Three moments. That's the whole app.
Most planners make you estimate, schedule, and then decide when you've done enough. Dayfall removes all three decisions.
Pick the deadline
A move-out date, a launch, finals week. The app numbers every day backward from it, so you always know where you are in time — without doing math.
Tap the time
Each task has minutes from a fixed set — 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 45, 60, 90. Tap them and the timer is running. Starting costs nothing.
Get permission to stop
At zero it buzzes and says "Time's up. You're allowed to stop." Not "keep going." Not a streak. You did the thing.
It assumes you'll have a day where nothing works. Then it plans for it.
Most tools are designed for your best day. These are the rules Dayfall follows for your worst one.
It opens on today. Nothing else competes for your attention.
Every day has a starred task with its own big Start button. Do that one and you're done. Really.
Three plain steps — water, sit down, smallest visible thing — and a 10-minute timer. No decisions.
No red badges, no guilt-tripping. Once a day it shows yesterday's leftovers: keep what still matters, send it to today or any day this week, or let it go. Every answer is the right one.
Streaks punish bad days; this app forgives them on purpose. The only tally it keeps is what you did today — never what you missed.
Delete something by accident and there's an Undo. No confirmation dialogs standing between you and starting.
Every big task's Start button has a smaller one under it: five minutes, nothing more. Starting is the whole battle, so the first step is tiny.
The timer is a shrinking bar, not just digits — with a nudge at the halfway mark and at five minutes left. The screen stays awake, the tab counts down, and the app icon shows the days-left number.
Mark a task as repeating — meds, laundry, watering the plants — and it appears every day through the deadline. Check it off or don't; tomorrow it's simply there again.
Quiet on purpose.
One color means time. One message means you're done. Everything else stays out of the way — and at night it follows your phone into dark mode.
Help without having to ask what to do.
If someone you love is staring down a deadline, the hardest part of helping is that they have to manage you. Dayfall gives you a list of your own.
- Type in the tasks together on a good day, then it runs itself on the hard ones.
- Your list, their list — same deadline, separate check-offs. Nobody's asking "what should I do?"
- Turn on sync and both phones stay in step, live.
- You get the same rules they do: one thing, timers, permission to stop.
Shareable helper lists are next on the roadmap; today, sign in on both phones with the same email.
Don't plan the plan. Load it.
Complete countdowns written in advance — moving out, finals, launching, taxes — every day already broken into small, timed tasks. Free ones load in one tap.
It's a website that lives on your home screen.
No app store, no account required. Add it once and it opens full-screen like any app, works offline, and remembers your plan.
iPhone / iPad
- Open Dayfall in Safari.
- Tap Share (the square with the arrow).
- Tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
Android
- Open Dayfall in Chrome.
- Tap Add on the banner, or the ⋮ menu → Install app.
- Find it with your other apps.
The short version.
Is this for people with an ADHD diagnosis?
It's for anyone who freezes at the start of things or loses track of how many days are left. Diagnosed or not. If "I know what to do, I just can't start" sounds familiar, it's for you.
Why fixed minute options instead of typing a number?
Because choosing between 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, or 90 takes a second. Estimating "how long will this take?" from scratch is exactly the kind of decision that stops people from starting.
What happens if I miss three days?
You open the app and it shows today. That's it. Nothing turns red, nothing counts your missed days, nothing resets.
Where is my data?
On your phone. Sync is off unless you turn it on with your email; then your plans are stored in an account only you can read. No ads, no tracking, no selling anything about you. There's also a one-tap backup in the app's ⋯ menu — a file you keep, and an import that restores it.
Does the timer keep going if I switch apps?
Yes — it counts from the moment you tapped, so coming back always shows the right time or the "you're allowed to stop" message. Turn on alerts and it can tap you on the shoulder at zero even from another app. On iPhone, add Dayfall to your home screen first (iOS 16.4+) — that's what lets a web app send notifications at all.
What happens when the deadline arrives?
Day 0 is deadline day. After it passes, Dayfall adds up what you actually did — tasks done, minutes on timers — tells you "You made it," and offers to archive the countdown. Archived countdowns can be restored anytime from the menu.
What does it cost?
Nothing right now. If it ever does, the countdown, timers, and "I'm stuck" will stay free — those are the point.
You don't have to finish today. You just have to tap the time.
Pick a deadline. The app numbers the days backward from it.
Start a countdown