DayCast Support

Update DayCast from the App Store. Version 1.9.3 made each step a button. On older versions, turn on Sync Across Devices in Settings, then Sync, and use the Web & Email Capture switch below the checklist.

DayCast couldn't reach your iCloud. Open the Settings app on your iPhone, tap your name at the top and check that you are signed in and that iCloud is on. Then tap Turn On again.

Sync isn't running yet. Turn on Sync Across Devices, then close DayCast completely and open it again. The first sync can take a few minutes with a large library. Then reload the website.

Set a web passphrase on your iPhone (Settings, then Web & Email), wait a minute for it to sync, then reload the website.

On your iPhone, open Settings, then Web & Email, and tap Change Passphrase. The new one replaces the old one right away. Your notes are safe; the app still has your key.

Nobody can recover it, but nothing on your phone is lost. On a device that is still syncing, open Settings, then Sync, and tap Disconnect with "Also delete my encrypted copy from Drive" ticked. Then do the three steps again with a new passphrase, and type the new one on your other devices.

Check your internet connection and try again. Steps 1 and 2 must have green checks first.

DayCast keeps your whole day in one private place. Plan tasks and events, capture notes and journal entries, track spending and net worth, mark up PDFs, and let an on-device AI quietly reflect on everything you write. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and in any web browser, kept in step through your own iCloud.

DayCast is free to use, including sync, the Mac, Watch, and web apps, sharing, and imports. Premium unlocks the AI tools, the Reports Hub, the advanced PDF tools, extra journals, templates, and unlimited budgets, goals, and projects. Pricing is $5.99 USD per month or $49.99 USD per year, with a 7-day free trial. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

Open DayCast, go to Settings, and tap Restore Purchases near the top. Make sure you are signed in with the same Apple ID that purchased the subscription.

Yes. In DayCast, open Settings, then Sync, and turn on Sync Across Devices on each device, signed in to the same iCloud account. Close DayCast and open it again to start. Your data is encrypted on the device before it syncs, and your key travels through iCloud Keychain, so your devices can read it and nobody else can, including Apple and us. You can also keep encrypted backups in Settings, then iCloud Backup.

For security, there is no remote reset. If you enabled Face ID or Touch ID as a fallback, use that. Otherwise the only path is to uninstall and reinstall DayCast, which erases the data on that device. If Sync Across Devices was on, your data comes back from iCloud after you reinstall and turn sync on again. If you had iCloud backups, you can also restore the last one.

From in-app Settings you can export an encrypted JSON backup, a tasks CSV, an events CSV, your notes as Markdown, and individual PDFs from the Reports Hub (Net Worth, Year-End Tax, weekly recaps, category deep dives, vendor reports, and more). The expenses CSV is a Premium export, with one free run so you can see what you get. Notes can also be exported individually to PDF from the note view.

Yes, when you tap the weather chip on a journal entry. iOS asks for your location, DayCast queries WeatherKit, and the resulting short summary (for example, 72°F · Partly Cloudy) is saved with that entry. You can turn this off in Settings or simply never tap the weather chip.

DayCast uses Apple Intelligence, which runs on-device. Devices that do not support Apple Intelligence will not show AI reflections, summaries, or translations. The rest of the app works the same on all supported hardware. There is no cloud fallback.

When you hold a ticker (such as VTI or VXUS), DayCast asks Finnhub for a read-only quote, refreshing at most every five minutes. The request contains the ticker symbol and our API key, nothing else. No share counts, no totals, no account names, and nothing that identifies you.

Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple, not the developer. Visit reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, find the DayCast charge, and request a refund.

Yes. Your entries are encrypted on your device with AES-GCM before they sync to your own iCloud. We do not collect, sell, or have access to your content, and there are no analytics and no ad trackers. The only DayCast server is the small relay that carries email and web captures to you, and it only ever handles items already sealed for your devices.

Three Apple frameworks read data only with your permission and only on the device: Apple Intelligence writes your reflections, Apple Health can import steps, sleep, workouts and mindful minutes, and Apple Wallet can import transactions into Spending. Three small outbound requests exist and none of them carries your content: a WeatherKit lookup if you turn the weather chip on, a Finnhub ticker quote if you track Holdings, and a daily currency-rate refresh from open.er-api.com so foreign-currency spending converts correctly. See the Privacy Policy for the full breakdown.