Rotless vs Daybearing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rotless
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Your feed wants one more scroll. Then another. Then somehow it’s 2 a.m. That’s brain rot. Rotless helps you rot a little less—and live a little more. Pick the apps that keep pulling you back. When you want to scroll, do something real first: touch grass, drink water, read a few pages, tidy up, work out, get some sun, or cook a meal. Snap a live photo. If it checks out, your brain plant gets healthier and you earn points. Spend those points to unlock your chosen apps for a limited time. No guilt trip. No “delete every app and become a monk” speech. Just a tiny pause between the impulse and the scroll. HOW TO ROT LESS Block the apps that eat your time. Do one small thing in real life. Snap it. Earn points. Grow your plant. Trade points for scroll time. Enjoy the scroll—because this time, you chose it. TOUCH GRASS. LITERALLY. • Touch Grass • Drink Water • Read a Few Pages • Tidy Up • Workout • Get Some Sun • Cook a Meal ALSO INSIDE • App blocking powered by Apple’s Screen Time controls • AI-assisted live photo check-ins • Flexible unlock times • Adjustable difficulty—from Easy to Monk • A brain plant that knows when you’ve been scrolling too much • Restore Purchase and subscription management YOUR PHOTO DOESN’T LIVE HERE Rotless uses your live photo only to verify the check-in you chose. It isn’t saved, and Rotless doesn’t need access to your photo library. Apple protects the identities of apps selected through Screen Time controls. Rotless does not use your activity for advertising or cross-company tracking. SUBSCRIPTION Rotless offers auto-renewable Weekly and Yearly subscriptions. If a free trial is offered and you are eligible, your subscription begins automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel before then. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Availability, trial eligibility, and pricing may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://rotless.app/pages/privacy/index Terms of Use: https://rotless.app/pages/terms/index
Daybearing
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New in 1.2: iCloud Sync, encrypted on your device. Your day, the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac — plus keyboard control, Undo, and Clear List for when the day changes. ‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧.‧. Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you're doing and how long you think it will take. Each task becomes an arc on the clock, in the hour where it will actually happen. Run over and the arc keeps growing, in orange. One glance tells you if you're on pace. HOW IT WORKS Type a task name and set its duration with the time ruler. Tap Start. When you finish, tap Complete and the next task begins in the same instant, so no time slips away between them. You can also paste in a list of tasks to quickly add tasks from other apps. Daybearing recognizes numbers at the end of a task name as the duration for that task, so you can quickly edit a task list and paste it in. The pace chip says how far ahead or behind your plan the day is. You can save tasks for later in the Plan tab, and view and export your history in the Past tab. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • iCloud Sync, off by default. Start a task on your iPhone, and your iPad and Mac show it running. • Private by design. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a key only your devices hold. No account to make, and Remove Data from iCloud deletes the copy whenever you like. • On iPad, the dial sits beside your task list. On Mac, and on iPad with a keyboard, you can do it all from the keys. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against real time, and real time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop, Set Down ends the session, logs the part you did, and puts the rest back in the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising. One time purchase. MORE FEATURES: • A Live Activity for the running task, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a Complete button so you can finish without opening the app. • Home Screen widgets • Lock Screen widgets • Siri and Shortcuts: automate and connect your other work with Daybearing. • Notifications – Act on your tasks when their time is up. • Desk Mode: set the phone down and see the task and the dial from across the desk. • Undo: ten seconds to take back a task you finished by mistake. • Routines: save tasks to your Plan and copy them into today with one tap. • Batch entry for repeated work: set a pace for large volumes of similar tasks. • An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. • CSV export • Six themes, light and dark. • VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Rotless at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. Rotless also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads 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
Rotless is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. Rotless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rotless ships an update every 3 days, Daybearing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rotless | Daybearing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凡燕 曾 | Dustin Glendinning |
In-app purchases
Rotless
- Rotless Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Rotless Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Daybearing
No in-app purchases









