Day Base vs Arky
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Day Base
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Day Base is your database for everything β 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 β if you can list it, you can build it. DESIGN YOUR OWN FIELDS Add exactly the fields each collection needs β 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 β 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 β 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.
Arky
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Where ideas take shape. Arky is a visual workspace for mapping and structuring your thinking. It helps you organize notes and source material in connected Docs and Canvases, understand your projectβs structure, and ask AI questions grounded in your project context. Arky for iPhone is designed for exploring and reviewing your existing workspace on the go. With Arky for iPhone, you can: β’ Browse your projects and recent work β’ Move between a spatial Canvas and focused Doc view β’ See connections and understand your projectβs structure at a glance β’ Ask questions with AI that understands your project context β’ Review notes and source material wherever you are In this iOS 1.0 release, project content in Docs and Canvas is read-only. Creating or editing project content is available in the Arky web app. An Arky account is required. Some features may depend on your workspace plan.
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Verdict
Day Base and Arky are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Day Base | Arky |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan McMillen | Arky |
In-app purchases
Day Base
No in-app purchases
Arky
No in-app purchases









