Comparison

Daylu vs Timeflies

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

Head to head
About

Daylu

Visually track important upcoming dates with customizable countdowns. See your progress at a glance with a unique dot grid or emoji style, and keep key events on your home screen with widgets. All your milestones are private and stored locally.

Highlights
  • Visual dot grid countdowns
  • Emoji style countdowns
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Background image support
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Offline functionality
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Every important date deserves a beautiful countdown. Daylu turns your upcoming events into stunning visual progress trackers. Whether it's a birthday, vacation, anniversary, graduation, or deadline, watch each day tick by on a gorgeous dot grid that makes waiting feel tangible. VISUAL COUNTDOWNS LIKE NO OTHER See your progress at a glance with Daylu's signature dot grid. Each dot represents a day, bright dots for the days ahead, dimmed dots for the days behind you. Or swap dots for emojis and watch your countdown fill with any of 20 fun icons. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Make every countdown yours: • 11 gorgeous theme colors plus a full custom color picker • Background images from your photo library with crop, zoom, and rotate • Customize card, title, and subtext colors independently • Choose from 20 emoji styles or classic colored dots SMART RECURRING EVENTS Never miss a birthday or anniversary again. Set events to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly, Daylu handles the tricky stuff like leap years and short months automatically. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your most important countdowns front and center with three widget sizes: • Small — quick glance at days remaining • Medium — countdown with a mini dot grid • Large — full progress visualization with percentage THOUGHTFUL DETAILS • Custom start dates to track progress from any point in time • Intelligent sorting, today's events first, then upcoming, then past • Adapts beautifully to any countdown length, from days to years • Supports light and dark mode automatically PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your dates stay on your device. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No tracking. Daylu works entirely offline — your personal milestones are nobody's business but yours. GET STARTED FREE Create your first countdown for free. Upgrade to Daylu Pro for unlimited countdowns, emoji grids, background images, custom colors, recurring events, and widget customization one purchase, yours forever. Start counting down to what matters most.

About

Timeflies

This app helps you stay focused on important goals by creating visual countdowns for deadlines, exams, or personal milestones. Break down your objectives into manageable tasks and track your progress to turn pressure into steady advancement.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns for any event
  • Track time remaining in various units
  • Break down goals into actionable tasks
  • Check off completed tasks
  • Build reminder plans with local notifications
  • Local data storage
Features
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Timeflies helps you stay aware of how much time remains for the things that matter most. Create a countdown for any goal, deadline, exam, launch, trip, or personal milestone. Break it into clear tasks, track progress, and keep the remaining time visible so it is easier to act with focus instead of delay. With Timeflies, you can: • Create countdowns with a title, deadline, and color theme • See time remaining in years, months, days, or seconds • Break each countdown into actionable tasks • Check off completed tasks and edit task notes • Build reminder plans with local notifications • Keep your progress stored locally on your iPhone Timeflies is designed for people who want deadlines to feel real, visible, and manageable. Whether you are preparing for an exam, finishing an application, planning a launch, or working toward a personal goal, Timeflies helps turn pressure into steady progress.

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Timeflies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timeflies at none against Daylu's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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. Daylu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timeflies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daylu against 5.0 for Timeflies. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Daylu versus Timeflies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayluTimeflies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 3 days
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin TerryHaiping Sun

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daylu

One-time1
  • Daylu Pro Lifetime Access$2.99
None

Timeflies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylu free?
Daylu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timeflies free?
Timeflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daylu or Timeflies?
Daylu and Timeflies are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.

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