Comparison

DayRoot vs IAlarm

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

IAlarm

Features
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Tell IAlarm what you want to do. It helps you work out when to start. Enter your appointment, arrival time, preparation time, and estimated travel duration. IAlarm calculates when to wake up and leave, including your chosen buffer. Prefer a classic alarm? Set your wake-up time directly. TIME FOR EVERY STEP Plan your shower, clothes, breakfast, and other steps. Adjust durations, see what comes next, and confirm when you finish. Add extra minutes when needed and check the updated plan. BUILT-IN AI VOICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Hear guidance generated on your phone without internet. A default female neural voice and two alternatives come with the installation. Review the terms before enabling it, preview the voices, and adjust the speed. You can also select a system voice; offline use then requires a compatible installed voice. The installation includes about 400 MB of voice models with no separate download; total storage use may be larger. SPEAK WHEN YOU CHOOSE Tap the microphone to dictate an alarm or a routine command, then check the text before using it. Recognition is free and local when your device supports the selected language. There is no cloud fallback. System language packs may be needed; if local recognition is unavailable, use the keyboard or buttons. A DARK SCREEN WHILE YOUR ROUTINE CONTINUES Night mode turns the screen black while IAlarm stays open and your routine keeps running. Tap to reveal the controls. This mode does not lock your phone. CALENDAR AND PLACES Copy available events from your device calendar, review them, and activate the ones you want as alarms. Copies stay available offline and do not follow later changes to the original events. You can also import a compatible CSV file. Save places and open directions in your chosen maps app. Planning uses the travel duration you enter, without live traffic or continuous location tracking. ALSO ON APPLE WATCH Use the independent watch app for local alerts. Optionally copy schedules already confirmed on your iPhone. Received alarms continue on the watch without a phone connection. Copies include titles, routine steps, and preferences, but not address fields or full calendar content. Stopping or snoozing on your watch does not stop the phone alarm. Alerts respect Silent Mode and Focus. FIVE LANGUAGES FROM THE WELCOME SCREEN Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and German. IAlarm starts in a supported device language and uses English otherwise. Change the language on the first screen or later in Settings. Four introduction screens explain the idea, with an optional tutorial of about one minute. No required account, ads, in-app purchases, or subscriptions. Alarms, routines, places, and imported copies stay on your device. New searches and external maps services may need internet. Routine guidance and the neural voice run while IAlarm is open. On a locked iPhone, AlarmKit plays the alarm tone; the neural voice starts when you open IAlarm. Requires iPhone with iOS 26 or later and alarm permission. Calendar, reminders, and location access are optional. Alarms from other clock apps are not imported automatically.

Screenshots

DayRoot4 screens
IAlarm3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IAlarm at none against DayRoot's 2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DayRoot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. IAlarm asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DayRoot versus IAlarm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayRootIAlarm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB441 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTony PisarenkoBeByte Publisher SLU

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DayRoot

Subscriptions2
  • DayRoot Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • DayRoot Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
None

IAlarm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DayRoot free?
DayRoot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IAlarm free?
IAlarm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DayRoot or IAlarm have ads?
Neither DayRoot nor IAlarm shows ads.

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