Comparison

Daylu vs The Plan Daily Planner

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

The Plan Daily Planner

This app helps you focus your day by setting five key priorities, time-blocking your top three, and building a motivational streak. It offers daily planning tools, motivational reminders, and customization options. Unlock advanced features like an AI assistant and calendar sync with a Pro subscription.

Highlights
  • Daily focused planning page
  • Five priority tasks
  • Time-blocked top priorities
  • Motivational streaks
  • AI Planning Assistant
  • Calendar and Reminders Sync
Features
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The Plan turns each day into a single, focused page — so you stop juggling endless lists and start doing the work that matters. Every morning, set a reward, choose your five priorities, and commit. Star your top three and give them a time. Check them off, build your streak, and watch your momentum grow. DAILY PLANNING THAT WORKS - Five priority tasks, with your top three time-blocked - Seven additional tasks, notes, and a daily reward - A growing streak that makes it harder to stop than to keep going STAY MOTIVATED - Your Why: keep your goals, vision, and motivation one tap away - Daily motivational reminders and an evening streak nudge - Five planner editions: Epiphany (30 days), and Genesis, Continuity, Triumph, and Habit (90 days) MAKE IT YOURS - Three themes, with an app icon that changes to match - Adjustable text size and a custom streak icon THE PLAN PRO Unlock the premium features with a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase: - AI Planning Assistant: personalized help organizing your day - Planner Scanner: photograph your paper planner and import it instantly - Calendar and Reminders Sync: send priority tasks to Apple Calendar and Reminders No account required. Your plans are stored privately on your device. Start today. Make the plan. Work the plan. The Plan Pro is an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or yearly) with a one-time lifetime option. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://theplanlegal.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Daylu at free against The Plan Daily Planner's free with in-app purchases. The Plan Daily Planner's advantage is device support and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating 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. Daylu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and The Plan Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 The Plan Daily Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Daylu versus The Plan Daily Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayluThe Plan Daily Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Devices—iPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin TerryNidhi Arora

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daylu

One-time1
  • Daylu Pro Lifetime Access$2.99
3 purchases

The Plan Daily Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Annual$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Daylu free?
Daylu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Plan Daily Planner free?
The Plan Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daylu or The Plan Daily Planner?
Daylu and The Plan Daily Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.

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