Comparison

BrainRest vs Daily Checklist

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

Head to head
About

BrainRest

Features
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The brain you end the day with is not the one you woke up with. BrainRest turns your screen time into something you can actually feel. Your Brain Level climbs from 1 to 10 as the hours pile up — Fresh, Chill, Meh, Tired, Struggling, Fading, Cooked, Fried, Melting, Dead — and a Brain Buddy sits on your home screen looking exactly as cooked as you do. Then it helps you bring the number back down. BrainRest requires a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. There is no free tier and no free version — every feature described below, including app blocking, Focus Mode and the Bedtime Schedule, needs a paid plan. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial. SEE WHERE THE HOURS GO • Daily and weekly screen time, broken down app by app • Tap any app for its own hourly chart and week-over-week trend • A calendar of every tracked day, so streaks and slides are obvious • Your Brain Level, recalculated as you use your phone BLOCK WHAT KEEPS PULLING YOU BACK • App limits — set a daily cap and get shielded when you hit it • Focus Mode — one tap, distractions locked, with an auto turn-off time • Bedtime Schedule — your phone goes quiet at night and wakes when you do • Shields you can't swipe past by accident WIDGETS THAT NAG, GENTLY Seven home-screen widgets: Brain Buddy, the Daily Goal ring, Top Apps, and Pulse in single, stacked and wide layouts. The number you're avoiding, right where you keep looking. YOUR USAGE STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Screen time and per-app usage are read from your device and never leave it. There is no cloud copy of your usage and nothing about your habits is sold. Your account exists to keep your settings and goals, nothing more. WHY IT WORKS Most screen time apps show you a chart and hope you feel bad. BrainRest gives the number a face and a consequence, then puts the block one tap away — at the exact moment you would have opened the app anyway. The average person spends over four hours a day on their phone. That is roughly sixty days a year. BrainRest is the plan to take some of it back. PRICING A paid plan is required to use BrainRest. Nothing is sold separately and no feature costs extra — every plan includes everything described above. • Monthly — $9.00 per month • Annual — $69.00 per year, starting with a 7-day free trial • Lifetime — $199.00, a one-time purchase that never renews Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage your plan or turn off auto-renew in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. —— Terms of Use: https://brainrest.pro/terms Privacy Policy: https://brainrest.pro/privacy

About

Daily Checklist

This app helps you manage recurring tasks and routines by automatically resetting your checklists. It offers shared projects for collaboration, streak tracking to motivate you, and ready-made templates to get started quickly. Designed for a seamless iOS experience, it's ideal for anyone who needs important tasks to reappear on schedule.

Highlights
  • Automated recurring task resetting
  • Shared projects for collaboration
  • Streak tracking and history calendar
  • Ready-made templates
  • Customizable schedules (daily, weekdays, etc.)
  • Real-time syncing
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Loopcheck turns checklists into something that resets itself instead of piling up forever. Every item comes back on its own schedule — daily, weekdays, or custom days — so you start each morning with a clean list. RECURRING TASKS, NOT ONE-OFF TO-DOS Set a schedule once — daily, weekdays, weekends, or specific days — and the item reappears automatically. No re-adding the same chores every single day. SHARED PROJECTS FOR FAMILY AND TEAMS Create shared projects — Home, Work, Groceries — and invite the people you share them with. Owner, editor, and viewer roles control who can change the list and who just tracks progress. Everything syncs in real time. STREAKS THAT KEEP YOU GOING Finish every item in a project, day after day, and watch your streak grow. The project calendar shows your history at a glance — fully done days, partial days, and what's still ahead. READY-MADE TEMPLATES Don't want to start from a blank list? The template gallery offers ready-made sets for home, work, and study — in English and Russian. Save your own projects as templates to reuse them later. DESIGNED FOR iOS Loopcheck is built with the new Liquid Glass design language — translucent surfaces, fluid animation, full dark mode support — so it feels like a natural part of the system. PRO SUBSCRIPTION The free version covers basic projects and checklists. Loopcheck Pro removes the limits on projects and collaborators and unlocks full completion history, with weekly, monthly, or lifetime plans. Loopcheck is for anyone who wants the important stuff to come back on its own — not get buried in last month's list. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/loopcheckprivacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BrainRest4 screens
Daily Checklist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrainRest at none against Daily Checklist's 3. BrainRest also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Daily Checklist's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Daily Checklist sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. BrainRest asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BrainRest ships an update every 10 days, Daily Checklist every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BrainRest versus Daily Checklist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainRestDaily Checklist
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Thanh ThienElena Anghel

In-app purchases

None

BrainRest

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Daily Checklist

Subscriptions2
  • Loopcheck Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Loopcheck Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
One-time1
  • Loopcheck Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is BrainRest free?
BrainRest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Checklist free?
Daily Checklist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrainRest or Daily Checklist have ads?
Neither BrainRest nor Daily Checklist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrainRest or Daily Checklist?
BrainRest ships an update every 10 days, and Daily Checklist every 2 days. Most recently, BrainRest was updated on September 25, 2026 and Daily Checklist on October 2, 2026.

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