Comparison

Sectograph visual time manager vs DayZen

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

Head to head
About

Sectograph visual time manager

This app offers a unique visual approach to managing your daily schedule by displaying calendar events on a 12 or 24-hour clock face. It helps you understand your time commitments at a glance, track task durations, and avoid being late for appointments.

Highlights
  • Visual day planner
  • Calendar events on clock face
  • 12/24 hour dial
  • Analog clock widget
  • Event sector display
  • Idle time visualization
  • Countdown to events
Features
Currently charting
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Sectograph is a visual day planner that displays your calendar events on a pie chart in the form of a 12/24 hour clock face. It's a different way of looking at the day HOW IT WORKS The visual planner works like an analog clock widget. It automatically receives all the calendar events and overlays them on the 12/24 hour dial. This provides a different, more efficient view of your schedule. HOW IT LOOKS It looks like a projection of your calendar of events onto a 12-hour dial that has hour and minute hands just like a regular watch. Event sectors are displayed in those hour intervals in which they will occur. The interval of idle time between events is displayed between sectors, as well as the time from an hour hand to the start of each event. Events are displayed automatically 12/24 hours ahead of time. The calendar and analog clock, combined, give a visual representation of your busyness, allow you to effectively plan and calculate daytime. Use a widget for better integration. AREAS OF APPLICATION • Day scheduling and timing. Conveniently track your daily tasks, meetings, events and at any time know how much time is left to wait until the end of the current event and until the start of the next. Don't be late. • Accounting and control of working hours. Keep your phone in your workplace and you will be completely under control. • Class schedule. Observe how much time is left before the end of a tiresome lecture at the university and never be late for laboratory work. • Schedule of the day. Follow your daily routine and get better, just use the app to keep track of your to-dos and daily tasks. Take rest breaks in time! • Trip timer and flight duration. Are you losing the passage of time due to endless travel and flights? Control check-in time, boarding time and flight duration. Keep everything under control. • Make your meal, medication, and exercise schedule clearer. Lead the right lifestyle and be healthy! • Convenient countdown to scheduled events in the app and widget. The plan of the day will be executed exactly. • The app may appeal to fans of Pomodoro and Chronodex timer technologies. Time tracking with him will happen in a new way.

About

DayZen

This app transforms your schedule into a visual 24-hour clock, making time concrete and manageable. It's designed to combat time blindness and anxiety for neurodivergent individuals by visualizing tasks as colored arcs on a clock face.

Highlights
  • Visual 24-hour clock schedule
  • Task arcs and time blocking
  • ADHD-friendly interface
  • Live Activities & Dynamic Island
  • Immersive Focus Mode
  • Calendar integration
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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STOP LYING TO YOUR CALENDAR. To-do lists feel infinite. If you have ADHD, lists are just a source of anxiety. You keep adding tasks, but reality keeps disagreeing. You schedule 10 pounds of work into a 5-pound day, and then feel guilty when you don’t finish. DayZen: Visual Time Planner transforms your daily schedule from a stressful list into a logical 24-hour visual clock. Tasks become colored arcs. When the circle fills, it’s full. No more pretending a 3-hour project fits into a 30-minute gap. It is the ADHD planner that finally works. Design your time. See your visual schedule. Find your focus. WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2.0 We’ve rebuilt DayZen to be the ultimate time management companion for the neurodivergent mind. - Live Activities & Dynamic Island: Track your active focus time, remaining duration, and progress without unlocking your phone. - Immersive Focus Mode: A full-screen focus timer designed to eliminate ADHD distractions, complete with haptic feedback. - Deep Insights: Analyze your time usage patterns with new interactive charts for daily, weekly, and yearly trends. WHY THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ADHD PLANNER For the ADHD brain, time is abstract. DayZen makes time concrete. CONQUER ADHD TIME BLINDNESS Don't just read your schedule: see your time. DayZen acts as a visual timer and planner to fix time blindness. Drag and drop tasks onto the clock face and resize them with a finger. Conflicts glow red instantly so you can fix your daily routine before the day starts. INTUITIVE TIME BLOCKING Forget rigid spreadsheets that kill dopamine. Simply drag a slice of time to create a task. It’s the fastest, most tactile way to build a daily schedule using the time blocking method. STAY ON TRACK WITH WIDGETS Keep your visual day at a glance. Our beautiful Home Screen widgets show your current time block and what’s coming next to prevent executive dysfunction. SYNC WITH REALITY Seamlessly integrates with your Apple Calendar. Your meetings, classes, and time blocks live in one unified visual circle. BUILD BETTER HABITS Set recurring tasks once (e.g., "Morning Meds" or "Deep Work") and let DayZen protect that time forever. WHO IS DAYZEN FOR? -Adult ADHD & Neurodivergent Minds: If you struggle with time blindness, focus, or maintaining a routine, this is the ADHD tool you’ve been waiting for. -Visual Thinkers: For those who are allergic to endless text-based task lists. -Students & Freelancers: Perfect for Pomodoro focus sessions and managing irregular daily plans. -Over-committers: Learn the power of saying "no" when you see your time circle is full. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your schedule is your business. DayZen requires no account and collects no data. There are no ads, ever. PRICING - Free Forever: Enjoy the full radial clock, 10 active tasks, and basic visual planning features. Experience the difference of visual time management. - Premium: Unlock unlimited tasks, advanced time statistics, two-way calendar sync, and Dynamic Island support. THE REAL DIFFERENCE Other planner apps ask, "What do you want to do?" DayZen asks, "What time actually fits?" See the circle. Respect the clock. Own your day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: http://kavolis.xyz/dayzen/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Sectograph visual time manager4 screens
DayZen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DayZen at Free against Sectograph visual time manager's $3.99. DayZen also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 52%). Sectograph visual time manager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (64 vs 4). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DayZen is free to download; Sectograph visual time manager costs $3.99 up front. DayZen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sectograph visual time manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Sectograph visual time manager against 4.3 for DayZen. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sectograph visual time manager has 64 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of Sectograph visual time manager's written reviews are positive against 75% of DayZen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sectograph visual time manager ships an update every 11 days, DayZen monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Sectograph visual time manager versus DayZen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSectograph visual time managerDayZen
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (64 ratings)4.3 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.2% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings64 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#95 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman BlokhinJoris Kavolis

Customer experience

Sectograph visual time manager

All ratings64 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral7.8%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive52.2%
Neutral12.2%
Negative35.6%

DayZen

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Sectograph visual time manager

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Widget settings not saving or applying changes
  • All events displaying in single blue color
  • Dark mode not applying to widget
  • Settings not syncing between app and widget
  • 24-hour mode not working in app (only widget)
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  • Hour/minute hand customization ignored
  • 12 o'clock position setting not honored
  • Widget becomes blank after removal and re-adding
  • Multiple calendars not displaying
  • Google Calendar synchronization failures
  • Calendar color synchronization broken
  • Full-day events showing as one-hour slivers
  • Multiple overlapping events display issues
  • Calendar refresh not working properly
  • App not updated since 2023
  • iOS 18 widget customization broken
  • Liquid Glass design not supported
  • Event display inconsistency when scrolling dates
  • Overlapping event point display on clock face

Requested features

23 requests
  • Apple Watch app or watch face support
  • Larger widget size options (2x2, 2x4)
  • Multi-color event display based on calendar categories
  • More customization options for interface elements
  • Transparent widget background option
Show 18 more
  • 24-hour mode option in widget
  • Custom hour/minute hand colors
  • Ability to center clock display
  • Direct event editing in the clock interface
  • Scrollable list of upcoming days in app
  • Display days until upcoming events
  • Font size adjustment options
  • Travel time display for events
  • Automatic dark/light theme switching for widget
  • Lock screen widget support
  • macOS version
  • Garmin watch support
  • Two-clock 12-hour split view option
  • Manual calendar refresh button
  • Event countdown display beyond 30 minutes
  • Ability to edit events within app
  • Google Calendar integration for iOS
  • Voice version of app

DayZen

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sectograph visual time manager

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DayZen

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Sectograph visual time manager free?
Sectograph visual time manager costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayZen free?
DayZen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sectograph visual time manager or DayZen?
DayZen is rated higher. Sectograph visual time manager averages 4.2 out of 5 from 64 ratings, while DayZen averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Sectograph visual time manager or DayZen have ads?
Neither Sectograph visual time manager nor DayZen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sectograph visual time manager or DayZen?
Sectograph visual time manager ships an update every 11 days, and DayZen monthly. Most recently, Sectograph visual time manager was updated on October 18, 2026 and DayZen on October 20, 2026.

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