Dayception vs Sigbot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Dayception
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Some things are worth counting down to. Dayception turns the dates that matter โ birthdays, trips, launches, anniversaries, the big day โ into beautiful countdowns you'll actually want to look at. Counted in sleeps, with a live timer ticking to the second as the day nears, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Most countdown apps stop at "days until." Dayception keeps going. THE INSIGHTS ENGINE Under every countdown is a real analytics engine that reads the shape of your year. See where your months cluster on a year heat-map. Get smart cards that surface what's coming โ the next milestone, your busiest month, your longest countdown. Break the year down by category. And flip a date you've passed into a count-up, to mark the time since it mattered. ON EVERY SCREEN - Widgets for the Lock Screen and Home Screen โ and they show in StandBy - A live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen - A countdown that lives in your Mac menu bar, always a glance away - Siri and Shortcuts: "how many sleeps until my holiday?" - Reminders that build as the day nears: a month out, a week out, the night before, the morning of THE DETAILS - Recurring birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own - Working-days-until, aware of UK and US holidays - Sort by soonest, pin what matters to the top, archive what's done - Turn any countdown into a beautiful card for Stories or Messages in a single tap PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dayception is offline-first. Your countdowns live on your devices and sync only through your own private iCloud โ no account to create, nothing stored on our servers, and no analytics, ads or trackers. Ever. PAY ONCE Five countdowns are free, for as long as you like. Unlock unlimited countdowns and the full insights engine for a single price โ no subscription. During the launch window it's ยฃ14.99 as a Founder, which also gets you an exclusive Founder app icon and a Founder badge in the app. Made for people who like to anticipate.
Sigbot
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Sigbot turns the email signatures in your Outlook into a contact book you can search by name, company or trade, and call from. It is built for construction teams, from site managers and project managers to estimators, buyers and the office, where the subs, suppliers and consultants you need are spread across everyone's inbox. HOW IT WORKS - Connect Outlook or Microsoft 365 with your Microsoft account. Sigbot's Outlook app is publisher-verified by Microsoft. - Sigbot reads each email to find the signature and files the name, job title, company, phone, email and address as a contact. Nobody types anything in. - After your first scan, Sigbot checks your mailbox for new mail by itself: daily on paid plans, weekly on Free. You can also run a scan whenever you like. - Scans run on Sigbot's servers, so you can close the app while one runs. - Works with Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live and Microsoft 365 work accounts. Gmail and other mail providers aren't supported. - Most companies approve mail access for outside apps once, for everyone; that is Microsoft's default. If yours asks, the web app at sigbot.app gives you the link to send your IT admin. ON SITE - Search every contact by name, company, job title, trade or phone number. - Contacts can carry a trade (UK trade packages or Canadian MasterFormat), so searching a trade such as Plumbing shows just those people. - Show the list by Recently added, AโZ by first or last name, or grouped by company. - See your contacts on a map or in the Earth view, satellite imagery with place and street names that turns into a 3D globe as you zoom out, and search a radius of 1 to 300 km or miles around any site or place. - Turn on Caller ID so calls from your Sigbot contacts show their name and company, without adding them to your address book. Turn it off and the labels go. - Scan a business card with the camera, on every plan, Free included. No signal? The photo waits on your phone and is read when you're back online. Note where you met and file the card straight into a folder. - Add a contact from a screenshot or photo on your phone. Sigbot reads the details for you to check. - Read a vCard QR code, or another Sigbot user's QR code, to save their details. - Share your own details as a QR code, or publish them as a web page anyone can save you from. - Bring in contacts from Excel, CSV and vCard files, or from saved emails (.eml and .msg). - The dashboard shows which contacts are missing a phone number, job title or location, so you can fill the gaps. - Your personal folders and your team's folders come with you. Team folders are read-only on the phone; save a copy of any teammate's contact to your own list. - Works on iPhone and iPad, in light or dark mode. IN THE WEB APP AT SIGBOT.APP - Newsletters and no-reply mail go to a review queue instead of your contacts, and merges can be undone. - Bounced addresses are flagged and left out of exports; nothing is deleted automatically. - Export the whole list to Excel or CSV whenever you need it. PLANS The Free plan scans 150 emails a day, holds up to 1,000 contacts and includes business-card scanning. Paid plans raise the allowances. Sign up in the app with Microsoft, Apple or email. PRIVACY Sigbot asks Microsoft for read-only access to your mail. It never sends, moves or deletes anything. It reads each email in memory to find the signature and keeps only the contact details, never the email itself. Only a signature block, or the text read from a screenshot you choose, may be sent to our AI provider to read it, and you can switch AI reading off. If you choose to copy contacts into your iPhone's address book, that happens on your phone and the address book is never uploaded. Sigbot Ltd is a UK company registered with the ICO (ZC202535), and your data is stored in the EU. Full policy: sigbot.co/legal/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sigbot at none against Dayception's 1. Sigbot also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Dayception sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sigbot asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dayception ships an update every 2 weeks, Sigbot every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dayception | Sigbot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NetSmiths Ltd | Sigbot |
In-app purchases
Dayception
- Dayception Founder$14.99
Sigbot
No in-app purchases





