Birthday Countdown & Reminders vs Event Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Birthday Countdown & Reminders
Never miss a special occasion again. This app helps you track birthdays and anniversaries with customizable countdowns and reminders. Organize contacts into groups for personalized notifications.
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Customizable countdowns
- Personalized reminders
- Contact grouping
- Event planning
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• Celebrate birthdays and anniversaries • Arrange your contacts into groups and customize their appearance and reminders! • Count down to the event in days, months, hours, you name it!
Event Planner
Organize all aspects of your life with a beautiful and intuitive event planner. Seamlessly sync across all your Apple devices to manage trips, appointments, and daily tasks. Never forget important dates or details again.
- Cross-device syncing (iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch)
- Recurring event scheduling
- Timezone support
- Bullet point task lists
- Website and meeting link integration
- Pin important events
- Global event search
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Refund available within 14 days, no questions asked. To do that, click on 'Report a problem' on the app page and select 'Request a refund'. Event planner boasts a clean and gorgeous looking user interface for event planning. It's functional, intuitive and syncs across all your devices like iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch and iPad. This is the only app you will ever need to plan your trips, shop groceries, plan movie nights, remember doctor's appointment, birthdays and everything else. Features at a glance 1. Works and syncs across your iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch. 2. Menubar support on Mac. 3. Recurring/Repeating events to track regular appointments, birthdays, anniversaries, medication, college schedule and more. 3. Timezone support to track events in different time zones 4. Bullet point tasks to remember things about an event 5. Add website and meeting links to events for quick access. 6. Pin favourite/important events on top 7. Search your events across all your devices #Tags Calendar timeline to-do tasks,planner,calendar,task,reminder,timeline,to-do,todo,list,events,timezone,routine,schedule,organiser
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Event Planner at none against Birthday Countdown & Reminders's shown. Event Planner also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (76% vs 55%). Birthday Countdown & Reminders's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (126 vs 28). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Birthday Countdown & Reminders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Event Planner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Birthday Countdown & Reminders holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 126 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Birthday Countdown & Reminders's written reviews are positive against 76% of Event Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Birthday Countdown & Reminders ships an update every 5 weeks, Event Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birthday Countdown & Reminders | Event Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (126 ratings) — better | 4.3 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lesya Verbina | Pawan Dixit |
Customer experience
Birthday Countdown & Reminders
Event Planner
In-app purchases
Birthday Countdown & Reminders
- Lifetime Premium$0.99
Event Planner
- Recurring Events$0.99
- Link to Websites$0.99
- Unlock Everything$4.99
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