Comparison

Save Your Day vs bar'd

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

Head to head
About

Save Your Day

Capture daily experiences, track moods, and monitor personal growth with this digital journal. It offers a clean design, a calendar view, and a day rating system to help you reflect and build better habits. Your memories are kept private with local data storage.

Highlights
  • Daily journaling
  • Mood tracking
  • Goal achievement tracking
  • Day rating system
  • Calendar view
  • Local data storage
Features
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Save Your Day is your personal digital journal designed to help you capture, reflect on, and track your daily experiences. KEY FEATURES: • Daily Journaling - Record memories, thoughts, and experiences • Mood Tracking - Log emotions and feelings throughout your day • Goal Achievement - Track completed tasks, books, movies, and milestones • Day Rating System - Rate your days 1-10 with optional summaries • Beautiful Calendar View - Visual overview of your journal entries • Clean, Intuitive Design - Focus on what matters most PERFECT FOR: • Daily reflection and mindfulness • Tracking personal growth • Recording life memories • Building better habits • Mental health awareness Start your journey of self-discovery and create a meaningful record of your life, one day at a time. Privacy-focused with local data storage - your memories stay yours.

About

bar'd

This app enforces digital discipline by linking your phone's Focus Modes to physical barcodes. Scan a barcode to unlock distracting apps, ensuring genuine accountability for your screen time. Track your progress and build streaks towards focused hours.

Highlights
  • Enforce focus modes with physical barcodes
  • Shield distracting apps at system level
  • Customizable app whitelists
  • Automated daily focus schedules
  • Track focused hours and streaks
  • On-device data privacy
Features
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bar'd is the ultimate physical lock for your digital distractions. Built on Apple's strict Screen Time API, bar'd doesn't just ask you nicely to put your phone down—it forces you to. Link your custom Focus Modes (like Work, Study, or Phone-free Dinner) to a physical barcode anywhere in your house or office. Once you activate a session, your distracting apps are shielded. The only way back in? Get up, walk over, and scan that exact physical barcode. There is no PIN bypass. There is no cooldown timer. There is no "remind me in 15 minutes." You either delete the app, or you scan the barcode. HOW IT WORKS: Create a Mode: Set up a profile (e.g., "Dumb phone") and whitelist only the apps you actually need. Everything else gets shielded. Bind a Barcode: Link the mode to any physical barcode (a book, a coffee bag, a label on your desk). Lock In: Activate the mode manually or set an automated daily schedule. Unlock: To pause, edit, or stop the session early, you must physically scan the tied barcode. KEY FEATURES: • Unbreakable Focus: Uses Apple's FamilyControls to securely shield blocked apps at the system level. • Physical Accountability: Ties your digital habits to the physical world using your camera's AVFoundation pipeline. • Custom Schedules: Automate your focus times in the background. • Stats & Streaks: Track your focused hours, build a daily streak, and climb the ranks up to Grandmaster. • Private by Design: All App Group state and SwiftData persistence happens entirely on-device.

Screenshots

Save Your Day3 screens
bar'd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: bar'd at every 3 weeks against Save Your Day's every 6 weeks. bar'd also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Save Your Day's advantage is iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Save Your Day against 5.0 for bar'd. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Save Your Day ships an update every 6 weeks, bar'd every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Save Your Day versus bar'd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSave Your Daybar'd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert ErwinKenneth Rapko

Customer experience

Save Your Day

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

bar'd

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Save Your Day

No in-app purchases

None

bar'd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Save Your Day free?
Save Your Day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is bar'd free?
bar'd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Save Your Day or bar'd?
Save Your Day and bar'd are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Save Your Day or bar'd have ads?
Neither Save Your Day nor bar'd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Save Your Day or bar'd?
Save Your Day ships an update every 6 weeks, and bar'd every 3 weeks. Most recently, Save Your Day was updated on October 24, 2026 and bar'd on October 24, 2026.

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