MyDayWidget vs CleaningRoutine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyDayWidget
Enhance your daily schedule with customizable widgets that display your calendar and reminders. Features a unique day-color system for auspicious hues and a progress bar to visualize your day. Offers extensive customization and syncs with Apple's native apps.
- Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets
- Apple Watch complications and Smart Stack widgets
- Mac Notification Center and Desktop widgets
- Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
- Daily auspicious color system
- Day Progress Bar visualization
- Customizable widget appearance
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Your calendar, reminders, and day — beautifully on every Apple device, in the auspicious color of the day. MyDayWidget is the home for your schedule across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. It puts what matters today right where you can see it: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, watch face, and Mac Notification Center. One purchase. Lifetime access. No subscription, no tracking, no ads. KEY FEATURES - Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy - Apple Watch complications and Smart Stack widgets - Mac Notification Center and Desktop widgets - Day Progress Bar with calendar and reminder data - Planner — your week at a glance - Busy Day Highlights - Day-color system across every widget - Tap any widget to open your preferred app - Deep customization, dark mode supported - 9-day free trial, then one-time purchase WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO Built for the entire Apple ecosystem. Buy MyDayWidget once and it's yours on every device — iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Family Sharing is supported, so the people you share an Apple account with get it too. COLOR OF THE DAY Each day has its color, drawn from ancient astrological tradition — believed to bring good fortune to those who wear it. MyDayWidget brings the same idea to your devices, so a single glance tells you what day it is. Monday — Yellow Tuesday — Pink Wednesday — Green Thursday — Orange Friday — Light Blue Saturday — Purple Sunday — Red DAY PROGRESS BAR See your day move forward. The Day Progress Bar can include your calendar events and reminders, with markers for noon and working hours — useful at a glance, never in the way. PLANNER A weekly view of your days, designed to keep you moving. See where you've been, where you're headed, and how the week is shaping up. BUSY DAY HIGHLIGHTS Days with a lot going on are highlighted automatically, so you spot a packed afternoon before it surprises you. DEEP CUSTOMIZATION Choose which widget to use, what to display, and how it should look. Dark mode supported throughout. TAP TO OPEN Tap any widget to jump straight into your favorite calendar or reminder app — Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, or another app of your choice. The widget is your day at a glance; one tap takes you to the details. PRIVACY, BY DESIGN MyDayWidget reads your calendar and reminder data on your device and displays it. Nothing leaves your phone. Nothing is collected, tracked, or shared. Access permissions are required for Calendars, Reminders, and in some cases Contacts. PRICING Free to download with a 9-day full-access trial. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks the app for life — across every device you own, with every future update included. Privacy Policy: https://mydaywidget.com/privacy-policy
CleaningRoutine
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Cleaning Routine keeps track of what needs cleaning around your home, so you do not have to hold it all in your head. Open the app and today's jobs are already there. Every task comes back around from the day you actually did it, not the day it was supposed to be done. Clean the shower on Thursday and the next one is the following Thursday. Your schedule follows your life rather than the other way around. **ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YOU ACTUALLY ASK** · What needs cleaning today? · When did I last change the sheets? · Is anything overdue? · I've got ten minutes - what should I do? · How often do I actually clean the bathroom? · What have I already done today? **THE TODAY SCREEN IS THE APP** Overdue, due today, and an optional look at the next few days. Every job has a large tick control on the row itself, so you never open a task just to mark it done. Tick it, watch it schedule itself and disappear, with a few seconds to undo if your thumb was faster than your brain. **SET IT UP IN SECONDS** Choose a room and the app suggests the jobs people actually do in it, already carrying a sensible frequency and a rough duration. Wipe benches, clean the stovetop, change the sheets, clear the gutters. Over 400 cleaning tasks across 18 kinds of room - kitchen through to the car, the pets, the balcony, the home gym and the storage cupboard - all searchable, so you tap rather than type. Or start with a ready-made home: six starter setups from a one-bedroom flat to a family house, each creating common rooms and a starting schedule staggered so you do not open the app to twenty things all due at once. **HOW OFTEN, YOUR WAY** Daily, every few days, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, every three months, every six months, yearly, or a one-off job that is simply done. Give a task a rough duration if you like, or leave it and the app will estimate from how often it recurs. **ROOMS AND ROUTINES** Rooms for the kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, laundry, garage, garden and anywhere else, each with its own icon and colour. Routines for the sets of jobs you do together - a morning reset, the weekly clean, the half hour before guests arrive - run one at a time with Done and Skip. **LIFE HAPPENS** Skip a job this time, do it early, push it back to tomorrow or next week, pick a different date, or pause it entirely while the room is being painted. Nothing is ever stuck. **A RECORD OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE** Every completion is kept: by day, by room, and by task, with each task's own average frequency worked out from what you actually did. Delete a task and the record of having cleaned it stays. **REMINDERS THAT DO NOT NAG** One local notification a day at a time you choose, and only when something is actually due. Overdue work is mentioned once, not every morning for a fortnight. Off by default, and completely optional. **LIGHT AND DARK, AND NO GUILT** Designed to be calm in both light and dark mode, with large touch targets and full screen-reader labels. And the language stays civil: overdue jobs are "3 tasks are waiting for you", never a telling-off. A house that got away from you for a week is not a failure, and the app does not treat it as one. **PRIVATE BY DESIGN** · No account required · No sign-in, no server, no cloud · Works completely offline · Your schedule never leaves your device **FREE VERSION** Genuinely useful on its own: unlimited rooms and unlimited cleaning tasks, every standard frequency, the Today screen, reminders, the whole task library, starter setups, three ready-made routines plus two of your own, and the last 30 days of history. The free version shows a small banner on secondary screens - never on the Today screen, and never while you are ticking jobs off. **PRO. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION** Removes all advertising. Adds Quick Clean, statistics, your complete history, advanced scheduling, unlimited routines with more templates, and accent colours. Every premium feature added in future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MyDayWidget at none against CleaningRoutine's shown. MyDayWidget also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.6). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. MyDayWidget sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and CleaningRoutine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyDayWidget | CleaningRoutine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boonyawat Laongthong | Schmapps PTY LTD |
In-app purchases
MyDayWidget
- Free TrialFree
- One-Time Purchase$7.99
CleaningRoutine
- Cleaning Routine Pro$3.99
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