Birthdays Countdown vs Calcute
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Birthdays Countdown
This app helps you keep track of upcoming birthdays with timely notifications. Customize reminder settings and choose whether to display years and ages. An optional add-on can remove ads and increase widget capacity.
- Birthday countdowns
- Customizable notifications
- Year and age display options
- Widget customization
- Ad removal option
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This app counts down until birthdays ! Once set, it will be notify on that day every year. There are notify settings such as the day, the previous day, two days before etc, so it should help remembering. ※ Notification will be notified when iPhone/iPad 's power is on., please do not overconfidence. There are settings that do not display year and age. [Additional feature by add-on] - Increase widget cells You can customize the number of display in the widget. - Remove Ads Do not show ads. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Calcute
This calculator app allows users to personalize their experience with a selection of Japanese cute wallpapers. It prioritizes ease of use, enabling users to save calculation results and review their input process to quickly identify errors.
- Japanese cute wallpaper selection
- Save calculation results
- View input process
- Error identification
- Easy to use interface
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"Calcute" is a calculator that can choose japanese cute wallpaper. Let's change to your favorite calculator! Not only cute, it is a calculator sticking to ease of use. You can leave calculation results, see the process of input and immediately notice a mistake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Birthdays Countdown at every 3 months against Calcute's every 13 months. Calcute's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 69%) and ratings volume (231 vs 46). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Birthdays Countdown sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Calcute sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Birthdays Countdown against 4.7 for Calcute. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calcute has 231 ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Birthdays Countdown's written reviews are positive against 78% of Calcute's.
Birthdays Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Calcute every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birthdays Countdown | Calcute |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (46 ratings) | 4.7 (231 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.5% of reviews | 78.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 | 231 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tadashi atoji | sky-nexus Inc. |
Customer experience
Birthdays Countdown
Calcute
In-app purchases
Birthdays Countdown
- Pro version (monthly)$1.991 Month
- Pro version(Year)$19.991 Year
- Increase widget cells$1.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
Calcute
- Hides the ads in the app.$1.99
Questions
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