Comparison

Visual Time vs VisualDay Daily Planner

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

Head to head
About

Visual Time

Visualize your time passing with progress dots for your day, week, month, and year. Set intentions for your day, track your age in real-time, and count down to important events. Customizable widgets keep your progress visible.

Highlights
  • Visualize time passing with progress dots
  • Track age in real-time
  • Set daily intentions
  • Countdown to milestones
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable colors and modes
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Make time feel real. Dotted helps you be more aware and intentional with your time. See your year unfold, give today an intention, and keep the moments you’re looking forward to in sight. - See time passing: Visualize how much of your day, week, month and year has passed with simple progress dots. - Watch your age unfold: See your age change in real time and follow your progress toward your next birthday. - Give today an intention: Choose a word or phrase that reminds you how you want to approach the day. - Count down to what matters: Set a countdown for a vacation, birthday or personal milestone and see how many days remain. - Keep Dotted in sight: Bring your favorite tools to your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Mac desktop. Access them from your Mac’s menu bar. - Make it yours: Choose light or dark mode, or personalize Dotted with custom colors. - Share it with friends: Create image cards from your progress, age, intention or countdown. - Stay connected across devices: Enable optional iCloud sync to keep your data and settings together. Progress, Age, Intention and Countdown are free on iPhone and iPad. A one-time Premium purchase unlocks widgets, custom colors and the Mac app with menu bar widgets. No subscription.

About

VisualDay Daily Planner

Features
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Make your day easier to follow with visual task cards, reusable routines and a focus timer. VisualDay is a personal daily planner for study, work and everyday routines. Give each task a title, icon, color and estimated duration, then organize it into morning, afternoon, evening or anytime. See what is next and track completed, skipped and remaining tasks throughout the day. PLAN WITH CARDS Create and edit task cards. Break a busy day into manageable steps, from preparing breakfast to a study session or a work task. REUSE YOUR ROUTINES Start with Morning routine, Evening routine or Study session templates. Create up to three custom templates on the free plan and reuse them when planning another day. Pro unlocks unlimited custom templates and additional ready-made routines. FOCUS ON ONE TASK Start a focus timer, pause and resume it, or add five more minutes. Return to an active session after closing its screen. When time runs out, choose whether to complete the task or keep going. On supported devices, Live Activities keep the session visible outside the app. KEEP YOUR PLAN VISIBLE Add Home Screen widgets for a quick view of your plan. Enable optional local reminders in Settings; daily planning remains available if notifications are turned off. Widget and Live Activity availability and updates depend on iOS and device support. KEEP A PERSONAL RECORD Planning data is stored on your device, and no VisualDay account is required. Export a JSON copy of your data. Pro adds PDF reports and manual file-based backup and restore through Files/iCloud Drive; this is not automatic synchronization between devices. OPTIONAL VISUALDAY PRO The free plan includes daily cards, focus, reminders, selected templates and widgets, and JSON export. Pro adds premium templates, unlimited custom templates, additional appearance options, PDF export, backup/restore and selected additional widgets. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices and billing periods appear before purchase. Apple handles payment; subscriptions can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app. The lifetime purchase does not renew. Available in English and Turkish. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ozguryalim.com/visualday/privacy.html Support: https://ozguryalim.com/visualday

Screenshots

Visual Time4 screens
VisualDay Daily Planner3 screens

Verdict

The call

Visual Time and VisualDay Daily Planner are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Visual Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VisualDay Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Visual Time versus VisualDay Daily Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual TimeVisualDay Daily Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikola NovakovicOzgur Yalim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Time

One-time1
  • Dotted Time$1.99
3 purchases

VisualDay Daily Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$2.001 Month
  • Annual Premium$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ömür Boyu$49.99

Questions

Is Visual Time free?
Visual Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VisualDay Daily Planner free?
VisualDay Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Visual Time or VisualDay Daily Planner have ads?
Neither Visual Time nor VisualDay Daily Planner shows ads.

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