Comparison

MarkDays vs Await

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

Head to head
About

MarkDays

This tool helps you remember and count down to significant life events like anniversaries, birthdays, and important schedules. Receive timely reminders so you never miss a special occasion. Track both past and future important dates.

Highlights
  • Mark important life days
  • Count down to events
  • Track past events
  • Timely reminders
  • Anniversary tracking
  • Birthday reminders
Features
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Markdays is a small, focused tool for remembering the days that matter. Mark a birthday, an anniversary, an exam, a first meeting, or any date you do not want to lose. When the day comes, a timely reminder helps you notice it—not after it has already passed. For example: How many days until a birthday? How many days until the exam? How many days until the next wedding anniversary? How many days has the baby been in the world? How many days have we known each other? Every important day is worth keeping. DAYS REMAINING AND DAYS PASSED See how many days remain until the next marked day, or how many days have already passed. The list is sorted by closeness, so today, upcoming, and past events are easy to tell apart. GREGORIAN AND LUNAR CALENDARS Create an event on the Gregorian calendar or the Chinese lunar calendar. Lunar birthdays and traditional festivals can repeat on the calendar you actually use. In non-Chinese languages you can also choose a second calendar, such as Buddhist, Islamic, Hebrew, or Japanese. REPEAT AND ALERTS Repeat never, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Alerts can fire at the event time, or 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 1 day, 2 days, or 1 week before. Add a second alert, and snooze for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour. COLOR AND ORDER Give each day a color so the important, the gentle, and the urgent are easy to spot. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small, medium, and large widgets can show the nearest event, the next upcoming event, the newest event, or one event you choose. Pin a favorite day to the widget and see the countdown whenever you glance at the Home Screen. APPLE WATCH Check your marked days, remaining or elapsed days, and dates from your wrist. ICLOUD SYNC The main app stores your events with iCloud, so they stay in sync across your devices. Widgets read the same shared data. Change phones or use more than one device—the days you marked are still there. TIME ZONE Follow the system time zone, or pick one yourself, so the day count stays accurate when you travel. The trial version can create 5 events. Upgrade to Professional to add more. We would love for you to try Markdays, and we welcome your feedback. Your support is what keeps us improving.

About

Await

Easily track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. See your progress on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with interactive widgets. Unlock unlimited event tracking with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Accent color options
  • Icon customization
  • Unlimited event tracking (Pro)
Features
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Count days until events with Await. Await is an app built to help you keep track of upcoming events. Add a countdown and customise it by setting: * Title * Date * Accent Color * Icon HOME SCREEN WIDGET See your countdowns on your Home Screen by adding the Await widget to it. Different sizes available. LOCK SCREEN WIDGET Keep track of what is upcoming directly from your Lock Screen with the Await Lock Screen widget. AWAIT PRO Try out Await by creating a up to 2 event countdowns. To remove this limit, you need to purchase Await PRO. Await PRO is a one time single purchase that removes all restrictions of the app and widgets. Hope you enjoy using Await.

Screenshots

MarkDays3 screens
Await4 screens

Verdict

The call

MarkDays and Await both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Await's written reviews are positive against 67% of MarkDays's. Await also leads on update cadence (every 11 months vs every 70 months). MarkDays's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MarkDays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Await sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MarkDays against 5.0 for Await. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of MarkDays's written reviews are positive against 100% of Await's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, Await every 11 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MarkDays versus Await: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkDaysAwait
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 70 monthsEvery 11 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer昊罡 姚Nikola Kirev

Customer experience

MarkDays

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Await

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MarkDays

One-time1
  • Unlock MarkedDays Professional$4.99
1 purchases

Await

One-time1
  • Await Pro$3.99

Questions

Is MarkDays free?
MarkDays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Await free?
Await is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MarkDays or Await?
MarkDays and Await are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MarkDays or Await have ads?
Neither MarkDays nor Await shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MarkDays or Await?
MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, and Await every 11 months. Most recently, MarkDays was updated on November 3, 2026 and Await on November 3, 2026.

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