Comparison

iA Presenter vs DayBlocks

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

Head to head
About

iA Presenter

Create clean, scalable presentations quickly using Markdown. This app prioritizes content and structure, letting responsive templates handle design for fast, focused creation and rehearsal on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Highlights
  • Markdown-based content creation
  • Responsive typographic templates
  • Fast deck building and rehearsal
  • Cross-device compatibility (Mac, iPhone, iPad)
  • Scalable layouts for any screen
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Create presentations in minutes iA Presenter is a Markdown-based presentation app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Start with text and build a deck that is clean, scalable, and ready to present, fast and focused. Traditional presentation tools slow you down. You drag boxes, pick fonts, adjust colors, and end up with cluttered slides. iA Presenter flips the workflow: start with your story, structure it in Markdown, and let our responsive, typographic templates handle the design. Perfect for pitches, meetings, workshops, and teaching. Build, rehearse, and present a polished deck in under 20 minutes on your Mac at the desk, iPad on the go, or iPhone in your hand. - Write first, design later: Start from text, not slides - Beautiful everywhere: Responsive layouts scale seamlessly from iPhone to iPad to Mac to projector - Fast and focused: Build, rehearse, and present a polished deck in under 20 minutes - Portable presentations: Create and present wherever you need to work, on desktop, tablet, or phone

About

DayBlocks

Visualize upcoming events and reminders as colored blocks representing days remaining. This app helps make time feel tangible, shifting from green to red as deadlines approach. It integrates with existing calendars and reminders without requiring new accounts.

Highlights
  • Calendar event countdowns
  • Reminder due date countdowns
  • Color-coded urgency indicators
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable calendar/list visibility
  • On-device data processing
Features
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DayBlocks turns your upcoming calendar events and reminders into countdowns you can actually see. Time can feel slippery. "In three weeks" might as well mean "never" — until suddenly it's tomorrow and you're scrambling. DayBlocks changes that. Each upcoming event and due reminder becomes a row of colored blocks, with one block for every day remaining. Everything is sorted by what's coming next. As the date gets closer, the blocks shift from green to orange to red. It's a simple way to make time feel real. — FEATURES — - Reads events from calendars already connected to Apple Calendar, including iCloud, Google, and Outlook. There's no second calendar to maintain. - Works with Apple Reminders. Reminders with due dates appear alongside your calendar events as countdown blocks, so important deadlines don't slip past. - Shows glanceable countdowns for today and the next 30 days. Events further away appear automatically when they enter the 30-day window. - Uses color-coded urgency: red for today and tomorrow, orange for the next seven days, and green for later. The blocks tell you "soon" before you even read the event name. - Includes Home Screen widgets in small, medium, and large, plus Lock Screen widgets. See what's coming without opening the app. - Configure each widget individually. Long-press any widget to choose exactly which calendars and reminder lists it shows — keep a work widget on one page and a family widget on another. - Lets you choose which calendars and reminder lists appear. Toggle family, work, holidays, and other lists on or off so DayBlocks only shows what matters to you. - Designed for people who experience time blindness. No extra notifications, no clutter, and no productivity guilt. Just a clearer view of your time. — PRIVACY — DayBlocks accesses your calendars and reminders only to display your countdowns. Your calendar and reminder data is processed on your device. DayBlocks does not upload it to external servers, sell it, or use it for tracking. No account or login is required. — PERFECT FOR — - Anyone with ADHD or time blindness who needs to see time, not just count it - Parents keeping track of birthdays, appointments, and school events - Students whose deadlines often feel further away than they really are - Anyone who has ever forgotten a vehicle registration renewal or another important deadline

Screenshots

iA Presenter4 screens
DayBlocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DayBlocks at $2.99 against iA Presenter's $19.99. DayBlocks also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). iA Presenter's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

iA Presenter costs $19.99 and DayBlocks $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for iA Presenter against 5.0 for DayBlocks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iA Presenter has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of iA Presenter's written reviews are positive against 100% of DayBlocks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iA Presenter ships an update every 2 weeks, DayBlocks every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iA Presenter versus DayBlocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriA PresenterDayBlocks
Price$19.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.9 (10 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInformation Architects AGALAN D NAVARRO LOPEZ

Customer experience

iA Presenter

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

DayBlocks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

iA Presenter

No in-app purchases

None

DayBlocks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iA Presenter free?
iA Presenter costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayBlocks free?
DayBlocks costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iA Presenter or DayBlocks?
DayBlocks is rated higher. iA Presenter averages 4.9 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while DayBlocks averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do iA Presenter or DayBlocks have ads?
Neither iA Presenter nor DayBlocks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iA Presenter or DayBlocks?
iA Presenter ships an update every 2 weeks, and DayBlocks every 8 days. Most recently, iA Presenter was updated on October 8, 2026 and DayBlocks on October 7, 2026.

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