Comparison

Bloom vs Daybreak.

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

Head to head
About

Bloom

This app delivers daily positive affirmations to your phone's Lock and Home screens. It offers over 490 research-backed affirmations across six categories, with a focus on privacy and a clutter-free interface. Unlock all features with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Daily affirmations on Lock/Home Screen
  • 490+ research-backed affirmations
  • 6 life-changing categories
  • Customizable push notifications
  • Favorites collection
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
Features
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Stop scrolling. Start affirming. Bloom puts a fresh, hand-picked affirmation on your Lock Screen and Home Screen every single day — so the first thing you see is a reason to believe in yourself. No account required, no data leaves your phone. WHY BLOOM WORKS • 490+ affirmations verified by positive psychology research • 6 life-changing categories: Confidence, Gratitude, Health, Wealth, Love & Inner Peace • Daily push notifications timed to your schedule • Lock Screen widget — see your affirmation without even unlocking • Home Screen widget — positivity at a glance, all day long • Favorites collection — save the words that move you most BUILT FOR YOUR PEACE OF MIND Bloom stores everything on your device. Zero accounts, zero tracking, zero cloud uploads. Your affirmations are yours alone. SIMPLE, BEAUTIFUL, INTENTIONAL A calm, minimal interface free of clutter — designed so nothing stands between you and the words that matter. Swipe through cards, tap to save, and let Bloom do the rest. ONE PRICE. YOURS FOREVER. Unlock all 6 categories and remove ads for a single $4.99 payment — no subscriptions, no recurring charges, no surprises. The free version gives you 3 full categories to start. Join thousands building a more positive mindset, one affirmation at a time. Download Bloom today and let every glance at your phone become a moment of self-care.

About

Daybreak.

This app helps you create a personalized morning ritual, focusing on mindfulness and a calm start to your day. It offers a minimalist interface designed to be a peaceful transition into your day, rather than a complex dashboard of tasks and metrics.

Highlights
  • Personalized morning ritual design
  • Minimalist and uncluttered interface
  • Focus on mindfulness and positivity
  • Ritualistic approach over task-based routines
  • Calm transition into the day
Features
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The morning sets the tone. I've believed this for as long as I can remember. If I don't start my morning right, I tend to feel unproductive, restless, and scatter-brained throughout the rest of the day. So I've always put heavy emphasis on getting my mornings right. But doing so was way harder than it should've been — my main problems being consistency (completing all the steps in the routine each day) and a lack of structure (without a basis for how long each part should take, it always felt like I was moving through routines instead of actually being in them). Naturally, I turned to the plethora of morning routine apps on the App Store, but none of them really stuck. They were all cluttered, feature-heavy, and packed with metrics, streaks, and reminders — which felt like the opposite of what a morning should feel like. And underneath the noise, something more subtle was off: I never really felt like the morning was mine. These apps were focused on the act of building a routine — adding habits, checking boxes, hitting goals. But I don't think of my morning as a routine. I think of it as a ritual. Checking the weather. A quote to sit with. Words of positivity left from days prior. A breath before the day begins. That's what I wanted, and I couldn't find it. So I built it. Daybreak is a doorway, not a dashboard. Most morning apps are control panels — stacks of widgets, metrics, streaks, and reminders that demand your attention before you've even had water. Daybreak is the opposite. It's the small, quiet thing you pass through on the way into your day. You design your morning. Daybreak walks you through it. The whole point is to be less — less to manage, less to look at, less standing between you and the morning you actually want. A ritual, not a routine. A doorway, not a dashboard.

Screenshots

Bloom4 screens
Daybreak.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Daybreak. at 4.3 against Bloom's 1.0. Daybreak. also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Bloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daybreak. asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daybreak. holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daybreak. has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Bloom versus Daybreak.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloomDaybreak.
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings16 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeijing Dramavision Technology Co., Ltd.Matthew Huang

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bloom

One-time1
  • Bloom Pro Lifetime$4.99
None

Daybreak.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bloom free?
Bloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daybreak. free?
Daybreak. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bloom or Daybreak.?
Daybreak. is rated higher. Bloom averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Daybreak. averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Bloom or Daybreak. have ads?
Neither Bloom nor Daybreak. shows ads.

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