstalling the app used to bring everything back with no prompt, because the iCloud copy lives outside the app and deleting the app never removed it. Now you get a choice: restore from iCloud, or start fresh on this device. Starting fresh turns iCloud sync off for that device only and leaves the iCloud copy and your other devices alone. A new iCloud sync switch in Settings > Cloud Sync makes it reversible, and iCloud diagnostics in the same place shows exactly what this device can see.

COLLAPSIBLE GLANCE BUTTONS: One handle folds the GLANCE action buttons away and back. The choice sticks across reloads and is per device.

FIXES: Recurring tasks no longer disappear from today's views and widgets while you browse other days. LIST opens at the current time. Multi-user no longer claims cloud sync is missing on a device syncing over iCloud, and explains that iCloud is tied to a single Apple ID instead. Widgets and the Live Activity update only when something has actually changed. A sync guard that could republish a temporarily evicted iCloud file has been corrected.

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