Comparison

Human Evolution vs Daily Canon

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

Head to head
About

Human Evolution

Features
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**Discover the Story of Human Evolution** Travel through millions of years of evolution and explore the origins of humanity with scientifically organized information, interactive tools, and engaging educational content. **Features:** • Explore dozens of human ancestors and fossil discoveries. • Compare species by skull size, height, weight, brain volume, age, and geographic distribution. • Study detailed evolutionary trees and evolutionary relationships. • Browse an interactive timeline covering major events from the formation of Earth to modern humans. • Analyze ancient diets and learn how different hominin species adapted to changing environments. • Discover famous fossil specimens with detailed descriptions and images. • Test your knowledge with quizzes across multiple categories and difficulty levels. • Experience survival scenarios inspired by prehistoric environments. • Use educational tools designed to make evolutionary science easier to understand. Whether you're a student, teacher, researcher, or simply curious about our origins, Human Evolution provides an accessible and engaging way to explore one of the most fascinating stories in science. **Premium Features** • Remove all advertisements. • Compare body measurements between species. • Access advanced nutrition and dietary analysis. • Unlock all quiz categories. • Enjoy the complete experience without limitations. All information is intended for educational purposes and is based on publicly available scientific research.

About

Daily Canon

Discover classic literature with a curated selection of one novel, poem, play, or essay each day. Enjoy beautifully designed backgrounds, atmospheric soundscapes, and interactive reading guides to enhance your literary journey. The app also includes features to help you focus and build your personal reading canon.

Highlights
  • Daily curated literary works
  • Immersive atmospheric soundscapes
  • Interactive reading guides
  • Personalized reading paths
  • App blocker for focused reading
  • AI-powered reader for recommendations
  • Offline reading capabilities
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Not a reading list you will never finish, and not a feed. One novel, poem, play or essay each morning, with a short piece written to make you want to read it, and the whole book waiting behind it if it takes. Some days it will not be for you. That is the point: keep your line in the water and one of them bites, and you have found a book you will press on everyone you meet. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Dracula through October. Wuthering Heights on Valentine's Day, because love should always be a little unhinged. Thousands of works, four thousand years of writing, reaching well past the Western shelf to Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak and the lunar new year. TODAY'S WORK The day's work on a painted background made for it: a blurb that sets the scene without spoiling it, a line worth keeping, and the gist in plain words for when the blurb leaves you guessing. Often a painting beside it, with its story. THE LIBRARY Complete books, properly typeset, with more shelved every week: real page turns, hold a word for the dictionary, your place kept to the word. Download any and read with no signal at all. Many carry their original language beside the translation, switchable mid-chapter: Anna Karenina in Russian, Dante in Italian, the Odyssey in Greek. Some carry our own notes on the hard words. THE BOOKSHOP Real books by post: clothbound and paperback editions of the works in the app, and prints of their paintings. AMBIENCE Every book gets the weather it was written in. A storm for King Lear, the open sea for Moby-Dick, a fire and rain outside for a Russian winter. Mix your own, or leave it to the book. Nothing streams, and it plays on with the screen locked. THE APP BLOCKER Name the apps that eat your evening and The Daily Canon stands at the door. Open one and today's reading is offered first, with an honest fifteen minutes through if you really must. The feed will keep. BLOOMY A reader who has read the canon and, more usefully, your log. Ask what to read next, or what a passage is doing. It answers in sentences, not links, and will shelve, log and rank things for you once you say yes. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Put a book down three months ago? Say where you stopped and get back everything up to there, and not one word past it. A YEAR OF NIGHTS Ray Bradbury's challenge: a short story, a poem and an essay every night, for a thousand nights. READING PATHS AND GUIDES Curated routes through the canon, from The Russian Soul to Books That Were Banned, and plain-spoken guides to the books that have beaten you before: Ulysses, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost. READ-ALONGS Live inside one book for a while, alongside everyone who signed up. A chapter of Dracula a day to Halloween. THE SALON Book clubs, letters by pigeon post, and the Common Room, where readers post what they are reading, a photograph of the pile, or a canon of their own. YOUR GOAL One book, a little each day, logged by holding a button. A streak under it, a forecast for the finish, and a shelf of what you have seen through. YOUR LIST AND YOUR LOG Shelves for what you mean to read, and a log of what you did. We are far too polite to compare them. IT WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL Today's work, your log, your streak and every downloaded book live on your phone. Tomorrow turns over at midnight, signal or not. ALSO INCLUDES My Canon, your own ranking, built two books at a time. The Commonplace Book, for every line you keep. Hundreds of author pages. The world's literature, mapped. Daily puzzles, a quiz and Charades. A literary word a day. On this day in literary history, and Tolstoy's thought for it. Ten reading languages. Home and Lock Screen widgets. A reading timer in the Dynamic Island. Streaks, tiers and laurels. Reading stats. The Colophon, your year in reading. Goodreads import. The Antipodes, a dare to the far side of your taste.

Screenshots

Human Evolution4 screens
Daily Canon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Human Evolution at none against Daily Canon's 6. Human Evolution also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.1). Daily Canon's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 19 months). On price, 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. Daily Canon sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Human Evolution asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Human Evolution ships an update every 19 months, Daily Canon every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Human Evolution versus Daily Canon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHuman EvolutionDaily Canon
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (259 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—90.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—259 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size650 MB681 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperGundogan EmreHENRY NICHOLAS WALL

In-app purchases

None

Human Evolution

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Daily Canon

Subscriptions2
  • Daily Canon Premium$7.991 Month
  • Daily Canon Premium$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • One book from the library$1.99
  • Gift: One Year of Folio$29.99
  • Gift: Folio for Life$119.99
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  • Folio Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Human Evolution free?
Human Evolution is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Canon free?
Daily Canon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Human Evolution or Daily Canon have ads?
Neither Human Evolution nor Daily Canon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Human Evolution or Daily Canon?
Human Evolution ships an update every 19 months, and Daily Canon every 3 days. Most recently, Human Evolution was updated on November 7, 2026 and Daily Canon on November 9, 2026.

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