什么时辰 vs DoBuff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
什么时辰
This app combines a perpetual calendar with a traditional Chinese almanac, offering lunar dates, solar terms, and daily auspicious information. It features a clean interface for easy daily use, supporting date conversions and personal event integration.
- Perpetual calendar with lunar dates and solar terms
- Traditional page-turning almanac
- Auspicious date search
- Gregorian/Lunar/Buddhist/Taoist date conversion
- Personal events calendar integration
- Customizable themes and settings
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Traditional culture doesn’t need to feel heavy—placed in the right interface, it feels just right. Shenme Shichen brings the perpetual calendar and the traditional almanac together, so you can always grasp dates, solar terms, and daily auspices, letting tradition truly blend into everyday life. [Recommended by Minority Spirit] Restrained, clear, beautiful, and easy to use. The tool-first feel that Minority Spirit loves makes the perpetual calendar and almanac genuinely useful. [Product Overview] Shenme Shichen is an app focused on the experience of the perpetual calendar and the traditional almanac. It supports a page-turning almanac and a clean monthly calendar view, balancing tradition with modern aesthetics. The interface is restrained, the information is clear, and it’s made for long-term daily use. [Key Features] - Perpetual calendar: lunar dates, solar terms, and festivals at a glance - Traditional almanac: page‑turning experience with date jump and sharing - Auspicious date search, Lucky Compass, Astronomical Chart - Date conversion: Gregorian/Lunar/Buddhist & Taoist calendars - Personal events calendar (read/edit system calendar) - True solar time support - Widget previews and setup guide - Theme/default page/week start day and other personalization [What Users Like] The reason many users keep using it is simple: no information overload, a warm traditional almanac, and a clear perpetual calendar.
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 price: DoBuff at Free against 什么时辰's $0.99. DoBuff also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). 什么时辰's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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
DoBuff is free to download; 什么时辰 costs $0.99 up front. DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. 什么时辰 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for 什么时辰 against 4.8 for DoBuff. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 39 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of 什么时辰's written reviews are positive against 100% of DoBuff's.
什么时辰 ships an update every 3 weeks, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 什么时辰 | DoBuff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) | 4.8 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 国刚 曾 | 宇 李 |
Customer experience
什么时辰
DoBuff
In-app purchases
什么时辰
No in-app purchases
DoBuff
- 月会员$0.991 Month
- 年会员$2.991 Year
- 永久会员$9.99









