Comparison

Deferred vs Daybearing

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

Head to head
About

Deferred

This app helps you capture and organize decisions you're postponing, reducing mental clutter. It provides a dedicated space to note what's blocking a decision and mark it resolved when you've made up your mind. It's designed for decisions requiring thought, not for tasks or scheduling.

Highlights
  • Capture postponed decisions
  • Add context and notes
  • Reduce mental load
  • Mark decisions as resolved
  • No reminders or pressure
Features
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Deferred helps you get postponed decisions out of your head and into one clear place. Not everything is a task. Some things are decisions you keep delaying. Over time, they turn into mental load. Deferred is built to capture those decisions so they stop occupying your mind. Add a decision. Write what’s blocking it. Leave it there until you’re ready. Mark it resolved when you decide. No reminders. No pressure. No timelines to manage. What it’s for? - Capturing unresolved decisions - Adding context with notes - Reducing mental load What it’s not: - Deferred is not a to-do app. - It’s not for scheduling work. Deferred is for decisions that need thinking.

About

Daybearing

Features
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Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you are doing and how long you think it will take. Tasks fill the current hour as you go and turns as you run over — one glance, not a number to read. HOW IT WORKS Type what you want to get done, one task at a time. Tap Start. When you finish a task, tap Complete — and the next task begins. The dial is a real clock face, and your tasks sit on it where they will actually happen. See the plan for the next hour, any planned work beyond that is shown as you mark tasks complete. WHAT THE COLORS MEAN Orange means you are over your estimate but the task is still running — over, and still fixable. It turns red once you complete an overrunning task, because by then the overrun is a fact rather than a situation. The pace chip shows how far ahead or behind your plan you are, green for ahead, red for behind. Three minutes under reads as −3, in green, three minutes ahead of schedule. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against reality, and time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop working on something, Set Down ends the session, logs time for the part you actually did, and returns the remainder to the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. No clutter, just what you need to stay on track. PRIVACY No account is required. Your tasks and history are stored locally on your iPhone. There is NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO IN-APP PURCHASE and NO ADVERTISING. You pay once. ALSO IN THE APP • A Live Activity for the running task — on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on supported Apple Watch and Mac configurations — with a Complete button on the Lock Screen, so you can finish without opening the app. • Lock Screen widgets: how far ahead or behind the day is, the task in hand, and what comes next. • Shortcut support! Ask Siri to start your next task, complete it, add one, or say how you are doing — for the moment your hands are already off the phone. • An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. • Batch entry for repeated work: set a series of tasks quickly, estimate how long each one will take and how long your want to work on them all. • Save tasks to a plan for later, and group future tasks to make repeatable routines. • Export your whole record as tab-separated text, straight to the clipboard. • Six themes, light and dark. • VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing. iPhone only in this version. iPad is planned.

Screenshots

Deferred4 screens
Daybearing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Deferred at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Deferred is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. Deferred sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Deferred versus Daybearing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeferredDaybearing
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSiddheshwar ChandravanshiDustin Glendinning

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Deferred

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$2.99
None

Daybearing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deferred free?
Deferred is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daybearing free?
Daybearing costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Deferred or Daybearing have ads?
Neither Deferred nor Daybearing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deferred or Daybearing?
Deferred ships an update every 5 days, and Daybearing every 5 days. Most recently, Deferred was updated on October 28, 2026 and Daybearing on October 29, 2026.

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