Comparison

Day Repeat Day vs Pocket Course

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

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About

Day Repeat Day

Experience a life simulation through engaging match-3 puzzles. Navigate relationships, career choices, and existential questions in a satirical, interactive narrative. Discover the meaning of the daily grind and life's mysteries.

Highlights
  • Interactive life story
  • Match-3 puzzle gameplay
  • Relationship management
  • Career progression
  • Satirical narrative
  • Existential themes
Features
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You're hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you're never really sure where it's all leading to. It's a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries. After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. Press: - It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that - Game of the Week / Touch Arcade - It turns out to be much, much more than this, than either genre, a whole, complicated and unique creation, that speaks truth about life, about work, about hierarchies and about mistakes. It’s stunning. - Kotaku

About

Pocket Course

Experience a unique twist on mini golf with physics-based gameplay. Master challenging courses, collect gear with stat tradeoffs, and compete in various modes. Play offline or connect to Game Center leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Physics-based aiming and spin control
  • Two distinct 27-hole courses
  • Competitive, Practice, and Daily modes
  • Collectible gear with stat tradeoffs
  • Offline play supported
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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Mini golf... with a twist! Drag back from the ball to aim, release to shoot. Use the spin slider to curve your roll left or right. Hug a wall. Slip past a windmill. Find the line everyone else missed. TWO COURSES. TWENTY-SEVEN HAND-DESIGNED HOLES: The OG — the original eighteen, the warm-up that teaches the game. Easy to play, nearly impossible to master. Spin Cycle — nine more custom levels, where the spin slider stops being optional if you want to really ace them all. I put a lot more effort into the design for Spin Cycle, and if you like that course just wait to see what's coming next as I get better at editing these levels. Sand bunkers. Water hazards. Rotating windmills. Ramp tunnels. Bumpers that nudge, blades that turn, ramps that fling. THREE MODES. Competitive Play. Eighteen holes in order. The mode that counts: stars, coins, aces, personal bests all land here. Use a skip and the round goes Unranked. Mulligans rewind a stroke when you need one. Practice. Or, as I like to call it: Zen mode. No stress, no pressure. Use it to practice those holes that you just can't get better at or use it to relax and have fun. The Daily. Three random holes a day with a loaner ball + putter shared by every player on the planet. Build a streak. Share your score. A LOCKER FULL OF GEAR. Ten new balls + ten new putters. Each piece has a four-stat tradeoff: mass, bounce, spin, aim. Sink holes to earn coins. The elite gear unlocks as your star total climbs and your game improves. Magnet upgrades on two ladders — Range and Strength, three tiers each, bought independently. Mulligan slots per nine — keep your score alive on an errant shot. DAY EDITION + NIGHT EDITION. PLAYS OFFLINE. Your scores stay on your device. Game Center leaderboards if you want them; ignore them if you don't. Day or night, on your couch or in line for coffee. I truly hope you all enjoy this game as much as I do. I had a blast making Pocket Course and I hope it shows in the gameplay. -James

Screenshots

Day Repeat Day4 screens
Pocket Course4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket Course at Free against Day Repeat Day's $3.99. Pocket Course also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Day Repeat Day's advantage is chart position (#198 vs unranked) and ratings volume (55 vs 9). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Pocket Course is free to download; Day Repeat Day costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket Course holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Day Repeat Day has 55 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Day Repeat Day's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Course's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day Repeat Day ships an update weekly, Pocket Course every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Day Repeat Day versus Pocket Course: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay Repeat DayPocket Course
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (55 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55 — better9
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size560 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKimmo Factor OyJAMES MICHAEL WATSON

Customer experience

Day Repeat Day

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative23.3%

Pocket Course

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Day Repeat Day

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket Course

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Day Repeat Day free?
Day Repeat Day costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Course free?
Pocket Course is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Day Repeat Day or Pocket Course?
Pocket Course is rated higher. Day Repeat Day averages 4.5 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Pocket Course averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Day Repeat Day or Pocket Course have ads?
Neither Day Repeat Day nor Pocket Course shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Day Repeat Day or Pocket Course?
Day Repeat Day ships an update weekly, and Pocket Course every 6 days. Most recently, Day Repeat Day was updated on October 13, 2026 and Pocket Course on October 6, 2026.

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