Joyful Days vs Roundi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Joyful Days
This calendar app transforms daily planning with original, hand-drawn illustrations from art galleries. It offers a peaceful, visually engaging experience with cute animals and vibrant colors to brighten your day.
- Original gallery art illustrations
- Daily planning and scheduling
- Cute animal themes
- Holiday tracking
- Simple and intuitive interface
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Welcome to Joyful Days! A calendar app that brings warmth, color, and imagination to your daily planning. Born from a collection of hand-drawn illustrations exhibited in art galleries, Joyful Days is designed for those who appreciate the little beautiful moments in life. Why Joyful Days? - Original Gallery Art: Unlike generic calendar apps, Joyful Days features 12 exclusive, high-quality illustrations created by No Idea Studio. - Start your year with the festive energy of fireworks and a cute rabbit. - Feel the love in February with our balloon-flying bear. - Unwind in May with playful cats and yarn. - Unlock more animal Friends! - A Moment of Healing: Life can be busy. Open Joyful Days to find a peaceful corner where cute animals and vibrant colors remind you to smile. From the summer vibes of a sunbathing turtle to the cozy autumn of a Halloween capybara, every month is a new story. - Simple & Intuitive: We believe in the beauty of simplicity. Easily check dates, holidays (like Mother's Day or Thanksgiving ), and enjoy the visual journey without clutter.
Roundi
This app helps you focus on a single task by visually representing time as a disappearing color disc. It encourages single-tasking with a unique rule: leaving the app or locking the screen before the round ends results in a lost round. It supports various rituals like meditation, study, and work, with Siri integration for hands-free control.
- Visual time representation
- Single-tasking rule with penalty
- Customizable rituals
- Siri voice control
- Apple Watch integration
- Multiple visual themes
- Calendar integration for tracking
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One round, one thing. Roundi holds you to a single task and shows the time as color: focus you can see. Turn the dial, press start, and a disc of color begins to disappear — like a kitchen timer for your attention. No numbers counting down, no notifications pulling you back. Just time, visibly running out. THE ONE RULE Leave the app — or lock the screen — before the round ends, and the round is lost, instantly. That's the whole trick: Roundi doesn't block anything, it just makes leaving cost something. (Too strict? There's a Lenient mode.) MADE FOR YOUR RITUALS • Meditate — 15 quiet minutes, watching the color fade • Study — a 50-minute block with no pings • Work — deep work sessions up to 2 hours • Train — planks, dead hangs, rest between sets Save each ritual as a tag and it becomes a one-tap start button with its own duration. SAY IT, DON'T TAP IT "Start Plank in Roundi." Between rounds, Siri sets the length, starts a tag, adds another round, or tells you your streak. Hands free — and once a round starts, nothing interrupts you. ON YOUR WRIST Roundi runs on Apple Watch too. Turn the Digital Crown, tap START, and the color sweeps away on your wrist; a tap and a chime mark the end. Watch rounds land in your iPhone's calendar, Siri works on the watch, and one rule carries over: unlock your iPhone during a watch round and the round ends. A TIMER YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK AT Choose how time drains: a clockwise disc, a color that falls or rises across the whole screen, or a spiral coil that unwinds from the outside in. Six soft colors. A chime and a soft blink of color when the round completes. EVERY ROUND, KEPT Finished rounds land as dots on your calendar, with your daily total and streak. Time becomes habit; habit becomes you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your rounds stay on your device. Set a time. Stay focused. One round at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Roundi at none against Joyful Days's shown. Roundi also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Joyful Days against 5.0 for Roundi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Joyful Days ships an update every 2 weeks, Roundi every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Joyful Days | Roundi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hanyue Song | Yakppal, Inc. |
Customer experience
Joyful Days
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In-app purchases
Joyful Days
No in-app purchases
Roundi
No in-app purchases









