DayCircle vs Locknload
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DayCircle
Easily track important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones. This app helps you remember and celebrate every significant event with a visually appealing interface.
- Track birthdays and anniversaries
- Monitor moving dates
- Celebrate first days
- Visually appealing design
- Mark down important days
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Birthday, anniversaries, moving, First day of ... How to remember them all? DDay, simply marked down the day Celebrate each in full color.
Locknload
Customize your phone's lock screen with custom launchers. Create shortcuts to any app or website using your own names and icons. Launch directly from your lock screen with a single tap.
- Custom app launchers
- Web URL shortcuts
- Customizable icons and names
- Launch from lock screen
- Supports custom app schemes
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Locknload is a simple & powerful tool to customize your lock screen. Create any launcher with your own URL, name and icon (symbol), and launch into any app that can be opened through a URL. The URLs can be either web URLs or custom app scheme URLs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Locknload at Free against DayCircle's $2.99. Locknload also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). DayCircle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (85% vs 50%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support 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
Locknload is free to download; DayCircle costs $2.99 up front. Locknload sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. DayCircle asks for nothing beyond the download.
DayCircle holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 201 and 73 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of DayCircle's written reviews are positive against 50% of Locknload's.
DayCircle ships an update every 2 months, Locknload weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DayCircle | Locknload |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (201 ratings) — better | 4.5 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 201 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Genau Factory | Actowise LLC |
Customer experience
DayCircle
Locknload
Bugs and requests
DayCircle
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget not updating in real-time
- UI elements overlapping on certain devices
- Inconsistent behavior on older iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add more theme/color options
- Implement iCloud/cloud sync
- Introduce widget functionality
- Allow recurring event tracking
- Integrate with calendar apps
Locknload
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DayCircle
No in-app purchases
Locknload
- Pro Lifetime$3.99
- Pro Lifetime Reference$9.99
