DayBlock vs TaskBlue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DayBlock
Track your daily efforts by creating custom 'blocks' representing your activities. Visualize your productivity growth and organize tasks with custom colors and icons. Review your day's achievements through dynamic calendar insights.
- Productivity tracking with 30-minute intervals
- Live Activity for seamless tracking
- Smart background tracking
- Customizable blocks with names, colors, and icons
- Group related blocks for organization
- Calendar view for daily insights
- Dynamic visual representation of activities
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DayBlock: Build Your Productive Day "How productive has my day been?" Our lives are filled with diverse moments every single day. By turning the moments you want to remember into 'blocks' and stacking them up, you’ll be able to see the traces of your effort and passion right here in DayBlock. ■ Productivity Tracking - Stack Your Blocks: Measure your time in 30-minute intervals and watch your productivity grow. - Live Activity: Keep your focus sharp with seamless tracking via Live Activities. - Smart Background Tracking: DayBlock keeps working intelligently even if the app is closed. ■ Custom Blocks & Groups - Make It Yours: Create unique blocks using custom task names, vibrant colors, and icons. - Stay Organized: Group related blocks together for effortless management. ■ Calendar - Daily Insights: Use the calendar to see exactly which blocks you built and for how long. - Dynamic Visuals: Watch your calendar blocks transform as you produce a wider variety of activities.
TaskBlue
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TaskBlue is for parents whose child has their own iPhone. During focus, for example at school or during homework, the distracting apps disappear from your child's iPhone. Everything else keeps working. Every focus hour removes about 100 g of plastic from the sea. HOW IT WORKS • Set it up once on your child's iPhone, no parent app needed • Pick the distracting apps, for example games and social media • During focus they disappear from the home screen, afterwards they are back • Calls, messages and maps keep working WHEN FOCUS RUNS • Place: automatically at school or tutoring • Schedule: fixed times, for example for homework • Lock Up: until a time you set • Manual: hold the circle for 3 seconds BLUE • Blue is a little sea turtle who lives in your child's sea • Every focus makes Blue's sea cleaner and Blue happier • With the plastic collected, your child gets Blue hats, costumes and colors • No real money and no purchases involved, only focus time • Widgets show Blue on the Home Screen and Lock Screen ALARM • Keeps ringing until your child scans the BlueTag • A morning focus can start right after THE BLUETAG • Small NFC tag without a battery that stays with you • End focus early: with the BlueTag or your parent code • For real emergencies there is an emergency exit, three times in total • Get the BlueTag at taskblue.app OCEAN IMPACT • Every focus hour funds the recovery of about 50 g of ocean plastic, up to 5 kg a month • Your child sees in the app how much plastic they have pulled out of the sea PRIVACY • You see neither your child's location nor their messages • Location stays on the iPhone • Uses Apple's Screen Time framework
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TaskBlue at 16.0 against DayBlock's 18.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | DayBlock | TaskBlue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minjoon Kim | Paul Kasten |
In-app purchases
DayBlock
No in-app purchases
TaskBlue
No in-app purchases









