About Dailies

Who makes it

Dailies is made and run by Amit Shabtay, an individual trading as a sole trader under the name Dailies. Not a company, no staff, no group of affiliates. The same name is on the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, because the person responsible for the app is the person responsible for your data, and it seemed worth saying that in one place rather than burying it in clause one.

That has a practical consequence worth knowing before you email: the person who reads help@mydailies.app is the person who wrote the code. Replies are not instant. They are also not a script.

Why it exists

Most apps in this corner of the App Store want your attention for a session: a feed to scroll, a streak to keep, a video to sit through. That works for some people. It did not work for the one writing this, who wanted the opposite: something that says one useful thing and then leaves.

So Dailies has no feed, no streak and nothing to keep up with. A quote arrives, you read it or you do not, and that is the whole interaction. If you never open the app again after setting it up, it is still doing its job.

What the app does

You follow topics rather than one broad category, grouped under headings like Calm, Confidence, Humor, Work, Faith, Self-kindness, Meaning and Direction, and specific underneath. Your feed is built only from the topics you follow. Then you set how often you want to hear from the app, the hours you are happy to be reached and the days, and Dailies picks the actual moments inside that window.

Quotes arrive as notifications, and one sits on the Lock Screen and in the Home Screen widget whether or not you open anything. You can save the ones that land, write your own, and turn any of them into a picture to send to somebody.

There is a free version and an optional yearly subscription. The help page says what is in each, and the App Store says what it costs; this page does not, because prices in this category get tested and a price written here would go stale.

How the quotes are chosen

A great many of them are written for the app rather than collected. Written individually, too: not composed from parts, not assembled from a frame with the nouns swapped, because the surprise in a good line is the entire product and a substitution slot is a hole punched exactly where the surprise belongs. Each section is written long and then cut hard, on a quota rather than a threshold: a fixed share of every batch goes, however fond of it anybody was.

The rest are somebody else’s words, and those are carried only as far as the rights actually reach. Where a writer’s permission covers quoting their lines but not translating them, those lines appear in English and simply are not in the translated libraries, the sort of gap that is invisible to a reader and expensive to respect, and is respected anyway. If the rights position on a line turns out to be less clear than it looked, the line comes out of the library rather than staying in on the assumption that nobody will mind.

The whole library ships inside the app. There is no feed to load, which is why everything except the App Store purchase works with the phone in airplane mode.

How the comparisons are written

The comparison pages put Dailies next to other apps in the same corner of the store. A comparison written by one of the apps in it is worth exactly as much as its sourcing, so two rules hold on every one of them:

• Every number about another app comes from that app's own App Store listing, and the date it was read is printed on the page. Ratings counts, prices, sizes and languages all move.
• No number about Dailies appears at all. The library, the free tier and the delivery limits move with the app, so the pages describe them in words. A figure about a rival is dated and checkable; a figure about us would just be out of date.

Where a rival does something better, the pages say so. Nobody has ever been persuaded by a comparison table where one column wins every row. The figures are re-checked roughly every six months, and the date line at the top of each article is what tells you when that last happened. If one looks stale, say so. That is a fair complaint and it gets fixed.

What Dailies will not do

Some of these are product decisions and some are in the legal pages. They are all easier to find here.

• No account. No sign-up, no email address, no password. There is no login anywhere in the app, for reading or for premium.
• No ads. Not on the free tier either.
• No feed and no streak. Nothing in the app is designed to punish you for missing a day.
• No tracking prompt. The app shows no App Tracking Transparency dialog and does no ad attribution. The Privacy Policy spells out what that means.
• Usage measurement can be switched off in Profile → Additional Info, and nothing in the app changes when you do.
• Nothing on this website is set until you agree to it. The Cookie Policy lists every cookie, and cookie settings is in every footer.

One more, because it is asked: Dailies is for adults. The Terms of Use ask that, and the comparison pages do not recommend it for a child or a teenager whatever any age rating says.

Get in touch

There is no contact form and no chat widget. Two addresses, both read by the same person:

• Something is broken, or you have a question: help@mydailies.app
• You have an idea for the app: feature.suggestion@mydailies.app

Before you write about quotes that stopped arriving, the notifications section of the help page solves it more often than not, and faster than a reply would.