Comparison

DayPad vs Daily Blocks

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

Head to head
About

DayPad

This app offers a calm and focused approach to weekly planning. It allows users to build daily task lists, view their entire week, and capture ideas for later without overwhelming complexity. Organize your life with dedicated folders for different areas.

Highlights
  • Daily task lists
  • Clear weekly view
  • Capture ideas for later
  • Organize with folders
  • Simple interface
  • One-time purchase option
Features
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Finally, a planner that doesn't overwhelm you. DayPad is your calm weekly companion - plan today, capture ideas for later, and stay on top of your week without the noise of complex apps. PLAN YOUR DAY Build simple daily task lists and focus on what actually matters today. SEE YOUR WEEK Get a clear weekly view and move tasks between days with ease. CAPTURE FOR LATER The Shelf holds tasks, errands, and ideas that don't need a date yet — so nothing falls through the cracks. STAY ORGANIZED Use folders to separate areas of your life: work, home, shopping, personal, and more. No dashboards. No project timelines. No endless settings. Just a clean space for your tasks. DAYPAD PLUS — OWN IT FOREVER One-time purchase. No subscription. Unlock custom folders, themes, iCloud Sync, and all future Plus features. DAYPAD WORKS GREAT FOR: • Daily task lists and weekly planning • Errands, ideas and personal plans • Tasks without a specific date • Anyone tired of overcomplicated apps Download DayPad and make your week feel manageable.

About

Daily Blocks

This app helps users build and follow daily routines by breaking them down into manageable blocks. It focuses on completing one task at a time, offering a structured approach for individuals who benefit from external organization, especially those with ADHD. The app emphasizes realistic progress and avoids guilt-inducing notifications.

Highlights
  • Task-based blocks for routine building
  • Single-task focus mode
  • Offline functionality
  • Apple Health integration
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island support
  • Progress tracking and analytics
  • Customizable routines
Features
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Most routine apps hand you a checklist and wish you luck. Daily Blocks gives you the pieces instead. Breakdown your morning, the most critical part of the day with different blocks, reuse them across every routine you run, and follow your day one task at a time. BUILT FROM BLOCKS, NOT LISTS Tasks are the things you do. Blocks are named groups of them, like "Morning start" or "Wind down." Routines are a day's worth of blocks, anchored to real start times and scheduled per weekday. Change a block once and every routine that uses it follows. That is the whole idea. ONE TASK AT A TIME Today shows you what is next, not everything at once. Swipe right to complete, left to skip. Or switch to Focus mode, which hides the list entirely and shows a single task until it is done. Prefer buttons to swiping? That is a setting, not a redesign. WHEN THE STRUCTURE HAS TO LIVE OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD If you have ADHD, the problem was never wanting to do the thing. Daily Blocks holds the structure for you: one task on screen instead of twelve, a routine you assembled back when you had the focus to plan it, and a timeline that tells you whether the day you designed actually fits the hours you have. No guilt loops. No streak-loss notifications engineered to panic you back into the app. If today falls apart, tomorrow's routine is still built and still waiting. A DAY YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE Blocks anchor to start times, and the gaps between them render as free time or work time on a timeline. You find out your morning does not fit in forty minutes before you have failed at it for a week. STREAKS YOU HAVE TO EARN The streak counts completed tasks in a row, not days you opened the app. Nothing auto-completes. Nothing celebrates a day you did not finish. A day with no real progress does not count as a win, because it wasn't one. APPLE HEALTH DOES THE CHECKING OFF Opt a task in and a matching workout or mindfulness session from Apple Health completes it for you. Run five miles, and "Run" is already ticked when you open the app. No double logging. GHOST MODE Quietly race today's run against your best comparable past day of the same routine. Only your wins ever surface, so it can encourage you but never scold you. PROGRESS WORTH READING A completion heatmap, all-time records, and custom goals scoped by task, by category, or by life area. See which parts of your routine you actually keep and which ones you have been quietly abandoning for a month. LOCK SCREEN AND DYNAMIC ISLAND A Live Activity keeps the current task on your Lock Screen with a one-tap complete button, so a routine does not require unlocking your phone eleven times. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS EVERYWHERE Opens instantly from a local cache and keeps working with no signal. Your routines sync across your devices and survive a new phone. CALM ON PURPOSE No guilt loops. No manipulative streak-loss notifications. No ads, no subscription, no upsell. Celebrations are a small puff of confetti, not a full-screen takeover. If you want the opposite, there are four optional loud themes, including Pop Comic and Synthwave. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Export everything or permanently delete your account from inside the app, any time. We do not sell your data and we do not track you across other apps. Free. iPhone, iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

DayPad4 screens
Daily Blocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Blocks at none against DayPad's 1. DayPad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. DayPad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daily Blocks 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 DayPad against 5.0 for Daily Blocks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DayPad versus Daily Blocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayPadDaily Blocks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleksandr NikolaievJASON ALAN MANCUSO

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DayPad

One-time1
  • DayPad Plus$4.99
None

Daily Blocks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DayPad free?
DayPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Blocks free?
Daily Blocks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DayPad or Daily Blocks?
DayPad and Daily Blocks are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do DayPad or Daily Blocks have ads?
Neither DayPad nor Daily Blocks shows ads.

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