Comparison

myDay View vs Present

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

Head to head
About

myDay View

Features
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Simple, fast access to your daily essentials: your reminders and events - and - the weather summary, an artful view. Reminders and Events from your Apple Calendar. Quickly scrolll through all your reminders and events. Tap any to see the full details of any event Easily filter for individual calendars. Weather based on your location. A quick and concise view of your current weather. Daily and hourly views one tap away. Artist created weather illustrations Four choices for weather display. This App is simply designed to get the best, quickest view of your stuff.

About

Present

This app transforms your phone into a minimalist bedside display showing time, date, weather, and upcoming calendar events. It's designed to be glanceable and reduce phone distractions, offering a calming visual experience without interactive elements.

Highlights
  • Glanceable time, date, and weather
  • Calendar event preview
  • Dynamic sky and moon phases
  • Offline functionality
  • Minimalist, distraction-free interface
  • Automatic screen dimming
Features
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Enough things already ask for your attention. Present is not one of them. Set your phone on a stand and it becomes a calm, glanceable display: the time, the date, the weather, and a quick look at what is coming up. What matters right now, and nothing else. NOTHING TO TAP There are no controls on the readout. No settings screen. No feed, no badge, and no notification it can ever send you. Present is built to reduce what your phone asks of you, not to collect your attention — it slips into the background and is simply there when you look up. A GLANCE, NOT A SESSION The time and date, the current conditions, and the next few hours of your calendar scrolling under a fixed now-marker. You read it in a second from across the room and get back to whatever you were doing. TIME YOU CAN SEE WITHOUT READING Behind it all, a sky that dims through the real dusk where you actually are. Sunrise and sunset are computed on the device from your own coordinates. The sun climbs the edge of the screen and sets at the bottom right; the moon takes over at nightfall, drawn at tonight's true phase. Look up and you know roughly where you are in the day before you have read a single number. BUILT TO BE LEFT RUNNING The screen dims after a minute untouched and clears the moment you reach for the phone. The now-marker breathes and the clock's separator blinks — small movements that keep a bright, static screen from settling into one position all night. YOUR CALENDAR STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Events are read on the device, read-only, one day at a time. No title, location, attendee or time ever leaves it. Location is requested at kilometre accuracy and rounded before it reaches the weather service, which is the only thing the app talks to. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. The clock, the sky and the moon need no network at all, so they keep working offline. This is Present — A Simple Clock Here & Now. Free for a week, then $0.99 once. No subscription. Weather data from MET Norway. Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

myDay View4 screens
Present3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: myDay View at none against Present's 1. Present's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Present sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. myDay View asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

myDay View ships an update monthly, Present every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
myDay View versus Present: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermyDay ViewPresent
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoel KremsdorfViable Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

myDay View

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Present

One-time1
  • Unlock Present$0.99

Questions

Is myDay View free?
myDay View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Present free?
Present is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do myDay View or Present have ads?
Neither myDay View nor Present shows ads.
Which is updated more often, myDay View or Present?
myDay View ships an update monthly, and Present every 4 days. Most recently, myDay View was updated on November 3, 2026 and Present on November 6, 2026.

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