Dly
Task Management, Hobby and Analytics
I kept downloading productivity apps and hitting the same wall — create an account, agree to sync your data, pay monthly to keep your history. I just wanted to plan my day.
So I built Dly. No account. No cloud. Everything lives on your phone.
What it does:
Daily task list with time scheduling and duration tracking
Habit tracker that integrates directly into your task list — habits show up as tasks automatically
Time analytics (daily/weekly/monthly) so you can actually see where your time goes
Home screen widgets so you see your day without opening the app
The analytics part changed how I use it personally. Seeing a weekly breakdown of productive vs. necessary vs. untracked time is more honest than any streak counter.
Tech: Flutter + Dart, Hive for local storage, Riverpod for state. Android first, iOS next.
Status: Live on Play Store. Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's tried other planners and has strong opinions on what's missing.
Google Play →https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dly.app
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PLAN YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY
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Dly is built around how real people actually plan their day — not how productivity gurus think you should.
• Schedule tasks with exact start times and durations so your day has structure
• Add tasks without a time and reorder them by drag-and-drop
• Carry forward incomplete tasks — yesterday's unfinished work appears on today's list so nothing falls through the cracks
• Set recurring tasks that repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or on specific days of the week
• Break down big tasks into subtasks — tackle complex projects step by step
• Mark tasks as Productive or Necessary to understand where your time actually goes
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CAPTURE IDEAS BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR
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Not every idea is ready to be scheduled. Dly's Pool is your personal backlog — capture ideas without cluttering today's task list.
• Add items instantly to any category — Work, Personal, Learning, or your own
• Break items down into nested subitems at any depth, like a project outline
• Plan any backlog item to a specific date with one tap
• Reorder and organise your backlog by dragging items within categories
• Edit any item or subitem title inline with a single tap
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BUILD GOOD HABITS
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Tasks tell you what to do. Habits help you become consistent over time.
• Create daily or weekly habits with custom icons and colours
• Track your streak — see how many consecutive days you've kept up
• 7-day strip on each habit shows your recent completion history at a glance
• Count-based habits (glasses of water, pages read, gym sets) — log each unit individually
• Reminders at the right time — log completions directly from the notification without opening the app
• Show habits inside your task list so everything for the day is in one place
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TRACK YOUR PRODUCTIVITY
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Most to-do apps tell you what to do. Dly tells you how you spent your time.
• Daily view — see a full breakdown of what you completed and how long it took
• Weekly view — spot patterns across the week, see which days were your most productive
• Monthly view — zoom out and understand your long-term trends
• Productivity Score — see what percentage of your time went to meaningful work
• Visual charts and heatmaps that make your data easy to understand at a glance
• Separate tracking for Productive vs Necessary time so your score reflects real effort
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STAY ORGANISED
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• Colour-coded categories — work, personal, health, learning
• Multiple beautiful themes including Frosted Glass styles
• Set daily productive hour goals and track whether you're hitting them
• Morning nudge at 8 AM and evening summary at 9 PM to keep you on track
• Full backup and restore — export your data to a file and import it anytime
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NO LIMITS — EVER
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Other apps give you 10 free tasks, 3 free categories, or 7 days of history — then ask you to pay. Dly has no such limits.
• Unlimited tasks, subtasks, backlog items, habits, and categories
• Full analytics history
• All themes unlocked
• All features available to everyone, always
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PRIVACY FIRST
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• No account required — open the app and start planning instantly
• All your data is stored locally on your device, not on any server
• No cloud sync, no data collection, no behavioural tracking
• We don't know who you are and we don't need to
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SUGGEST A FEATURE
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Dly is actively developed and shaped by user feedback. Have an idea that would make it better for you? Write to us at dly.task.app@gmail.com — we read every message and consider every suggestion.
7 Comments
The friction you're describing is real but I think you're solving the wrong layer. The reason I keep downloading productivity apps isn't the sign-up or the price — it's that none of them know what I'm actually trying to do today.
A to-do list with time slots still makes me decide what's important. A daily planner still treats every morning as a blank slate. The actual hard part of planning my day isn't the calendar grid — it's that 30 things are competing for attention and 5 of them I genuinely forgot about.
When you say "plan my day" — what do you actually put on it? Daily tasks? Or the 3 most important threads you're advancing today? Because those are different problems and most planners (including Apple Notes) are built for the first one, not the second.
Building What Next for the "which 3 of 30 threads matter today" question so this is a problem I think about constantly. Dly's "local-first, no account" stance is right — the friction isn't sign-up, it's that none of these tools know the actual work.
First of all, Thank you very much for giving time to provide the valuable feedback/issues related to the app.
You've nailed the exact gap. Dly today is closer to "daily tasks" — you decide what's important, it tracks it. The hard part you're describing (which 3 of 30 things matter today) is currently a manual step: there's a Backlog tab where you park everything you want to do eventually, but pulling items from backlog into today is still a blank-slate decision every morning.
I'm planning a "Plan Today" flow — when you open Tasks, a prompt surfaces your pending backlog items and asks you to pick what you're committing to today. No AI ranking, just structure: here are your 30 things, what are you doing today? Tap to pull them in. The idea is to make the daily decision ritual explicit rather than skipping it.
Curious whether you think the value is in the ritual itself (forcing the commitment) or in the ranking/suggestion (telling you what matters) — because those are two different features. What Next sounds like it leans toward the latter?
One thing I'd be curious about is whether the planner and the analytics are actually playing the same role in the product.
Reading this, I found myself wondering if the thing that motivates someone to try the app is the same thing that makes them keep using it.
The part about productive vs necessary time felt meaningfully different from the rest of the description.
That's the part I'd be most interested in learning from users.
First of all, Thank you very much for giving time to provide the valuable feedback/issues related to the app.
That tension is real and you've articulated it better than I have.
The honest answer: most people download it because of the "no account" angle — that's the hook. But the people who actually keep using it are the ones who get hooked on the time breakdown. Seeing "I planned 6 hours of work but only logged 2" changes how you plan the next day in a way a streak counter never did.
The problem you're pointing at: those two users are finding the app for different reasons, and right now the analytics is a separate tab you have to actively visit. The insight doesn't come to you — you have to go looking for it. That's the gap.
I'm thinking about a daily summary that surfaces automatically — end of day, a quick card showing your time split without navigating anywhere. Make the insight part of the daily loop, not a reporting tool you check occasionally.
Would love to hear what you'd want to see there — is the value in the raw time data, or in the comparison to what you planned?
That's exactly what caught my attention too.
The daily summary idea sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure the question I'd be asking is what users want to see there.
I'd be asking whether the insight is actually the thing creating retention, or whether it's simply the most visible thing retained users happen to interact with.
Those can lead to very different product decisions.
Happy to share the fuller thought if useful. What's the best email to reach you on?
Sure. I am eager to receive the feedbacks and ideas for this app improvement. You can share your thoughts at the email mentioned in the Google play store app URL. I am not able to post the email address here.
Thanks! I've just sent it to the email listed on the Google Play page.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.