Comparison

Dawnboard vs Morsel Jar

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

Head to head
About

Dawnboard

Transform your Apple TV into a dynamic dashboard. Customize layouts, themes, and widgets like calendars, photos, and music playlists. Control it all from your iPhone for a personalized viewing experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable layouts and themes
  • Widget support (calendar, photos, music)
  • iPhone remote control
  • Animated themes
  • OLED burn-in protection
  • Countdown timers
  • Visual effects
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Dawnboard turns your Apple TV into a dashboard for the things you want to keep in view. Set it up on your iPhone, then send changes to the TV over your local network. Dawnboard is free to use. Layouts and themes Choose from six layouts: Gallery Hero, Triple Portrait, Quad Square, Mixed Gallery, Cinematic, and Ambient. Each layout has slots that you fill with widgets. Dawnboard includes 19 animated themes, which play as 4K video on Apple TV: New Dawn, Twilight, Ocean Breeze, Aurora, Outer Space, Enchanted Mist, Underwater Kingdom, Winter Wonder, Golden Hour, Valentine, Tiki Paradise, Moss Cathedral, River Canyon, Moss & Rain, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring Blossoms, Fall, and Halloween. You can also make a theme with a nine-color gradient. Display styles Choose Classic, Cozy, Weather, Day Planner, Countdown, or Minimal to control what appears in the header and footer. Widgets Add countdowns, calendar events, weather, lists, photo albums, notes, Tidbits, or an Apple Music playlist to any compatible slot. Notes and Tidbits Leave a note on the TV with an optional sign-off, set to disappear at a time you choose. Tidbits shows a new word with its definition and an example sentence, or On This Day, a moment from history on its anniversary. Choose how often it changes and hide topics you'd rather skip. Layout schedules Give each Apple TV a schedule of layouts by time of day and weekday. The TV switches on its own, even when your iPhone is away. Calendar Import events from Apple Calendar on your iPhone. Eight agenda and month views preserve your calendar colors, and you can choose whether to show locations and past events. Photos An album can hold up to 50 images. Vision-based auto-cropping handles landscape, portrait, square, and cinematic formats, with a separate crop for each format. Albums play as a crossfade slideshow on the TV. Countdowns Create a countdown with up to 10 photos. Dawnboard can send a daily reminder and another reminder on the day before the event. Effects Fire Confetti, Fireworks, Sparkles, Shooting Stars, or Lanterns on the TV from Quick Effects on your iPhone. Fireworks plays one of three shows, and Confetti one of three launches. Pixie Dust turns on a pixie that drifts across the screen until you turn it off. Apple Music Assign a playlist to each paired Apple TV and control playback from the TV remote. Pairing and sync Scan the QR code on the TV to pair it with your iPhone. Changes are sent over your local Wi-Fi network. You can manage more than one TV and give each one a different layout and theme. Privacy Dawnboard does not require a separate account and does not contain ads. The iPhone app stores your Dawnboard content in your private iCloud account. Paired Apple TVs keep a local copy of the dashboard. Local network sync is encrypted. The iPhone and Apple TV can use different iCloud accounts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dawnboard.com/privacy/

About

Morsel Jar

This app provides a daily moment of reflection with a personalized thought or quote. Users can choose their preferred tone and focus, and save meaningful morsels to a virtual jar. It offers a quiet, private experience with no ads or accounts.

Highlights
  • Daily personalized morsels
  • Customizable tone and focus
  • Interactive cracking ritual with haptics and sound
  • Save and revisit favorite morsels
  • Private notes on saved morsels
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets
  • Siri and Spotlight integration
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One fortune morsel a day. Crack it open, read your morsel, and get on with your day. Morsel Jar is a tiny daily ritual. Every morning there's one intact morsel waiting. Tap it and it cracks open — a wobble, a snap, a paper slip — revealing one short thought chosen for the tone and focus you picked. That's the whole app: one morsel a day, chosen for you, free forever. WHAT MAKES IT MORSEL JAR • A real ritual — the crack is hand-tuned animation, haptics, and sound. One a day, at most. It resets at midnight. • Chosen for you — pick your tone (gentle, direct, playful) and what's on your mind (work, relationships, health, growth). Your daily morsel comes from there. • Reflective, not predictive — no "great fortune awaits you." Just short lines worth a second read, many with a small question to sit with. • The jar — keep the ones you love. Your favorites live as little morsels in a real physics jar: tilt it, stir them, pluck one out to read it again. And listen — real glass and cookie sounds, recorded from an actual jar, in high-fidelity spatial audio that follows the pile as it moves. • A private note — add a short thought of your own to any kept morsel. • Widgets — Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Control Center. They never spoil today's morsel before you've opened it. • Siri — "What's my Morsel Jar today?" reads back a morsel you've already opened. • Spotlight — search a line you remember (or your own note on it) and land right on that kept morsel in the jar. • Quick actions — long-press the app icon to jump to today's morsel or the jar. • Share — turn any morsel into a clean paper-card image. QUIET BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. No analytics — the app never touches the network, and nothing you do ever leaves your device. One optional daily reminder, and only if you ask for it. Accessibility is first-class: full Dynamic Type (including accessibility sizes), VoiceOver throughout the ritual, a gentler Reduce Motion reveal, and Increased Contrast support. Tomorrow at midnight, a new morsel appears. See you then.

Screenshots

Dawnboard4 screens
Morsel Jar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Morsel Jar at 5.0 against Dawnboard's 4.5. Morsel Jar also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Morsel Jar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dawnboard versus Morsel Jar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDawnboardMorsel Jar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple TV — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoxiebytes LLCBABUSOVEREIGN PERUMALLA

Customer experience

Dawnboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Morsel Jar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dawnboard

No in-app purchases

None

Morsel Jar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dawnboard free?
Dawnboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morsel Jar free?
Morsel Jar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dawnboard or Morsel Jar?
Morsel Jar is rated higher. Dawnboard averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Morsel Jar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dawnboard or Morsel Jar have ads?
Neither Dawnboard nor Morsel Jar shows ads.

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