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24 alternatives to Day Night
A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Day Night launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.
2019 · its alternatives →
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Daylight▲149Simple app that tells you when the days are getting longer.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been building Dayflow, a macOS app that automatically tracks what you're actually working on (not just which apps you have open). Here's what it does: - It creates a semantic timeline of your day; - It does it by understanding the content on your screen (with local or cloud VLMs); - This allows you to see exactly where your time went without any manual logging. Traditional time trackers tell you "3 hours in Chrome" which is not very helpful. Dayflow actually understands if you're reading documentation, debugging code, or scrolling HN. Instead of "Chrome: 3 hours", you get…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ProgressBar▲194A Windows taskbar app to track your day & year progress
2021 · apuchitnis.github.io · its alternatives →
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DayNight▲112Daytime & nighttime awareness for the blind 🌚 🌞
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone. Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux) Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format. The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Days▲94A beautiful countdown app to the events that matter to you.
2016 · daysapp.co · its alternatives →
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Motivation▲294An app that makes you want to beat procrastination
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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DayDay 1.0▲109Track your progress on a daily basis by taking photos.
2017 · getdayday.com · its alternatives →
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Bedtime▲132Improve nightly rituals with bedtime stories & meditations
2018 · getbedtime.com · its alternatives →
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Mayday▲198The AI-assisted calendar that helps you make time to thrive.
2023 · mayday.am · its alternatives →
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Daily Routine▲113iOS app that schedules your day into key tasks
2015 · dailyroutineapp.com · its alternatives →
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Break from procrastination, embrace achievement
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Morning is designed to make your routine easier than ever before. Keep track of time, stay updated, and start your day off right.
2013 · tamper.io · its alternatives →
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