Comparison

Bound vs DayTimer

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

Head to head
About

Bound

Features
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Bound is a powerful and efficient tool for event and deadline management. Its elegant and intuitive interface makes it easy to create and manage deadlines, while its customisable features allow you to tailor it to your preferences. Bound offers useful features like long-pressing deadlines for quick access to options like editing, deleting, or pinning tasks to the top of your list. The Shake device option is also handy for clearing schedules or removing completed tasks. The app's main focus is on deadline management, where you can easily create deadlines with a name, date, and time, and a symbol to make it stand out. Bound's computed property for time left calculates the remaining time until the deadline based on the current date and time, and schedules notifications to remind you of approaching deadlines. The notification system is robust and customisable, allowing you to receive notifications based on your preferences, whether it be approaching deadlines, due deadlines, or both. Let's just say - Bound is a must-have productivity tool for anyone looking to stay organised and meet important events and deadlines.

About

DayTimer

This app provides a minimal and calm way to structure your day with timed blocks and breaks. It allows for on-the-fly adjustments to your schedule, ensuring you can adapt to interruptions without falling behind. Save common schedules as templates for easy reuse.

Highlights
  • Timed task blocks
  • Automatic schedule re-flow
  • On-the-fly task insertion
  • Task rearrangement
  • Reusable day templates
  • Scheduled day loading
Features
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DayTimer is a calm, minimal, and private way to add structure to your day. Structure your day into simple timed blocks and breaks, then let it run - no logins, no ads, no cloud, no busy dashboards, no subscriptions. TIME MARCHES FORWARD With DayTimer, you can rearrange your tasks, adjust them, and reset them, but you cannot pause and snooze the day away. When a task runs long, or life interrupts, you can adapt your plan and keep going, instead of falling "behind" a schedule that no longer exists! A FOCUSED TIMER - Your current time block sits front and center, showing you your task and time remaining - One top to adjust, insert a break, or rearrange - No extra content, no busy screen! BUILT TO ADAPT - Task running too long or too short? Change it's length, everything else re-flows automatically. - Life is interrupting or adhoc tasks came up? Insert a task on the fly - Priorities change? Rearrange the blocks remaining in your day - You got pulled away and the day escaped you? Click a block and restart from there TEMPLATIZE - Save your standard days into reusable templates - Start a template on a tap - For predictable weekdays, set scheduled days and let them load automatically DayTimer is a free app that started as a passion project. The core functionality is all free, a one-time supporter unlock gives you a few themes and unlimited templates. Plan intentionally, adapt gracefully, keep moving.

Screenshots

Bound4 screens
DayTimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bound at none against DayTimer's 4. On price, update cadence, ads 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. DayTimer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Bound asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bound ships an update every 2 weeks, DayTimer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Bound versus DayTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoundDayTimer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobin NaghshbandiRajai Baboun

In-app purchases

None

Bound

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

DayTimer

One-time4
  • A Little Boost!$0.99
  • DayTimer Supporter$1.99
  • Buy me a coffee$3.99
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  • Lunch Tip!$5.99

Questions

Is Bound free?
Bound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayTimer free?
DayTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bound or DayTimer have ads?
Neither Bound nor DayTimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bound or DayTimer?
Bound ships an update every 2 weeks, and DayTimer fortnightly. Most recently, Bound was updated on October 10, 2026 and DayTimer on October 14, 2026.

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