Daybearing vs TimeLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Daybearing
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New in 1.2: iCloud Sync, encrypted on your device. Your day, the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac ā plus keyboard control, Undo, and Clear List for when the day changes. ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§.ā§. Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you're doing and how long you think it will take. Each task becomes an arc on the clock, in the hour where it will actually happen. Run over and the arc keeps growing, in orange. One glance tells you if you're on pace. HOW IT WORKS Type a task name and set its duration with the time ruler. Tap Start. When you finish, tap Complete and the next task begins in the same instant, so no time slips away between them. You can also paste in a list of tasks to quickly add tasks from other apps. Daybearing recognizes numbers at the end of a task name as the duration for that task, so you can quickly edit a task list and paste it in. The pace chip says how far ahead or behind your plan the day is. You can save tasks for later in the Plan tab, and view and export your history in the Past tab. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC ⢠iCloud Sync, off by default. Start a task on your iPhone, and your iPad and Mac show it running. ⢠Private by design. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a key only your devices hold. No account to make, and Remove Data from iCloud deletes the copy whenever you like. ⢠On iPad, the dial sits beside your task list. On Mac, and on iPad with a keyboard, you can do it all from the keys. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against real time, and real time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop, Set Down ends the session, logs the part you did, and puts the rest back in the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising. One time purchase. MORE FEATURES: ⢠A Live Activity for the running task, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a Complete button so you can finish without opening the app. ⢠Home Screen widgets ⢠Lock Screen widgets ⢠Siri and Shortcuts: automate and connect your other work with Daybearing. ⢠Notifications ā Act on your tasks when their time is up. ⢠Desk Mode: set the phone down and see the task and the dial from across the desk. ⢠Undo: ten seconds to take back a task you finished by mistake. ⢠Routines: save tasks to your Plan and copy them into today with one tap. ⢠Batch entry for repeated work: set a pace for large volumes of similar tasks. ⢠An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. ⢠CSV export ⢠Six themes, light and dark. ⢠VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing.
TimeLoop
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Your day, figured out. Tell TimeLoop what you need to do, and it plans it around what cannot move, changes the day when it changes and knows the way. IT PLANS ⢠Say it or type it, in your own words and your own language: "Doctor Thursday at 14:40, gym three times, six hours of study by Friday." ⢠Fixed events stay. Everything else finds its time, the trip there included. ⢠Errands before an appointment go in the shortest order, with opening hours checked. ⢠What has no time yet waits on your task list. No time said, none invented. IT ADAPTS ⢠Running late? One sentence or one tap, and the rest of the day moves with you. Undo is always there. ⢠One tap tells the others you are late. ⢠Move the dentist to Friday, cancel the gym. Nothing changes until you confirm it. TALK TO IT ⢠Hey Siri, talk to TimeLoop: it listens, shows what it made and answers out loud. A change is kept only after your yes. ⢠Ask Siri what is next, on a locked iPhone too. ⢠In CarPlay, talk to TimeLoop while you drive (Pro). IT KNOWS THE WAY ⢠When to leave, from where you are, with the usual traffic counted in, and the weather at the place. ⢠In CarPlay, when to leave and what is next wait beside the map. ⢠Ask about opening hours or parking on any event. The answer keeps its sources. AT A GLANCE ⢠One calm timeline with what is next and how much of the day is free. Week and month show how full each day is. ⢠A morning brief, widgets, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. ⢠On Apple Watch: today, what is on now and your focus. ⢠A focus timer with calm sounds that keep playing when the screen locks. GOALS AND TASKS ⢠Gym three times a week gets real slots, and you are told honestly when it will not fit. ⢠A task can be just a name, or hold a list of its own. HOW YOU FEEL ⢠One quiet question a day: how are you feeling? TimeLoop offers a lighter day when you need one. ⢠Optional: an answer suggested from last night's sleep and recovery in Apple Health. It is read on your iPhone only, never sent anywhere, and nothing is written to Health. ⢠Rhythm, if you want it: your cycle, a training block or shifts as one loop across your days. Off until you turn it on. Kept encrypted with your account. WITH YOUR PEOPLE ⢠Circles for family, friends or a team. One link and they are in. ⢠See when everyone is free, propose a time, answer yes, maybe or no. ⢠Shared lists: anyone adds, anyone checks off. ⢠Others see when you are busy, never more than you choose. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU USE ⢠Two-way sync with iCloud, Google and Outlook calendars, and with iCloud Reminders. ⢠One plan on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and the web, in 35 languages. ⢠No account needed to start. Sign in with Apple or Google to use more than one device. FREE AND PRO Free: the timeline, adding and changing things by hand, tasks and shared lists, week and month, the day's weather where you are, focus, calendar sync, one goal and one circle of your own. TimeLoop Pro does the work for you: planning from what you say or type, talking to it (in CarPlay too), when to leave and the weather at the place, looking things up, the morning brief, telling the others, the sleep suggestion, all focus sounds, and more goals and circles. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly. The yearly plan starts with a free week for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. It renews by itself unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings at any time. Without Pro everything in your plan stays. PRIVACY No ads and no tracking. You can delete your account and everything in it from the app at any time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trytimeloop.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TimeLoop at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. TimeLoop also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads there is nothing between them.
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TimeLoop is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. TimeLoop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daybearing ships an update every 3 weeks, TimeLoop every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Daybearing | TimeLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free ā better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dustin Glendinning | PC7 d.o.o. |
In-app purchases
Daybearing
No in-app purchases
TimeLoop
- TimeLoop Pro (monthly)$3.991 Month
- TimeLoop Pro (yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year









