Comparison

Upcoming vs Auto Redact AI

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

Auto Redact AI

Features
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Auto Redact is a document scanner that protects your privacy by default. Scan a letter with your camera, import a photo, or open a PDF from Files — personal data is found and blacked out automatically, entirely on your device. Share the redacted version anywhere with a clear conscience: paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to get help with a contract, send it to your landlord, your lawyer, or a support hotline — without handing over your identity. WHAT GETS DETECTED AUTOMATICALLY • Names and addresses • IBANs, account and credit card numbers • Phone numbers and email addresses • Dates of birth, social security and tax IDs • Reference numbers, license plates and more YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY • Tap any black bar to reveal it — deadlines and amounts often need to stay • Tap any word to black it out yourself, or draw a box anywhere on the image • Pinch to zoom for precise control on dense documents • Toggle whole categories (all names, all dates) with one tap SCAN ANYTHING • Camera scanning with automatic edge detection and de-skew • Multi-page documents and PDFs (rendered on-device, page by page) • Import from Photos or the Files app • Paste plain text to redact it before sending EXPORT SAFELY • Share the redacted image, PDF, or text — only the redacted version ever leaves your phone • One-tap handoff to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, email or any app • Redacted documents saved in an encrypted library (AES-256, Face ID / PIN lock) PRIVACY IS THE ARCHITECTURE, NOT A SETTING Text recognition runs on your device. Redaction happens before anything is shared. There is no account, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking — we couldn't read your documents if we wanted to. The optional "Ask AI" feature sends redacted text only, using your own API key. Try the built-in sample letter to see the whole flow in 60 seconds.

Screenshots

Upcoming4 screens
Auto Redact AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Upcoming at weekly against Auto Redact AI's every 3 weeks. Auto Redact AI's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Upcoming ships an update weekly, Auto Redact AI every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Upcoming versus Auto Redact AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpcomingAuto Redact AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin PustVenkat Dheeraj Dhavaleswarapu

In-app purchases

None

Upcoming

No in-app purchases

None

Auto Redact AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Upcoming free?
Upcoming is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Auto Redact AI free?
Auto Redact AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Upcoming or Auto Redact AI have ads?
Neither Upcoming nor Auto Redact AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Upcoming or Auto Redact AI?
Upcoming ships an update weekly, and Auto Redact AI every 3 weeks. Most recently, Upcoming was updated on November 2, 2026 and Auto Redact AI on October 7, 2026.

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