Comparison

Zenleaps vs DayZen

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

Head to head
About

Zenleaps

This productivity app helps you organize tasks, notes, and lists with a minimalist design. It facilitates collaboration and transforms ideas into actionable projects.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Task management
  • Note-taking
  • List creation
  • Collaborative features
  • Idea transformation
Features
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Zenleaps, where minimalism meets social creativity – an app that seamlessly adapts to your thought process, empowering you to curate, collaborate, and transform ideas into meaningful projects and tasks.

About

DayZen

This app transforms your schedule into a visual 24-hour clock, making time concrete and manageable. It's designed to combat time blindness and anxiety for neurodivergent individuals by visualizing tasks as colored arcs on a clock face.

Highlights
  • Visual 24-hour clock schedule
  • Task arcs and time blocking
  • ADHD-friendly interface
  • Live Activities & Dynamic Island
  • Immersive Focus Mode
  • Calendar integration
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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STOP LYING TO YOUR CALENDAR. To-do lists feel infinite. If you have ADHD, lists are just a source of anxiety. You keep adding tasks, but reality keeps disagreeing. You schedule 10 pounds of work into a 5-pound day, and then feel guilty when you don’t finish. DayZen: Visual Time Planner transforms your daily schedule from a stressful list into a logical 24-hour visual clock. Tasks become colored arcs. When the circle fills, it’s full. No more pretending a 3-hour project fits into a 30-minute gap. It is the ADHD planner that finally works. Design your time. See your visual schedule. Find your focus. WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2.0 We’ve rebuilt DayZen to be the ultimate time management companion for the neurodivergent mind. - Live Activities & Dynamic Island: Track your active focus time, remaining duration, and progress without unlocking your phone. - Immersive Focus Mode: A full-screen focus timer designed to eliminate ADHD distractions, complete with haptic feedback. - Deep Insights: Analyze your time usage patterns with new interactive charts for daily, weekly, and yearly trends. WHY THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ADHD PLANNER For the ADHD brain, time is abstract. DayZen makes time concrete. CONQUER ADHD TIME BLINDNESS Don't just read your schedule: see your time. DayZen acts as a visual timer and planner to fix time blindness. Drag and drop tasks onto the clock face and resize them with a finger. Conflicts glow red instantly so you can fix your daily routine before the day starts. INTUITIVE TIME BLOCKING Forget rigid spreadsheets that kill dopamine. Simply drag a slice of time to create a task. It’s the fastest, most tactile way to build a daily schedule using the time blocking method. STAY ON TRACK WITH WIDGETS Keep your visual day at a glance. Our beautiful Home Screen widgets show your current time block and what’s coming next to prevent executive dysfunction. SYNC WITH REALITY Seamlessly integrates with your Apple Calendar. Your meetings, classes, and time blocks live in one unified visual circle. BUILD BETTER HABITS Set recurring tasks once (e.g., "Morning Meds" or "Deep Work") and let DayZen protect that time forever. WHO IS DAYZEN FOR? -Adult ADHD & Neurodivergent Minds: If you struggle with time blindness, focus, or maintaining a routine, this is the ADHD tool you’ve been waiting for. -Visual Thinkers: For those who are allergic to endless text-based task lists. -Students & Freelancers: Perfect for Pomodoro focus sessions and managing irregular daily plans. -Over-committers: Learn the power of saying "no" when you see your time circle is full. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your schedule is your business. DayZen requires no account and collects no data. There are no ads, ever. PRICING - Free Forever: Enjoy the full radial clock, 10 active tasks, and basic visual planning features. Experience the difference of visual time management. - Premium: Unlock unlimited tasks, advanced time statistics, two-way calendar sync, and Dynamic Island support. THE REAL DIFFERENCE Other planner apps ask, "What do you want to do?" DayZen asks, "What time actually fits?" See the circle. Respect the clock. Own your day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: http://kavolis.xyz/dayzen/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Zenleaps3 screens
DayZen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Zenleaps at 5.0 against DayZen's 4.3. Zenleaps also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Zenleaps sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year and DayZen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Zenleaps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Zenleaps's written reviews are positive against 75% of DayZen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zenleaps ships an update fortnightly, DayZen monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Zenleaps versus DayZen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZenleapsDayZen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGerhard van der WesthuizenJoris Kavolis

Customer experience

Zenleaps

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DayZen

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Zenleaps

Subscriptions1
  • Zenleaps Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
3 purchases

DayZen

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Zenleaps free?
Zenleaps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayZen free?
DayZen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zenleaps or DayZen?
Zenleaps is rated higher. Zenleaps averages 5.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while DayZen averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Zenleaps or DayZen have ads?
Neither Zenleaps nor DayZen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zenleaps or DayZen?
Zenleaps ships an update fortnightly, and DayZen monthly. Most recently, Zenleaps was updated on October 24, 2026 and DayZen on October 24, 2026.

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