DayRoot vs earlie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DayRoot
This app plans your day backward from your arrival time, considering live traffic and your calendar. It provides gentle reminders to get ready and a precise moment to leave, ensuring you arrive calmly and on time. The app learns your habits to adjust timings and offers a unique timeline for your entire day.
- Backward day planning
- Live traffic integration
- Calendar event syncing
- Adaptive buffer learning
- Calm arrival notifications
- Daily timeline visualization
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Good days grow from good roots. DayRoot plans your day backward from the moment you need to arrive. Tell it where you're headed and when — it watches live traffic, reads your calendar, and taps you at three calm moments: GET READY — a gentle heads-up while there's still time LEAVE — one clear moment to go, computed from live traffic ARRIVE — on time. Calm. Rooted. WHY DAYROOT IS DIFFERENT • It learns how you actually run. Tend to run late at one place? DayRoot quietly pads your buffer there — and trims it back when you're early. • A real alarm, not just a ping. If your day starts with a drive, DayRoot can wake you at your get-ready time — and if traffic turns bad overnight, it plans with tomorrow morning's traffic, not tonight's. • Your calendar, alive. Events with a place get live travel times; video calls and errands without one become simple tasks - never a fake "leave at". • One root line for the whole day. Trips and tasks grow on a single calm timeline. Finish something and it grows a leaf. CALM BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. No analytics trackers. • Your day stays on your device. • Location only while you use the app — your movements are never tracked. • Full policy: dayroot.app/privacy - Battery-friendly by design. No background GPS, no constant polling - reminders are scheduled with the system, so DayRoot sips power even with nudges on all day. FREE FOREVER The core magic is free, always: your place, exactly when to leave, adaptive learning, and a streak that grows with your on-time days. DAYROOT PRO Every place you care about, full calendar autopilot, tasks and daily routines — $3.99/month or $29.99/year. Good days grow from good roots. Plant one. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dayroot.app/privacy/
earlie
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For the moments you really cannot be late, let earlie hold the plan for you. Enter when and where you need to be. earlie works backward from your arrival time and turns preparation, travel, and buffer time into a clear next-step plan. • Builds a reverse plan from your deadline • Checks travel time with Apple Maps • Creates a detailed packing checklist • Shows the next step on your Lock Screen with Live Activity • Reuses past plans instantly from history Not another planner you have to maintain every day. earlie is for the important moments when being on time matters most—so you can carry less in your head and leave with a little more room to breathe. Terms of Service: https://earlie.satoapps.com/en/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: earlie at none against DayRoot's 2. earlie also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). DayRoot's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. DayRoot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. earlie asks for nothing beyond the download.
DayRoot ships an update every 6 weeks, earlie every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DayRoot | earlie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tony Pisarenko | Kazuya Saito |
In-app purchases
DayRoot
- DayRoot Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- DayRoot Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
earlie
No in-app purchases








