Kairova vs DIO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kairova
This AI-powered planner generates a complete weekly schedule tailored to your life, making productivity feel like a game. It syncs with existing calendars, offers voice commands, and includes focus tools with gamified elements to keep you on track.
- AI-generated weekly schedules
- Voice command for reorganization
- Gamified productivity companion
- Focus sessions with app blocking
- Calendar syncing (Google, Apple)
- AI vacation planner
- Paper note scanning
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Kairova is the AI calendar that plans your entire week for you, and makes sticking to it feel like a game you actually want to play. Answer a few questions about your life. Kairova's AI instantly builds a complete, realistic weekly schedule around your work, sleep, faith, fitness, meals, and goals. Don't like something? Drag it, swap it, or just tell the AI with your voice. YOUR WEEK, BUILT BY AI • Full weekly schedules generated in seconds up to 4 weeks ahead • SMART+ refinements: make a day lighter, plan a fun day, rebalance instantly • Voice AI: talk to your calendar and watch it reorganize • Syncs with Google Calendar and Apple Calendar A COMPANION THAT GROWS WITH YOU • Hatch a living companion that feeds on your productivity • Complete blocks to earn XP watch it evolve through 7 life stages • Miss your routines and it gets hungry. It needs you. You need you. FOCUS THAT ACTUALLY WORKS • One-tap focus sessions tied to your scheduled blocks • App Shield blocks distracting apps while you focus (your choice, your device) • Streaks, recovery tracking, and weekly trends BETTER TOGETHER • Add friends, run Focus Duels, gift XP, and climb the leaderboard • Co-Focus: deep work sessions together, even apart AND THE MAGIC EXTRAS • Paper Notes: scan handwritten notes and watch them become organized plans • AI Vacation Planner: complete day-by-day trip itineraries with real places • Insights: productivity score, focus time, and trends that keep you honest • Widgets and Siri Shortcuts Kairova is free to use. Pro includes up to 30 AI plan generations per week and the full manual Life Studio workspace. Ultra adds unlimited AI plan generations, a longer planning horizon, and advanced AI features in Life Studio. Other feature allowances and AI credit limits depend on your plan and are shown in the app. Monthly and annual subscriptions provide the same tier benefits. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID, renew automatically, and can be managed or canceled in Settings. Terms: https://app.kairova.app/terms Privacy: https://app.kairova.app/privacy Your time is your life. Plan it like it matters.
DIO
This app helps quiet a busy mind by providing a space to quickly capture thoughts without immediate categorization. It offers tools for later sorting, task management, and focused work sessions, all designed to reduce overwhelm and create mental space.
- Quick thought dumping
- Categorized sorting bins
- Task management with due dates
- Focus timer and sprints
- Habit tracking
- Calendar integration
- Customizable interface
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It's 3:46 am and your brain won't stop. DIO is the trash can for that. Write the loud thought down. Crumple it. Throw it. Watch it land in the pile with the others: the email you are pretending not to see, the tab you have kept open for 9 days, the door you may or may not have locked. The throw is not decoration. Watching a thought leave your hands and land somewhere else is the part that makes the quiet come back. A thought in the pile is out of your head and not yet a commitment. Nothing asks you to categorize it, date it, or explain it. Remembering and deciding at the same time is what makes a busy head seize up, so DIO splits them apart. When you finish dumping, DIO says so plainly: "9 thoughts. That was a lot, and you put it down." SORT IT LATER, WHEN YOU HAVE THE ROOM Eight bins take the pile: Quick Wins, Today, Later, Projects, Appointments, Ideas, On Hold, My Bin. Tap a ball and a ring opens: To-Do, Sort, or Dump. Keep it. Sort it. Or let it go. Nothing is ever just gone. Every discard sits in the Trash for 30 days, so you never have to be certain. When the whole pile needs to go, Dump All clears it in one burst, Undo included. Every morning DIO quietly resets. Finished things clear. Anything unfinished steps back from Today to Later on its own. Nothing turns red, goes overdue, or follows you around. No shame for disappearing for a week. DIO just waits. YOUR DAY HAS ROOM IN IT A to-do can take a due date, a reminder, and a spot on your calendar. Habits repeat on the days you pick, and a habit can start on a day in the future and wait, visibly, until it does. The week strip on Home slides a whole year in either direction, so next Tuesday is as easy to reach as today. The calendar shows your Apple Calendar events next to everything in DIO, in day, week, and month views, with eleven color-coded categories. DIO reads your calendar and never writes to it. There is also a free-time view, because your day has room in it: DIO shows you the free space, not just the busy blocks. FOR WHEN STARTING IS THE HARD PART The five minute start asks for five minutes. That's the deal. When the timer ends, keep rolling or stop, and both count. Focus Sprints split work into short rounds with real breaks built in. Toss Up picks at random, for the moments when any option would be fine and choosing is the wall. Dopamine Dive is a list you fill on a good day with small things you like, so a flat day does not have to think of one. Box breathing is there when you need a minute. And four soundscapes are generated live on your device, with controls on the Lock Screen. SHAPED LIKE YOU Reorder or hide the home cards and bins until DIO fits the way you work. Eight themes, each in light and dark. Reduce motion, haptics, and confetti have their own switches inside the app, and quiet hours keep reminders out of your evening. WHAT DIO WILL NEVER DO No account. No sign-up. No password. No DIO server anywhere. Your thoughts live on your device and in your own iCloud, and Elitec keeps no copy. We could not read them if we wanted to. DIO works completely offline. Airplane mode, no signal, a basement. No streaks, no scores, no red badges, no guilt, and no ads. You can export everything as one readable text file whenever you like, and Delete All My Data means exactly that. TELL US WHAT IS MISSING DIO was built by an ADHDer, for brains that run loud. Everyone else is welcome too. If something is broken or something is missing, the feedback button is inside the app, and a person reads every message. DIO requires a subscription, and everything is included: 7 days free where eligible, then one monthly or yearly price, shown in your own currency before you agree to anything. Cancel anytime through Apple. DIO is a self-organization tool. It is not a medical device, does not offer medical advice, and does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. If things feel heavy, please talk to someone qualified. DIO will hold your thoughts in the meantime.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: DIO at 5 against Kairova's 1. On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Kairova sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and DIO sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 Kairova against 5.0 for DIO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DIO has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Kairova | DIO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eduardo Castillo | Elitec LLC |
Customer experience
Kairova
DIO
In-app purchases
Kairova
- Kairova Pro$4.991 Month
- Kairova Ultra$9.991 Month
- Kairova Pro Annual$49.991 Year
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- Kairova Ultra Annual$99.991 Year
DIO
- DIO Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- DIO Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









