Comparison

DayByDay Circular Life Planner vs DocDoc

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

Head to head
About

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

Visualize your 24-hour day with a unique circular schedule or traditional timetable. This app helps you understand your time flow, manage events, and set focused reminders. It offers customizable themes and seamless iCloud sync for a lighter daily plan.

Highlights
  • Circular and timetable daily views
  • Home screen widgets
  • Reusable daily templates
  • Customizable reminders
  • iCloud CloudKit sync
  • JSON backup export
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/

About

DocDoc

This app helps you track and manage expiration dates for important documents like licenses, passports, and insurance. It provides timely reminders and allows for easy scanning of dates, keeping everything organized for you and your family.

Highlights
  • Track document expirations
  • Unlimited family profiles
  • Customizable reminders
  • Scan expiration dates
  • Document renewal history
  • Widgets for home/lock screen
  • App lock with Face ID
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Quick count: driver's license, car registration, car insurance, health insurance, passport, a certification or two, some memberships, a warranty. Now add your kids' documents. And your parents'. Any one of them is easy to remember. All of them together is not. That is the whole problem. Nobody forgets a passport because passports are hard. It was item eleven of fifteen, and nothing was keeping the list. DocDoc keeps the list, and reminds you while there is still time to do something about it. ONE LIST FOR EVERYONE YOU LOOK AFTER Add a profile for each person you track things for, and one for the car while you are at it. Profiles are free and unlimited, because the person who needs this app most is running a whole household. Reminders say who: "Emma's Passport expires in 90 days." EVERYTHING WITH A DATE, IN ONE PLACE Passports, licenses, registrations, insurance of every kind, professional licenses and certifications, visas, permits, memberships, warranties, inspections. If it expires, it goes on the list, sorted by what needs attention first. REMINDERS THAT ACTUALLY REMIND Nudges 90, 30, and 7 days before anything expires, and again on the day itself. Passports get a 6 month heads up too, because many countries turn you away if your passport expires within six months of travel. Day-of reminders use Time Sensitive notifications so they are hard to miss. You choose the lead times and the time of day. Optional email reminders back you up on the days your phone is off. SCAN THE DATE, SKIP THE TYPING Point the camera at a passport or license and DocDoc reads the expiration date on your device. Passport dates are verified with the check digits built into the passport itself. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your documents are never uploaded to us. Scanning happens on your phone, and the photo is saved with your document, encrypted, deletable any time. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Email reminders are optional: turn them on and DocDoc creates an account with Sign in with Apple, storing only your email address and the reminder details it needs to send. Delete it in Settings whenever you like, and everything we stored goes with it. BUILT FOR REAL RENEWALS Mark a document renewed and the old date moves to history. Recurring documents roll forward automatically. Widgets put your next expiration on your home screen and lock screen. Attach receipts, photos, or PDFs, stored on your device and your own iCloud, never on our servers. Lock the whole app with Face ID. DATES IN YOUR OWN CALENDAR Turn on the Hebrew, Islamic, Persian, Indian, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese or Ethiopic calendar and enter a date the way you actually know it. A yearly repeat advances by one year of that calendar, so a yahrzeit or an annual observance stays on its own date while the Gregorian one moves. Reminders always fire on the Gregorian date. FREE AND PRO Free includes 5 documents, unlimited profiles, reminders, scanning, widgets and iCloud sync. DocDoc Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that removes the document limit, with a 7 day free trial on the yearly plan. Or invite three friends and get six months of Pro free, no payment needed. DocDoc is made by one independent developer who got tired of expired documents. No venture capital, no growth team, no reason to collect your data. The next renewal is already on its way. Put it on the list. DocDoc Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docdoctracker.com/privacy

Screenshots

DayByDay Circular Life Planner1 screens
DocDoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DocDoc at none against DayByDay Circular Life Planner's shown. DayByDay Circular Life Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. DayByDay Circular Life Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and DocDoc sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DayByDay Circular Life Planner against 5.0 for DocDoc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DayByDay Circular Life Planner ships an update every 3 days, DocDoc every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DayByDay Circular Life Planner versus DocDoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayByDay Circular Life PlannerDocDoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZrindy LLCDvir Hamu

Customer experience

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DocDoc

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

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
2 purchases

DocDoc

Subscriptions2
  • DocDoc Pro$1.991 Month
  • DocDoc Pro7 Days trial$13.991 Year

Questions

Is DayByDay Circular Life Planner free?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocDoc free?
DocDoc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DayByDay Circular Life Planner or DocDoc?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner and DocDoc are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do DayByDay Circular Life Planner or DocDoc have ads?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner shows ads; DocDoc does not.
Which is updated more often, DayByDay Circular Life Planner or DocDoc?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner ships an update every 3 days, and DocDoc every 2 weeks. Most recently, DayByDay Circular Life Planner was updated on October 15, 2026 and DocDoc on October 3, 2026.

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