Daylish vs TypeDraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylish
This app helps you manage your day by visualizing your calendar events, journeys, timers, and alarms in a unified timeline. It offers smart alarms and timers to ensure you're prepared for important events, factoring in travel and preparation time.
- Unified timeline view
- Smart alarms and timers
- Leave On Time routines
- Focus timers and routines
- Calendar event linking
- Live Activity support
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Daylish is your friendly day planner. It helps you never be late again, while effortlessly flowing through your day and getting things done. See all your calendar events, journeys, timers and alarms in a single unified timeline. Easily plan ahead with smart alarms and timers that assist you in getting ready well in advance of important events, taking into account travel and preparation time. Quickly plan your whole day in just a few minutes, easily identifying where you need a little more buffer timer to avoid stressful situations, as well as finding gaps you can use for productivity, relaxation and fun! Once you made your plan, just flow from one time block to another. Stay focused on what matters now, instead of worrying about what lies ahead. Daylish will keep you on track when the time comes and always lets you see at a glance what's happening right now and coming up next. ALARMS FOR EVENTS Traditionally, calendar apps show notifications, which is great (and also something Daylish supports) but sometimes you just need that extra buzz to grab your attention and that's why Daylish allows you to create ALARMS that are linked to calendar events or any other timeline items. You definitely won't miss that important meeting anymore - even when you're totally in the zone! LEAVE ON TIME With Daylish's Leave On Time routines you can quickly block time for the journey as well as the time you need to get ready to leave the house. When your preparation time starts, you will get an alarm that you cannot miss. Once dismissed, it will automatically transform into a countdown timer, telling you how much time you have to get out of the house. Of course, this is visible as a Live Activity, so you can always do a quick time check while you're getting ready to head out. The journey and preparation time blocks are linked to the calendar event. That means: if you move the calendar event in Daylish, everything else is automatically updated as well. FOCUS TIMERS & ROUTINES Use timers for focus work sessions or chores that fit neatly between your events or build your custom morning routine with multiple sequential timers. The possibilities are endless. FREE & POWER USER FEATURES Many of the core calendar and agenda features are available for free, but some functionality (alarms, timers and smart routines as well as advanced filters and settings) require Daylish+, which is available as a one-time purchase or subscription (you choose which plan fits best into your life - they all unlock the full feature set). By unlocking Daylish+ you gain access to features that make you more productive and help you be on time and stay on track. Also, you're supporting an independent developer and helping me to keep working on Daylish for a long time to come - thank you! :) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TypeDraw
This app offers a digital notebook experience where you can type, draw, and write using your own handwriting. It allows for customization of pages, fonts, and ink colors, with options to export notes as PDFs. Additional notebooks can be unlocked with a one-time purchase.
- Type, draw, and write with handwriting
- Convert handwriting to a font
- Customizable page colors, ink, and fonts
- Export notes as PDF
- Home Screen widgets for quick access
- Smart Marks for responsive text highlighting
- Multiple notebooks with in-app purchase
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Imagine a notebook so entirely your own that you can even type in your own handwriting. All the simplicity of paper, unique ways to capture your ideas and clever new ways to find them exactly when you need them. Here is that Notebook. No account required. No subscription. Your notes stay local and private on your device, or sync through your own iCloud account if you choose. Your data stays yours, and you can even lock your book. Export a single page or your whole book as a PDF and send it to your files, your agents or your mother. - Open to what matters in the moment: a fresh page, your most recent note, or a note from that restaurant you’re finally visiting again after years. Or jump straight into what you need with a beautiful Home Screen widget. - Type, draw and write anywhere, just as you would in a real notebook. Turn the pages with a curl or a tap, sketch with your fingers, or use Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo. Turn on “Ready to Draw” to keep drawing mode active, so you can start sketching as soon as you open your book. - Enjoy a free canvas where text and drawings belong together. Highlight or underline text, and your strokes automatically convert to responsive “Smart Marks” that adapt when you edit words, change line breaks or adjust the layout. - Make it yours! Turn your handwriting into a font you can type with in just minutes. Choose your page colour, ink colour, font size and text colour. Pick lined, grid or dotted paper, and explore 12 handwritten typefaces from Shaped Fonts or choose from all preinstalled iOS system fonts. - Add up to four additional notebooks to your setup. Each requires a small one-time in-app purchase so we can keep the app subscription-free. Switch between books by long-pressing the cover, selecting one in Settings or, on iPhone Duo and iPad, swiping in the desk view. - Keep an overview with a table of contents you can sort by page number, time or location...so the notes nearest to you are always easy to find. All Notes are searchable, too. - Have fun and don't take life too seriously!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Daylish at Free against TypeDraw's $4.99. Daylish also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). TypeDraw's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Daylish is free to download; TypeDraw costs $4.99 up front. Daylish sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and TypeDraw sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daylish holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TypeDraw has 65 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Daylish's written reviews are positive against 86% of TypeDraw's.
Daylish ships an update every 2 weeks, TypeDraw every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylish | TypeDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better | 4.4 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 86.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #1 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manuel Kehl | Trautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency |
Customer experience
Daylish
TypeDraw
In-app purchases
Daylish
- Daylish+ (Monthly)3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Daylish+ (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Daylish+ (Lifetime)$49.99
TypeDraw
- Atlantic Notebook$1.99
- Bordeaux Notebook$1.99
- Highlands Notebook$1.99
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- Sahara Notebook$1.99





