Comparison

Timeflies vs DayCast

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

Head to head
About

Timeflies

This app helps you stay focused on important goals by creating visual countdowns for deadlines, exams, or personal milestones. Break down your objectives into manageable tasks and track your progress to turn pressure into steady advancement.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns for any event
  • Track time remaining in various units
  • Break down goals into actionable tasks
  • Check off completed tasks
  • Build reminder plans with local notifications
  • Local data storage
Features
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Timeflies helps you stay aware of how much time remains for the things that matter most. Create a countdown for any goal, deadline, exam, launch, trip, or personal milestone. Break it into clear tasks, track progress, and keep the remaining time visible so it is easier to act with focus instead of delay. With Timeflies, you can: • Create countdowns with a title, deadline, and color theme • See time remaining in years, months, days, or seconds • Break each countdown into actionable tasks • Check off completed tasks and edit task notes • Build reminder plans with local notifications • Keep your progress stored locally on your iPhone Timeflies is designed for people who want deadlines to feel real, visible, and manageable. Whether you are preparing for an exam, finishing an application, planning a launch, or working toward a personal goal, Timeflies helps turn pressure into steady progress.

About

DayCast

This app consolidates your daily planning, note-taking, journaling, and financial tracking into a single, private space. It features on-device AI for reflections and summaries, with robust PDF annotation and editing capabilities. All data is encrypted locally for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Task and event planning with reminders
  • Rich text notes with sketches and photos
  • Mood-aware journaling with AI reflections
  • Multi-currency spending and net worth tracking
  • PDF annotation, markup, and text extraction
  • On-device AI for summaries and prompts
  • Encrypted local-first data storage
Features
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Your planner, notes, journal and spending tracker in one private app, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and the web. Keep only the sections you use. PLANNER • Today shows your day at a glance, with a Weekly Review of tasks, habits, mood and spending • Today, Upcoming, Anytime and Someday views, plus a Logbook of what you finished • Type naturally: "Call Sam Friday 3pm !!" fills in the date, time and priority • Plan My Day, Paste as Tasks, and import from Reminders • Time and location reminders, and repeating tasks you can pause • Day, week, month and timeline views; projects, energy levels and a completion heatmap • Habits with streaks and daily reminders NOTES • Type / for headings, checklists, tables, photos and callouts; type # to tag as you write • An Inbox for everything you share, clip or email in, until you file it in a notebook • Rich text with highlight colors, collapsible headings, code blocks and inline math • Notebooks, tags, saved searches, links, flashcards and version history • List or card view, a daily note, handwriting and document scanning • Paper, color or photo backgrounds, and color labels • Search shows the date, amount or code you need first • Import your notes from Evernote (ENEX) JOURNAL • Moods, activities and custom scales, with Apple Health mood logging • Photos, video with transcripts, maps and a calendar view • Prompt packs, On This Day, Life Patterns and a Year in Review • Breathing sessions saved as Mindful Minutes, and a First Aid Kit for hard days • Import from Apple Journal SPENDING • Apple Card and Wallet auto-import: purchases arrive on their own, already categorized • Safe to Spend: what's really free today, from your balance or this month's income, and from Siri • Zero-based budgeting with Ready to Assign, budget history and burndown • Scan receipts with line items • Import bank files (OFX, QFX, QIF); transfers stay out of your totals • Subscriptions with trial reminders, bills calendar, savings goals • Budget alerts, Hide Amounts and Month in Review REPORTS HUB Spending trends, cash-flow forecast, merchant insights, tax report and reimbursements. PDFs Read, mark up, fill forms, reorder pages, listen aloud, and ask questions about any PDF. LABS Switch on extras in Settings: priority matrix, duplicate day, note map, net worth, debt payoff and product prices. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK • A real Mac app with menus, multiple windows, an inspector and Handoff • Apple Watch app for quick tasks, expenses and moods • DayCast on the web, unlocked with your own passphrase • Email things in, or save pages into a notebook with the web clipper • Widgets, Control Center controls including Quick Note, Live Activities and Siri SHARE WHEN YOU WANT Share a note or a journal with other iCloud users and comment together. Only the people you invite can read them. PRIVACY FIRST • No DayCast account, no ads, no tracking • Your data is encrypted on your devices before it syncs; Apple only stores ciphertext • iCloud sync is optional; DayCast works fully offline • Face ID or passcode lock ON-DEVICE AI Summaries, proofreading, translation, journal reflections, a spending coach and Ask DayCast run on your device with Apple Intelligence. Ask DayCast can also use Private Cloud Compute, only if you turn it on. PREMIUM DayCast is free to use. Premium unlocks Apple Card and Wallet import, the AI tools, Reports Hub, advanced PDF tools, extra journals, unlimited budgets and goals, custom repeats and more. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web app. Monthly or yearly, with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jcmobileappstudio.com/apps/daycast/privacy Website: https://jcmobileappstudio.com

Screenshots

Timeflies4 screens
DayCast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timeflies at none against DayCast's 2. DayCast's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. DayCast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Timeflies 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 Timeflies against 5.0 for DayCast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timeflies ships an update every 3 days, DayCast every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Timeflies versus DayCast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimefliesDayCast
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHaiping SunJC Mobile App Studio LLC

In-app purchases

None

Timeflies

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DayCast

Subscriptions2
  • DayCast Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • DayCast Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Timeflies free?
Timeflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayCast free?
DayCast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timeflies or DayCast?
Timeflies and DayCast are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Timeflies or DayCast have ads?
Neither Timeflies nor DayCast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timeflies or DayCast?
Timeflies ships an update every 3 days, and DayCast every 5 days. Most recently, Timeflies was updated on October 31, 2026 and DayCast on November 5, 2026.

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