Comparison

dayGLANCE vs Driftto

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

Head to head
About

dayGLANCE

A privacy-focused planner for Apple devices that organizes tasks, goals, and schedules. It offers native integration across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with optional cloud sync and voice-powered task management.

Highlights
  • Privacy-first design, no accounts or analytics
  • Native integration on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
  • Home Screen widgets and Control Center integration
  • Goals and projects linked to daily tasks
  • Optional voice-powered task management
  • Integrations with Apple Calendar, Obsidian, and Apple Health
  • User-controlled cloud sync options (GLANCEvault, WebDAV, iCloud Drive)
Features
Read full description

dayGLANCE is a privacy-first day planner for people who want a powerful planning tool without giving their data to someone else's server. Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No accounts. No analytics. Your tasks, goals, and schedule stay on your device and only leave it when you choose. A 14-day free trial is included. After that, subscribe or buy a lifetime unlock. Cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings. See your day clearly dayGLANCE gives you a clean, focused view of your day with a timeline that shows exactly what's ahead. Home Screen widgets keep it in view without opening the app, including the Day Dial, which draws your whole day as a ring and stays live to the minute. Control Center controls on iOS 18 add a task or start voice input from anywhere, and on Mac a menu-bar tray keeps dayGLANCE a click away with a live focus countdown. When it's time to execute, Focus Mode clears everything but the task in front of you. Built for your Apple devices Buy once, use everywhere: one purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac through Universal Purchase. iCloud keeps your tasks, habits, and plans in sync automatically. Your tasks are indexed in Spotlight, and Quick Actions on the app icon add a scheduled or inbox task, start a focus session, or queue voice input in one gesture. Goals and projects, connected to your day Build goals, break them into projects, connect them to the tasks on your timeline. dayGLANCE bridges long-term planning and daily execution. Voice-powered task management Create, reschedule, and edit tasks by speaking. Voice input needs no AI provider: dayGLANCE uses Apple's speech recognition to turn what you say into a task, and reads the dates, times, and repeats out of it. No audio is sent to an AI provider. Add your own AI provider (bring your own API key) and it handles the looser phrasing instead. Either way, no AI backend is operated by dayGLANCE, all AI features are optional, and the app is fully functional without AI. Speech recognition availability depends on your language and region. Integrates with the tools you already use Apple Calendar: Your device calendars (iCloud, Google, Nextcloud/CalDAV) surface color-coded on your timeline Obsidian: Two-way task sync, an agenda sidebar inside your vault, tasks written into daily and project notes, folders and tags as task sources, and links between tasks and any note. Live two-way sync uses the free dayGLANCE Bridge plugin with a GLANCEvault account. Apple Health: Read steps and sleep to track habit progress automatically TRMNL: Display your day on an e-ink dashboard Cloud sync on your terms Optional cloud sync and remote backup keep your data under your control. GLANCEvault (a sync backend you can self-host for free) always encrypts your data client-side with AES-256-GCM (PBKDF2 key derivation) before it leaves your device, so the server stores only encrypted content. Prefer WebDAV? Bring your own server and turn on sync encryption for the same client-side protection, or leave it off if you wish. Or sync through iCloud Drive, kept in your personal iCloud account under Apple's encryption. Connects to other GLANCE apps dayGLANCE can talk to lastGLANCE (and other GLANCE apps as they ship) through GLANCEintents, a cross-app protocol that flows through your own WebDAV or GLANCEvault server, or iCloud Drive. Send a chore from lastGLANCE to your dayGLANCE timeline; complete it in dayGLANCE and lastGLANCE knows. Optional end-to-end encryption keyed to your sync passphrase. Off by default. Self-hostable and open dayGLANCE is open source and self-hostable via Docker. It can run entirely on your own infrastructure. Either way, your data stays yours.

About

Driftto

Features
Read full description

Stop emailing yourself. The thought shows up between meetings, on the way to a client, halfway through something else. It belongs on your list, in the right project. Opening the right app and finding the right list takes too long, so you email yourself. And tonight you move those emails into the right apps, one by one. Driftto is the shorter route. Type it or say it once, pick where it goes, done. It is on your list straight away. Nothing to file tonight. Where it lands Notion Asana Apple Reminders Email Todoist Google Tasks Linear Jira Trello TickTick Airtable Wrike Dart Google Sheets Missing one? Request it in the app. Pick one destination or several at once. Driftto remembers your last choice. Type it, say it, snap it One field, keyboard already up. Speak and the transcription happens on your phone. Add a photo of the whiteboard and it travels with the note to Notion, Asana or email. Your list, or someone else's Most notes are for yourself. Some belong to a colleague. Send it to their project or inbox, or to your list and theirs at once. You can see where it went Every capture shows where it landed. No signal? It waits on your phone and sends itself when you are back. Hands full Say "Hey Siri, new capture in Driftto". Siri asks what the thought is and sends it. The app never opens. Subscription Driftto is a paid app. The yearly plan starts with a free week. Choose monthly, yearly, or pay once for lifetime access. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy: driftto.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

dayGLANCE4 screens
Driftto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: dayGLANCE at 3 against Driftto's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. dayGLANCE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and Driftto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dayGLANCE ships an update every 4 days, Driftto every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
dayGLANCE versus Driftto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdayGLANCEDriftto
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason KrellnerJafa Media B.V.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

dayGLANCE

Subscriptions1
  • dayGLANCE Pro14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • dayGLANCE Pro$79.99
3 purchases

Driftto

Subscriptions2
  • Driftto Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Driftto Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Driftto Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is dayGLANCE free?
dayGLANCE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Driftto free?
Driftto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do dayGLANCE or Driftto have ads?
Neither dayGLANCE nor Driftto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dayGLANCE or Driftto?
dayGLANCE ships an update every 4 days, and Driftto every 3 days. Most recently, dayGLANCE was updated on October 13, 2026 and Driftto on October 2, 2026.

Other comparisons