Precrastinate vs Day Dial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Precrastinate
This app helps you combat procrastination by visualizing your progress through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly timelines. It allows you to create custom timelines and offers Apple Watch and Homescreen widget support to keep you on track.
- Track daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly progress
- Create custom timelines
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Homescreen widgets (Summary & Single Item)
- Light and dark theme support
- Mac Catalyst app support
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Precrastination is the opposite of procrastination - to get everything done in advance. The Precrastinate app helps you track the progress of important timelines in your daily life. It comes with 4 default timelines that are important for everyone of us. 1. Today - Tracks the progress of the current day 2. Week - Tracks the progress of the ongoing week 3. Month - Tracks the progress of the current month 4. Year - Tracks the progress of the current year These timelines help you plan and track your progress on macro and micro levels of your time. Apart from these timelines, the app enables you to create your own timelines to plan for. This helps you keep a track of time and help you stop procrastination in your day-to-day life. The thinking behind this app is that if you knew what percent of the day is already over, you would realize that you probably don't have as much time as you think you do, and that will help you to start completing your tasks sooner. The Precrastinate app aims to stop you from procrastinating and to help you getting your tasks done in time. Features of this app: - Track day progress - Track week progress - Track month progress - Track year progress - Create, Update and track progress of your own custom timelines - Apple watch app - Stunning Precrastinate complications to your watch faces - Homescreen Widgets: Summary Widget and Single Item Widget - Configure Single Item widget to only track the event which is most important to keep you on your toes - Fully supported for both light and dark themes (adjusts automatically according to system settings) - Mac Catalyst app support Coming Soon: - Push notifications - Settings for changing "start of the week" and "start of the day" - Setting to show "number of days remaining" for your timelines Keep progressing, and keep getting things done. Keep Precrastinating towards your dreams!
Day Dial
Visualize your progress through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly time periods with intuitive circular progress bars. See how much time has passed and how much remains at a glance, even from your home screen with widgets.
- Circular progress bars
- Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Time management
- Goal monitoring
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Day Dial is a simple and intuitive time tracking app that helps you visualize your progress throughout the day, week, month, quarter, and year. With its unique circular progress bars, you can easily monitor how much time has passed and how much remains in each time period. The app features widgets that allow you to view your progress at a glance, directly from your home screen. Whether you want to stay on top of your daily tasks, manage your monthly goals, or keep track of your yearly achievements, Day Dial is the perfect companion for anyone looking to make the most of their time. Day Dial is free to use with a limit on color customization. Upgrade to Day Dial Premium to unlock color customization. Terms of Service: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/daydialterms.html Privacy Policy: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/privacypolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Day Dial at 100% against Precrastinate's 0%. Day Dial also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Precrastinate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Day Dial sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Precrastinate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Day Dial holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Precrastinate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Day Dial's.
Precrastinate ships an update fortnightly, Day Dial every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Precrastinate | Day Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Metapod LLC | Ginkgo Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Precrastinate
Day Dial
In-app purchases
Precrastinate
No in-app purchases
Day Dial
- Day Dial Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Day Dial Premium - Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
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