Comparison

Becoming vs DailyScience

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

Head to head
About

Becoming

This app transforms your highlights from books, articles, and videos into actionable knowledge. It helps you remember what you read through daily reviews and organized tagging, and encourages you to act on insights with daily practices and themed focuses.

Highlights
  • Capture highlights from various sources
  • Daily review of personal highlights
  • Search by meaning, not just keywords
  • Organized library with tags
  • Themed focuses for long-term learning
  • Daily actionable practices
  • AI-powered tagging
Features
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Don't just collect insights. Become them. Becoming turns everything you highlight — books, articles, videos, newsletters — into something you remember and actually use. CAPTURE FROM WHERE YOU ALREADY READ • Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Goodreads and Readwise • YouTube videos and web articles • Photos of printed pages and PDFs • Your own @in.usebecoming.com address, which turns the newsletters you subscribe to into highlights REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ • A Daily Review built from your own highlights, not someone else's quotes • Search everything you have ever saved, by meaning rather than exact words • Tags and a library that stays organized as it grows ACT ON WHAT YOU READ • Themes — the ideas running through your highlights, gathered into a four-week focus • Practices — a two to five minute action each day, drawn from your own reading • AI tags every highlight as it arrives, so nothing needs filing by hand BRING YOUR OWN ASSISTANT Connect Becoming to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant and ask questions of your own library. SUBSCRIPTIONS Becoming offers two auto-renewing subscriptions: • The Library — for remembering what you've read. $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. • The Academy — for acting on what you've read. Includes everything in The Library. $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year. Both start with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew 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 before that period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://usebecoming.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://usebecoming.com/terms

About

DailyScience

Features
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Daily Science gives you one reason to pause each day: a remarkable scientific story. Open the app for today’s discovery, then follow the thread into the people, experiments, ideas, and places that changed how we understand the world. DISCOVER SCIENCE EVERY DAY • Read one featured scientific story each day. • Explore discoveries across physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine, technology, and more. • Save stories you want to return to. • Add Daily Science to your Home Screen with a widget. • Set a daily reminder for a time that works for you. LEARN BY PLAYING • Build a daily habit with Daily Word. • Test your knowledge with topic-based Quiz paths. • Play Science Blitz and Which Came First? • Take on three short Daily Chess challenges each day. DAILY SCIENCE PREMIUM Premium unlocks the full archive, search, collections, scientists and fields, offline reading, narrated playback, the interactive 3D Space experience, advanced Quiz chapters, Mini Science Games, and an ad-free experience. Daily Word and Daily Chess remain available to everyone. Science is not a list of facts. It is a living story of questions, experiments, mistakes, and breakthroughs. Start with today’s discovery. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Becoming4 screens
DailyScience4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Becoming at none against DailyScience's shown. DailyScience's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Becoming sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and DailyScience sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Becoming ships an update weekly, DailyScience daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Becoming versus DailyScience: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBecomingDailyScience
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB70 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPampaware LLCYUSUF ARDA KAYA

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Becoming

Subscriptions4
  • The Library Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • The Academy Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • The Library Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • The Academy Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
3 purchases

DailyScience

Subscriptions2
  • DailyScience Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • DailyScience Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • DailyScience Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Becoming free?
Becoming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DailyScience free?
DailyScience is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Becoming or DailyScience have ads?
DailyScience shows ads; Becoming does not.
Which is updated more often, Becoming or DailyScience?
Becoming ships an update weekly, and DailyScience daily. Most recently, Becoming was updated on October 25, 2026 and DailyScience on October 8, 2026.

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