A daily to-do app with a status other apps don't have: done on my end. You have finished your part, someone else is up next. The task leaves your day and comes back when it is time to follow up.
Dayzo hasn't been released yet. Once it is in the stores, these buttons will take you straight there.
People with a lot running in parallel rarely fail at planning. They fail because the tools ask for something that doesn't match the situation.
Timeline planners want a time slot for every task. With 30 to 40 open items the day is full before a third of them are scheduled. Whatever doesn't fit disappears – not because it doesn't matter, but because the grid is too small.
Open or done. But most of the work sits in between: sent, handed over, asked for. Either you tick it off and forget it, or you leave it open and read a reproach every morning for something you finished long ago.
Moving blocks every evening, re-sorting every morning: that is work on the list instead of work on the thing. After a few weeks you stop looking – and a system you don't look at is worthless.
Dayzo asks a different question. Not “when will you do this”, but “is it even with you any more”.
The quote is out. The landlord has been written to. The application is sent, the contractor called, the complaint filed. Your work is finished – the matter is not.
That's why ticking a task off gives you two buttons instead of one:
For the second button Dayzo asks two more things – what you are waiting for, and when you want to be reminded. After that, this happens:
It no longer sits in your today list and no longer nags you. You did your part, after all.
A section of its own shows everything you're currently waiting for – with your note, how long it has been running and when the follow-up is due.
After two days, a week, two weeks or a period you choose yourself: “You have been waiting for 7 days on: quote for Meier AG – follow up or close?”
Follow up turns it back into an open task for today, automatically at high priority. If the answer arrived, waiting ended creates the matching next task. Or you extend the deadline and keep waiting.
This is what a waiting entry looks like:
Quote for Meier AG
Reply from Mr Meier still outstanding
The difference isn't one more status. The difference is who owns the task right now. Every other app keeps a list of what you still have to do. Dayzo also keeps the list of what other people still owe you – and reminds you in time.
Around the waiting status sits a deliberately quiet daily app. No time slots, no blocks, no rescheduling.
At the time you choose you see what is due today. If tasks were left over yesterday, Dayzo asks which ones you want to pull into today – or carries them over automatically if you prefer that.
The today view shows exactly one day, with a thin progress bar instead of columns of numbers. Anything further out lives in the overview, grouped by day.
In the evening you touch every open task once: tick it off, push it to tomorrow or drop it. When nothing is left, Dayzo says so – and then the day is over.
All without an account and without a cloud. Features marked Pro are part of Dayzo Pro.
Coloured areas you name yourself, such as “private” or “client X”. Tapping one filters every view at once. Two areas are free, Pro removes the limit.
For everything without a fixed date. You can set a day on which the task comes back to you instead of dragging it through every day.
Three priorities shown as a coloured stripe on the task, plus notes of any length.
A checklist inside a task. The list shows the progress as “2/5” without opening the task.
One image per task, taken with the camera or picked from your library. Useful for receipts, meter readings or handwritten notes.
Tasks as events in your device calendar. Title, date and notes stay in sync, and so does removal. The month view in the app comes with it.
Swipe right to move a task to tomorrow, swipe left to delete it. Every action can be undone right afterwards.
The app follows your system or a setting you choose. Pro adds five more accent colours and three alternative app icons.
Dictate a task instead of typing it: a shortcut hands text, priority, date and area straight to Dayzo.
Please note: the Dayzo app interface is currently available in German only. An English version is planned.
Dayzo works fully without a purchase. Pro lifts two limits and unlocks the features not everybody needs.
Free
No account, no sign-up, no ads.
The limits of the free version
CHF 7.00
One-time purchase, no subscription, no follow-up costs.
The purchase runs through the app store of your device and can be restored on your devices. The amount shown may differ depending on the country and currency of the store.
Nothing gets locked afterwards. Existing areas, waiting tasks, photos and sub-steps stay usable. Without Pro, only creating new ones beyond the limit is unavailable.
About Android: the app runs on Android and iOS alike. Buying Dayzo Pro is not yet set up on Android – there the app shows a note that the purchase is coming soon. The free version is identical on both systems.
One more tap when you tick something off – and nothing falls through the cracks just because someone else didn't reply.
Questions before the launch? Write to us.