Comparison

Daily Spoons vs Rings

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

Head to head
About

Daily Spoons

This app helps users manage their daily energy levels by visualizing them as 'spoons.' Users can track how activities consume these spoons to better ration their energy throughout the day. It offers a simple, private, and easy-to-use interface for energy management.

Highlights
  • Energy level visualization
  • Spoon-based activity tracking
  • Daily energy rationing
  • Private and simple interface
  • Easy to use
Features
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Imagine you measure the minimal energy you can spend during the day in spoons. Let's say you have some mental challenges and therefore the energy amount you have available during the day corresponds to 12 spoons. Getting out of bed consumes one of your spoons. Breakfast takes another spoon from your available daily amount. You have to ration your spoons. This is where this app comes in. This app helps you to keep an overview over your available spoons. It's simple, private and easy to use.

About

Rings

Features
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Rings is a timer, a journal and a tracker for people who meditate on their own. No audio guides, no feed, no account — a bell, silence and an honest record of your time. Every session is a ring Instead of bar charts, Rings draws a tree slice. You sat for twenty minutes — a new growth ring appears. The longer the session, the thicker the ring; morning sessions are paler, evening sessions denser; today's ring is red. A week is a twig, a month is a slice, a year is a trunk — something you want to keep growing. Timer • Presets from 5 to 30 minutes, a custom duration up to 3 hours, or an open-ended session • A warm-up before the start, a bell at the start and the end, interval bells • Works with the screen locked; a pause leaves a visible mark on the ring • Save your own presets Journal • A note, a technique tag and how you felt before and after — shown as a line, not a number • Search, filters by tag and period, manual entries for sessions without the app • Export to CSV Rings • The slice for the month, the year and all time; tap a ring to open its entry • Totals, averages, streaks with one rest day a week so a single miss does not break it • Share your slice as a picture for your feed or stories Lessons • The Basics course: ten short chapters — posture, breath, the wandering mind, body scan, metta, habit • Each lesson ends with a "Practise" button that starts the timer with the right settings Also • Apple Health: mindful minutes are written after each session, with your consent • Gentle reminders: a daily one at your time and an evening one if you have not sat today • iCloud sync across your devices; your data never leaves your Apple account • Light and dark "paper and ink" themes Rings Pro unlocks all sounds and interval bells, presets, the year and all-time slices, sharing, full statistics with tags and search, all ten lessons and CSV export. Free users keep a fully working timer and journal. Rings is a tool for habit and practice, not a medical product. Privacy Policy: https://grigorev-indi.tech/en/apps/rings-meditation-timer/privacy Terms of Use: https://grigorev-indi.tech/en/apps/rings-meditation-timer/terms

Screenshots

Daily Spoons4 screens
Rings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daily Spoons at every 3 days against Rings's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Daily Spoons sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rings sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Spoons ships an update every 3 days, Rings every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Daily Spoons versus Rings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily SpoonsRings
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDominik HauserAlexander Grigoriev

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Spoons

One-time1
  • Small Tip$0.99
2 purchases

Rings

Subscriptions2
  • Rings Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Rings Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Daily Spoons free?
Daily Spoons is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rings free?
Rings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Spoons or Rings have ads?
Neither Daily Spoons nor Rings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Spoons or Rings?
Daily Spoons ships an update every 3 days, and Rings every 3 weeks. Most recently, Daily Spoons was updated on November 3, 2026 and Rings on November 6, 2026.

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