Linger vs Dawnlet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Linger
This app places reminders directly on your lock screen, ensuring they remain visible until completed. It uses natural language processing to understand scheduling and allows for quick completion with a simple swipe. Track your progress with visual streaks and archive past reminders.
- Persistent lock screen reminder cards
- Natural language reminder scheduling
- One-gesture completion
- Habit streak tracking
- Reminder archiving
- Home screen widget
- Customizable colors and dark mode
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Reminders that don't go away. Every reminder gets its own card on your Lock Screen, and it stays there until you deal with it. No badge to miss, no list you have to remember to open. Swipe the card away and it's done. If you have ever closed a reminders app and forgotten the reminder existed, Linger is built for exactly that. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Type "water the plants every Tuesday at 8am" and Linger reads the schedule out of the sentence. It shows you what it understood, so nothing gets silently misread. Every repeat you'd actually want is there — daily, weekdays, every Tuesday and Thursday, the 1st of the month — without a form to fill in. FINISHING IS ONE GESTURE Swipe the card off your Lock Screen and the reminder is complete. A repeat rolls forward to its next date on its own. You never have to open the app at all. SEE WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Every reminder keeps a grid of each day you ticked it off — months of it, readable at a glance. Streaks count themselves. It's the difference between thinking you've kept something up and knowing you have. PUT SOMETHING DOWN WITHOUT LOSING IT Archive takes a reminder off your Lock Screen and out of the list, and keeps its whole history. Bring it back whenever you like and the grid comes back with it. Something archived in March and restored in August returns on its next real date, not five months overdue. YOUR REMINDERS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. What you write is a file on your device and nowhere else — there is no copy of it on any server, ours included. ALSO • A Home Screen widget, so it's there before you unlock • Fourteen colours, so a glance tells you which is which • Dark mode, lit properly rather than dimmed • A backstop notification, so a reminder can never quietly vanish FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS Linger is free to use, with one reminder on your Lock Screen at a time. Linger Plus lifts that limit — keep as many as you like, each on its own card — and is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase. The yearly plan starts with seven days free: the whole app, nothing held back. We'll remind you the day before the trial ends, so it can't turn into a charge you didn't expect. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Linger Plus is available as a monthly subscription and a yearly subscription, both auto-renewing, and as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. The price in your local currency is shown on the purchase screen before anything is charged. A subscription renews at the end of each period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before that period ends. You can turn it off at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spicelabs.app/linger/privacy/
Dawnlet
This app integrates your calendar, habits, finances, and more into a single, organized daily view. It allows you to track events, to-dos, habits, expenses, time, and journal entries, all presented module by module for a clear overview of your day.
- Daily module organization
- Event and to-do tracking
- Habit and streak monitoring
- Expense and budget management
- Time tracking with live timer
- Journaling with mood logging
- Integrated reminders
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Your calendar knows your meetings. Another app knows your habits. A third knows what you spent. None of them know what your Tuesday actually looks like. Dawnlet keeps all of it in one place and shows you one day at a time — then stays quiet. ONE DAY, MODULE BY MODULE Page through a week or month, tap a day, and see it in sections, one per module. Reorder or hide them. EVENTS AND TODOS One-off and repeating events, timed or all-day, with locations and notes. Todos with due dates, and repeating ones on weekly, monthly or nth-weekday schedules. Skip one occurrence; the series carries on. HABITS AND STREAKS Every day, or specific weekdays. Streaks come from the days you actually did it. Skip a day on purpose without breaking the chain. MONEY Income and expenses by category, and monthly budgets. Recurring transactions generate each month's bills. Lock the module behind Face ID, which strips amounts from notifications too. TIME TRACKING A live timer with real pause segments, so totals stay honest. Switch activities in one tap and edit or backdate sessions. THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO Movies to watch, books to read, places to go — each with a planned date, a rating and who you did it with. And the people in your life. JOURNAL As many entries a day as you like, with bold and italic and an optional mood. Search everything, and revisit this day in past years. MEALS AND GRATITUDES What you ate and how it was, and a line about what went right — logged from the day itself. REMINDERS THAT KEEP WORKING 27 kinds of notification, each toggleable, with quiet hours. Two weeks are armed at a time, so a week away doesn't make the app go silent. All computed on your device. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Widgets for today, and your running timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Ask Siri or use Shortcuts and the Action button to start a timer, add a todo, check off a habit or log an expense. Find anything from Spotlight, and share text or links from any app straight into Dawnlet. On Apple Watch, see today's events, tick habits and todos off and run the timer. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver throughout, charts with Audio Graphs, Reduce Motion, clearer light-mode text, larger tap targets, keyboard shortcuts on iPad — and Undo after you delete something. PRIVACY, PLAINLY You sign in with Apple. Dawnlet stores an internal account ID, the email Apple provides — a private relay address if you chose Hide My Email — and your name if you shared it. Nothing else, and none of it for marketing or profiling. No third-party analytics, advertising or crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. Apple Calendar and Reminders are read on your device only, never uploaded; contacts you choose to import become people in your account. Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, immediately. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PLUS Free is a complete app: the agenda, events, todos, habits, money with monthly totals and Face ID lock, time tracking, journaling with search, meals, gratitudes, places, books, movies, people, Apple Calendar and Reminders in your agenda, and core reminders. Keep up to 500 habits, todos, activities, places, books and movies each, everything else unlimited, and read back every day you recorded. Dawnlet Plus is the layer that makes sense of it: month insights on every module, reports across any date range with PDF export, CSV and JSON export, Plan My Week and Plan My Month, repeating todos, events and bills, spending breakdowns and budgets, journal "on this day", Apple Calendar write-back, Apple Contacts import and updates, weekly and monthly recaps, and no item cap. It is an auto-renewable subscription: Dawnlet Plus Monthly is $3.99 for one month, and Dawnlet Plus Yearly is $34.99 for one year — about $2.92 a month. Both start with a 14-day free trial; cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Service: https://dawnlet.app/tos/ — Privacy Policy: https://dawnlet.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Dawnlet at 3 against Linger's 1. 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
Both are free to download. Linger sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Dawnlet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Linger against 5.0 for Dawnlet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Linger | Dawnlet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neel Chary | Aly Badawy |
Customer experience
Linger
Dawnlet
In-app purchases
Linger
- Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99
Dawnlet
- Dawnlet Plus Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Dawnlet Plus Yearly14 Days trial$34.991 Year









