Comparison

TimeRing vs DayByDay Circular Life Planner

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

Head to head
About

TimeRing

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See your day take shape. TimeRing turns your schedule into a 24-hour ring, giving work, rest, exercise and sleep a clear place in your day. Explore today’s timeline or look ahead in the calendar. SEE YOUR DAY View schedules by time and category, with a ring and timeline that help you understand your daily rhythm. PLAN WHAT COMES NEXT Create and edit schedules, set reminders and browse your plans across dates. KEEP LIFE TOGETHER Manage tasks, notes and anniversaries alongside your schedule. MAKE ROOM FOR REST With your permission, display sleep data from Apple Health together with your daily plans. CHOOSE YOUR DATA MODE Cloud subscriptions offer cloud syncing. Local lifetime access focuses on local storage and supports iCloud syncing. See the in-app purchase screen for current prices, trial conditions and included features. Manage or cancel auto-renewing subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://timering365.net/terms Privacy: https://timering365.net/privacy

About

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

Visualize your day with a unique circular schedule that makes time flow easy to understand. Manage tasks, set reminders, and import calendars. Offers customizable themes and local data storage with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Circular and timetable daily schedule views
  • Home screen widgets
  • Reusable daily templates
  • Apple Calendar import
  • Customizable reminders
  • JSON backup export
  • iCloud CloudKit sync
Features
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DayByDay is a personal schedule app built to make one day easier to read. Instead of keeping every plan in a long list, DayByDay lays out your 24-hour day as a circular schedule so you can understand the flow of your time at a glance. Switch between the circular view and timetable view, check today's schedule, and keep reminders focused on the events that matter. Key Features - View your day as a circular schedule or timetable - Home Screen widgets for today's schedule, current event, time left, and daily overview - Add, edit, and delete events - Save reusable daily templates and apply them to any day - Premium read-only Apple Calendar import with an automatic backup before sync - 10-minute, 5-minute, and start-time reminders - Turn reminders on or off for each event - Alarm screen that keeps ringing until stopped - Theme styles, fonts, guide rings, and label rotation settings - Localized language options with RTL and LTR layout direction support - SwiftData storage with iCloud CloudKit sync - JSON backup export - In-app email drafts for bug reports and feature requests DayByDay is not trying to replace every calendar workflow. It focuses on helping you read the shape of a single day, understand the space between events, and keep a lighter daily plan. Your schedule data is stored on device. When you are signed in to iCloud, app data can sync through your private CloudKit database across devices using the same Apple ID. This app uses the Apple Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TimeRing4 screens
DayByDay Circular Life Planner1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TimeRing at none against DayByDay Circular Life Planner's shown. TimeRing also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). DayByDay Circular Life Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and in-app purchases 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. TimeRing sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month and DayByDay Circular Life Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeRing ships an update every 3 months, DayByDay Circular Life Planner every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeRing versus DayByDay Circular Life Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeRingDayByDay Circular Life Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer永涛 丁Zrindy LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TimeRing

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.001 Month
  • Yearly$18.001 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Local Access$29.99
6 purchases

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium 2026$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$1.991 Year
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  • Yearly Premium 20267 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • Starlit Castle$1.99
  • Lifetime Purchase$8.99

Questions

Is TimeRing free?
TimeRing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayByDay Circular Life Planner free?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeRing or DayByDay Circular Life Planner have ads?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner shows ads; TimeRing does not.
Which is updated more often, TimeRing or DayByDay Circular Life Planner?
TimeRing ships an update every 3 months, and DayByDay Circular Life Planner every 5 days. Most recently, TimeRing was updated on November 5, 2026 and DayByDay Circular Life Planner on November 13, 2026.

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