Comparison

Day Base vs Life

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

Head to head
About

Day Base

Features
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Day Base is your database for everything โ€” a simple, powerful place to organize, track, and keep the things that matter. Most apps decide what you can store. Day Base hands you the blueprint: create your own collections, define your own fields, and shape the app around your life instead of the other way around. WHATEVER YOU COLLECT OR TRACK Books, records, and wine. Sneakers and trading cards. Home inventory and warranties. Travel memories and restaurants. Recipes, plants, projects, clients โ€” if you can list it, you can build it. DESIGN YOUR OWN FIELDS Add exactly the fields each collection needs โ€” text, numbers, dates, yes/no, links, single-select, and photos. No rigid templates. Your data, your structure. SEE IT YOUR WAY Browse a beautiful card view with cover images, or switch to a sortable table to scan and compare. Tap any photo for a full-screen look. START IN SECONDS Already have a spreadsheet? Paste a CSV and Day Base builds the fields for you automatically โ€” no setup required. ADD THINGS HANDS-FREE Day Base works with Siri and the Shortcuts app, so you can add or look up records by voice, from the Home Screen, or the Share Sheet โ€” without opening the app. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your data lives in your personal iCloud, synced across all your devices. It's yours, and yours alone. Powerful when you need it. Simple when you don't. Start your first collection in under a minute.

About

Life

Features
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Life-Ops is your calm command center for life's admin. Track renewals, bills, appointments, and important documents across every part of your life โ€” Identity, Finance, Vehicle, Housing, Health, and more โ€” so you never miss a deadline again. โ€ข Organized by life domain โ€” seven built-in categories, plus your own โ€ข 36 ready-made templates โ€” passport, insurance, MOT, taxes, vaccinations and more, pre-filled with sensible dates and reminders โ€ข Smart reminders โ€” custom day-before alerts and recurring schedules โ€ข Scan & attach documents โ€” capture paperwork with your camera, or add photos, and keep them with the item they belong to โ€ข Recurring tasks & history โ€” completed items reschedule themselves and keep a record โ€ข Private by design โ€” protect everything behind Face ID โ€ข Synced across your devices through your own iCloud โ€ข At-a-glance widget โ€” Home Screen and Lock Screen counts of what needs attention No account. No ads. No data harvesting. Just a focused tool that keeps your personal admin handled. Download Life-Ops and clear your mental clutter today.

Screenshots

Day Base4 screens
Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Day Base at none against Life's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Day Base asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Day Base versus Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay BaseLife
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan McMillenJuan Casanueva

In-app purchases

None

Day Base

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Life

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$0.99

Questions

Is Day Base free?
Day Base is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life free?
Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Day Base or Life have ads?
Neither Day Base nor Life shows ads.

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