Dayfold
Time awareness, not productivity pressure
Dayfold helps you understand how a day actually unfolds: scheduled time, loose tasks, habits, birthdays, journal notes, roles, and the quiet space between them.
Now opening for public beta. Or see the real screens first.
Today
Today is where the day comes together. Your schedule and timeline sit at the center, with routines woven in, and around them the things that matter now: habits, notes, the day’s tasks, and the birthdays you don’t want to miss.
What shows up in Today
Turn any section on or off, and drag to reorder. Only the timeline always stays, so Today shows exactly what you want to see.
One app, gently divided
Capture errands, client notes, and small intentions without forcing each into a calendar slot. Flip between your inbox and just today, group everything into lists, and when something needs more, a task quietly holds it: a checklist, a reminder, the link or file you'll want when you get to it.
Toggle Inbox / Today, swipe for all lists and an open taskScheduled time in soft blocks: enough structure to read the day, enough air to breathe. See it as a list, a single day, two or three days side by side, the full week as a grid or a compact agenda, the classic month, or the whole year at a glance. Color each day by role or by list to see the shape of your time. Your Apple and Google calendars flow in too, so nothing lives in two places.
Swipe the phone: List, Day, Multiday, Week, Month, YearWrap any project, whether a trip, a launch, a home move, or a client job, into a board and slide cards across it as things progress. A card can hold cover photos and links, start and due dates, a file, or a checklist inside, and turn into a task the moment it needs doing.
Swipe: Boards, Cards, Dates, Checklists, Detail, ActionsRepeated rhythms, tracked gently. Give one a goal if you want, ongoing or a run of days, and how often it should happen, down to a few times a day. Then watch the month, or the whole year, quietly fill in. No streak to defend.
Swipe: Habits, Detail, Overall, Gallery, NewKeep reflections close to the day, so the timeline carries emotional context, not only events. Keep separate spaces for whatever you write: a diary, quick notes, Sunday's sermon, a place for ideas, so it doesn't all pile into one list.
Swipe: Diary, SpacesThe people you care about surface right inside Today, so a birthday never quietly slips past you again. Add a small note too: gift ideas, or the flowers they love. Set a gentle nudge a week ahead, the day before, or the morning of, enough time to actually do something about it.
Focus when you want it: rounds, short breaks, and a quiet ring. A calm timer, never pressure to perform.
Routines, woven in
Most productivity apps quietly skip the things you do every day. So your morning, the school run, a coding block end up nowhere, or get re-added by hand. Dayfold keeps recurring routines right in the calendar, where the day actually happens.
And when you'd rather see only what's new, hide them with one tap. For anyone whose day runs on structure, that small switch is the whole point.
What you actually get back
Most apps end the day with “3 of 7 done.” Dayfold can end it with a softer, more honest picture: which aspects of life took your hours, in clear percentages, and where the gaps are.
Why it helps: over a week the pattern speaks for itself. The role that quietly slipped away, the one that quietly took everything. Not to optimize, just to notice, so you can rebalance on purpose instead of by accident. And if it’s not for you, switch roles off entirely.
You have 1 hour 45 min free timePersonal appearance
Just like the app: pick light or dark, choose a background, and set an accent color. Try it right here: the whole page changes with you, and your choice is remembered.
A softer kind of productivity
Private by design
Journal entries, notes, the shape of your time: everything you put into Dayfold is private by default. No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold or shared. It’s a mirror you glance at, then close, not a feed for anyone else.
Status: Dayfold is in active development. The screens shown here reflect the working app experience.
Why Dayfold exists
Dayfold is made by one person: a tattoo artist, a mother, and a developer who needed a single calm place to hold all of it. It’s shaped every day around real days: client sessions, school runs, code, and the quiet hours in between.
FAQ
Not in the usual sense. Dayfold includes tasks and schedules, but the point is not to squeeze more out of the day. It helps you see where time, attention, roles, and energy actually went.
No. Dayfold avoids guilt mechanics. Unfinished days still tell you something. The point is visibility, not another scoreboard.
Yes. Dayfold reads your Apple and Google calendars, so the events you already keep show up right alongside your habits, tasks, and roles. No copying, no second place to check.
Only you. Your days, journal entries, and notes stay private by default. Dayfold is a mirror you glance at and close, not a feed for anyone else.
Dayfold is free while in beta. After launch there will be one simple, fairly priced plan. Never ads, and never your data as the price. Beta testers will hear about it first.
Dayfold lives on iPhone first. The Mac app is next in line and already in the works. Join the beta and you’ll know the moment it lands.
Want to try Dayfold early?
Public beta is open now. Drop your email and we’ll send a TestFlight invite, updates, and a way to share feedback.