Comparison

Budly! vs Diemline

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

Head to head
About

Budly!

This app helps you nurture your relationships by visualizing friends as plants. Log time spent together to help them bloom, and receive gentle reminders for those who need attention. Organize friends into groups and track your shared activities.

Highlights
  • Visualize friends as plants
  • Log shared activities
  • Group friends into beds
  • Set custom check-in cadences
  • Pause growth with Greenhouse Mode
  • Private, offline functionality
Features
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Budly turns your friendships into a garden you actually want to tend. Every friend is a plant. Spend time together and they bloom. Let too much time slip by and they get thirsty, then start to wilt — so you always know exactly who could use a call, a text, or a coffee. PLANT YOUR PEOPLE Add friends by hand or import them from Contacts. Each bud gets its own plant — its shape and color are unique to them, or pick your own in the appearance editor. BEDS FOR YOUR CIRCLES Group friends into garden beds — Close Friends, Work, or any bed you create — and see the health of each circle at a glance. LOG YOUR HANGS Coffee, calls, game nights: log a hang in seconds, tag everyone who was there, and watch the whole group perk up. Your Activity tab becomes a little journal of time well spent. SET YOUR OWN PACE Choose a check-in cadence per friend — weekly for your inner circle, monthly for far-flung friends. Watering reminders arrive as a gentle daily digest, never a guilt trip. GREENHOUSE MODE Life gets busy. Flip on Greenhouse Mode to pause the clock for everyone while you catch your breath — no wilting, no ghosting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no feeds, no followers. Your garden lives on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. Works fully offline. Friendships grow when you show up. Budly helps you show up.

About

Diemline

Features
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Your day is a line, not a timesheet. Tap what you are doing. Diemline ends the last stretch and starts the next. Breakfast becomes commute. Commute becomes work. The 24-hour strip fills in as you go. THAT IS THE WHOLE HABIT One tap to switch. Slide to stop. Long-press a block to pick a detail — meeting, walk, school run — or add your own. Forgot two hours? Tap the gap on the strip and fill it in, or check your calendar for a suggestion. EIGHT LIFE BLOCKS Sleep, Meals, Commute, Work, Home, Health, Leisure, Other. Keep the home screen simple. Put the detail underneath. COMPARE WEEKS AND MONTHS Stack seven day strips. See Work, Commute, and Sleep this week versus last, this month versus last. Optional end-of-day rating so you can notice how long days felt. REVIEW, SEARCH, AND LEARN Finish the day with a quick review. Add notes and tags, search your history, set daily activity goals, and see simple on-device patterns and mood associations. LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A Live Activity shows the current name and elapsed time with a one-tap Stop control. Widgets show what you are doing, or today as a line with recent activities one tap away. Control Center can stop or switch activities too. APPLE WATCH See what is running, switch activities, stop tracking, and keep Diemline on your watch face with the complication. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS "Switch to Work in Diemline." "Stop tracking in Diemline." Ask for today's summary or log a past stretch. Use the Action Button, Back Tap, or a Focus automation. HOME AND WORK, IF YOU WANT Drop a pin for Home and Work. Diemline can suggest a switch when you arrive or leave. It never builds a location timeline, and it never switches until you confirm. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your log stays on your devices. No account. Optional automatic iCloud Drive backup keeps a mergeable copy for your devices. Export CSV or JSON any time. Natural-language entry runs on-device on supported iPhones and always shows a preview before saving. Diemline is for people who want to see where the day actually went — not bill hours, not plan a perfect calendar.

Screenshots

Budly!4 screens
Diemline4 screens

Verdict

The call

Budly! and Diemline 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Budly! versus Diemline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudly!Diemline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel LuoTextWaves Inc

In-app purchases

None

Budly!

No in-app purchases

None

Diemline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Budly! free?
Budly! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diemline free?
Diemline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Budly! or Diemline have ads?
Neither Budly! nor Diemline shows ads.

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