Comparison

DaySmart Appointments vs Appointment King

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

Head to head
About

DaySmart Appointments

Manage your business appointments and customer information on the go. Create, update, and cancel appointments, add new clients, and send reminders. Ideal for service-based businesses needing flexible scheduling.

Highlights
  • Manage appointments and reserve times
  • Create, view, update, and delete customers
  • Add new customers during appointment booking
  • Send appointment reminder emails
  • Manage staff and room schedules (for administrators)
  • View customer appointment history
  • Support for pets and children sub-categories
Features
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Easily manage your DaySmart Appointments business scheduling account from your iPhone or iPad with the DaySmart Appointments app. DaySmart Appointments lets you take your business schedule with you, wherever you work. Manage appointments for yourself or your entire staff. Create, update and cancel appointments on the fly. You can meet a potential client while you’re out, enter their information, and set them up with their first appointment, all from one intuitive interface. BENEFITS • Create, view, update and cancel appointments and reserve times • Create, view, update and delete customers • Create new customers while setting up their first appointment • View customer details while viewing their appointment details • Easily link out to a map of your customer’s location • Link to the customer phone number to call and confirm appointments • Send appointment reminder emails to your customers • If you’re an administrator, manage appointments and customers for your locations, staff, and rooms • Manage appointments made by your customers on your DaySmart Appointments customer-facing website • View customer appointment history, either from the customer record, or from the customer detail view, inside an appointment detail view FEATURES • Supports multiple appointments per timeslot • Supports pets and children sub-categories • Add pets or children to an existing customer • View, update or remove pets or children • Package balance and expiration are displayed (if applicable), when choosing a package, while creating or updating an appointment ABOUT DaySmart Appointments provides online scheduling software for many industries, including health services, personal and professional services, education, events and many others. DaySmart Appointments scales to any size from small businesses to large enterprises.

About

Appointment King

Manage appointments, client history, and group schedules on the go. This mobile tool provides staff and management with insights into appointment performance and client engagement. Features include easy calendar views, availability color coding, and detailed reporting.

Highlights
  • Easy glance monthly view
  • Availability color coding
  • Intuitive day and month views
  • Appointment list view
  • Access to member history
  • Group class scheduling
Features
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The power of Appointment King in the palm of your hand but is only available only at participating licensed locations. Whether staff is checking schedules, adding or resolving appointments, viewing client history or more...it's now all possible using Appointment King Mobile. Logging in from a desktop browser provides front desk staff easy access to schedules and provides membership staff, fitness staff and management access to a robust set of tools. Easy to use tools keep everyone informed and provides management with deeper insight into appointment performance and the impact of staff to member engagement. Detailed reports include data on which staff is most effective at setting and completing appointments, how particular appointments affect retention, staff utilization and much more. Appointment King Mobile includes the following features: * 'Easy Glance' monthly view provides a quick way to check your availability * Availablity color coding makes it easy to determine when (and where) you can meet with members or clients * Intuitive month, and day views. * Appointment List View makes it easy to visualize upcoming appointments broken down by each day of the week * Access to member history * Group class scheduling * and more... If your facility isn't currently using Appointment King, contact us at info@appointmentking.com or (855) 703-5464.

Screenshots

DaySmart Appointments4 screens
Appointment King1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DaySmart Appointments at 2.9 against Appointment King's 1.9. DaySmart Appointments also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DaySmart Appointments holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DaySmart Appointments has 321 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of DaySmart Appointments's written reviews are positive against 0% of Appointment King's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DaySmart Appointments ships an update every 2 months, Appointment King every 10 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DaySmart Appointments versus Appointment King: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaySmart AppointmentsAppointment King
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (321 ratings) — better1.9 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews23.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings321 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppointment-PlusBGA Partners

Customer experience

DaySmart Appointments

All ratings321 ratings
Positive43.6%
Neutral11.8%
Negative44.5%
Written reviews115 reviews
Positive23.5%
Neutral13.0%
Negative63.5%

Appointment King

All ratings14 ratings
Positive21.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative78.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

DaySmart Appointments

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues and inability to change credentials
  • Appointment scheduling and management problems
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
  • Unreliable syncing between mobile and web versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved calendar view and navigation
  • Recurring appointment scheduling
  • Automated appointment reminders
  • Integration with other business tools

Appointment King

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

DaySmart Appointments

No in-app purchases

None

Appointment King

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DaySmart Appointments free?
DaySmart Appointments is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Appointment King free?
Appointment King is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DaySmart Appointments or Appointment King?
DaySmart Appointments is rated higher. DaySmart Appointments averages 2.9 out of 5 from 321 ratings, while Appointment King averages 1.9 from 14 ratings.
Do DaySmart Appointments or Appointment King have ads?
Neither DaySmart Appointments nor Appointment King shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DaySmart Appointments or Appointment King?
DaySmart Appointments ships an update every 2 months, and Appointment King every 10 months. Most recently, DaySmart Appointments was updated on October 24, 2026 and Appointment King on October 24, 2026.

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