Comparison

Dashboard vs Dawnlet

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

Head to head
About

Dashboard

Features
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Transform your iPad or iPhone into a stunning, personalized smart desk display! Whether sitting on your office desk, bedside nightstand, or kitchen counter, Dashboard brings together real-time weather, calendar events, clocks, news, stocks, and health data in one glanceable, beautiful screen. — 15+ ESSENTIAL ALL-IN-ONE WIDGETS — • Weather — Hyper-local conditions and hourly forecasts with Apple WeatherKit • Calendar & Reminders — Today's schedule and to-dos neatly organized • Desk Clock & World Clock — Beautiful time displays across multiple time zones • Pomodoro Timer — 25-min focus and 5-min break routine for study and productivity • Apple Health — Real-time Move, Exercise, and Stand activity rings • Stocks & Forex — Daily market changes with mini trend charts • D-Day Countdown — Count down to important deadlines and milestones • Habit Tracker — 7-day dot matrix to maintain your daily streaks • Smart Home — Instant one-tap control for HomeKit lights and accessories • Everyday Utilities — Calculator, Unit Converter, Stopwatch, and Battery gauge — COMPLETE PERSONALIZATION — • Fully Customizable Layout — Drag, resize, and arrange widgets effortlessly • Unlimited Pages — Organize dedicated screens for Work, Bedside, and Kitchen (1 page in Free, unlimited in Pro) • Custom Photo Backgrounds — Turn your device into a dynamic digital photo frame • Themes & Styles — Minimalist dark mode, clean light mode, and vibrant gradients • Smart Display Protection — OLED burn-in prevention and Guided Access for kiosks — FREE VS. PRO — • Free: Complete dashboard experience with 1 page and ad-supported weather updates • Pro: - 100% ad-free experience - Unlimited customizable pages for every room and routine - Instant on-demand manual weather refresh anytime (auto-updates every 6 hours) - Full access to all premium themes and advanced personalization Download Dashboard today and make every glance at your desk inspiring and productive! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dawnlet

This app integrates your calendar, habits, finances, and more into a single, organized daily view. It allows you to track events, to-dos, habits, expenses, time, and journal entries, all presented module by module for a clear overview of your day.

Highlights
  • Daily module organization
  • Event and to-do tracking
  • Habit and streak monitoring
  • Expense and budget management
  • Time tracking with live timer
  • Journaling with mood logging
  • Integrated reminders
Features
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Your calendar knows your meetings. Another app knows your habits. A third knows what you spent. None of them know what your Tuesday looks like. Dawnlet keeps all of it in one place and shows you one day at a time, weather beside the date — then stays quiet. Dawnlet is built by one person, Aly Badawy. EVENTS AND TODOS Repeating or one-off events, paged by month. Todos with due dates, notes and links, repeating weekly, monthly or on the nth weekday. HABITS AND STREAKS Every day, specific weekdays, or a few times a week. Honest streaks, with skip days that don't break the chain. Link a habit to Apple Health and it checks itself off when you hit the goal. MONEY Income and expenses by category, monthly budgets, recurring bills and savings goals. Lock it behind Face ID, which hides amounts in notifications too. TIME TRACKING A live timer with real pauses, so totals stay honest. Switch in one tap or backdate. Or start a focus session: intervals with breaks, each one logged. THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO Movies, books and places — each with a planned date, a rating and who you did it with, and a map. People are your Apple Contacts, read on your device, with an optional nudge to keep in touch. JOURNAL, MEALS AND GRATITUDES As many entries a day as you like, with bold, italic and a mood, and questions drawn from your day when you're stuck. Search it, revisit this day in past years, and log meals and gratitudes. CHAT WITH DAWNLET Ask what's on Friday, or add events, todos, meals and gratitudes in your own words. It shows what it understood before saving anything, and runs on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. NOTIFICATIONS THAT KEEP WORKING Every kind has its own switch and quiet hours. All on your device, so a week away never goes silent. Focus filters show only the categories and tags you pick. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Widgets, and your running timer in the Dynamic Island. Siri and Shortcuts start a timer, add a todo, check off a habit or log an expense. Apple Watch shows events, habits, todos and the timer. Works offline, and syncs when you're back. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver throughout, Audio Graphs, Reduce Motion, iPad keyboard shortcuts and Undo after a delete. In US, British, Australian and Canadian English. PRIVACY, PLAINLY You sign in with Apple. Dawnlet stores an account ID, the email Apple gives it and your name if you shared it. No third-party analytics, ads or crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. Calendar, Reminders and Contacts are read on your device; synced todos are saved to your account, and someone you add to a meal, movie or place is stored as a name, contact ID and keep-in-touch interval. Apple Health is only read, on your device. Weather sends your approximate location, or a city you pick, only to Apple's weather service, never to Dawnlet. Chat and journal prompts run on your device. Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PLUS Free is a complete app: agenda, events, todos, habits, money with Face ID lock, time tracking, journaling, meals, gratitudes, places, books, movies, people, Calendar and Reminders in your agenda, focus sessions, Focus filters, one Apple Health habit and notifications. Up to 500 each of habits, todos, activities, places, books and movies. Dawnlet Plus, one subscription across every module: Chat, weather, month insights, Patterns with sleep, written Look Backs, reports and export, Plan My Week and Month, repeating todos, events and bills, budgets and savings goals, journal prompts and "on this day", more Health habits, Reminders sync, Calendar write-back, keep-in-touch nudges and no item cap. It is an auto-renewable subscription: Dawnlet Plus Monthly is $3.99USD for one month, and Dawnlet Plus Yearly is $34.99USD for one year — about $2.92USD a month. Both start with a 14-day free trial; cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Service: https://dawnlet.app/tos/ — Privacy Policy: https://dawnlet.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Dashboard4 screens
Dawnlet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dawnlet at none against Dashboard's shown. Dawnlet also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Dashboard's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.6). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dashboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dawnlet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dashboard ships an update every 5 days, Dawnlet every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dashboard versus Dawnlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDashboardDawnlet
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMapletree AppsAly Badawy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dashboard

One-time1
  • Dashboard Pro Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Dawnlet

Subscriptions2
  • Dawnlet Plus Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Dawnlet Plus Yearly14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Dashboard free?
Dashboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dawnlet free?
Dawnlet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dashboard or Dawnlet have ads?
Dashboard shows ads; Dawnlet does not.
Which is updated more often, Dashboard or Dawnlet?
Dashboard ships an update every 5 days, and Dawnlet every 2 days. Most recently, Dashboard was updated on October 21, 2026 and Dawnlet on October 24, 2026.

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