Comparison

Daily Planner vs Squares

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

Head to head
About

Daily Planner

Organize your day by creating to-do lists and blocking time for tasks directly in your calendar. This app helps you manage daily or weekly routines with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Get timely notifications and mark tasks as complete to boost your productivity.

Highlights
  • To-do list creation
  • Calendar integration
  • Drag-and-drop time blocking
  • Routine management
  • Task completion tracking
  • Daily/weekly notifications
Features
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Tidify is a simple and user-friendly daily planner that puts together to do lists and a calendar, letting you organize your day by blocking time for your tasks in your day by just drag and drop. It is pretty simple: 1. Add your tasks 2. Block time for your tasks 3. Get notified by Calendar App 4. Complete your tasks and mark the time blocks as done! This is called time-boxing or time-blocking, and it is the most effective productivity method according to Harvard. Additional to this you have "Routines" that let's you create and update complex daily or weekly routines in your calendar the easy way. Feel free to provide some feedback or feature request via marco@tidify.io Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Squares

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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy

Screenshots

Daily Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Planner at Free against Squares's $2.99. Daily Planner also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2).

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

Daily Planner is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. Daily Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daily Planner versus Squares: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily PlannerSquares
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco Ildefonso Davalos MantillaAmaury Gau

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Daily Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Tidify Premium Monthly Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Tidify Premium Annual Plan7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

Squares

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Planner free?
Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Squares free?
Squares costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.

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