Dawny – To Do List & Reset
Daily focus planner, no guilt
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your to-do list, fresh every morning. Pick a few tasks for today, and at 3 AM whatever's left goes back to your backlog. Nothing overdue, no red badges, no guilt.
Most to-do lists don't drown in work. They drown in leftovers. Tasks you finished but never checked off, ideas you forgot about, things that stopped mattering weeks ago. That clutter buries what's actually important and turns every look at your list into a small guilt trip.
Dawny takes a different approach. It has the courage to forget.
That's how Dawny works: Everything you want to do soon or someday lives in your backlog, sorted by when it matters, from quick wins through the next few days, weeks and months to someday.
Each morning you pull a few tasks into Today. At 3 AM, Today is cleared and whatever you didn't finish goes back to the backlog. Nothing is deleted, nothing is ever overdue, and every morning starts with a fresh decision about what matters now. Unfinished tasks aren't failures, they're information.
Tasks that sit around for too long get tidied into the archive automatically. Still important? One swipe brings them back.
Dawny is made for the "I'll take care of that this week" tasks that usually pile up and go stale. It works great alongside Apple Reminders, and your tasks for today can show up there too.
• The 3 AM reset. Wake up to an empty Today and a real fresh start.
• Backlog categories by time horizon, from quick wins to someday. Add your own with a symbol of your choice.
• Auto-Tidy and Make It Count. Tasks you keep pushing off or never touch move to the archive. One swipe brings them back.
• Recurring tasks. They come right back to your backlog after you finish them.
• Widgets for your Home and Lock Screen. Tick tasks off right in the widget and pull something up from the backlog with a single tap.
• Apple Reminders sync. Your tasks for today show up where you already look, on all your devices.
• iCloud sync. Your tasks, categories and archive stay the same on your iPhone and iPad.
• Siri and Shortcuts. Add tasks, plan them for today, or ask what's on your list.
• Privacy first. No account, no tracking. Your data stays on your device or in your own iCloud.
• Completely free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases.
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Dawny and Apple Reminders now get along on all your devices. You can leave Reminders sync on for your iPhone and iPad at the same time, and your Daily Focus stays put everywhere.
Until now, a second device could sometimes send your Daily Focus back to the backlog. The same could happen when Dawny lost access to your Reminders. Both are fixed, so your plan for today stays right where you put it.
Dawny now also lets you know in Settings when your iCloud storage is full and sync is paused. You'll see it right away instead of noticing only when tasks are missing on your other device.
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The developer, Florian Schneider, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Florian Schneider
- Size
- 6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.6 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Florian Schneider