Comparison

Day.ly Planner vs Beginary

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

Head to head
About

Day.ly Planner

This app offers a clean and organized way to plan your daily activities, including tasks, meals, and workouts. It helps reduce decision fatigue by allowing you to plan ahead and focus on priorities without the anxiety of strict time constraints.

Highlights
  • Plan tasks, meals, and workouts
  • Minimalist and user-friendly interface
  • Schedule days, weeks, and months ahead
  • View calendar events
  • Recycle meal plans
  • Add notes to tasks
Features
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Some days don't need a bigger to-do list. They need one place to see all of it — events, tasks, meals, and workouts — without hunting through five apps to find what's actually happening today. Day.ly gathers your whole day into a single, calm view. It's not a calendar replacement. It's a Today screen that shows you everything you're doing, without forcing every task into a time slot it doesn't need. EVERYTHING TODAY, ONE SCROLL - Calendar events pulled straight from your existing calendar - Tasks you can check off right from the Today screen - Meals you've planned for the day, tapped open to the recipe if you saved one - Workouts you've scheduled, on your terms PLAN AHEAD, RELAX TODAY Add tasks, meals, and workouts days, weeks, or months in advance, and let Day.ly hold onto them until the day actually arrives. Bigger, undated ideas live in Projects, so they don't clutter up your Today screen before they're ready. MEALS, WITHOUT THE NIGHTLY SCRAMBLE Plan a week of dinners in advance, glance back at what you made recently to keep some variety, or change the date on a meal you already planned to reuse it. Save a recipe link and Day.ly remembers it for you. WORKOUTS, YOUR WAY Schedule what you're doing and when, without being boxed into someone else's weekly program. Day.ly just needs to know what you're planning. The rest is up to you. CALM BY DESIGN A minimal, uncluttered interface built to lower decision fatigue, not add to it. Day.ly is deliberately wide, not deep; a look at your whole day, not a heavy system for any one part of it. RIGHT AT HOME ON ANY SCREEN Built to fit an iPhone SE without feeling cramped, and just as sharp stretched across a full iPad and looks great in both light and dark mode. A SMALL WAY TO DO GOOD 10% of every Day.ly subscription goes to A21, an organization working to end human trafficking. Try it free for 3 days, then continue with a subscription that gives back. Day.ly Planner is available for a Basic monthly ($.99) or yearly ($12.99) subscription that supports continued improvements and new features. Both offer a free trial to give you time to get to know Day.ly and decide if it works for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://driftlightapps.com/privacy-policy/ Day.ly. Everything today, at a glance.

About

Beginary

This app helps adults with ADHD overcome the initial resistance to starting tasks. It offers features like mood checks, warm-ups, AI task breakdown, and gentle nudges to make task initiation easier. The app focuses on celebrating progress without punitive streaks or shame.

Highlights
  • One-tap task initiation
  • Mood-based task approach
  • AI-powered task breakdown
  • Gentle and firm reminders
  • Progress-focused win tracking
  • ADHD-friendly design principles
Features
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Beginary helps adults with ADHD do the hardest part of any task: starting. You already know what you need to do. The gap is in beginning, and that gap isn't about discipline. It's how the ADHD brain handles initiation, working memory, time blindness, and the small spike of resistance that builds every time you look at the thing you've been meaning to start. Beginary is built for that exact moment. HOW IT WORKS Just Start. The core screen drops the cost of beginning to almost nothing. No picker, no setup. You tap, and you go. Mood check. Before you start, Beginary asks how thinking about the task feels: Fine, Wired, Heavy, or Stuck. There's no right answer. Your mood shapes what happens next: a Heavy afternoon and a Wired one don't get the same screen. Warm-Up. When starting cold feels like too much, a short warm-up gives you an on-ramp instead of a cliff. AI Breakdown. When a task is too big to see the start of, Beginary breaks it into small, doable pieces. Gentle nudges, firm when it matters. Reminders are soft by default: a quiet heads-up, never a guilt trip. For the tasks that truly need to break through, you can opt specific ones into a firm alarm. You decide which tasks earn that. Today's Wins. Beginary frames what you started and showed up for, not what you didn't get to. No streaks to break. No red overdue. No "you missed it." BUILT FOR HOW ADHD ACTUALLY WORKS - No streaks, no badges, no leaderboards. Beginary never punishes you for an off day. - No shame language. The app stays calm, even when you don't. - Motion-sensitive by design. Reduced-motion settings are fully respected. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL Privacy is built into the structure, not bolted on. Your task names and mood check-ins are yours. Beginary uses AI to help break tasks down, which sends the task title to Anthropic for that purpose only. Nothing else, and you can turn it off. Analytics are anonymous. We don't sell your data or use it for advertising. ON APPLE WATCH Today's list, the mood check, and a one-tap start on your wrist. The Watch app works alongside your iPhone. TRY IT FREE Beginary is free for 14 days, full access, no card required. After that, Pro is $8.99/month or $79/year for unlimited tasks, unlimited AI breakdowns, and your pattern history. Questions or feedback: hello@beginary.com Privacy: https://www.beginary.com/privacy Terms: https://www.beginary.com/terms

Screenshots

Day.ly Planner4 screens
Beginary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Beginary at free with in-app purchases against Day.ly Planner's subscription. Beginary also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Day.ly Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Beginary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Day.ly Planner against 5.0 for Beginary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day.ly Planner ships an update every 4 weeks, Beginary every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Day.ly Planner versus Beginary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay.ly PlannerBeginary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB26 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNuminous Productions LLCBEGINARY LLC

Customer experience

Day.ly Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beginary

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Day.ly Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly1 Month trial$12.991 Year
2 purchases

Beginary

Subscriptions2
  • Beginary Pro$8.991 Month
  • Beginary Pro$79.001 Year

Questions

Is Day.ly Planner free?
Day.ly Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beginary free?
Beginary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Day.ly Planner or Beginary?
Day.ly Planner and Beginary are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Day.ly Planner or Beginary have ads?
Neither Day.ly Planner nor Beginary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Day.ly Planner or Beginary?
Day.ly Planner ships an update every 4 weeks, and Beginary every 6 days. Most recently, Day.ly Planner was updated on October 10, 2026 and Beginary on October 8, 2026.

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