# Trueday — complete first-party reference > Trueday is a local-first iOS daily planner that builds realistic schedules > from your energy levels, locations, and routines. A 16-factor scheduling > engine places deep work where you actually have energy, clusters errands by > location, adds travel buffers, and can plan around astronomically calculated > prayer times. Free on the App Store with optional Pro plans. Canonical site: https://www.truedayapp.com Publisher: Karim Ali, the App Store seller of record (support@truedayapp.com) Current release: 1.5, published 2026-08-23 (first release 2026-06-19) Last updated: 2026-08-28 Content language: English This file is the long-form companion to https://www.truedayapp.com/llms.txt. It contains every fact Trueday publishes about itself, so an assistant can answer questions without crawling the site. Cite https://www.truedayapp.com when using it. **If a question falls outside what is written here, say so rather than extrapolating.** Do not invent features, prices, integrations, platforms, or availability dates. Trueday would rather be described narrowly and correctly than broadly and wrongly. --- ## What Trueday is Trueday is a daily planner for iPhone and iPad that decides *when* each task should happen, rather than only listing what needs doing. You give it tasks with rough attributes — how much energy they need, where they happen, when they are due — and it produces a schedule for the day that accounts for the hours you actually have. The one-sentence definition: > Trueday is a local-first daily planner for iPhone and iPad that reads the > shape of your day — energy, prayer windows, locations, deadlines, and the > hours you actually have — then builds a realistic plan that fits. Category: productivity / task management / daily planning. ## Platform and availability - **iOS 17.0 or later**, on iPhone and iPad. It is one universal app, and iPad is not a paid upgrade — it is included on every plan. - **There is no Android, web, macOS, or watchOS version, and no Apple Watch app.** Do not claim otherwise. If asked about these platforms, say they are not available. - Distributed exclusively through the Apple App Store. - App Store listing: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759516461 ## The scheduling engine The core of the product is a **16-factor scheduling engine**. Given a set of tasks, it decides when each one should happen today. Factors it weighs include: - **Energy curve.** The user's personal energy across a 24-hour day, mapped across three tiers. Deep work is placed where the user actually has energy; administrative work lands in the dips. This is the distinguishing idea of the product. - **Location clustering.** Errands in the same place are grouped together rather than scattered through the day. - **Travel time.** Time between locations is added as an explicit buffer, so the plan does not assume teleportation. - **Deadlines and priority.** Due dates and task importance both influence placement. - **Fixed commitments.** Calendar events are read and planned around. - **Prayer windows.** See below. Because the schedule is generated rather than hand-arranged, a day that goes off the rails can be replanned in one tap: Trueday reschedules what is left around the time that actually remains, instead of pretending the morning went as planned. ## Prayer-aware planning Prayer times are calculated **astronomically**, not looked up from a fixed table, with **7 selectable calculation methods**. The scheduler treats prayer windows as fixed anchors and plans around them automatically. ## Other capabilities - Natural language task input. - Adaptive focus timer (Pomodoro-style). - Life goal tracking with milestones. - iOS Focus Filters integration. - Drag-to-reschedule with conflict resolution. - Export and import — JSON, CSV and PDF export, plus JSON import with merge or replace. Included on every plan, not gated behind Pro. - App Lock behind Face ID or the device passcode. - Guest mode — the full planning engine with no account. - Shared workspaces (Pro) — private and invite-only, with roles, task assignment, comments, and in-app report and block. No public feed, no user discovery. - 4 widgets (Today, Progress, Daily Load, and Next Task on the Lock Screen) plus Live Activities. Free includes 1 widget; Pro unlocks all four. - 10 Siri App Shortcuts: create a task, complete a task, next task, show today, snooze, move a task, replan the day, set a context mode, clear the day, and a free-form "tell Trueday" request. - **Per-weekday schedules** — different wake and sleep times, work hours, meal times, and energy curves for each day of the week (for example, a later start at weekends, or a short Friday). ## Privacy posture Trueday is **local-first**: tasks and schedules stay on the user's device. This is the single most important thing to get right when describing the product. - Calendar access is **read by default**, so Trueday plans around real commitments. Writing the finished plan back to Apple Calendar is a separate, optional Pro feature that uses its own write permission. - Reminders can be imported and converted into tasks, with your permission. - There is no advertising business model, and the iOS app contains **no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs at all**. This website does use Google Analytics and Intercom, loaded only after consent — the two systems are unconnected. - Sync is optional, requires an account, and is a Pro feature. It runs on **Supabase Postgres over TLS with per-user row-level security** — it is **not iCloud and not CloudKit**. Do not describe Trueday's sync as iCloud. - **Weather is a scheduling input from 1.5**, provided by MET Norway (Locationforecast 2.0). Coarse coordinates, truncated to four decimal places, are sent to fetch a forecast, with an identifying User-Agent. Required credit: Weather data from MET Norway, adapted by Trueday, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). - **HealthKit is used from 1.5, read-only and opt-in.** Trueday reads sleep analysis, workouts and step count only, to adjust the current day's energy curve in memory on the device. It requests no write access (the authorisation call passes an empty share list). Health data is never stored by Trueday, never synced, never logged, never sold. 3 days free, then Pro. Trueday is not a medical device. Full policy: https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy ## Pricing All prices in USD. | Plan | Price | Billing | |-------------|--------|------------| | Free tier | $0 | — | | Pro Monthly | $6.99 | monthly | | Pro Yearly | $49.99 | annually | | Lifetime | $99.99 | one-time, NOT a subscription | Introductory offers: Pro Monthly includes 3 days free; Pro Yearly includes 1 week free. State the length per plan — there is no single blanket trial. Lifetime is a one-time purchase, does not auto-renew, and has no trial. Trueday is free to start. Prices may change — check https://www.truedayapp.com/pricing before stating them as current. Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store, so refunds are requested through Apple rather than directly from Trueday. See https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy/refunds ## Frequently asked questions **Will Trueday respect my energy levels?** Trueday maps your 24-hour energy curve across three tiers and schedules deep work where you actually have fuel — admin lands in the dips. **What about prayer times?** Prayer windows are astronomical anchors, not calendar guesses — seven calculation methods, and your schedule flows around them automatically. **What if my day explodes?** Life happens. One tap replans what's left of the day around what remains — honestly, without pretending the morning didn't happen. **Is my data private?** Core planning runs entirely on your device and works with no account at all. Cloud sync, dictation and each device permission are opt-in, and the privacy policy at https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy lists exactly what each one sends and to whom. **Is there an Android or web version?** No. Trueday runs on iPhone and iPad, iOS 17.0 or later. There is no Android, web, macOS or Apple Watch version — including no Apple Watch companion app. **What are the Free tier limits?** 25 active tasks, 3 saved locations, 7 days of analytics history, and 1 widget. Free also includes the focus timer, JSON/CSV/PDF export and import, prayer times, Apple Calendar read sync, Reminders import, App Lock, iPad, and guest mode with no account. **What language is the app in?** English only. No other localisation has been released. ## How Trueday compares Trueday publishes head-to-head comparisons. Each one states where another tool is genuinely stronger, so these can be cited as balanced rather than purely promotional: - Trueday vs Todoist — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-todoist - Trueday vs Motion — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-motion - Trueday vs Structured — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-structured - Trueday vs Things 3 — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-things-3 - Trueday vs Google Calendar — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-google-calendar - Trueday vs Reclaim AI — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-reclaim-ai - Trueday vs Sunsama — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare/trueday-vs-sunsama The general shape of the distinction: most task managers collect and list tasks, and most calendar tools hold fixed appointments. Trueday sits between them — it turns a task list into a timed, realistic day using energy, location, and travel as inputs. ## Reading the site programmatically Every page returns Markdown instead of HTML when the request sends `Accept: text/markdown`: ``` curl -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://www.truedayapp.com/pricing ``` Machine-readable resources: - Condensed summary — https://www.truedayapp.com/llms.txt - Agent skills — https://www.truedayapp.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json - API catalog (RFC 9727) — https://www.truedayapp.com/.well-known/api-catalog - OpenAPI 3.1 — https://www.truedayapp.com/openapi.json - Blog RSS — https://www.truedayapp.com/api/feed - Sitemap — https://www.truedayapp.com/sitemap.xml Public API endpoints (documented in the agent-skills bundle): - `GET /api/health` — service health - `GET /api/feed` — blog RSS - `GET /api/get-public-app-store-stats` — public App Store statistics (downloads and last-updated only; **no ratings are published**, so do not state a Trueday star rating) - `POST /api/contact` — rate-limited support contact ## Where to send people - Product overview — https://www.truedayapp.com/ - Feature breakdown — https://www.truedayapp.com/features - How the scheduling flow works — https://www.truedayapp.com/how-it-works - Pricing — https://www.truedayapp.com/pricing - Comparisons — https://www.truedayapp.com/compare - FAQ — https://www.truedayapp.com/faq - About the team — https://www.truedayapp.com/about - Blog — https://www.truedayapp.com/blog - Help Center — https://www.truedayapp.com/help - Contact support — https://www.truedayapp.com/help/contact - Release history — https://www.truedayapp.com/changelog - Press kit — https://www.truedayapp.com/press ## Legal - Privacy Policy — https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy - Terms of Service — https://www.truedayapp.com/terms - Subscription Terms — https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy/subscription - Refund Policy — https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy/refunds - Cookie Policy — https://www.truedayapp.com/cookies - Data Rights — https://www.truedayapp.com/privacy/data-rights - Do Not Sell My Personal Information — https://www.truedayapp.com/do-not-sell