Comparison

Days Until vs Daylight

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

Head to head
About

Days Until

Features
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Count down to every date that matters — and put the countdown right on your Home Screen. KeyDate turns birthdays, trips, weddings, launches and deadlines into a live countdown you actually feel building. Add a date once and the days tick down automatically. When the day passes, KeyDate flips into a count-up so you can track how long it's been, too. No clutter, no calendar overload — just the moments you care about, front and center. WHAT YOU GET - Countdowns to any future date, plus an automatic count-up after the day arrives - A Home Screen widget that keeps your next big day ticking where you'll see it - Ten built-in categories: birthday, anniversary, travel, wedding, baby, work, concert, holiday, celebration and goals - Reminder alerts so a milestone never slips past you before the big day - Insights with month-by-month and category charts to see your whole year at a glance - Photos, notes and recurring monthly or yearly dates for the moments you never want to miss PERFECT FOR - Couples counting down to a wedding, anniversary or trip - Parents tracking birthdays, baby due dates and school breaks - Travelers watching the days fall away before vacation - Anyone chasing a launch, deadline or personal goal WHY NOT JUST USE YOUR CALENDAR? Your calendar buries the big day under a hundred meetings. KeyDate is built for one thing: making the wait visible. One glance shows exactly how many days are left — on your Home Screen, with a photo and a countdown, not a tiny dot on a grid. PRIVACY Your dates stay on your device. No account, no sign-up, nothing to leak. FULL ACCESS The free version lets you save up to three dates. KeyDate Premium unlocks unlimited countdowns, the full Home Screen widget, insights charts and every category. Premium is available as a weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase — pick what fits you. Add your first date and start the countdown today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? Contact tphuc.work@gmail.com

About

Daylight

This app combines daily affirmations, weather, to-dos, calendar events, and notes into a single, convenient dashboard. It offers a unique, day-centric approach to task management with intuitive gestures and automatic iCloud syncing. Enjoy a clutter-free experience with no notifications.

Highlights
  • All-in-one daily dashboard
  • Calendar event integration
  • Task management with rollover
  • Daily affirmations
  • Natural language event input
  • Customizable Today view layout
Features
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Daylight is the beautiful, delightful, all-in-one daily planner I always envisioned for my iPhone, and I hope you'll love it just as much. It's designed to make your day feel lighter, easier, and wrapped up neatly, yet contains powerful productivity features built in. It combines a daily affirmation, weather, to-dos, calendar events, and notes into one convenient dashboard view, so it's the only app you need to get started with your day. Everything surfaces right on your Today view, where the background changes as the day progresses to match the position of the sun in the sky. There are no lists or folders because life doesn't happen in lists, it happens in days. Your tasks, notes, and events are all assigned to days that you can page through to see what's coming next and when you have room to add more stuff in. Plus, tasks smartly roll over if you choose, so you can see incomplete tasks from previous days on your Today view too and reprioritize them for the new day. And speaking of nice touches, the app is filled with them. It has been a complete labor of love, from the randomized confetti for every task completion to the paper crumble when deleting a note to refining each and every pixel of the experience. Daylight is meant to make your day not only easier and more productive, but pleasant too. And it's all topped off with that daily affirmation to set a positive tone. • GESTURES AND CONVENIENCE • Short press a task to drag and drop it, long press to bring up a menu for repeating tasks, moving them, or selecting multiple. Describe an event using natural language to add it to your calendar rather than filling out a tedious form of information. Or shake your iPhone to undo a mistake you made. Just say something like "Dinner tomorrow at 8pm with Ashley" and Daylight will figure out what you mean. Add widgets to your home screen to see it all at a glance. It's all so simple, and it all just works harmoniously. There's also no separate login to worry about. Everything you put in Daylight saves and backs up automatically through your Apple account and iCloud and calendars sync with all your existing accounts already on your iPhone. • NO NOTIFICATIONS • And guess what? There are no notifications. Controversial? Of course. But we all get enough notifications, alerts, and reminders already. We don't need more noise. Just like the way you'd check a daily journal throughout the day and cross tasks off as you complete them, feel free to check Daylight throughout your day to stay abreast. • DAYLIGHT PREMIUM • If you choose to upgrade to Daylight Premium, not only will you be supporting a small, passionate developer, you'll also unlock some really handy features: - Unlimited tasks and notes per day - Note bookmarks - Repeating tasks - Customized affirmation themes and ability to add your own - Rapid fire task entry (tap and hold the + icon on Tasks view) - Rearrange cards on the Today view to your liking - And more to come on the horizon • NO DATA HARVESTING, JUST GOOD VIBES • Daylight keeps zero personal information about you and no one can see your tasks, notes, and events except for you. I literally do not care at all about your private data. I just want to build things that make people happy. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy using Daylight to bring some light to your day. Always open to feedback and suggestions, and I promise Daylight will only grow and get better with time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Days Until4 screens
Daylight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daylight at every 2 weeks against Days Until's monthly. Days Until's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Days Until sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Daylight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Days Until ships an update monthly, Daylight every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Days Until versus Daylight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays UntilDaylight
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamCreating Things to Feel Alive LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Days Until

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$29.99
3 purchases

Daylight

Subscriptions2
  • Daylight Premium - Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Daylight Premium - Yearly$29.001 Year
One-time1
  • Daylight Premium - Lifetime$49.00

Questions

Is Days Until free?
Days Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daylight free?
Daylight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Days Until or Daylight have ads?
Neither Days Until nor Daylight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Days Until or Daylight?
Days Until ships an update monthly, and Daylight every 2 weeks. Most recently, Days Until was updated on October 31, 2026 and Daylight on October 31, 2026.

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