Daylu vs TickDown

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.

TickDown puts the moments you're counting toward and the work in front of you on the same screen. Birthdays, trips, deadlines and launches count down to the second on beautiful cards. Your tasks sit beside them, with subtasks, priorities and progress visible at a glance. COUNTDOWNS THAT FEEL PERSONAL • Live countdowns to the second — days, hours and minutes • Use your own photos or built-in artwork for every event • Reposition photos so the important part is always visible • Categories and colors to organize birthdays, work and travel • Repeating events for anniversaries and annual occasions A CALM, POWERFUL TASK LIST • Subtasks with progress that rolls up to the parent task • Priorities, due dates and individual task reminders • Repeating tasks automatically roll forward when completed • Auto-archive completed tasks and automatically delete old archives • Keep an archive of everything you've finished WIDGETS YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE — PREMIUM • Home Screen and Lock Screen countdown widgets • Tasks widget showing what's due today • Tap a task directly from the widget to mark it complete • Small, medium, large and Smart Stack sizes • Use your own photo as a widget background SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Add a task in TickDown" — create tasks hands-free • "What's due today in TickDown" — hear your tasks without opening the app • Add TickDown controls to Control Center for quick task creation ONE CALENDAR FOR EVERYTHING • See countdowns, tasks and device calendar events together • Month and agenda views • Choose your preferred start day of the week • Calendar access is optional and read-only REMINDERS THAT FIT YOUR DAY • Event and task reminders • Choose your preferred alert sounds • Daily and weekly summaries at a time you choose • 12- or 24-hour time formats based on your region BACKUP YOU CONTROL • Export an encrypted .tickdown backup using AES-256-GCM encryption • Back up to your own iCloud Drive whenever you want • Automatic daily iCloud backup with Premium • Restore on a new iPhone or iPad from iCloud or a saved file • Restoring is always free — your data is never locked behind a purchase PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-in required • No servers • Your countdowns, tasks, notes and photos stay on your device • The core app works entirely offline TICKDOWN PREMIUM One purchase. No subscription. • Removes all ads • Unlocks Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Unlimited photo backgrounds — the built-in artwork is free for everyone • Automatic daily iCloud backup • Supports independent development TickDown is free and ad-supported. Premium is optional and permanent. Privacy Policy: https://futuretekapps.github.io/tickdownapple/privacy-policy.html Support: https://futuretekapps.github.io/tickdownapple/