Comparison

HOLD vs Daymark

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

Head to head
About

HOLD

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The timer you can extend from your Lock Screen. Start one for the parking meter, the laundry or the oven, then add time with one tap: no unlocking, and the alert moves with it. On iOS 26 it rings even on Silent. And count down to any date on your Home Screen, free. FREE, WITH 5 AD-FREE HOLDS Your first 5 ad-free holds hold nothing back — every pad, the keypad, the Lock Screen controls, the alarm, all of it. After that HOLD stays free: each new hold plays at most one short ad, never before it starts. HOLD Pro removes the ads with one purchase, not a subscription. ADD TIME WITHOUT UNLOCKING This is the button you actually need at a meter. While a hold is running, its Live Activity carries real controls: two extend buttons and END. Press +15 MIN on a PARKING hold and the countdown and the alert both move to the new time. No unlock. No app. No Face ID with a bag of groceries in your other hand. START WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Put the Start a Hold control in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or on the Action button and choose its pad: PARKING in place of the flashlight. Or ask Siri: "Start Parking in HOLD". The Quick Start widget keeps four pads on your Home Screen. Controls need iOS 18. IT RINGS THROUGH SILENT On iOS 26, HOLD uses AlarmKit — the same system alarms the built-in Clock uses. Your hold sounds even if the phone is on Silent or sitting in a Focus. A timer you might not hear is not a timer. EIGHT PADS AND A KEYPAD PARKING 2h Ā· WASH 30m Ā· DRY 45m Ā· OVEN 20m Ā· PICKUP 15m Ā· CHARGE 35m Ā· MOVE CAR 5m Ā· SET BREAK 20m. One tap picks a pad, one tap starts it. For any other wait, tap the big LCD readout and type a length from 1 minute to 8 hours. ON THE LOCK SCREEN AND IN THE DYNAMIC ISLAND • High-contrast LCD digits, sized to be read at arm's length in daylight. • Two extend buttons and END on the Lock Screen banner and in the expanded Dynamic Island, in the pad's own amounts (PARKING: +15 and +30 MIN). • The compact Dynamic Island shows the pad's glyph and a live countdown; long-press to expand. • Extensions stop at 8 hours from the moment the hold began. Live Activities and their buttons need iOS 17 or later. On older iPhones the hold runs normally inside the app. COUNT DOWN TO A DATE, TOO Some waits are months long. Name a date you are counting down to — a trip, a birthday, a move — up to 10 years ahead, add reminders, and put the Event Countdown widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Six sizes in all. Birthdays and anniversaries can repeat every year, with the years counted; add birthdays from Contacts without giving HOLD your address book. Christmas, New Year and Halloween are one tap away. Share any countdown as a link: it opens in HOLD, or in any browser. Widgets need iOS 17 or later. WHAT PRO ADDS • No ads, on any hold. • Run up to 3 holds at once (free runs 1): the laundry, the oven and the meter, each with its own Lock Screen controls and alarm. • Room for 10 date countdowns instead of 1, each with its own reminders, widget and colour; the large widget shows four. • Edit the grid: your own name, length, colour, mark and Lock Screen extends on any of the 8 preset pads. Reverting one is always free. • End at a clock time. Some waits are a deadline, not a length: the meter expires at 4:30, the gate closes at 6. Type the time and HOLD works out the rest. • Save up to 50 of your own pads, each with its own name, length and colour. Nothing is taken back: what you made stays yours if Pro lapses; only creating a new one is refused. PRIVATE WHERE IT MATTERS • No account and no sign-in. Your holds, pads, events and last 8 sessions stay in a sandboxed database on your iPhone. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you share it yourself. • Ads on free holds come from Google and are never personalized, and HOLD never asks to track you. For Pro users the ad software never starts. HOLD is an independent countdown utility. It does not provide parking-enforcement advice and makes no medical claims.

About

Daymark

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Count down to your next birthday, trip or wedding with your own photos. Keep the days left on your Home Screen and your plans beside the date. Make each date yours • Choose from nine layouts with your own photo and color • Count in days, weeks or minutes • Share an event card and keep past dates as memories See it throughout the day • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in every supported size • StandBy widgets and an Apple Watch app with complications • Live Activities for the final 24 hours on supported iPhones Keep the plans together • Checklists, packing lists, reservations, links and notes with each countdown • Reminders, end dates and yearly repeats • Import the birthdays and calendar events you choose • Organize dates in the monthly agenda and categories Start with two free countdowns Two active countdowns include every feature. Daymark Unlimited removes only the active-countdown limit through a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. No Daymark account, ads or tracking. Your countdowns stay on your devices and sync through your private iCloud when available. The yearly subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Apple handles payment. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of use https://daymark.humenhuk.com/terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy https://daymark.humenhuk.com/privacy

Screenshots

HOLD4 screens
Daymark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daymark at none against HOLD's shown. HOLD's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. HOLD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daymark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HOLD ships an update every 2 days, Daymark daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
HOLD versus Daymark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHOLDDaymark
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason FraserJoao Vitor Humenhuk Achutti

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HOLD

One-time1
  • HOLD Pro Lifetime Access$4.99
2 purchases

Daymark

Subscriptions1
  • Daymark Annual7 Days trial$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Daymark Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is HOLD free?
HOLD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daymark free?
Daymark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HOLD or Daymark have ads?
HOLD shows ads; Daymark does not.
Which is updated more often, HOLD or Daymark?
HOLD ships an update every 2 days, and Daymark daily. Most recently, HOLD was updated on October 24, 2026 and Daymark on October 24, 2026.

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