Comparison

Orbit vs Daybard

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

Head to head
About

Orbit

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Orbit is a gamified productivity app that helps daily tasks and habits feel more rewarding. Instead of simply checking boxes, you complete missions, build good habits, earn XP, and watch your space journey progress over time. Orbit is designed for students, builders, and anyone who wants a more motivating way to stay consistent. Create missions for today, organize larger goals into projects, and track habits through a trajectory system. Each small action contributes to your overall progress, helping you feel momentum instead of staring at another plain todo list. What you can do with Orbit: โ€ข Create daily missions and complete them for XP โ€ข Build habits and track your streaks โ€ข Organize larger goals into projects and milestones โ€ข Watch your progress grow through a space-themed journey โ€ข Use AI suggestions to break goals into clear next steps โ€ข Collect ships and rewards as you stay consistent Orbit is not about doing everything perfectly. It is about making progress visible, rewarding, and help you achieve a better lifestyle. Start small. Complete one mission. Keep your Orbit moving. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://keeporbit.app/privacy Terms: https://keeporbit.app/terms

About

Daybard

Features
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Is your phone a graveyard of productivity apps? Daybard takes the opposite path: it starts from your real day, your calendar, reminders and tools, then turns that ordinary chaos into a playable adventure. What if your day became a story where you're the hero? Daybard turns every appointment, task and habit into an epic quest. In the evening, you replay your day chapter by chapter: you make choices, face the threats of your week, and your decisions become XP, loot, titles and memories for your hero. This isn't another to-do list. It's a tender, mischievous evening ritual to look back on your day without guilt and without hustle culture. WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR FREE โ€ข Your calendar, as quests โ€” every event becomes a named, illustrated adventure. โ€ข Add a moment in natural language โ€” "gym at 6pm tomorrow", and it's scheduled. โ€ข The evening replay โ€” replay your day and choose your outcome: noble, wise or heroic. โ€ข Level up your hero โ€” stats, equippable loot, achievements and titles. โ€ข Face your Nemesis โ€” a weekly turn-based battle rooted in your real week. โ€ข Keep the core game โ€” replay, XP, gold, bosses and progression stay free. DAYBARD PRO Daybard Pro is optional. It unlocks what makes Daybard more powerful once it becomes the center of your real organization: multiple remote integrations, advanced guild features, longer chronicle history, search, stats and RPG cosmetics. One remote integration stays available for free so you can feel the magic. Pro is for users who live across several tools and want to connect their full day without maintenance. ON MAC: YOUR KINGDOM Daybard also lives on Mac (daybard.com), where your consistency builds a pixel-art kingdom: every zone grows with your habits, kept appointments and completed quests. Your days finally add up to something โ€” and you can see it. YOUR DATA Daybard favors local data whenever possible. External integrations are only used when you connect them, to display and sync what you request. WHO IS IT FOR? For everyone who tried it all โ€” to-do lists, planners, trackers โ€” and ended up guilt-tripped by every single app. For busy parents and overloaded adults who want to look back on their day without it feeling like a chore. At night, in bed, after a genuinely full day. Daybard makes ordinary obligations a little more desirable. Embrace the game, stay grown-up. Privacy Policy: https://daybard.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://daybard.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Orbit4 screens
Daybard3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daybard at every 3 days against Orbit's every 9 days. Orbit's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbit sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Daybard 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

Orbit ships an update every 9 days, Daybard every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Orbit versus Daybard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitDaybard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size55 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYUHAN ZHAOGabriel Turpin

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • Voyager Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Voyager Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time4
  • Small Pack$1.99
  • Standard Pack$4.99
  • Legendary Pack$9.99
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  • Galaxy Pack$19.99
3 purchases

Daybard

Subscriptions2
  • Daybard Pro$3.991 Month
  • Daybard Pro$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Daybard Pro$79.99

Questions

Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daybard free?
Daybard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orbit or Daybard have ads?
Neither Orbit nor Daybard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit or Daybard?
Orbit ships an update every 9 days, and Daybard every 3 days. Most recently, Orbit was updated on October 2, 2026 and Daybard on October 2, 2026.

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