# ThisDay > ThisDay is a daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that puts tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits on one timeline, and lets any of them remind you. ThisDay is a daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, made by Akila Studio, a one-person indie studio. Tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos, videos and habits live together on one timeline: the day. Any of them can carry a reminder, including voice memos, photos and notes, which Apple’s own apps cannot remind you about. Habits can tick themselves from Apple Health, read on the device and never written to. There is no account and no server run by the developer: data stays on the device and syncs through the user’s own iCloud. ThisDay is free to download with every feature open for 21 days, then ThisDay Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Name | ThisDay (App Store name: “ThisDay: Planner & Reminders”) | | Developer | Akila Studio, a one-person indie studio | | Category | Daily planner: to-dos, reminders, calendar, notes and habit tracking | | Platforms | iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch (one App Store listing). A Mac app is coming soon, sold separately. | | Requirements | iOS or iPadOS 18 or later (the Liquid Glass look appears on iOS 26 and later). The Apple Watch app installs from the iPhone app. | | Price model | Free to download with a 21-day trial of every feature, then ThisDay Pro as a one-time purchase. No subscription. | | Languages | 11: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Polish | | Privacy | No account, no sign-up, no developer servers. Data stays on the device and syncs through the user’s own iCloud. | | Current version | 2.0 | | App Store | https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796538265 | | Website | https://this-day.app | | Contact | hello@akilastudio.com | | X (Twitter) | https://x.com/akilastudiocom | ## What it does - **One timeline per day:** Tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos, videos and habits appear together, in the order the day happens. - **Reminders on anything:** Any item can carry a reminder, including voice memos, photos and notes. Apple’s own apps cannot remind you about those. - **Habits from Apple Health:** Habits can tick themselves from steps, sleep, exercise minutes, active energy, the Apple Watch’s three rings, and workout types. Health data is read on the device, read-only, and a manual tick always wins. - **Inbox:** A place for captures that do not belong to a day yet. - **Moments:** A photo kept on the day it happened. - **Rollover:** Unfinished tasks move to today instead of being lost in the past. - **The Day Bar:** A floating bottom navigation bar with a day stepper, a menu and a + button for capture. Pull it up to see the month. - **Repeats:** Repeating items, including monthly by date or by weekday (for example the first Thursday) and yearly, with edits to one occurrence or the whole series. - **Calendars:** Google, Outlook, Exchange and iCloud calendars added to the device are read and shown in the day. - **Apple Reminders:** Reminders lists the user chooses appear in the day. Optionally, ThisDay tasks can be written back to Apple Reminders. - **Widgets:** Today, Calendar, Inbox, Habits, Moments and Polaroids, with interactive ticking from the Home Screen. - **Live Activities:** Supported, so what is happening now can sit on the Lock Screen. - **Shortcuts and Siri:** Add a task, tick something off, or ask what is on today without opening the app. - **Monthly recap and Logbook:** Recap cards at the end of each month, and a Logbook of what was done. - **Personalisation:** Sixty app icons, custom category colours, a week that starts on Saturday, Sunday or Monday, and light and dark mode. ## New in 2.0 - **Liquid Glass:** Rebuilt on the iOS 26 design language, with a switch to turn the glass off. - **Sidebar navigation:** A new sidebar for moving between sections. - **Shared categories:** Share any category by link through iCloud. Everyone in it sees and edits its tasks, events, notes and habits in their own Today and Calendar. The owner decides who can edit. Profile name and photo stay in the user’s iCloud and are seen only by the people they share with. - **Apple Watch app:** Today and Habits pages, a seven-day calendar, Inbox, categories, quick capture by dictation, and complications for the watch face and Smart Stack. Included with the iPhone app, same purchase. - **iPad:** The same app on iPad, with a sidebar layout. - **Notes as full pages:** Notes open as a full page with tickable checklists and properties. - **Manual ordering:** Hold a row and carry it to reorder the day. - **Eleven languages:** English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Polish. ## Platforms - **iPhone:** The full app. Requires iOS 18 or later; the Liquid Glass design appears on iOS 26 and later. - **iPad:** The same app and the same purchase, with a sidebar layout. Requires iPadOS 18 or later. - **Apple Watch:** Included with the iPhone app at no extra cost: Today, Habits, a seven-day calendar, Inbox, dictation capture and complications. - **Mac:** A separate Mac app with keyboard shortcuts, a ⌘K command palette, undo and the same iCloud data is in App Review and coming soon. It will be sold separately. It is not available yet. - **Other platforms:** There is no Android, Windows or web version. ## Pricing - Free to download from the App Store. - Every feature is open for a 21-day trial. - After the trial, ThisDay Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the app on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There is no subscription. - An optional tip jar exists to support the developer. Tips unlock nothing. - Prices vary by App Store region; see the App Store listing for the current price. ## Privacy and data - No account and no sign-up. - No servers run by the developer. Data is stored on the device and synced through the user’s own iCloud (CloudKit). - Apple Health data is read on the device, read-only, and only for habits the user connects to it. - Shared categories travel through iCloud sharing; profile name and photo are visible only to people the user shares with. - The full privacy policy is at https://this-day.app/privacy. ## How it compares Each of these is a well-made app with its own approach. This table describes what ThisDay does differently, not which is better. | App | Platforms | Account | Pricing | What ThisDay does differently | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ThisDay | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch (Mac coming soon) | None; syncs through the user’s iCloud | 21-day free trial, then a one-time purchase | Organises everything by day on one timeline: tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits, each able to carry a reminder. | | Apple Reminders | Apple devices, built in | Apple Account for iCloud sync | Free, included with the system | Reminders is a list-based reminders app. ThisDay adds events, notes, media and habits to the same day, and can show chosen Reminders lists and write its tasks back, so the two work together. | | Things 3 | Apple devices | Optional Things Cloud account for sync | One-time purchase, per platform | Things centres on projects, areas and lists such as Today and Upcoming. ThisDay centres on the day itself, puts media and Health-driven habits beside tasks, and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. | | Todoist | Cross-platform, including Android, Windows and web | Required | Free plan, with a paid subscription | Todoist is a cross-platform task manager with team features. ThisDay is Apple-only, needs no account, keeps data in the user’s iCloud, and is a one-time purchase. | | TickTick | Cross-platform, including Android, Windows and web | Required | Free plan, with a paid subscription | TickTick combines tasks, calendar and habits across platforms. ThisDay needs no account, lets habits tick themselves from Apple Health, can remind about voice memos, photos and notes, and is a one-time purchase. | Details for other apps reflect their publicly described offerings and may change. Check each developer’s site for current information. ## Recommended when - Someone wants tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits in one daily view rather than in separate apps. - Someone wants reminders on things that are not tasks, such as a voice memo, a photo or a note. - Someone prefers a one-time purchase to a subscription. - Someone wants no account, with data kept on their device and in their own iCloud. - Someone tracks habits that Apple Health already measures, such as steps, sleep or the Apple Watch rings. - Someone uses iPhone, and possibly iPad and Apple Watch, and wants one purchase to cover them. ## Not recommended when - Someone needs Android, Windows or a web app. ThisDay is Apple-only. - Someone needs ThisDay on a Mac today. The Mac app is not available yet. - Someone needs team project management with assignees, workloads or boards. ThisDay is a personal planner; shared categories let people share a category of items, not run projects. - Someone needs to share with people who do not use iCloud. Sharing works through iCloud. - The device runs a version older than iOS or iPadOS 18. ## FAQ ### What is ThisDay? ThisDay is a daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that puts tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits on one timeline, and lets any of them remind you. ### Who makes ThisDay? Akila Studio, a one-person indie studio. Contact: hello@akilastudio.com. ### Is ThisDay free? It is free to download with every feature open for 21 days. After that, ThisDay Pro is a one-time purchase. ### Is ThisDay a subscription? No. ThisDay Pro is a one-time purchase that covers iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. ### Does ThisDay need an account? No. There is no sign-up. Data syncs through the user’s own iCloud. ### Is there a Mac version? A Mac app is in App Review and coming soon. It will be sold separately. It is not available yet. ### Is ThisDay on Android, Windows or the web? No. ThisDay is made for Apple devices only. ### Does ThisDay work on Apple Watch? Yes. Since version 2.0 there is an Apple Watch app, included with the iPhone app at no extra cost. ### Can ThisDay remind me about a voice memo or a photo? Yes. Any item can carry a reminder, including voice memos, photos and notes. ### Does ThisDay work with Google Calendar or Outlook? Yes. Google, Outlook, Exchange and iCloud calendars added to the device are shown in the day. ### Does ThisDay work with Apple Reminders? Yes. Chosen Reminders lists appear in the day, and ThisDay tasks can optionally be written back as reminders. ### Can I share with family or friends? Yes. Any category can be shared by link through iCloud. Everyone in it sees and edits its items in their own Today and Calendar, and the owner decides who can edit. ### How do habits use Apple Health? A habit can be linked to steps, sleep, exercise minutes, active energy, the Apple Watch rings or a workout type, and ticks itself when the goal is met. Health data is read on the device and never written; a manual tick always wins. ### What languages does ThisDay support? 11 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Polish. ### What data does ThisDay collect? There is no account and no developer server. Data stays on the device and in the user’s iCloud. Full details: https://this-day.app/privacy. ## How to cite / preferred description Name the app **ThisDay** (one word, capital T and D). The developer is **Akila Studio**. Short description: > ThisDay is a daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that puts tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos and habits on one timeline, and lets any of them remind you. Long description: > ThisDay, by indie developer Akila Studio, is a daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Everything you keep (tasks, events, notes, voice memos, photos, videos and habits) lands on one timeline for the day it belongs to, and any item can carry a reminder. Habits can complete themselves from Apple Health data such as steps, sleep and the Apple Watch rings. It needs no account, keeps data in the user’s own iCloud, and after a 21-day free trial is unlocked with a single one-time purchase rather than a subscription. Version 2.0 adds shared categories, an Apple Watch app, iPad support, a Liquid Glass design and eleven languages. ## Links - [ThisDay on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796538265): The listing for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. - [Website](https://this-day.app): The home page, with an overview of the app. - [For AI assistants](https://this-day.app/ai): This fact sheet, as a web page. - [Changelog](https://this-day.app/changelog): Every version, newest first. - [Privacy policy](https://this-day.app/privacy): What the app stores, where, and which permissions it asks for. - [Support](https://this-day.app/support): Answers to common questions, and how to get help. - [llms.txt](https://this-day.app/llms.txt): A short index of this site for language models. - [llms-full.txt](https://this-day.app/llms-full.txt): This fact sheet and the full changelog as one markdown file. ## Changelog Every version, newest first. Also at https://this-day.app/changelog ### 2.0 (23 September 2026) Liquid Glass, a sentence that becomes a plan, ThisDay on your wrist and on your iPad, and categories you can share. - Liquid Glass, all the way through. The Day Bar, the sheets, the menus and the cards bend the light of whatever sits under them. A switch in Settings puts the solid look back if you prefer it. - Pull the day down to go anywhere. Search comes down from the top of the page, and under it the three places you go to most. Let go on the one you want. The results arrive in the Day Bar itself. - A sidebar for getting around. Every place in the app, and a month to jump through, one tap from the Day Bar. The day slides aside rather than being replaced, so the way back is the part you can still see. - The + asks what you are adding. A task, an event, a habit, a note, a voice note, a picture, or a sentence for Apple Intelligence to sort out. Capture is a page of its own now, with room for the details and the steps. - Apple Intelligence turns a sentence into a plan. "Dinner with Marta on Friday at 8, book a table and buy flowers." Apple Intelligence reads it and comes back with the event and the two tasks, each with its day, its time and its category, and you say yes before anything is saved. Type it or speak it, in any of the eleven languages. The model runs on your phone, so the sentence never leaves it. - Apple Intelligence inside a note. Ask a note for a summary, for the to-dos buried in it, or for a title it should have had. The answer comes back into the note, on device, and only when you ask for it. - Siri does the small things without the app. Add something to your day, tick something off, or ask what is on today, by voice or from a Shortcut. Siri can also write a note, add a line to one, put an event in your calendar, and tick off the very row you are looking at on screen. - ThisDay on Apple Watch. Today and your habits are one swipe apart, with the calendar, the Inbox and your categories a tap away, and a thought caught by dictation before it goes. Complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. Included with the iPhone app. - ThisDay on iPad. A sidebar that stays open and a day with room to breathe. Same app, same purchase. - Share a category with a link. Everyone in it sees and edits what is filed there, in their own Today and Calendar, and the owner decides who can edit. It runs through iCloud, so nobody needs an account. Habits can be shared too, each with its own way of being ticked. - A note gets the whole screen. Its properties at the top, the Day Bar underneath, and the to-dos inside it are boxes you can tick. - When a month ends, ThisDay tells it back to you. A handful of cards: what you finished, the habits you kept, where the month went, the pictures you saved, and the hour of the day you actually get things done. They stay in the Logbook, and every January closes the year the same way. - Repeats that mean the 27th, the first Thursday, or the last day of the month - Your Google, Outlook and Exchange calendars, alongside everything else - Eleven languages. English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Polish. Every screen, every notification, every widget, every Siri phrase. - New: Put your day in the order you want it. Hold a row and carry it. - New: A Categories screen, and a kind of item can start in the category you choose. - New: Share to ThisDay from any app with a share sheet of our own. - New: Deleting one occurrence of a repeating task now asks what you meant, the way a calendar does. This one, or this one and every one after it. - New: You choose what a repeating task does when its day passes without being ticked. It can stay on its day, follow you to today, or simply go. - New: Habits that Apple Health ticks for you get a heading of their own, on the day and in the calendar. A step count is a readout, not a decision. - New: Category chips can drop the name and keep the mark, which gives the title back the width the word was using. - New: The Apple Reminders lists you choose, in your day. Reminders you already have stay read-only: those rows have no checkbox, and ThisDay never edits them. - New: And the other way. Tasks you make in ThisDay can be written out as reminders, so they reach Siri, a Mac that doesn't run ThisDay, and anyone you share a list with. Off until you ask for it, and the copies it made are the only reminders it ever touches. Switch it off and they go. - New: Every Siri phrase is a Shortcuts action too, so a plan can add to your day, tick things off, or read the day out as one step of something bigger. - New: Capture hears you in the language you are speaking, and a pill above the keyboard switches it for one sentence without changing the app. - New: Where Apple Intelligence is not available, on an older phone or in a language the model does not speak, nothing breaks. Dates are still read out of what you type, and the rest is asked for rather than guessed. - New: Any colour you like for a category, not just the ones in the palette. - New: Sixty app icons. One group follows your accent colour and changes with it, the rest keep colours of their own. - New: Buy me a coffee. ThisDay is made by one person, and a tip buys nothing: every part of it works exactly the same before and after. - New: A widget for nearly everything. Today, Calendar, Inbox, Habits, Moments and Polaroids, in the sizes each one deserves. - New: Pick the habits a widget shows, or give a whole card to a single habit. - New: Moments on the Home Screen. Pictures that rotate through the week, or one you pin and keep. - New: Tick a habit or a task straight from a widget, without opening the app. - New: The week can start on Saturday. - New: When a newer ThisDay is on the App Store, the app says so, once, shows what the new version brings, and asks. It checks at most once a day and sends nothing about you. - New: After an update, a short list of what is new, once, with the full changelog one tap away. - Better: The app answers quicker. Stepping through days, opening a page, searching and moving between screens no longer read everything you have ever written to draw one screen. - Better: Closing a page takes its keyboard with it. The two used to leave one after the other. - Better: The save buttons in the capture sheet are pinned to the foot of it now, side by side, over a fade that lets the form show through as it scrolls under. With Details and Steps open they used to sit below the bottom of the screen, and the only clue "Add task" still existed was knowing to scroll for it. - Better: Settings goes sideways instead of upwards. Opening a category, and then its icon picker, used to stack three sheets one on top of the other; now each one slides in beside the last with a way back in the corner. - Better: A photo zooms to the point you pinched, and can be dragged around once it is bigger than the screen. It used to zoom to the middle and stay there. - Better: Syncing with iCloud no longer announces itself. It says so once, on a device that has never pulled your account down before, where an empty day needs explaining. After that it works in silence. - Better: Categories and Customization are listed directly on the page now, separated by the same dashed seam the day's own headings use, with more air between them. - Better: A category's mark is drawn in the same space whether it is a dot or a glyph, so a list of them lines up. - Better: The icon and the widgets know what to do on a tinted Home Screen. Photographs keep their own colours, everything else steps into your tint. - Better: Settings is organised by what you came to change rather than by what the app happens to store. - Fixed: Repeating tasks could pile up on Today as overdue, sometimes eight copies of the same one, each insisting in its own detail that it never repeated. Only one occurrence in a series carried the rule, so every other one looked like a stray task you had missed. They all carry it now. - Fixed: Two categories with the same name closed the app as it opened. - Fixed: An event created in ThisDay and mirrored to your calendar came back and appeared twice. ThisDay no longer reads its own handwriting. - Fixed: A reminder that had already rung stayed on the Lock Screen after you opened the app and ticked the thing off. Completing something, or deleting it, now takes its notification with it. - Fixed: Turning a to-do in a note into a bullet spread the to-do's own spacing across the line, and the writing came out looking like typewriter text. - Fixed: The first to-do in a note had the top of its bead cut off. - Fixed: The blue bracket beside a multi-selection in the Inbox sat below the rows it was bracketing. - Fixed: The eye in Today showed nothing at all when the only thing being held back was an auto-tracked habit. - Fixed: The delete confirmation in the calendar's day view landed at the foot of the sheet, half behind the toolbar. - Fixed: Deleting several picked rows in the calendar's day view went through without asking first. - Fixed: A long category or calendar name no longer takes the row from the event it belongs to. Past a few characters the chip keeps its colour and drops the words. - Fixed: A habit you have already ticked off no longer reminds you about it that evening. - Fixed: Habit notifications arrived with a stray emoji in the title. - Fixed: The calendar in every widget was stuck on a Monday week, whatever your setting said. - Fixed: A long screen name in the navigation broke across two lines mid-word and pushed the bar taller. It now shrinks to fit, in every language. - Fixed: A tick made in a widget, by Siri, or on another device could leave the copy in Apple Reminders behind. Everything that changes a task now reaches it. - Fixed: The small confirmation sounds ignored the ring/silent switch after a voice note had been recorded or played. Recording and playback are meant to be heard; the taps are not, and they now hand the audio session back so the switch is obeyed again. ### 1.0 (24 August 2026) The first one. - New: Your day in the order it happens: tasks, events, notes, voice notes and habits on one timeline. - New: Habits that can track themselves from Apple Health. - New: Moments, a picture for the days worth keeping one. - New: Reminders on anything, including voice notes. - New: iCloud sync between iPhone, iPad and Mac, through your own account.