Comparison

Upcoming vs DayCue

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Upcoming

This app helps you visualize and track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Add widgets to your home screen, share progress with friends, and receive timely reminders. It's designed to make waiting for special moments more engaging.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Messages stickers
  • Shared countdowns with reactions
  • Birthday and calendar event import
  • Keepsakes for past events
Features
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Upcoming turns the things you are looking forward to into a number you can see. Pick a date — a birthday, a trip, a due date, the last day of term — and Upcoming counts the sleeps until it lands. Put the number on your Home Screen, drop it into someone else's chat, or wait for it together. On iPhone and iPad. WHAT IT DOES - Count down to anything, in whole days, with a name, a colour and a photo - Home Screen widgets in three sizes, and Lock Screen widgets - Stickers for Messages — drop the number straight into a chat - Nudges: a reminder a week out, the night before, the morning of - Three voices for those reminders — Chill, Playful, or Unhinged - Pull in birthdays from Contacts and events from your calendar - Keepsakes: when a countdown lands, keep it on the shelf with the photo, the date, and the number of sleeps you waited WAIT TOGETHER Invite someone into a countdown and you both watch the same number. Photos and reactions go in one thread as the day gets closer. Starting a shared countdown and joining one are both free. FREE FOR EVERYONE All features are included, with no subscription. - Unlimited countdowns for every birthday, trip, and day worth waiting for - Invite anyone to share a countdown, with photos, messages, and reactions in one thread - iCloud sync across your devices - Every widget, Messages sticker, and keepsake Terms of Use: https://claycircuitstudios.com/upcoming/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://claycircuitstudios.com/upcoming/privacy

About

DayCue

Visually track important upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Add photos, emojis, and choose from multiple themes to personalize your countdowns. Receive timely notifications to ensure you never miss a significant moment.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown themes
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Configurable event notifications
  • Add photos and emojis
  • One-time purchase
Features
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The best moments in life deserve a countdown. DayCue turns the dates you care about into something worth looking at — a birthday, a trip, a concert, a deadline, a launch. Whatever you're building toward, DayCue keeps it front and center. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN Choose from 8 handcrafted dark themes — from Midnight purple to Champagne gold to Forest green. Pick an accent color, add an emoji, drop in a photo. Every DayCue looks exactly how the moment feels. ALWAYS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Small and medium widgets that update automatically. Glance at your lock screen, your home screen, your standby display — your countdown is always there. BUILT TO STAY IN SYNC iCloud keeps your DayCues in sync across all your devices automatically. Create one on your iPhone, see it on your iPad. NEVER MISS THE MOMENT Get notified the day of, a day before, a week out, or a month in advance — you choose which reminders make sense for each event. ONE PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Try DayCue free for 14 days. Then unlock everything forever with a single one-time purchase. Count down to the trip. The show. The finish line. The thing you've been waiting for.

Screenshots

Upcoming4 screens
DayCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DayCue at 5.0 against Upcoming's 4.1. DayCue also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Upcoming's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DayCue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Upcoming asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DayCue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Upcoming has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Upcoming ships an update weekly, DayCue every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Upcoming versus DayCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpcomingDayCue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin PustORTEK GROUP INC.

In-app purchases

None

Upcoming

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DayCue

One-time1
  • DayCue Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Upcoming free?
Upcoming is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayCue free?
DayCue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Upcoming or DayCue?
DayCue is rated higher. Upcoming averages 4.1 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while DayCue averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Upcoming or DayCue have ads?
Neither Upcoming nor DayCue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Upcoming or DayCue?
Upcoming ships an update weekly, and DayCue every 2 days. Most recently, Upcoming was updated on November 6, 2026 and DayCue on November 5, 2026.

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