Comparison

ThisDay vs Bot Watch

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

Head to head
About

ThisDay

This app organizes your day by placing all tasks, notes, voice memos, events, and habits onto a real calendar date. It integrates with Apple Health for habit tracking and syncs with Apple Reminders, ensuring nothing gets buried and everything is accessible.

Highlights
  • Tasks, notes, voice memos, events, and habits on real dates
  • Habit tracking integrated with Apple Health
  • Syncs with Apple Reminders
  • Unfinished tasks roll over to the next day
  • Quick capture and day bar for easy access
  • Widgets and Live Activities support
Features
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Not someday. ThisDay. Most planners hand you a backlog. ThisDay hands you a day. Every task, note, voice memo, event and habit lands on a real date; not in a someday pile you scroll past for months. Open the app and there is one thing in front of you: today, in the order it happens. ONE DAY, EVERY KIND OF THING Tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits share one list, because they share one day. A habit at 10:00 sits between the 9:00 task and the 11:00 meeting, where it belongs. Same row, same swipe, same checkbox, whatever kind of thing it is. Your own calendars appear inline too, at the hour they happen, so a morning with a meeting in it never looks free. EVERYTHING CAN REMIND YOU Record a voice memo and put a reminder on it. Write a note and have it find you at 6pm. Your phone can already take a voice memo, it just can't tell you about it later. ThisDay can. HABITS THAT TICK THEMSELVES Point a habit at Apple Health and stop reporting on yourself. Steps, exercise minutes, active energy, sleep, the Watch's three rings, and workouts from running to yoga. Set the number you're aiming at; ThisDay watches for it and fills the ring as your day fills it. ThisDay only reads Health, never writes to it, and only the measurement each habit names. Nothing leaves your device. And a habit is never marked done because a sensor said so and you disagreed. No reading is ever "done"; if your watch was on the charger, the tick is still yours to make. Your tick always wins. APPLE REMINDERS, BOTH WAYS The Reminders lists you choose show up in your day, next to everything else, read-only: ThisDay never edits somebody else's row. And when you ask for it, the other direction. Tasks you make here are written back out as reminders, so they reach Siri, a Mac that doesn't run ThisDay, and anyone you share a list with. Switching it off takes the copies back out. NOTHING GETS BURIED Unfinished work follows you to today instead of quietly aging on a date you've already passed. Completed things can leave the list or stay in a folded section, your call. ONE RULER, FROM A DAY TO THE YEAR Slide the ruler at the top of your day out to a few days, the week, the month or the whole year, and tap any day to come back into it. The + is always one thumb away. ALSO IN HERE • Quick capture for every kind of item • Reminders, repeats and rollover • Categories, priorities and links • SiriAI: ask about your plans, answered on your device (Apple Intelligence) • A Library for notes, voice notes, pictures, places and countdowns • An inbox for anything without a day yet • Monthly recaps and medals you can share • Widgets, Live Activities and an Apple Watch app • Shortcuts and Siri • Twelve languages, every screen in each one • Light and dark, and an accent you choose • Your day on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac BUILT BY ONE PERSON There is no account and no sign-up, because there is no server to sign up to. No analytics, no tracking, and nothing sold to anyone; your day never leaves your device. Something broken or missing? Write to hello@akilastudio.com and you'll get a reply from the person who made it. FREE FOR TASKS, ONE PRICE FOR THE REST ThisDay is free for 21 days with everything included; no card up front and nothing to cancel. After that, tasks and repeats stay free for good. ThisDay Pro opens everything else with one payment. No subscription, no renewal. ThisDay is on the Mac too, in this same App Store listing, with its own one-time unlock. If you bought ThisDay on iPhone, the Mac costs less.

About

Bot Watch

This app provides an unofficial companion for managing Bot status and performing quick tasks directly from your Apple Watch and iPhone. It allows for one-tap approvals, dictating short instructions, and viewing bot states without needing a computer.

Highlights
  • View Bot status (idle, running, waiting)
  • One-tap approvals/rejections
  • Dictate short instructions
  • Watch complications and Control Center integration
  • Live Activity and Dynamic Island on iPhone
  • Ask a Bot from iPhone toolbar
Features
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Bot Watch is an unofficial iPhone and Apple Watch companion for Bot status, one-tap approvals, and short tasks. This is not an xAI product and is not the official Grok Bot app. You do not need a computer. Install Bot Watch on iPhone. Tap Start using Bot Watch or Try the demo. Bots and approvals load on this iPhone. If an Apple Watch is already paired with that iPhone, Bot Watch appears on the wrist. You do not scan the Watch. You do not type a Watch code. What you can do on the Watch: - See which Bots are idle, running, or waiting - Approve, reject, or park a request without opening a full draft - Dictate a short instruction - Complications, Smart Stack, and Control Center when something is waiting On iPhone: Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the latest pending card. Ask a Bot from the toolbar. Full threads stay on iPhone. The Watch stores summaries only. Reviewers: tap Try the demo on iPhone. Demo Bots load immediately. No password. No Local Network or camera prompt on that path.

Screenshots

ThisDay4 screens
Bot Watch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bot Watch at none against ThisDay's 5. Bot Watch also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). ThisDay's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. ThisDay sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Bot Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ThisDay against 5.0 for Bot Watch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ThisDay ships an update every 9 days, Bot Watch daily. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ThisDay versus Bot Watch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThisDayBot Watch
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAgustin Dell AquilaJonathan Bailey

Customer experience

ThisDay

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bot Watch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

ThisDay

One-time5
  • Coffee tip$2.99
  • Lunch tip$9.99
  • ThisDay$14.99
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  • Dinner tip$19.99
  • ThisDay Pro (Mac)$34.99
None

Bot Watch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ThisDay free?
ThisDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bot Watch free?
Bot Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ThisDay or Bot Watch?
ThisDay and Bot Watch are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ThisDay or Bot Watch have ads?
Neither ThisDay nor Bot Watch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ThisDay or Bot Watch?
ThisDay ships an update every 9 days, and Bot Watch daily. Most recently, ThisDay was updated on October 29, 2026 and Bot Watch on October 18, 2026.

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