Comparison

DayZen vs VisualDay Daily Planner

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

VisualDay Daily Planner

Features
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Make your day easier to follow with visual task cards, reusable routines and a focus timer. VisualDay is a personal daily planner for study, work and everyday routines. Give each task a title, icon, color and estimated duration, then organize it into morning, afternoon, evening or anytime. See what is next and track completed, skipped and remaining tasks throughout the day. PLAN WITH CARDS Create and edit task cards. Break a busy day into manageable steps, from preparing breakfast to a study session or a work task. REUSE YOUR ROUTINES Start with Morning routine, Evening routine or Study session templates. Create up to three custom templates on the free plan and reuse them when planning another day. Pro unlocks unlimited custom templates and additional ready-made routines. FOCUS ON ONE TASK Start a focus timer, pause and resume it, or add five more minutes. Return to an active session after closing its screen. When time runs out, choose whether to complete the task or keep going. On supported devices, Live Activities keep the session visible outside the app. KEEP YOUR PLAN VISIBLE Add Home Screen widgets for a quick view of your plan. Enable optional local reminders in Settings; daily planning remains available if notifications are turned off. Widget and Live Activity availability and updates depend on iOS and device support. KEEP A PERSONAL RECORD Planning data is stored on your device, and no VisualDay account is required. Export a JSON copy of your data. Pro adds PDF reports and manual file-based backup and restore through Files/iCloud Drive; this is not automatic synchronization between devices. OPTIONAL VISUALDAY PRO The free plan includes daily cards, focus, reminders, selected templates and widgets, and JSON export. Pro adds premium templates, unlimited custom templates, additional appearance options, PDF export, backup/restore and selected additional widgets. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices and billing periods appear before purchase. Apple handles payment; subscriptions can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app. The lifetime purchase does not renew. Available in English and Turkish. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ozguryalim.com/visualday/privacy.html Support: https://ozguryalim.com/visualday

Screenshots

DayZen4 screens
VisualDay Daily Planner3 screens

Verdict

The call

DayZen and VisualDay Daily Planner 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. DayZen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and VisualDay Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DayZen versus VisualDay Daily Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayZenVisualDay Daily Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoris KavolisOzgur Yalim

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DayZen

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

VisualDay Daily Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$2.001 Month
  • Annual Premium$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ömür Boyu$49.99

Questions

Is DayZen free?
DayZen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VisualDay Daily Planner free?
VisualDay Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DayZen or VisualDay Daily Planner have ads?
Neither DayZen nor VisualDay Daily Planner shows ads.

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