Comparison

Daymo Calendar vs Briefday

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

Head to head
About

Daymo Calendar

Features
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Daymo is a minimal calendar designed for quickly answering questions like "Does anything need my attention this week?" and "Is Friday a good day for that trip?". Upcoming weeks are displayed in a continuous vertical week view. It is similar to agenda views in other apps, but keeps empty days visible to keep your week easy to overview spatially. All day and multi day events is also first class citizens with a minimal design to keep your week easy to scan. Daymo syncs with the device calendar so no new account is needed and all your existing calendar events are available when you start the app for the first time. The app is free, open source and no data is collected except for anonymized app analytics.

About

Briefday

This app provides a calm weekly briefing of your upcoming 14 days, highlighting busy periods and free time. It automatically detects important occasions and offers a home screen widget for at-a-glance viewing. Designed for privacy, it processes calendar data on your device.

Highlights
  • Weekly calendar briefing
  • Heat map visualization of busy/free days
  • Automatic occasion detection
  • Schedule directly from free time blocks
  • Home screen widget
  • Privacy-focused, on-device processing
Features
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Briefday turns your calendar into a calm weekly briefing. Every Sunday, it looks at the next 14 days and tells you what they actually mean: which days are heavy, where your free time is, and what occasions are coming up, so the week never sneaks up on you. AT A GLANCE Open the app to a two-week calendar that reads like a heat map: busy days stand out, free days stay quiet. Tap any day for a full timeline of events, gaps, and observations like early starts, late finishes, and back-to-back stretches. YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST Once a week, Briefday sends a short notification summarizing the week ahead. No feeds, no noise. One briefing, then it gets out of the way. FIND FREE TIME, USE IT Briefday shows your genuinely free mornings, afternoons, and evenings. Tap a free block to schedule something right there, and the event is written straight to your calendar. OCCASIONS, HANDLED Birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays are detected automatically from your calendars and gathered in one place, so nothing important gets buried under meetings. MADE FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget keeps the week ahead visible without opening the app. Four themes (Warm, White, Graphite, and Midnight) keep it comfortable in any light. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Briefday reads your calendar on your device, and that is where everything stays. No account, no server, no analytics on your events. SIMPLE PRICING Try everything free for 14 days, two full Sunday cycles. Then a single one-time purchase unlocks Briefday forever. No subscription. If you don't upgrade, the app keeps working with a shorter 3-day view. Briefday works with the calendars already on your iPhone and iPad: iCloud, Google, Outlook, and subscribed calendar feeds.

Screenshots

Daymo Calendar2 screens
Briefday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daymo Calendar at none against Briefday's 1. Briefday's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Briefday sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daymo Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daymo Calendar ships an update monthly, Briefday fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Daymo Calendar versus Briefday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaymo CalendarBriefday
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon BengtssonAnchorpoint Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Daymo Calendar

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Briefday

One-time1
  • Briefday: Calendar At a Glance.$4.99

Questions

Is Daymo Calendar free?
Daymo Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Briefday free?
Briefday is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daymo Calendar or Briefday have ads?
Neither Daymo Calendar nor Briefday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daymo Calendar or Briefday?
Daymo Calendar ships an update monthly, and Briefday fortnightly. Most recently, Daymo Calendar was updated on October 25, 2026 and Briefday on October 28, 2026.

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