ByPlace vs DoBuff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ByPlace
This app uses augmented reality to overlay digital information onto your physical surroundings. You can explore your environment, attach various documents like web links and PDFs to real-world objects, and interact with enhanced digital content.
- Augmented reality environment exploration
- Attach documents to physical objects
- Overlay digital information
- Interactive playground
- Intuitive interface
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Your place remembers with ByPlace. Keep track of what matters around your home, property, workshop or office. ByPlace connects each item with the place where it belongs, so you can find it again and keep its useful details close. PIN ITEMS IN AUGMENTED REALITY Create a Space for a room, home, building or garden. Pin items where they are in AR, then return later to see them in context. Walk the boundary to create a top-down Site Plan of your space. KEEP EVERY DETAIL TOGETHER Add photos, videos, voice clips, notes, reminders, documents and web links to an item. Record model and serial numbers, purchase information, warranties, maintenance details and location. Quick Capture lets you take a photo or record a voice note before choosing where it belongs. ORGANIZE PLACES BEYOND HOME Create Areas for shops, services, sights and other places you want to remember. Build Routes for trails or trip itineraries, arrange their stops, and open directions when it is time to go. START WITH A USEFUL TEMPLATE Choose templates for home maintenance, emergency information, gardens, workshops, offices, travel and more. Starter items help you remember what to record, and you can customize everything. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your sites stay on your device and in your private iCloud, never on ByPlace servers. Your other devices signed in to the same iCloud account can receive them too. Share a site with family only when you choose. USE YOUR PREFERRED AI APP Send a photo or place to a compatible AI app, then paste its structured reply into ByPlace to create item details, manual links or a practical guide. The free version supports up to 2 owned sites and 100 items or places. ByPlace Pro is an optional one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited sites and items, Routes, nested Spaces and Areas, Move, and Family Sharing. No subscription. Some features require a compatible device, camera, location access, iCloud account or third-party app.
DoBuff
Enhance your reminders and calendar with powerful tools for time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize your tasks on a timeline, create unique weekly and yearly plans, and utilize focus timers with progress bars. Gain insights with trend statistics and countdowns.
- Timeline view for tasks
- Weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
- Focus timer with progress bar
- Trend statistics and heatmaps
- Countdown timers
- Calendar integration
- Widgets
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DoBuff at weekly against ByPlace's every 2 months. DoBuff also leads on ratings volume (39 vs 2). ByPlace's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. ByPlace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ByPlace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoBuff has 39 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ByPlace ships an update every 2 months, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ByPlace | DoBuff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ByPlace LLC | 宇 李 |
Customer experience
ByPlace
DoBuff
In-app purchases
ByPlace
- ByPlace Pro$4.99
DoBuff
- 月会员$0.991 Month
- 年会员$2.991 Year
- 永久会员$9.99









