Comparison

Newday Timer and Flow Builder vs Happened

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

Head to head
About

Newday Timer and Flow Builder

This app helps you reclaim your time from digital distractions. It offers a flexible timer and a unique marketplace where you can use minutes, not money, to access guided activities. Create your own step-by-step routines to build better habits.

Highlights
  • Flexible timer for tracking intentional time
  • Time Shoppe marketplace for accessing flows
  • Flow Builder for creating custom routines
  • Step-by-step audio instructions for activities
  • Habit automation
Features
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Are you happy in your relationship with time? The explosion of social media and addictive apps invites us into a whirlwind of scrolling, swiping, and binge watching designed to keep our eyes glued and our thumbs sore. Newday is your partner in crime for escaping the modern maelstrom of attention economy overload. When you find yourself reaching for your phone, unsure of what to do next, come here first. We're on your team, helping you intentionally invest your time in ways that you'll feel great about. Newday includes these features: ~ Flexible timer for tracking your intentional time. ~ Time Shoppe: our "marketplace" where you use minutes, not dollars, to invest your time with flows as short as one minute. ~ Flow Builder: Letting you create your own flows. What is a Newday flow? Imagine receiving specific step by step instructions, read out to you by your phone on what to do and when. For everything from a workout, to brushing your teeth, to meditation, still life drawing, or a morning routine, our flow system offers your moment to moment of instructions on what to do. Now you don't have to focus on the what, or the when, and you can concentrate on doing. Put your good habits on autopilot! Any feedback will be appreciated. You can send your feedback to: feedback@blacklotus.ooo Build a better day one minute at a time with Newday!

About

Happened

Easily log life events with customizable tags and analyze them using various metrics. Track symptoms, hobbies, or any personal occurrence with a simple tap and visualize your data over time. The app prioritizes your privacy, storing data locally or in your iCloud.

Highlights
  • One-tap event logging
  • Four tag types: Valueless, Quantified, Balance, Binary
  • Timeline divided into five parts of the day
  • Drag and drop tag management
  • 10 types of visual metrics
  • Customizable time ranges for analytics
  • CloudKit data storage for privacy
Features
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This app was made for personal use, but it turned out too good to hide from the App Store. Log events happening in your life with one simple tap. Whether it’s symptoms, birdwatching, superstitions, you name it. Collect data and analyze it with metrics. Taxonomy The app supports four types of tags: - Valueless: Just to log events that happened. - Quantified: Each event has a numeric value. Users can also add a measurement unit. - Balance: Events have a visual gauge in the range of –1 to 1. Suitable for cases such as “better or worse than the baseline”. - Binary: Events have a true or false value, representing the outcome of an event. Timeline To speed up the creation and management of events, the day is divided into five parts. Tapping on a tag creates an event in the current part of today. Drag & drop tags to add events to any part of any day. Management Tags are categorized into groups, each with its own color. Add, edit and move your tags without losing associated events. Analytics The app offers 10 types of metrics to visually represent data, including counters, min/avg/max calculators, pie charts, linear graphs, and more. Each tag type has a specific set of metrics. Each metric can be limited by a time range: last week or the last one, three, six, or twelve months. Convenience - Gestures: swipe left and right on the timeline to navigate between days. Double-tap on the timeline returns to today’s view. - Swiping right on the Tag Groups stripe reveals a sandwich glyph (three horizontal lines). Dragging it vertically changes the height of the area with tags. - Change the order of Tag Groups and Metrics by holding and dragging them in the corresponding sections. - The plus glyph in the tag area on the home screen allows you to quickly add a new tag to the selected group. Privacy All your data is stored using the CloudKit framework provided by Apple. This means it’s either stored locally on the device or in your iCloud account. For encryption, opt into Advanced Data Protection in your iCloud settings (availability may vary by region). In any case, the developer DOES NOT have access to user data. The app DOES NOT use any analytics tools, so feel free to log your sensitive data. It stays only with you and no one else.

Screenshots

Newday Timer and Flow Builder4 screens
Happened4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Newday Timer and Flow Builder at 100% against Happened's 0%. Newday Timer and Flow Builder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Newday Timer and Flow Builder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Newday Timer and Flow Builder's written reviews are positive against 0% of Happened's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Newday Timer and Flow Builder ships an update every 5 days, Happened monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Newday Timer and Flow Builder versus Happened: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewday Timer and Flow BuilderHappened
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlack Lotus Inc.Pavel Shlyapnikov

Customer experience

Newday Timer and Flow Builder

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Happened

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Newday Timer and Flow Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Happened

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Newday Timer and Flow Builder free?
Newday Timer and Flow Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Happened free?
Happened is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Newday Timer and Flow Builder or Happened?
Newday Timer and Flow Builder is rated higher. Newday Timer and Flow Builder averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Happened averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Newday Timer and Flow Builder or Happened have ads?
Neither Newday Timer and Flow Builder nor Happened shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Newday Timer and Flow Builder or Happened?
Newday Timer and Flow Builder ships an update every 5 days, and Happened monthly. Most recently, Newday Timer and Flow Builder was updated on November 3, 2026 and Happened on October 30, 2026.

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