Comparison

Daily Dots vs Taskful Day

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

Head to head
About

Daily Dots

Features
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Daily Dots helps you build habits with purpose, not pressure. Instead of tracking habits in isolation, Daily Dots connects your daily actions to meaningful goals, so every habit feels intentional and motivating. Whether you’re improving your health, focusing on personal growth, or building consistency in everyday routines, Daily Dots keeps things simple and clear. What you can do with Daily Dots: • Create goals and link habits directly to them • Mark habits complete in seconds • See your progress with clean, easy-to-read statistics • Track trends over weeks, months, and years • Reflect on patterns with optional AI-generated insights • Customize your experience with a calm, distraction free design Daily Dots is designed to feel quiet, focused, and intentional — no feeds, no social pressure, no accounts required. Premium unlocks advanced insights, deeper statistics, and additional customization for users who want a more detailed view of their progress. Your data stays on your device, and you stay in control. Build habits with clarity. Stay consistent. Make progress that matters.

About

Taskful Day

This app offers a calm approach to daily planning, visualizing your schedule in multiple ways. It focuses on reflecting on your day without pressure, with features like guilt-free task rollover and mood tracking to understand your patterns. Pro features unlock advanced views and focus tools.

Highlights
  • Multiple daily views (List, Clock, River, Map)
  • Natural language task parsing
  • Guilt-free task rollover
  • Mood journaling and analytics
  • Focus timer (Pomodoro-style)
  • On-device data processing and privacy
  • Widgets and Live Activities support
Features
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Plan the day. Hold it lightly. Reflect on how it felt. Taskful Day is a calm planner that shows your hours four ways — a clean list, a 24-hour clock, a river of energy, a map of where time went. No red overdue. No shame charts. Just a quiet place to think about today. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Designed in the open. Yours, on your device. A DAY YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ • List — the editorial canvas. Time-sorted, not priority-shuffled. • Clock — your day on a 24-hour face. See gaps you didn't know you had. • River — tasks plotted by energy and category. Tides of focus, visible. • Map — your time laid out as a single composition. CAPTURE BEFORE THE THOUGHT ESCAPES Ask Siri. Tap the Control Center button. Raise your wrist. Or just type — the parser reads "call dentist tomorrow at 2" in eight languages and never sends a syllable to a server. BLOCK OUT THE HOURS Drag tasks onto a week-by-hour grid and watch the day take shape. Move a block and the time moves with it. For the days that need a plan, not just a list. ON YOUR WRIST Capture by voice, triage your inbox, tick off the one thing that matters, and glance at complications showing what's next — without reaching for your phone. WIDGETS AND GLANCES 21 Home Screen widgets in every size, up to a whole page for your day on iOS 27, plus Lock Screen widgets and Apple Watch complications. Start a focus session and follow the countdown from the Dynamic Island. GUILT-FREE ROLLOVER Tasks you didn't finish move forward. No flashing red. No overdue badge. No analytics card titled "what you failed to do." You decide whether each one comes with you, or stays where it was. MOOD AS A FIRST-CLASS SIGNAL The Journal isn't a separate room. Mood entries quietly feed Analytics — "your Wednesdays have felt the steadiest", "the calmer days were also your most complete." Reflection becomes pattern, not pressure. SHORTCUTS AND AUTOMATION App Shortcuts for adding a task, completing one, and asking what's next. Drop Taskful Day into any automation you already run. WHAT'S INCLUDED The editorial list, voice capture, the Journal and the Inbox, with a task allowance to get you started — no account, no card. Pro adds the Clock, River and Map, the time-block grid, Focus Orbit, full multi-period analytics, every theme, multiple workspaces, and unlimited tasks and check-ins. Every new install begins with 7 days of Pro. No card, no auto-renew. PRIVACY, NOT JUST IN THE PRIVACY POLICY No analytics SDKs. No third-party login. Data lives on your device by default; opt into iCloud sync only if you want it. Voice capture, language parsing and mood analysis all happen on device. BUILT FOR EACH SCREEN The iPad isn't a stretched iPhone. Sidebar, mini-calendar, hover states, keyboard shortcuts and a full-screen task canvas — and on Mac, a real Mac app with menu-bar commands. A planner is just a place to think clearly. We hope this is one. Subscriptions auto-renew at the price shown until cancelled. Manage in App Store › Account › Subscriptions. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Daily Dots4 screens
Taskful Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Taskful Day at 4 against Daily Dots's 2. On price, update cadence, 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. Daily Dots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Taskful Day sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Dots ships an update fortnightly, Taskful Day every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Daily Dots versus Taskful Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily DotsTaskful Day
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin ButtAntti Aittamaa

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Dots

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$3.99
4 purchases

Taskful Day

Subscriptions2
  • Taskful Day Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Taskful Day Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Support the Developer$1.00
  • Taskful Day Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Daily Dots free?
Daily Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Taskful Day free?
Taskful Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Dots or Taskful Day have ads?
Neither Daily Dots nor Taskful Day shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Dots or Taskful Day?
Daily Dots ships an update fortnightly, and Taskful Day every 8 days. Most recently, Daily Dots was updated on September 30, 2026 and Taskful Day on October 24, 2026.

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