Comparison

PastDue vs Dawnlet

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

Head to head
About

PastDue

This app helps you manage recurring tasks by tracking how long it's been since you last completed them. It provides a dashboard view of your tasks, color-coded status indicators, and escalating reminders to keep you on track.

Highlights
  • Recurring task tracking
  • Dashboard status view
  • Color-coded indicators
  • Escalating reminders
  • Task skipping and snoozing
  • Suggested task templates
Features
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PastDue tracks the recurring tasks that keep your life running smoothly — and nudges you when they fall behind. Unlike calendar reminders, PastDue works like a dashboard. It shows how long it's been since you last did something and whether you're on track, due soon, or overdue. Think "oil change due in 500 miles" — not another calendar alert. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Create tasks for anything on a recurring cycle — every 2 weeks, every 3 months, whatever fits. Mark them done and the cycle resets automatically. • Change bedsheets — every 2 weeks • Replace toothbrush head — every 3 months • Rotate mattress — every 6 months • Change HVAC filters — every 6 months • Oil change — every 6 months SEE YOUR STATUS AT A GLANCE Color-coded indicators show what's on track, what's due soon, and what's overdue. Sort by status, priority, due date, or category. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Escalating reminders that get more urgent the longer a task goes unfinished — on the due date, 1 day overdue, 3 days, and 7 days. FLEXIBLE CONTROLS Skip, snooze, or pause any task. Add notes and set priority levels. PastDue adapts to your schedule, not the other way around. GET STARTED FAST Browse suggested tasks for common home, health, auto, and personal maintenance — add them with a single tap. BUILT FOR PRIVACY All data stays on your device. No account required. No tracking.

About

Dawnlet

This app integrates your calendar, habits, finances, and more into a single, organized daily view. It allows you to track events, to-dos, habits, expenses, time, and journal entries, all presented module by module for a clear overview of your day.

Highlights
  • Daily module organization
  • Event and to-do tracking
  • Habit and streak monitoring
  • Expense and budget management
  • Time tracking with live timer
  • Journaling with mood logging
  • Integrated reminders
Features
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Your calendar knows your meetings. Another app knows your habits. A third knows what you spent. None of them know what your Tuesday actually looks like. Dawnlet keeps all of it in one place and shows you one day at a time — then stays quiet. ONE DAY, MODULE BY MODULE Page through a week or month, tap a day, and see it in sections, one per module. Reorder or hide them. EVENTS AND TODOS One-off and repeating events, timed or all-day, with locations and notes. Todos with due dates, and repeating ones on weekly, monthly or nth-weekday schedules. Skip one occurrence; the series carries on. HABITS AND STREAKS Every day, or specific weekdays. Streaks come from the days you actually did it. Skip a day on purpose without breaking the chain. MONEY Income and expenses by category, and monthly budgets. Recurring transactions generate each month's bills. Lock the module behind Face ID, which strips amounts from notifications too. TIME TRACKING A live timer with real pause segments, so totals stay honest. Switch activities in one tap and edit or backdate sessions. THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO Movies to watch, books to read, places to go — each with a planned date, a rating and who you did it with. And the people in your life. JOURNAL As many entries a day as you like, with bold and italic and an optional mood. Search everything, and revisit this day in past years. MEALS AND GRATITUDES What you ate and how it was, and a line about what went right — logged from the day itself. REMINDERS THAT KEEP WORKING 27 kinds of notification, each toggleable, with quiet hours. Two weeks are armed at a time, so a week away doesn't make the app go silent. All computed on your device. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Widgets for today, and your running timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Ask Siri or use Shortcuts and the Action button to start a timer, add a todo, check off a habit or log an expense. Find anything from Spotlight, and share text or links from any app straight into Dawnlet. On Apple Watch, see today's events, tick habits and todos off and run the timer. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver throughout, charts with Audio Graphs, Reduce Motion, clearer light-mode text, larger tap targets, keyboard shortcuts on iPad — and Undo after you delete something. PRIVACY, PLAINLY You sign in with Apple. Dawnlet stores an internal account ID, the email Apple provides — a private relay address if you chose Hide My Email — and your name if you shared it. Nothing else, and none of it for marketing or profiling. No third-party analytics, advertising or crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. Apple Calendar and Reminders are read on your device only, never uploaded; contacts you choose to import become people in your account. Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, immediately. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PLUS Free is a complete app: the agenda, events, todos, habits, money with monthly totals and Face ID lock, time tracking, journaling with search, meals, gratitudes, places, books, movies, people, Apple Calendar and Reminders in your agenda, and core reminders. Keep up to 500 habits, todos, activities, places, books and movies each, everything else unlimited, and read back every day you recorded. Dawnlet Plus is the layer that makes sense of it: month insights on every module, reports across any date range with PDF export, CSV and JSON export, Plan My Week and Plan My Month, repeating todos, events and bills, spending breakdowns and budgets, journal "on this day", Apple Calendar write-back, Apple Contacts import and updates, weekly and monthly recaps, and no item cap. It is an auto-renewable subscription: Dawnlet Plus Monthly is $3.99 for one month, and Dawnlet Plus Yearly is $34.99 for one year — about $2.92 a month. Both start with a 14-day free trial; cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Service: https://dawnlet.app/tos/ — Privacy Policy: https://dawnlet.app/privacy/

Screenshots

PastDue3 screens
Dawnlet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PastDue at none against Dawnlet's 2. Dawnlet's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Dawnlet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. PastDue 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 PastDue against 5.0 for Dawnlet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PastDue versus Dawnlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastDueDawnlet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.2 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRIMON HABTEAB BERHEAly Badawy

Customer experience

PastDue

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dawnlet

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PastDue

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Dawnlet

Subscriptions2
  • Dawnlet Plus Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Dawnlet Plus Yearly14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is PastDue free?
PastDue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dawnlet free?
Dawnlet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PastDue or Dawnlet?
PastDue and Dawnlet are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do PastDue or Dawnlet have ads?
Neither PastDue nor Dawnlet shows ads.

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