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 straightforward approach to note-taking with three distinct modes: calendar notes for daily reminders, folder notes for organized storage, and a single page for temporary jottings. It prioritizes simplicity and ease of use, ensuring notes are easy to find and manage across multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Calendar notes for daily entries
  • Folder organization for notes
  • Single page for temporary notes
  • Secure cross-device synchronization
  • Dates with notes are highlighted
Features
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Daily Notes Planner 3 is the simplest notes app that satisfies all of your life's needs for notes. Your notes sync securely across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and the web at DailyNotesPlanner.com. Calendar Notes lets you write simple plain-text notes for any date. No complicated hourly scheduling. No confusing reminders. Just tap a date in the calendar and write what you need to remember. Dates with notes are highlighted, so you always know where to look later. Folder Notes gives you a familiar way to organize notes with folders and files. Create folders, add note files inside them, rename items with a long press, and use Edit to delete or rearrange rows. One Page is one simple page for anything temporary. If you need to quickly jot something down and do not want to organize it permanently, this is the perfect place for it. Daily Notes Planner 3 is designed for people who want notes to feel simple, calm, and easy to find. Privacy Policy and Terms: https://dailynotesplanner.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Bed Time | Large Clock4 screens
Daily Notes Planner 33 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daily Notes Planner 3 at every 6 days against Bed Time | Large Clock's every 4 months. Bed Time | Large Clock's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 50%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, 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

Both are free to download. 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

Bed Time | Large Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bed Time | Large Clock has 369 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Bed Time | Large Clock's written reviews are positive against 50% of Daily Notes Planner 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, Daily Notes Planner 3 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 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
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (369 ratings) — better4.4 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings369 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB24 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 ratings31 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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$24.99

Questions

Is Bed Time | Large Clock free?
Bed Time | Large Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
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 4.4 from 31 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 6 days. Most recently, Bed Time | Large Clock was updated on November 6, 2026 and Daily Notes Planner 3 on November 4, 2026.

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