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Dawn 2.0 — The minimal calendar to organize everything
Organize your days with a single, beautiful app. Dawn is the minimal calendar for everything from todos and events to projects and itineraries. It's your perfect everyday companion.
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Onutz Verde
How do I come back to current day in month view?
Where is the system watch, so I know what +10 min means?
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Tried it for a day, great UI but locks up repeatedly on iPhone 11 Pro - needs some time to mature
@leanphilosophic Really sorry about this! Could you let me know what seems to be causing the lock ups? Will keep optimizing the app if it's due to huge amounts of synced events and iron out these issues.
This is amazing! I'm always on the lookout for the best tasks/calendar product. This one looks dope, going to try it out soon. few questions:
1) Will I be able to invite people to a list?
2) If you don't store data, what happens if I switch my phone or delete the app? Will I lose it?
3) any plans for desktop/browser support?
Thanks!
@hirokihori I've actually never used Sunrise, but heard a lot of good things about it! Thanks so much for the positive feedback Hiroki!
The app looks really awesome. Clean and minimal, I like it very much. (Yes, I still miss Sunrise …) First hands on after the download feels promising.
I'm not a big fan of subscriptions, but 1,50 Euro per month is reasonable. With the accompanying macOS app, maybe it'll be even worth 33 Euros for a lifetime.
Congrats, @hyericlee! One question: Is the app eligible for Apple's family sharing? Can my wife use it on her phone, too? Or do we each have to pay separately?
@drikkes Thanks for the feedback! Not a fan of subscriptions myself as well so it's why I've enabled both one time purchase and subscription so users may choose. I also took into consideration the other mainstream calendar apps pricing (notably Timepage and Fantastical) to price Dawn reasonably lower. As far as I know I have enabled family sharing, but I need to double check. Otherwise, I'm down to configure Dawn for that!
Good day!
Got my upvote, Looks great, price point MIGHT be worth it (i'll see after the trial) I really WANT to love Dawn at first glance, but first turn off is you only allow Apple calendars. Makes sense because you are a IOS self-taught developer, but I'm more a google girl and surprised that Dawn doesn't have an option for Google Calendar? Why only Apple? Is Google Calendar integration coming? Please let me know. For now, I'll "play around" with it and send feedback.
@ni_e_sha Thanks so much Niesha! I've priced Dawn lower than most of the popular calendar apps out there. Notable examples are Timepage and Fantastical, which are both much more expensive and subscription only. I'm not a fan of their pricing!
You should be able to sync your Google calendars to and from Dawn by adding them to your iPhone through Settings > Account, then head into Dawn > Menu > Settings > Integrations > Apple Calendars and tap "Sync" on the Google calendars.
It is indeed a bit roundabout! I'll look into implementing first party calendar syncing directly within Dawn instead of relying on Apple calendars, time for me to study up!!
@hyericlee It worked. Im all googled and apple sync'd! I noticed as soon as I signed up for the trial. So far so good! Also kudos on the other apps on the website too (yes I checked them all). I'll be checking those out as well.
I’ve been disliking all calendars apps, I tried more than I can count, yes I obsessed about having a clean and organized one. I’m glad (and impressed) I found Dawn, it has all the features (and more) you could want in a calendar. It’s clean and very well organized visually, which translates in efficiency in organizing your tasks and days, wether it is in Spaces or calendar/reminders. You will find a peaceful corner to do it.
It's always so sad to see people program great projects and then see they've decided to do the biggest mistake ever by releasing it on iOS before (if even ever) Android.
To quote the creator: "This is just the beginning, there are tons of exciting features planned and in the works as well as iPad, Mac, and other platforms I wish to support."
Based on your previous projects I highly doubt this is going to happen.
"Thanks for comment ***, will look to arrange the development of an Android version in the future!"
I really hope you plan something like that actually for real instead of just dropping the words.
I gonna repeat it on every product as many times as I have to until previliged US-based developers realize it:
- iOS has a market share of 25%.
- Apple has a complicated target group outside the US.
- using Swift in the beginning limits your diversity later on
Start making business if you guys call yourself enterpreneurs. Using iOS as your start of the journey is one of the worst decisions a business can make.
Every creator choosing a smaller, exclusive market for a non-niche product commits commercial suicide. And I think, after years of me preaching this and seeing how I was right in most of the cases, people deserve to fail if they don't learn.
Just look at sketch. They've started for iOS, first said they don't like Windows and therefore won't code for it. Then after protests, they changed their explanation to the lack of technical integrity and functions in Windows versus iOS. They used to be the biggest tool in their niches that has been replaced in 4 of their 5 home markets by other, OS-universal tools within the last years.
There is a reason Facebook and other companies force their employees to use Android and their own android projects to raise awareness that this is what most of their users use but is what most of their coders ignored or have let rot.
Stop using your favourite device atleast one day a week. Get uncomfortable yourself to understand, fix, help and then please your users and in the end boost your business.
Do it. Think about it. Your product seems to good to be the victim of the usual iOS developer ignorance.
@marvinpoo have you come across any sources that show android users are more likely (or equal) to pay for apps than iOS users?
@dnlbtlr As target groups aren't bound to devices (especially not Calender Targetgroups), such a study makes no sense.
But here, have one anyway: "The State of In-App Spending: Global & Regional Benchmarks" from AppsFlyer.
@marvinpoo INTERESTING! “ 2) iOS Users Outspend Android
iOS users spend nearly 2.5 times more than Android users on in-app purchases, while the former’s average purchase value is double the latter’s ($12.77 vs. $6.19). The percentage of users who make in-app purchases on iOS is also 50% higher than on Android. Overall, iOS dominance in in-app spending was seen across regions and verticals, with the exception of the utilities/tools category (see point #7for more).
~20X
$0.50
5”
#7 Android Users Love Utility Apps
The fact that Android is an open OS means it is a much stronger platform for utility apps, offering many more functions (memory boosters, launchers, anti-virus etc.) than the more closed iOS platform. This explains the high percentage of Android users globally who spend money in utility apps: 5 times more than iOS users, reaching over 1 in 5 users. As a result, the average in-app spend per app for Android users stands at $0.85 compared to only $0.24 in iOS
@marvinpoo not every developer is a large agency with capacities to develop on several changing platforms. if i remember correctly this is a one man show. it might not be ignorance as you claim (other than your own) but simply something that has to wait until enough money comes in to hire a team.
i could be completely wrong but i had a brief discussion with the developer in some feeback exchange and it seemed to me to be one person.
@danieldacapo Especially then it is important to choose the most promising platform, which is almost never iOS.
Hey ProductHunt!
I would first like to give a big thank you to @chrismessina for hunting Dawn and all early access and beta users for providing feedback helping me refine the app!
I’m Eric, a self-taught iOS developer obsessed with creating products that enhance our ability to do and experience more, with emphasis on minimalism and design.
Dawn came to fruition as I wanted to introduce crucial features that transcend current task management apps:
- Clean and minimal design
- Central hub for both events and reminders
- Visual lists for organizing events and reminders
- Focused Today page
This was quite the challenge but after launching the first version and subsequent 2 years of work, I’m excited to share the Second Dawn with the world right now, here on ProductHunt!
This is just the beginning, there are tons of exciting features planned and in the works as well as iPad, Mac, and other platforms I wish to support.
Open to feedback and feature requests, feel free to leave questions or comments and I’ll be here to answer them all!
Thank you, to all of you here to check out Dawn!
Hey Eric, absolutely love the design. Looking for a new way to manage my tasks and calendar right now (currently on Fantastical, tried Sunsama in the past but no Microsoft SSO made it hard). The lack of Mac/web app might be a deal breaker right now though. Any estimates on a timeline?
@jonathanwsloan Hi Jonathan, glad Dawn has been good so far! iPad is next up alongside Mac app, since Apple has made development much more universal development might not take long. However to integrate cross platform, I would need to setup a backend for moving data between platforms. A very rough ETA is within a year. Thanks for the comment!
Very interested and would see my self using it. What about a newsletter to keep us android/web users updated, please?
@mykhailo_sidykh Will maybe collaborate with an Android developer in the future! Currently am an independent iOS developer and I'm not acquainted with development on Android, much apologies 🙏 But thank you for the comment Mykhailo!
Super duper sexy. Only reason I won't be using it is because it's not cross platform yet. Once it's on mac, I'll take it for a spin.
@sneddymobbin iPad and Mac are planned next, will look forward to having you then! Thank you for the feedback Ryan!
My favourite thing about Dawn is that events & reminders can live in the same space. It's beautiful, and the heatmaps can help me make quick decisions about scheduling events with people/myself. Before I jump into a subscription there are 2 missing features which are a dealbreaker for me:
* Auto-sync (think I currently have to close & open the app again for new data)
* Switching between + as reminder or event.
Love the idea of Spaces that combines dates with tasks... could be really useful for trip planning!
@chrismessina It's one of the most fun features of Dawn! Thank you so much for the hunt Chris!!