Start Now vs DayTimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Start Now
This app helps you overcome procrastination by focusing on starting tasks with a simple, one-tap timer. Track your progress and build consistency with a clean, minimalist design.
- One-tap focus timer
- Unlimited task creation (Pro)
- Progress tracking
- Daily and weekly stats
- Gentle reminders
- Minimalist design
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Stop waiting. Start doing. Start Now helps you overcome procrastination by making it easy to begin. Instead of overwhelming to-do lists and complicated productivity systems, simply choose what you want to work on, tap Start, and build momentum one focused session at a time. Whether you're studying, working, cleaning, reading, writing, or tackling a personal project, Start Now helps you stop overthinking and start making progress. No complicated productivity system. No endless planning. Just action. Features: • One-tap focus timer • Create unlimited tasks (Pro) • View your progress • Track daily and weekly stats • Build consistency over time • Gentle reminders • Beautiful minimalist design Why you'll love Start Now: • Start a focus session with a single tap • Create and organize tasks that matter to you • Track every completed work session automatically • View your daily, weekly, and all-time progress • Stay motivated by seeing your consistency grow • Enjoy a clean, distraction-free interface designed to keep your attention where it belongs Built for real life: You don't need the perfect plan before you begin. Progress is built through small, consistent actions, and Start Now is designed to help you take that first step whenever you're ready. Use Start Now for: • Studying and homework • Work and side projects • Reading • Writing • Creative projects • Household tasks • Daily routines • Building better habits Start Now Pro: Upgrade to Start Now Pro to unlock unlimited tasks and support the continued development of the app. More premium features will be added over time at no additional cost for active subscribers. Privacy first: Your focus sessions and progress belong to you. Start Now is designed to help you spend less time managing productivity and more time actually getting things done. Small steps lead to big results. Start now. Terms of Use (EULA): https://startnowapp.framer.website/terms Privacy Policy: https://startnowapp.framer.website/privacy-policy
DayTimer
This app provides a minimal and calm way to structure your day with timed blocks and breaks. It allows for on-the-fly adjustments to your schedule, ensuring you can adapt to interruptions without falling behind. Save common schedules as templates for easy reuse.
- Timed task blocks
- Automatic schedule re-flow
- On-the-fly task insertion
- Task rearrangement
- Reusable day templates
- Scheduled day loading
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DayTimer is a calm, minimal way to add structure to your day. Structure your day into simple timed blocks and breaks, then let it run - no logins, no ads, no cloud, no busy dashboards, no subscriptions. TIME MARCHES FORWARD With DayTimer, you can rearrange your tasks, adjust them, and reset them, but you cannot pause and snooze the day away. When a task runs long, or life interrupts, you can adapt your plan and keep going, instead of falling "behind" a schedule that no longer exists! A FOCUSED TIMER - Your current time block sits front and center, showing you your task and time remaining - One top to adjust, insert a break, or rearrange - No extra content, no busy screen! BUILT TO ADAPT - Task running too long or too short? Change it's length, everything else re-flows automatically. - Life is interrupting or adhoc tasks came up? Insert a task on the fly - Priorities change? Rearrange the blocks remaining in your day - You got pulled away and the day escaped you? Click a block and restart from there TEMPLATIZE - Save your standard days into reusable templates - Start a template on a tap - For predictable weekdays, set scheduled days and let them load automatically DayTimer is a free app that started as a passion project. The core functionality is all free, a one-time supporter unlock gives you a few themes and unlimited templates. Plan intentionally, adapt gracefully, keep moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: DayTimer at 3 against Start Now's 1. On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Start Now sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and DayTimer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Start Now against 5.0 for DayTimer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Start Now | DayTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHIAMAKA N EKWEGH | Rajai Baboun |
Customer experience
Start Now
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In-app purchases
Start Now
- Start Now Pro Annual$19.991 Year
DayTimer
- A Little Boost!$0.99
- DayTimer Supporter$1.99
- Buy me a coffee$3.99
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- Lunch Tip!$5.99





