Time Blocking vs DayPact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Blocking
Visualize your day with an hour-by-hour timeline, assigning names, colors, and durations to each activity. Track where your time actually goes with visual charts and a daily completion score. Plan your next day each evening with helpful coaching.
- Hour-by-hour timeline visualization
- Realistic planning with start times and durations
- Pre-set day templates
- Daily completion score and insights
- Evening planning nudges
- No ads or tracking
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Time blocking, done properly: give every hour of your day a name, a color, and a place on a real timeline — then find out where those hours actually went. Most planners hand you a list and hope for the best. A list has no width, so it never warns you that your "quick morning" is already seven hours long. TimeBlock puts your day on an hour-by-hour timeline you can see: each block sits at its real start time, at its real length, in its own color. The moment your day is overbooked, the timeline shows it — before the day starts, not after it collapses. WHAT YOU GET - A day you can actually see: blocks sit on an hour-by-hour timeline with a live "now" line, so you always know what you should be doing this minute - Realistic plans instead of wishful lists: set a start time and a duration, and an overloaded day becomes obvious at a glance - A planned day in one tap: pick Deep Work Day, Study Day, Creative Day, or Balanced Day and the whole timeline fills in - The truth about your week: donut and bar charts, a 7-day activity map, hours planned, and your most-repeated blocks - A finish rate you can defend: tick blocks off and watch your daily completion score in the Coach tab - A nudge every evening so tomorrow gets planned tonight, plus coaching on time boxing, buffer time, theme days, and strategic breaks PERFECT FOR - Deep-work professionals protecting long, uninterrupted focus windows - Students building study sessions with breaks that are planned, not accidental - Freelancers and creatives who need work, admin, and rest to coexist in one day - Anyone whose to-do list keeps growing while the day keeps disappearing WHY NOT JUST USE A TO-DO LIST OR YOUR CALENDAR? A to-do list is infinite; your day is not. A calendar is built for meetings other people booked, not for the focus time you owe yourself. TimeBlock does one job only — laying out your own hours, in color, and showing you afterwards how you really spent them. Nothing to invite, nothing to negotiate, no meeting requests in the way. PRIVACY Every block, note, and template you apply stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking. Nothing you plan ever leaves the device. FULL ACCESS Full access unlocks everything in the app: unlimited time blocks, all eight block colors and per-block notes, the full day-template library, the Insights dashboard with charts and your 7-day activity map, and the Coach tab with your daily score, tips, and planning methods. Available as a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Open the Today tab, add your first block for tomorrow morning, and see how much day you really have. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com
DayPact
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Plan first. Then execute. DayPact is a daily time-blocking planner built around one simple idea: deciding what to do and doing it are different jobs. Plan your day in 30-minute time blocks. Then, when it’s time to work, DayPact shows you exactly what you committed to doing and when you’re done. No giant task list. No constant reprioritizing. Just work through your day one block at a time. DayPact gives you: • Simple time blocking — turn vague intentions into a concrete daily schedule. • A visual daily timeline — see your day at a glance and know what’s happening now. • Up to three jobs in one time slot — for work that genuinely happens in parallel. • Now view — see your current block, time remaining, and what comes next. • Home Screen widgets — glance at what you’re doing now, what’s next, and what remains in your day without opening the app. • Block reminders — get a simple notification 5 minutes before your next block begins. • Done, Partial, or Skipped — record what actually happened without scores, streaks, or guilt. • Quick replanning — move or resize blocks when the day changes. • A deliberately small planning window — focus on today and the days immediately around it instead of managing your entire life in a calendar. • Private by default — no account, ads, analytics, or backend. Your plan stays on your device. DayPact isn’t another project manager or endless to-do list. It’s an execution layer for your day: decide how you’ll spend your time, then stop deciding and get on with it. Plan the day. Work the block. Move on. Privacy Policy: https://coffeeandjunk.notion.site/DayPact-Privacy-Policy-3df1063fcd6c80f3ab88f5c6e8b18aad?pvs=74 Terms & Conditions: https://coffeeandjunk.notion.site/DayPact-Terms-3df1063fcd6c807b82f5ec79503f5165
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DayPact at none against Time Blocking's 2. DayPact also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Time Blocking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. DayPact asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Blocking ships an update every 4 weeks, DayPact every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Blocking | DayPact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phuc Pham | Abhishek Chakraborty |
In-app purchases
Time Blocking
- Weekly$9.997 Days
- Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
DayPact
No in-app purchases









