Comparison

DayZen vs Improve

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

Head to head
About

DayZen

This app transforms your schedule into a visual 24-hour clock, making time concrete and manageable. It's designed to combat time blindness and anxiety for neurodivergent individuals by visualizing tasks as colored arcs on a clock face.

Highlights
  • Visual 24-hour clock schedule
  • Task arcs and time blocking
  • ADHD-friendly interface
  • Live Activities & Dynamic Island
  • Immersive Focus Mode
  • Calendar integration
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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STOP LYING TO YOUR CALENDAR. To-do lists feel infinite. If you have ADHD, lists are just a source of anxiety. You keep adding tasks, but reality keeps disagreeing. You schedule 10 pounds of work into a 5-pound day, and then feel guilty when you don’t finish. DayZen: Visual Time Planner transforms your daily schedule from a stressful list into a logical 24-hour visual clock. Tasks become colored arcs. When the circle fills, it’s full. No more pretending a 3-hour project fits into a 30-minute gap. It is the ADHD planner that finally works. Design your time. See your visual schedule. Find your focus. WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2.0 We’ve rebuilt DayZen to be the ultimate time management companion for the neurodivergent mind. - Live Activities & Dynamic Island: Track your active focus time, remaining duration, and progress without unlocking your phone. - Immersive Focus Mode: A full-screen focus timer designed to eliminate ADHD distractions, complete with haptic feedback. - Deep Insights: Analyze your time usage patterns with new interactive charts for daily, weekly, and yearly trends. WHY THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ADHD PLANNER For the ADHD brain, time is abstract. DayZen makes time concrete. CONQUER ADHD TIME BLINDNESS Don't just read your schedule: see your time. DayZen acts as a visual timer and planner to fix time blindness. Drag and drop tasks onto the clock face and resize them with a finger. Conflicts glow red instantly so you can fix your daily routine before the day starts. INTUITIVE TIME BLOCKING Forget rigid spreadsheets that kill dopamine. Simply drag a slice of time to create a task. It’s the fastest, most tactile way to build a daily schedule using the time blocking method. STAY ON TRACK WITH WIDGETS Keep your visual day at a glance. Our beautiful Home Screen widgets show your current time block and what’s coming next to prevent executive dysfunction. SYNC WITH REALITY Seamlessly integrates with your Apple Calendar. Your meetings, classes, and time blocks live in one unified visual circle. BUILD BETTER HABITS Set recurring tasks once (e.g., "Morning Meds" or "Deep Work") and let DayZen protect that time forever. WHO IS DAYZEN FOR? -Adult ADHD & Neurodivergent Minds: If you struggle with time blindness, focus, or maintaining a routine, this is the ADHD tool you’ve been waiting for. -Visual Thinkers: For those who are allergic to endless text-based task lists. -Students & Freelancers: Perfect for Pomodoro focus sessions and managing irregular daily plans. -Over-committers: Learn the power of saying "no" when you see your time circle is full. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your schedule is your business. DayZen requires no account and collects no data. There are no ads, ever. PRICING - Free Forever: Enjoy the full radial clock, 10 active tasks, and basic visual planning features. Experience the difference of visual time management. - Premium: Unlock unlimited tasks, advanced time statistics, two-way calendar sync, and Dynamic Island support. THE REAL DIFFERENCE Other planner apps ask, "What do you want to do?" DayZen asks, "What time actually fits?" See the circle. Respect the clock. Own your day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: http://kavolis.xyz/dayzen/privacy-policy

About

Improve

Build daily habits and manage tasks with a unique marble-earning system. Track progress individually or with friends to foster accountability and build streaks. Everything you need to organize your day and achieve your goals in one place.

Highlights
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Prioritized task backlog
  • Daily marble rewards (bronze, silver, gold)
  • Social streaks with friends
  • Progress visualization
  • Integrated planning
Features
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A habit tracker and planner in one, with a habit pal to earn every day. Build your daily habits, work through your to-dos, and end each day with a bronze, silver or gold habit pal based on what you got done. Go solo or build streaks with friends. Your progress only ever moves forward. HABITS + PLANS, FINALLY TOGETHER Set recurring habits, keep a prioritized to-do list, and see everything for today in one view. Habits and to-dos both earn trophies, so every bit of progress counts. A HABIT PAL EVERY DAY Hit your goals to earn trophies, and watch your pal grow. At the end of the day, it joins your shelf as bronze, silver or gold, based on how much you did, not whether you did everything. There's a different pal each day, and no pal is ever taken away. SEE THE BIG PICTURE Look back at your week, your month or your whole year at a glance. Spot your streaks, trends and what's actually working. SEE HOW YOU COMPARE Find out how your sleep, steps, water, reading and more stack up against real population data. DO IT WITH FRIENDS Add friends with a code, see their habit pals and build shared streaks. When you both earn a pal on the same day, your streak grows. It's accountability without the pressure. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH Steps and other health habits fill in automatically, so you don't have to log them. Download Improve and start building better days. Some features require an Improve Premium subscription. Terms of Use: https://bytefrostteam.github.io/policies/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://bytefrostteam.github.io/policies/privacy.html

Screenshots

DayZen4 screens
Improve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Improve at 5.0 against DayZen's 4.3. Improve also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17). DayZen's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. DayZen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Improve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Improve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DayZen ships an update monthly, Improve every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DayZen versus Improve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayZenImprove
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1715.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoris KavolisByteFrost AB

Customer experience

DayZen

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Improve

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DayZen

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99
2 purchases

Improve

Subscriptions2
  • Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is DayZen free?
DayZen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Improve free?
Improve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DayZen or Improve?
Improve is rated higher. DayZen averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Improve averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DayZen or Improve have ads?
Neither DayZen nor Improve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DayZen or Improve?
DayZen ships an update monthly, and Improve every 2 weeks. Most recently, DayZen was updated on October 24, 2026 and Improve on October 25, 2026.

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