DayBox vs Dayfree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
DayBox
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DayBox turns a chaotic to-do list into a clear daily plan you can actually finish. Drag tasks onto a visual timeline around your real calendar, protect time for deep work, focus one block at a time, and end the day knowing what you got done. NEW IN 1.2 - Made for iPhone Duo and iPad: on the big screen, your timeline and Inbox sit side by side โ drag tasks straight onto your day. - Desk Mode on iPhone Duo: prop it up mid-block and the timer sits on the top half, every control on the bottom, and the screen stays on until the block ends. - Visual Countdown: a color disk that shrinks as time runs out, so you can see how long you have at a glance. - Wrap-Up Heads-Up: a nudge 5 minutes before a block ends. THE DAYBOX METHOD - 5 STEPS, EVERY DAY 1. Capture tasks into your Inbox 2. Pick your Big 3 priorities for the day 3. Drag tasks onto your daily timeline 4. Start a focus timer for each block 5. Review your wins at the end of the day That's it. Simple enough to actually stick with. PLAN YOUR DAY - Visual daily timeline with drag-and-drop time blocks - Big 3 priorities - anchor your day to what matters most - Calendar integration - see events beside your blocks, with optional two-way Apple Calendar sync - Natural language input - type "Meeting 2pm 30min #work" - Recurring tasks and day templates for your routines - Checklists inside every task - Tags to organize by project or life area - A warning before you overcommit your day - Siri & Shortcuts - add tasks hands-free FOCUS DEEPLY - A focus timer for every block - classic ring or the new Visual Countdown - Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - Your task's checklist right on the focus screen - Ambient sounds: rain, forest, ocean waves, coffee shop, fireplace, white noise - Pomodoro mode with automatic breaks - Log interruptions without losing your place - Apple Watch app and Home Screen widgets FOCUS-FRIENDLY BY DESIGN Built with ADHD and visual thinkers in mind: - Visual Timeline colors your blocks by tag - Gentle Reminders swap pressure for kind wording - Visual Countdown shows time left as a shrinking disk - Wrap-Up Heads-Up, so a block never ends by surprise REFLECT & GROW - Planned vs. actual focus, tasks done, and Big 3 progress - Weekly review with charts and trends - Streaks for planning, Big 3, and focus - 20 achievement badges - Share your day as a summary card DAYBOX PRO - AI daily planning around your real calendar - always previewed, never auto-applied (try an AI-planned day free) - Adaptive replanning when your day changes - AI time estimates for your tasks - Time Insights: where your time goes by tag, and your best focus hours - CSV time-log export for invoicing and timesheets Choose monthly, yearly (free trial available), or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://culi.app/apps/daybox/privacy-policy
Dayfree
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Set a goal by how many times a week, not which days. Dayfree is a habit tracker for weeks that never look the same. Pick "3 times a week" and any three days count - Monday, Tuesday and Sunday, or three days in a row. Nothing resets because you skipped Wednesday. A GOAL YOU CAN ACTUALLY HIT Choose a number per week or per month instead of a weekday schedule. The home screen always shows how many are left this week. One tap checks a habit off and the weekly ring fills on the spot. A DAY IS NOT ONLY YES OR NO Long-press to mark a day as partly done or missed, and attach a short note saying why. Partly still counts as a record, so the day you tried does not look like the day you forgot. Every note also lands in Notes, where you can search them across all habits. GROUP WHAT BELONGS TOGETHER Six supplements do not need six rows. Put them in a category, collapse it, and check the whole group off from its header. A category can carry its own weekly goal, and every habit inside takes its colour. Drag habits and categories to reorder them. FILL IN THE PAST FROM A CALENDAR The History tab opens on a calendar that folds between month and week. Days you recorded appear in each habit's colour, notes read as text, and a day you forgot can still be filled in. Pick any past day and record it. A MONTH AT A GLANCE Each habit has its own monthly grid. Done, partly and missed are told apart by shape as well as colour, so the grid reads in greyscale too, and the month's notes are listed right under it. All time adds your total completions, the weeks (or months) you hit the goal, and a bar for each of the last 12 months. EVERY STAT IS OPEN Completion rate with the real change against the previous period. Goals met by week, laid out as a map. A 12-week trend, a weekday pattern, insights in plain sentences and a per-habit breakdown. Weeks on target by category get a card of their own. Nothing on this screen is locked. A REMINDER FOR EACH HABIT Set a time for each habit, or none at all. Choose Every day or Only when needed: the second reminds you only when the days left are getting tight for the count you still need, and neither reminds you about a habit you already logged today. Log Did it straight from the notification, or tap it to open that habit. One switch turns every reminder off. START WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT Twelve presets - workout, water, reading, stretching, journaling, vitamins, walk, study, cleaning, call family, no late snack, early bed - each with a suggested count. Tap one and the editor opens filled in. No sign-up, no account, no onboarding quiz. YOURS, AND OFFLINE Your habits, records and notes stay on this device. There is no cloud and no account. Only what you choose to send with Send feedback in Settings reaches us. Export every record and note to CSV whenever you want and restore from that file on a new phone - the export does not sit behind the purchase. Dayfree is supported by a small banner, a full-screen ad when you open the app (at most twice a day), and a few in-line cards between the Stats blocks. If you would rather not see them, one purchase removes every ad permanently. There is no subscription, and nothing else sits behind it. Available in English, Korean, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DayBox at none against Dayfree's shown. Dayfree's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. DayBox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Dayfree sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DayBox ships an update monthly, Dayfree every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DayBox | Dayfree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly โ better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rene Fandida | PantaLabs |
In-app purchases
DayBox
- DayBox Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- DayBox Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$99.99
Dayfree
- Remove Ads$4.99









