Comparison

Daily Learn vs Sailor's Deck

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

Head to head
About

Daily Learn

This app offers a daily companion for introspection, productivity, and mindfulness. It features guided journaling, task organization using the Eisenhower Matrix, and personalized daily quotes and facts to inspire positive thoughts.

Highlights
  • Guided journaling with Burn Boxes
  • Eisenhower Matrix for task prioritization
  • Personalized daily quotes and facts
  • Distraction-free experience
  • Community content integration
  • Daily curated notifications
Features
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What started as a habit of sharing daily quotes with my uni flatmates grew into an introspection app designed to be your mental hygiene routine—like brushing your teeth, but for your mind! -> Welcome to Daily Learn: a personalised daily companion for introspection, productivity, and mindfulness. This is achieved with... • Introspection with Burn Boxes: Reflect and release your thoughts through guided journaling tools. Write about gratitudes, ambitions, or emotions, then symbolically ‘burn’ your entries to let go if you want. • Boost Productivity: Organise your tasks and days effectively with the Eisenhower Matrix. Prioritise, schedule, and focus on what matters most. • Create Mindfulness: Tailored Daily ‘Learn’ quotes, tips, and facts that match your interests and inspire useful, positive, and profound thoughts everyday. (With the new addition of community content!) Set your notification time to receive your curated ‘Daily Learn’ as a single, seamless notification every day. -> Enjoy a distraction-free experience: • No data collection • No ads • No pop-ups, cookies, or subscriptions Have ideas for new content areas or features? I’d love to hear your suggestions!

About

Sailor's Deck

Master navigation lights and day shapes for skipper exams with this flashcard app. It uses spaced repetition to build lasting visual memory, tracks your progress, and resurfaces difficult configurations until they stick. Study offline with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Four-layer progression of study
  • Confusion pair training
  • Offline functionality
  • Progress tracking and session summaries
  • Association-specific terminology
  • Daily streak motivator
Features
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Navigation lights and day shapes is the hardest topic on every skipper exam. Minimum 50 configurations to recognise, from any bearing, under time pressure. Most sailors try to cram it from a textbook the night before. It doesn't work. Sailor's Deck is built specifically for this. Flashcards with spaced repetition — the study method proven to build lasting visual memory — sequenced across four layers from basic light identification through to full composite scenarios. The app tracks what you know, resurfaces what you don't, and keeps drilling the configurations you keep getting wrong until they stick. HOW IT WORKS Each session presents set of cards drawn from your personal review queue. Answer correctly and the card moves to a longer review interval. Answer wrong and it comes back sooner. Get a category badly wrong and the relevant COLREGS rule is shown on the spot. The four-layer progression matches the way your exam actually tests you: — Layer 1: Base lights — masthead, sidelights, sternlight — Layer 2: Status lights — what the vessel is doing — Layer 3: Day shapes — cone, ball, cylinder, diamond — Layer 4: Composite scenarios — full patterns from specific bearings Confusion pairs are built in. Miss a RAM card and the NUC card is queued immediately behind it. Miss a trawling vessel and the purse-seine card follows. The pairs most likely to lose you marks on the exam are pre-wired into the system. 100+ CARDS. ALMOST EVERY CONFIGURATION. Power-driven vessels, sailing vessels, vessels not under command, restricted in ability to manoeuvre, constrained by draught, pilot vessels, mine clearance, dredgers, air-cushion vessels, fishing vessels trawling and not trawling, vessels at anchor, towing and pushing — plus all COLREGS day shapes. Every card reviewed by a qualified sailing instructor. WORKS FOR YOUR ASSOCIATION Select your certification on first launch and the app uses your association's terminology throughout: — RYA Day Skipper / Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster — IYT Bareboat / Coastal / Master of Yachts — ISSA Inshore / Offshore — ASA 104 / 106 One card library. Your language. NO ACCOUNT. NO INTERNET. NO NONSENSE. Everything runs offline. Progress is saved locally. No login, no subscription, no ads. Free — permanently, with no card limit and no time limit on the entry skipper deck. DAILY STREAK + PROGRESS TRACKING A daily streak keeps you coming back in the weeks before your exam. Per-category accuracy shows exactly where your weak spots are. Session summaries flag the COLREGS rules you need to read. Study on the boat. Study on the bus. Five minutes before bed. The exam is closer than you think.

Screenshots

Daily Learn4 screens
Sailor's Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Daily Learn at free against Sailor's Deck's paid. Daily Learn also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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. Daily Learn sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Sailor's Deck sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Learn ships an update every 2 days, Sailor's Deck every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Daily Learn versus Sailor's Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily LearnSailor's Deck
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJack WhiteVladimir Arefev

Customer experience

Daily Learn

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sailor's Deck

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Daily Learn

One-time3
  • Small Donation$0.99
  • Medium Donation$4.99
  • Large Donation$9.99
3 purchases

Sailor's Deck

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Buy a Coffee$2.99
  • Generous Tip$3.99

Questions

Is Daily Learn free?
Daily Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sailor's Deck free?
Sailor's Deck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Learn or Sailor's Deck have ads?
Neither Daily Learn nor Sailor's Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Learn or Sailor's Deck?
Daily Learn ships an update every 2 days, and Sailor's Deck every 3 weeks. Most recently, Daily Learn was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sailor's Deck on November 5, 2026.

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