Comparison

Daily Planner vs Pull to Refresh

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

Head to head
About

Daily Planner

Features
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Overwhelmed by your to-do list? Take control of your day, beat procrastination, and build unbreakable focus habits with Daily Planner AI. Designed for students, professionals, and anyone who wants to get more done in less time, our app combines the world's most effective productivity frameworks into one beautiful, easy-to-use workspace. KEY FEATURES: The Eisenhower Matrix Stop treating every task like an emergency. Easily drag and drop your tasks into 4 quadrants (Do, Decide, Delegate, Delete) to visually separate what is Urgent from what is Important. Deep Work and Pomodoro Timers Lock in and get it done. Run customizable focus sessions (15m, 25m Pomodoro, or 90m Deep Work). The app will automatically schedule local alarm notifications to let you know when it is time to take a break. Elite Curated Routines Discover the exact daily schedules of billionaires, top exam rankers, and elite athletes. Use our AI assistant to instantly adapt their timeline to fit your personal wake-up time and available hours! Automated Spaced Repetition (Study Mode) Learning a new topic? Turn on "Spaced Repetition" when creating a task. Once you complete it, the app will automatically schedule review sessions for 7, 15, and 30 days in the future to lock it into your long-term memory. Advanced Productivity Insights Watch your progress grow in real-time. Our Insights dashboard tracks your Total Focus Time, Daily Streaks, and generates dynamic weekly charts. Stop planning and start doing. Download Daily Planner AI today and unlock your true productivity potential!

About

Pull to Refresh

This app locks your most time-consuming applications until you complete physical exercises. Earn back minutes for your apps by doing push-ups, sit-ups, or other movements, with the camera accurately counting your reps. Your exercise data can be saved to Health.

Highlights
  • App time allowance setting
  • Exercise-based rep counting
  • Pose detection for accurate reps
  • Health app integration
  • Optional public leaderboard
  • Strict mode for enhanced blocking
Features
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Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for wait for you — for at least half an hour, and four times as long as the unlock for bigger ones, up to 22 hours. NO VIDEO LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. What does leave goes through Apple: rep counts and badge progress to Game Center once you say yes, your name and numbers to the iCloud board if you join it, and a copy of your history to your own iCloud. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Signed in to Game Center, you get its leaderboards — this week and all time — and nine badges to earn, under your Game Center name. Nothing is sent until you say yes. On iOS 26 and later, start a Rep Race with a friend from Game Center: the biggest single set done during the race wins. Not on Game Center? Join the iCloud board under any name you like; leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboards. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here; reps do. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Daily Planner4 screens
Pull to Refresh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Planner at none against Pull to Refresh's 3. Daily Planner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Pull to Refresh's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence 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. Pull to Refresh sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Daily Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Planner ships an update every 5 days, Pull to Refresh every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daily Planner versus Pull to Refresh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily PlannerPull to Refresh
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAashukay Tech Pvt LtdIvan Chernoknizhnikov

In-app purchases

None

Daily Planner

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pull to Refresh

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Forever$49.99

Questions

Is Daily Planner free?
Daily Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pull to Refresh free?
Pull to Refresh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Planner or Pull to Refresh have ads?
Daily Planner shows ads; Pull to Refresh does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Planner or Pull to Refresh?
Daily Planner ships an update every 5 days, and Pull to Refresh every 4 days. Most recently, Daily Planner was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pull to Refresh on November 6, 2026.

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