Comparison

Daily Planning vs VisibleHour

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

Head to head
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Daily Planning

Features
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Keep a record of how much time you spend on what and what day. You can make better use of your time just by recording it. main function + Register today's to-do list. Registered tasks can be postponed or completed. + Don't procrastinate and complete your to-dos. Unfinished tasks are automatically postponed to tomorrow. + Log and check the time of the day you actually did it. You can log time for to-dos with a simple click. paid payment - Remove Ads

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VisibleHour

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An always-visible view of time on your phone, your wrist, and your spatial workspace. The day, drained as it passes. Your session, draining as you work. A quiet tap on your wrist when you've been at something too long. For when 30 minutes feels like 5. VisibleHour is a single-purpose external time sense โ€” designed for people whose internal clock isn't always reliable. For time blindness. For hyperfocus. For the moments when "just five more minutes" becomes an hour. The dial isn't a clock face you check. It's a clock face you live alongside, on every surface you already glance at. Three rhythms, on every screen. The day. Your waking hours rendered as a draining amber arc โ€” from the moment you start your day until you wind it down. Tells you how much day is in front of you, not just what time it is right now. The session. A focused block โ€” 15, 25/5 Pomodoro, 30, 60, or 90 minutes. The pie at the center drains as time passes โ€” a visual timer at session scale. Tap it to zoom into a visual timer face with minute marks. Pomodoro mode shows two amber tones โ€” work, then a softer break. The body. A quiet tap on the wrist at the interval you set โ€” 60, 90, or 120 minutes. No banner. No streak. No "you've been at this for two hours" guilt. Just a tap that says: notice the time. Optional desk mode โ€” keep your phone or iPad awake during a session so the dial stays visible while you work. Cross-device sync. Start a session on your Vision Pro while working in spatial. Within a second, the Live Activity appears on your iPhone Lock Screen and the dial fills on your Apple Watch. Stop on the Watch โ€” every screen clears together. Powered by iCloud private database, with no telemetry leaving your device. Calendar-aware. Optionally show your day's events on the dial โ€” a quiet ink line for each meeting, sitting alongside your session. Tap the dial to surface the next event's title. Widgets everywhere. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets on iPhone. Native complications on Apple Watch in four families. A spatial widget on Apple Vision Pro that coexists with your email, your MacBook display, and whatever else is in your spatial workspace. What it isn't. This is not a habit tracker. Not a productivity hammer. Not a notification machine. There are no streaks, no leaderboards, no "you used the app 12 days in a row" celebrations. There's no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads. The whole product is one quiet answer to a quiet question โ€” how much time has passed? Privacy. No tracking. No analytics. No third-party services. The only data that ever leaves your device is the small piece of state that syncs through your private iCloud (active session, day boundaries, awareness interval, appearance preference). Calendar events are read locally on each device โ€” they never sync to the cloud. Made quietly by sthreelabs.

Screenshots

Daily Planning3 screens
VisibleHour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Planning at Free against VisibleHour's $4.99. Daily Planning also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (14.4 vs 18.0). VisibleHour's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Daily Planning is free to download; VisibleHour costs $4.99 up front. Daily Planning sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VisibleHour asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Planning ships an update every 5 days, VisibleHour every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences ยท 1 level
Daily Planning versus VisibleHour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily PlanningVisibleHour
PriceFree โ€” better$4.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro โ€” better
Requires iOS14.4 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size16 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKIM TAEHOONsthreelabs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Planning

One-time1
  • Premium Content$0.99
None

VisibleHour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Planning free?
Daily Planning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VisibleHour free?
VisibleHour costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Daily Planning or VisibleHour have ads?
Daily Planning shows ads; VisibleHour does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Planning or VisibleHour?
Daily Planning ships an update every 5 days, and VisibleHour every 3 months. Most recently, Daily Planning was updated on October 11, 2026 and VisibleHour on October 25, 2026.

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