BigYear vs PayDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
BigYear
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Plan the year you actually want to live. BigYear turns your calendar into a clear, continuous view of the months ahead. See trips, birthdays, milestones, deadlines and long-term goals togetherβwithout losing them inside a weekly grid. WHAT YOU CAN DO β’ See your entire year in one scrollable calendar β’ Create single-day events and multi-day date ranges β’ Organize plans with calm, color-coded calendars β’ Jump back to today instantly β’ Review upcoming plans in a focused timeline β’ Choose Monday or Sunday as the first day of the week β’ Keep your calendars synced across iPhone and Mac BUILT FOR THE DATES THAT MATTER Use BigYear for holidays, launches, races, exams, family visits, travel, major deadlines and personal goals. Zoom out, make space and turn intentions into dates. Your year, at a glance.
PayDay
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PayDay keeps track of what you work and what you're owed. Add a job β a bar, a shop, an office, as many as you like. Each one gets its own tab, its own colour and its own hourly rate. Log a shift in a couple of taps and PayDay works out what it paid. A TAB PER JOB Every job keeps its own rate, usual hours, colour and icon. Switch between them from the tab bar. SHIFTS, LOGGED IN SECONDS Repeat your last shift with one tap, or pick a day straight from the calendar. Shifts that run past midnight are handled properly β they still count toward the day they started. TIPS Turn them on for the jobs that have them, off for the ones that don't. KNOW WHAT THE MONTH WILL PAY PayDay projects the rest of the month from how you actually work, weighting each remaining day by how often you work that weekday. Set a monthly goal in hours or money and watch it fill. CHECK YOUR PAYSLIP Mark a month as paid, enter what actually landed in your account, and PayDay tells you whether it matched what the shifts came to. TIMESHEETS Any month as a clean table of dates, times and hours, exported as a PDF to print or send, or a CSV for a spreadsheet. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS No account. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Your shifts are kept in your own private iCloud, where nobody but you can read them β and the app works fully without iCloud too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PayDay at daily against BigYear's every 14 months. BigYear's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BigYear ships an update every 14 months, PayDay daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BigYear | PayDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Daily β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mykhailo Churilov | Ivo Peterka |
In-app purchases
BigYear
No in-app purchases
PayDay
No in-app purchases









