Mochi List vs Dawnlet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mochi List
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Lister is the list app that fits how you actually use lists. The same list can be a Checklist when you're packing, a Spin Wheel when you can't decide where to eat, a Flash Card deck when you're studying — or any of several other modes. One list, many ways to play. And we're adding more display modes all the time. DISPLAY MODES INCLUDE • Checklist — Cross off items as you go • Spin Wheel — Spin a colorful wheel to choose • Randomizer — Tap to pick one at random • Flash Card — Tap to flip and reveal notes • Browser — Page through items one at a time ...with more on the way. MORE FEATURES • Beautiful themes — make every list look the way you want • Home Screen widgets — see your lists at a glance • Shuffle — randomize item order with one tap • Reorder with drag & drop • Add photos and notes to any item • Import and export lists as files • Light and dark mode • Haptic feedback and sound effects you can toggle off • Works offline, your data stays on your device PRIVACY FIRST Your lists live on your phone. No account required.
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.
- 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
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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 looks like. Dawnlet keeps all of it in one place and shows you one day at a time, weather beside the date — then stays quiet. Dawnlet is built by one person, Aly Badawy. EVENTS AND TODOS Repeating or one-off events, paged by month. Todos with due dates, notes and links, repeating weekly, monthly or on the nth weekday. HABITS AND STREAKS Every day, specific weekdays, or a few times a week. Honest streaks, with skip days that don't break the chain. Link a habit to Apple Health and it checks itself off when you hit the goal. MONEY Income and expenses by category, monthly budgets, recurring bills and savings goals. Lock it behind Face ID, which hides amounts in notifications too. TIME TRACKING A live timer with real pauses, so totals stay honest. Switch in one tap or backdate. Or start a focus session: intervals with breaks, each one logged. THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO Movies, books and places — each with a planned date, a rating and who you did it with, and a map. People are your Apple Contacts, read on your device, with an optional nudge to keep in touch. JOURNAL, MEALS AND GRATITUDES As many entries a day as you like, with bold, italic and a mood, and questions drawn from your day when you're stuck. Search it, revisit this day in past years, and log meals and gratitudes. CHAT WITH DAWNLET Ask what's on Friday, or add events, todos, meals and gratitudes in your own words. It shows what it understood before saving anything, and runs on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. NOTIFICATIONS THAT KEEP WORKING Every kind has its own switch and quiet hours. All on your device, so a week away never goes silent. Focus filters show only the categories and tags you pick. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Widgets, and your running timer in the Dynamic Island. Siri and Shortcuts start a timer, add a todo, check off a habit or log an expense. Apple Watch shows events, habits, todos and the timer. Works offline, and syncs when you're back. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver throughout, Audio Graphs, Reduce Motion, iPad keyboard shortcuts and Undo after a delete. In US, British, Australian and Canadian English. PRIVACY, PLAINLY You sign in with Apple. Dawnlet stores an account ID, the email Apple gives it and your name if you shared it. No third-party analytics, ads or crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. Calendar, Reminders and Contacts are read on your device; synced todos are saved to your account, and someone you add to a meal, movie or place is stored as a name, contact ID and keep-in-touch interval. Apple Health is only read, on your device. Weather sends your approximate location, or a city you pick, only to Apple's weather service, never to Dawnlet. Chat and journal prompts run on your device. Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PLUS Free is a complete app: agenda, events, todos, habits, money with Face ID lock, time tracking, journaling, meals, gratitudes, places, books, movies, people, Calendar and Reminders in your agenda, focus sessions, Focus filters, one Apple Health habit and notifications. Up to 500 each of habits, todos, activities, places, books and movies. Dawnlet Plus, one subscription across every module: Chat, weather, month insights, Patterns with sleep, written Look Backs, reports and export, Plan My Week and Month, repeating todos, events and bills, budgets and savings goals, journal prompts and "on this day", more Health habits, Reminders sync, Calendar write-back, keep-in-touch nudges and no item cap. It is an auto-renewable subscription: Dawnlet Plus Monthly is $3.99USD for one month, and Dawnlet Plus Yearly is $34.99USD for one year — about $2.92USD 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mochi List at none against Dawnlet's 2. Mochi List also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). Dawnlet's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Dawnlet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Mochi List asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mochi List ships an update monthly, Dawnlet every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mochi List | Dawnlet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PTK Ventures LLC | Aly Badawy |
In-app purchases
Mochi List
No in-app purchases
Dawnlet
- Dawnlet Plus Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Dawnlet Plus Yearly14 Days trial$34.991 Year







