u/VolkTheGreatX

Solo iOS dev. Most modern planner apps drop you into AI rewriters, project trees, tag systems, and subscription gates in front of pretty basic features — after watching that pattern repeat for years, I decided to build my own clean alternative. Took roughly a year to ship. It's called DayPlan.

How it works in practice: open it, drag a task onto the timeline, you're done. No account, no onboarding gate, no come-back-please notifications.

The free tier is ad-free and gives you the actual planner — visual time blocking via drag-to-schedule, a smart inbox with on-device date parsing ("sport tomorrow 6pm" lands as a scheduled task), subtasks, recurrence patterns, per-task reminders, routines you can drop into any day with one tap, streaks, native widgets, Live Activity, and iPad universal. Premium adds the Week + Month views, iCloud sync, custom categories, day notes, and the Watch complication — the kind of things that mostly serve heavier planning, not the daily flow.

Two extras worth mentioning: Auto-Schedule slots your inbox into the day's free intervals with a single tap, and a one-slot day template lets you repeat a well-planned day on demand.

Built it mobile-first, dark-first, privacy-first. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose iCloud sync. No AI, no LLM telemetry — date parsing is deterministic regex on-device.

Try it for free: https://apps.apple.com/app/6766088035

Honest feedback from this sub would be appreciated — UI, naming, whatever stands out. And if a couple of you plan a day with it, that genuinely makes the year-long build feel worth it. 🙏