Daycrafter vs Peoplebox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daycrafter
This app helps you intentionally craft your day by organizing tasks, recurring habits, and undated projects. It offers a calm, focused interface with customizable themes and offline functionality. A portion of subscription revenue supports anti-human trafficking efforts.
- Dated tasks
- Recurring habits
- Undated projects
- Unified 'Today' view
- Siri integration
- Offline functionality
- Customizable themes
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A meaningful day doesn't happen by accident. It's crafted. Daycrafter brings your tasks, your recurring habits, and your undated projects into one calm, intentional space so shaping a good day takes less effort than reacting to a busy one. WHAT DAYCRAFTER DOES - Dated tasks for the things that need doing today - Recurring habits on a weekly or monthly schedule, with a gentle streak count and a monthly completion ring - Undated projects for ideas and multi-step work that isn't ready for a deadline. Break them into steps, and convert any step into a dated task the moment it's ready to happen - A Today view that pulls in your calendar events, tasks, and habits into one scroll ADD A TASK WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Just say "Add a task to Daycrafter." Siri drops it straight onto today's list, no unlocking your phone required. It also works from Shortcuts, Spotlight, and the Action Button. CALM, NOT GAMIFIED Streaks are there if you want to watch your consistency build, but Daycrafter isn't chasing points or badges. Eight quiet color themes let the app feel like yours without ever feeling loud, each one tuned to look just as good in dark mode as it does in light. BUILT TO STAY LIGHT Works fully offline, and syncs quietly across your devices when you're back online. No ads, ever. Simple cleanup tools keep old completed tasks and projects from piling up, so the app stays as light as the day you're planning. Built to fit an iPhone SE without feeling cramped, and just as sharp stretched across a full iPad and looks great in both light and dark mode. A SMALL WAY TO DO GOOD Crafting a better day for yourself helps craft a better future for someone else. 10% of every subscription goes to A21, an organization working to end human trafficking. Daycrafter is available for a Basic monthly ($.99) or yearly ($12.99) subscription that supports continued improvements and new features. Both offer a free trial to give you time to get to know Daycrafter and decide if it works for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://driftlightapps.com/privacy-policy/ Daycrafter: craft the day you want to live.
Peoplebox
This app helps you remember the important people in your life by storing private notes and setting follow-up reminders. It offers smart organization, freshness indicators, and privacy features, keeping all your data on your device.
- Private notes timeline for contacts
- Follow-up reminders
- Smart tags for organization
- Stale contact detection
- Freshness indicators
- Face ID app lock
- CSV export
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Your contacts tell you who someone is. Peoplebox helps you remember the relationship — what matters, when to follow up, and who needs a check-in. Keep private notes on the people in your life, set follow-up reminders, and never lose touch with the ones who matter. Your relationship notes are stored locally on your iPhone. No account, cloud sync, or analytics. Calling, messaging, email, and exports use the system services or destinations you choose. KEY FEATURES - Private notes timeline for every contact, with optional interaction type (meeting, call, coffee, email, event) - Read-only access to your iOS Contacts so you can attach notes without changing your address book - Create contacts only in Peoplebox without Contacts permission. Names and optional phone, email, company and job title stay in Peoplebox; system contacts are never added or changed. - Smart tags to organize people by Client, Friend, Family, or any custom category you create - Follow-up reminders with multiple lead-time alerts (3 days, 1 day, day-of) - See each follow-up's contact, task, and due date, then tap to open the related person and follow-up - Start a message from a contact's page using the system message composer; choose a number and confirm sending yourself - Stale contact detection: get a gentle nudge when you haven't talked to someone in a while - Per-tag "haven't talked to" thresholds, so you can treat close family differently from acquaintances - Smart Groups that automatically surface favorites, overdue follow-ups, and contacts you have been neglecting - Freshness indicators at a glance: green for fresh, yellow, orange, red for long-silent - Home screen widgets showing your upcoming follow-ups - Face ID app lock for an extra layer of privacy - Readable CSV contact summaries with notes and follow-up history (not a restorable database backup) - No login, no account, no data collection PEOPLEBOX PRO Manage up to 20 contacts with private relationship records for free, counting Peoplebox-only contacts and system contacts with saved records together. Existing records remain editable if Pro expires. CSV export, Face ID / Touch ID app lock, home screen widgets, and all follow-up reminder intervals are available to everyone. Upgrade to Peoplebox Pro for unlimited contacts, custom tags and Smart Groups. - Annual: USD 14.99 per year (a 1-week free trial may be available to eligible subscribers, as confirmed by Apple) - Lifetime: USD 19.99 one-time purchase Prices may vary by region; the App Store shows your current localized price. Existing monthly subscriptions remain supported and can be managed in Apple Account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period at the stated price. Manage or cancel in Account Settings. A free trial, if offered, automatically converts to a paid subscription unless canceled at least 24 hours before it ends. Lifetime access is a one-time, non-consumable purchase and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/peoplebox/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/peoplebox/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Peoplebox at freemium against Daycrafter's subscription. Peoplebox also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Daycrafter's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Daycrafter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Peoplebox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daycrafter against 5.0 for Peoplebox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Daycrafter ships an update every 9 days, Peoplebox every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daycrafter | Peoplebox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Numinous Productions LLC | 慧慧 高 |
Customer experience
Daycrafter
Peoplebox
In-app purchases
Daycrafter
- Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual1 Month trial$12.991 Year
Peoplebox
- Peoplebox Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Peoplebox Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99









