Comparison

Awareness vs DayDial

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

Head to head
About

Awareness

Visualize your life's timeline, transforming abstract days, weeks, months, and years into tangible shapes and stories. Track important dates, milestones, and goals with beautiful, calming designs and always-visible widgets.

Highlights
  • Count days up or down from any date
  • Visualize life in weeks, months, quarters, years
  • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, goals
  • iOS 26 liquid glass design with animations
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Cross-device support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
  • One-time purchase
Features
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Time Awareness helps you experience time the way it really feels. Life has a strange rhythm—sometimes racing past before you notice, sometimes stretching endlessly. This app makes the invisible visible, turning abstract days, weeks, months, and years into something you can see, feel, and understand. Instead of staring at a clock or scanning a calendar, you see the bigger picture. Time Awareness transforms numeric dates into living timelines: how many days have passed since you were born, how many remain until an important milestone, how this quarter or year is unfolding right now. Suddenly, time isn’t a blur of numbers—it’s a shape, a story, a perspective you can hold in your hands. Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, or personal goals. Mark the days since a meaningful event, or count down to the ones you’re waiting for. Explore the flow of your week, month, quarter, or year and watch how each piece fits into your life’s rhythm. These simple, beautiful visualizations help you feel grounded, present, and more connected to where you are in time. What users love most is the sense of calm and clarity it brings. Time Awareness isn’t about productivity hacks or constant reminders. It’s about perspective. It gently shifts how you see your life—not as a string of hours to fill, but as a landscape of moments to notice and experience. Many describe it as unexpectedly eye-opening, even beautiful. Design matters too. Time Awareness is crafted to look and feel as good as it works. Built with the new iOS 26 liquid glass design language, it feels smooth, modern, and calming. Animations give a sense of depth and flow, while Home Screen widgets keep your chosen timelines visible at a glance. Awareness isn’t hidden in an app—it’s right there, living alongside you. And with full Mac support, the same perspective follows you across every device. Ownership is simple: one purchase, forever yours. No subscriptions, no recurring payments—just a single decision that unlocks everything, including updates as the app grows. Whether you want to reflect on the past, anticipate the future, or simply feel the rhythm of everyday life, Time Awareness is your companion for living with presence. Key Features: • Count days up or down from any meaningful date • Visualize your life in weeks, months, quarters, and years • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, and goals • Beautiful iOS 26 liquid glass design with smooth animations • Home Screen widgets for always-visible perspective • Works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • One-time purchase with lifetime access Time Awareness helps you see the bigger picture, stay connected to your moments, and rediscover how it feels to live in time instead of losing track of it. Make your days visible. Make your life tangible. Live with awareness.

About

DayDial

Features
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あの日まで、あと何日? DayDial は、大切な予定までの残り日数を数えるカウントダウンアプリです。ライブや記念日、受験、誕生日、推しのイベント——登録した予定をホーム画面・ロック画面のウィジェットに常駐表示できるので、ロック解除のたびにワクワクが積み重なります。 ■ 特長 ・予定までの残り日数をひと目で ・ホーム画面/ロック画面ウィジェット対応 ・絵文字・カラー・写真背景でカスタム ・複数の予定を管理 【DayDial Pro(月額)】 ・無料は3件まで。Proで無制限に登録 ・全カラーテーマ/ウィジェットで複数表示 ・価格: ¥320 / 月(自動更新) ・お支払いはApple IDに請求されます。期間終了の24時間前までに自動更新をオフにしない限り自動更新されます。設定 > Apple ID > サブスクリプション からいつでも解約できます。 ・利用規約(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ・プライバシーポリシー: https://sano131.github.io/daydial-privacy/ すべて端末内に保存されます。

Screenshots

Awareness4 screens
DayDial2 screens

Verdict

The call

Awareness and DayDial are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Awareness sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and DayDial sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Awareness versus DayDial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwarenessDayDial
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakeOnePiece LLCSANWA Inc.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Awareness

One-time3
  • Pro$6.99
  • Pro Membership$9.99
  • Pro$14.99
1 purchases

DayDial

Subscriptions1
  • DayDial Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Awareness free?
Awareness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayDial free?
DayDial is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Awareness or DayDial have ads?
Neither Awareness nor DayDial shows ads.

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