Upcoming vs PiggyNotebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable countdowns
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Messages stickers
- Shared countdowns with reactions
- Birthday and calendar event import
- Keepsakes for past events
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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
PiggyNotebook
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100% Free! PiggyNotebook is an AI-powered note-taking app that helps you capture scattered thoughts and gradually turn them into structured knowledge. Ideas often come to us when we don't have time to organize them. With PiggyNotebook, you can quickly capture your thoughts using text or voice. AI understands your notes and automatically organizes them into relevant topics. As you add more notes, AI uses the previous content within each topic to organize and summarize your thoughts, gradually turning scattered ideas into more complete and useful knowledge. Key Features • Quickly capture thoughts with text or voice • Automatically organize notes into relevant topics with AI • Build up ideas under the same topic over time • AI-powered summaries based on your previous notes • Great for learning, work, ideas, and everyday thinking You don't need to decide how to organize everything in advance. Just capture your thoughts and let AI handle the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PiggyNotebook at every 3 days against Upcoming's weekly. PiggyNotebook also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Upcoming ships an update weekly, PiggyNotebook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Upcoming | PiggyNotebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Pust | Yuan Wan |
In-app purchases
Upcoming
No in-app purchases
PiggyNotebook
No in-app purchases









