Comparison

Bed Time | Large Clock vs Daily Notes Planner 3

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bed Time | Large Clock

This app offers a large, customizable clock designed for bedside or desk use. It features adjustable brightness, color options, and display settings like date and seconds. Calming sounds are included to aid sleep, and the interface is simple with gesture controls.

Highlights
  • Large, readable time display
  • Adjustable brightness and color
  • Dark and light modes
  • Optional date, seconds, and 12/24 hour format
  • Calming sleep sounds (rain, waves, fire)
  • Gesture-based controls
  • Portrait and landscape orientation support
Features
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A simple and elegant clock with a focus on displaying the time in the most pleasing and readable way possible. There's a dark mode, with the ability to lower the brightness so that the time is only just readable, ideal for use at night as a bedside clock. During the day, the light mode with full and vibrant colours can be used to keep track of the time while you work. As well as customising the clock with a selection of colours and brightness levels, you can choose to display or hide the date, seconds, use the 12 or 24 hour clock, and of course toggle between night and day mode. The layout of the clock intelligently adjusts to make the best use of the screen whether your device is in portrait or landscape. Bed Time also includes a set of calming sounds - such as rain, ocean waves, a burning fire, etc - to help you drift off to sleep. Bed Time is designed with simplicity in mind - just tap the screen and a small selection of controls will be displayed - or alternatively you can use simple gestures: • Swipe left and right to cycle through a selection of colours • Swipe up and down to adjust the brightness • Pinch and zoom to show or hide the date and the seconds • Long press to switch between 4 different styles • Dark mode with a coloured background • Dark mode with a black background • Light mode with coloured background • Light mode with a white background • Elegant in both portrait and landscape The Bed Time app is designed to be used in conjunction with a stand on your bedside table or desk.

About

Daily Notes Planner 3

This app offers a simple way to organize your thoughts and schedule. It combines calendar-based notes with a folder system for easy retrieval. Sync your notes across devices in real-time for seamless access.

Highlights
  • Calendar notes organized by date
  • Folder and file system for notes
  • Real-time cross-device syncing
  • One-page note for temporary jots
  • Intuitive UI and search functionality
Features
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Daily Notes Planner 3 is the simplest notes app that satisfies all of your life's needs for notes, and much improved from Daily Notes Planner 2, it improves the UI and search and syncs your notes automatically, in real-time across all of your devices. As a much simpler calendar app than the built-in iCalendar app, Daily Notes Planner 3 allows you to type in plain-text-notes for every date (no complicated hourly scheduling or reminders here). Because notes are organized by date, you will know exactly where to look for when you reference them later. Tap on the date in the calendar to go into that date and record or reference notes. The dates with notes are highlighted in the calendar. "Folder Notes" organizes your notes with folders and files. Create folders and note files inside them. Also, you can long press any file or folder row to change its name. Also you can press "edit" button in the bottom to delete or rearrange rows. N.B. The two notes formats: calendar notes and folder notes would satisfy all of your life's needs for notes, and they are super intuitive to use. One more super tip: it is much easier to type your notes on your Mac so please check out Daily Notes Planner 3+ in the Mac App Store too so that you can edit your notes both from the Mac and the iPhone. You just have to log in with the same Email address on those devices to sync the same notes. "One Page Note" has just one page of note. If you need to jot something and don't want to save it permanently, this is a good place to put it. To transfer your notes from Daily Notes Planner 2, use the Mac version of Daily Notes Planner (it is FREE to download) and in the top menu, click "Cloud" -> "Save all notes to Daily Notes Planner 3". Your notes are tied to an Email address so if you login with the same Email address in multiple devices, they all will sync automatically, securely, and instantly. In fact, you could even do real-time corroborations with multiple people because notes sync so quickly. Privacy Policy and Terms: https://dailynotesplanner.com/privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

Bed Time | Large Clock4 screens
Daily Notes Planner 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Notes Planner 3 at Free against Bed Time | Large Clock's $1.99. Daily Notes Planner 3 also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). Bed Time | Large Clock's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 60%) and ratings volume (369 vs 27). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Daily Notes Planner 3 is free to download; Bed Time | Large Clock costs $1.99 up front. Bed Time | Large Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Daily Notes Planner 3 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bed Time | Large Clock against 4.6 for Daily Notes Planner 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bed Time | Large Clock has 369 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Bed Time | Large Clock's written reviews are positive against 60% of Daily Notes Planner 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, Daily Notes Planner 3 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bed Time | Large Clock versus Daily Notes Planner 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBed Time | Large ClockDaily Notes Planner 3
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (369 ratings) — better4.6 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings369 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn Mackay5th & 7th LLC

Customer experience

Bed Time | Large Clock

All ratings369 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%

Daily Notes Planner 3

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Bed Time | Large Clock

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Brightness too high after update
  • App shuts off during the night
  • Clock lags slightly behind system clock
  • Unable to use after payment (Scam)

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to set bedtimes
  • Display date/day larger
  • Better contrast options (white on black, yellow on black)
  • Notification on screen for alarm activation
  • Ability to lock phone with clock face displayed
Show 2 more
  • Option to hide date display
  • Adjust brightness/luminosity more effectively

Daily Notes Planner 3

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bed Time | Large Clock

One-time2
  • Calming SoundsFree
  • Tip for Morning Coffee$2.99
3 purchases

Daily Notes Planner 3

Subscriptions2
  • Go Premium Monthly Subs.$0.991 Month
  • Go Premium Annual Subscription$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Go Premium Permanently$19.99

Questions

Is Bed Time | Large Clock free?
Bed Time | Large Clock costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Daily Notes Planner 3 free?
Daily Notes Planner 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bed Time | Large Clock or Daily Notes Planner 3?
Bed Time | Large Clock is rated higher. Bed Time | Large Clock averages 4.7 out of 5 from 369 ratings, while Daily Notes Planner 3 averages 4.6 from 27 ratings.
Do Bed Time | Large Clock or Daily Notes Planner 3 have ads?
Neither Bed Time | Large Clock nor Daily Notes Planner 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bed Time | Large Clock or Daily Notes Planner 3?
Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, and Daily Notes Planner 3 every 4 days. Most recently, Bed Time | Large Clock was updated on September 18, 2026 and Daily Notes Planner 3 on September 13, 2026.

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