Comparison

Social_Manager vs Midnight Dates

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

Head to head
About

Social_Manager

Organize your conversation topics by person to ensure you never forget what you wanted to discuss. This app helps you prepare for chats by keeping track of ideas for specific individuals, preventing important points from being missed.

Highlights
  • Organize topics by person
  • Never forget discussion points
  • Prepare for conversations
  • Assign topics to contacts
  • Set reminders for topics
Features
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Keep notes about each person and remember what matters when you meet. THE PROBLEM We forget things we want to talk about. That great idea for mom, the question for your boss, the topic you wanted to bring up with a friend—gone when you finally see them. WHY EXISTING SOLUTIONS FAIL Regular notes get messy and disorganized. You can't quickly find what you wanted to say to a specific person. By the time you scroll through everything, the conversation has moved on. THE SOLUTION SocialManager keeps one note per person. Save facts, questions, and ideas, and read them with Markdown formatting. On supported devices, ask Apple Intelligence about someone using these notes through Private Cloud Compute. Review, copy, or apply its answers. Older topics remain in Settings for export or deletion. Simple. Organized. Your conversations, always prepared.

About

Midnight Dates

Easily track countdowns and count-ups for all your significant life events. Share these milestones with friends and family through various messaging and social platforms. Discover fun date-based facts and impress others with your knowledge of time.

Highlights
  • Track past and future dates
  • Share dates via email, messages, and social media
  • Supports iOS and watchOS with iCloud sync
  • Import and export date URLs
  • Backup dates via email
  • Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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This app calculates exactly how long it’s been, or how long it will be until, all the important dates in your life. And Midnight Dates also helps you share these with your friends and family. It’s a fountain of really fun date-based information! Impress your friends: • “Honey, we’ve been together 157 weeks… awww.” • “Next Monday is the 400th day since I quit using Windows!” • “It’s 1 year, 7 months, 2 weeks and 5 days until retirement!” • “We have only 218 years until James T. Kirk is born.” • “Tomorrow is the 17,500th day since the Moon landing!” • “Only 50 more days until Christmas!” Simple to use: • Tap the "+" button to create new dates to track. • Tap the date in the list to see it’s details. • Tap the "…" button in to edit and share the date in various methods supported by your devices such as email, messages, Twitter, Facebook, or AirDrop. Features include: • Supports all iOS 10 and later compatible iPhones and iPads with universal layout and split app view • Includes watchOS 3 app and watch face complication to view your dates on the go • Syncs via iCloud automatically with iOS and watchOS versions • Track any Gregorian calendar date from January 1, 1 to December 31, 10,000 • Sort by name, date, and day of the year • Share via: email, messages, Twitter, Facebook and other text based methods • Share directly to another device via AirDrop • Import and export urls from email and web and other iOS apps • Backup all date via email (send to yourself) Tell everyone: If you are enjoying Midnight Dates, please leave us a five-star review. It helps us keep development going. Some features we're considering for future versions are: • Today widget for macOS and iOS • System notifications and reminders • Localizing to lots of languages • Date calculation in other calendar systems • Customizable font and color themes, and dark mode • Date information such as: moons, zodiac, number-names (i.e. sesquicentennial) If you are interested in any of these possible features, or have other ideas or questions, please email us at support@midnightbeep.com. More Tips When sharing via email the date’s full description is included, while sharing via Messages, Twitter or Facebook will only be a short summary. You can use AirDrop in the sharing panel to give the date to another person running Midnight Dates on their device. Backup or share all your dates by sending yourself an email from the Options view. The long url at the end will import them all together. Share dates via the web and email using the Midnight Dates url format: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31 or from multiple dates: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31

Screenshots

Social_Manager3 screens
Midnight Dates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Social_Manager at Free against Midnight Dates's $1.99. Social_Manager also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Midnight Dates's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (5 vs 2). On 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

Social_Manager is free to download; Midnight Dates costs $1.99 up front. Midnight Dates sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Social_Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Social_Manager ships an update every 2 months, Midnight Dates every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Social_Manager versus Midnight Dates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial_ManagerMidnight Dates
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeung-Un HamMidnight Beep Softworks

Customer experience

Social_Manager

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Midnight Dates

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Social_Manager

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Midnight Dates

One-time4
  • Coffee Tip$0.99
  • Taco Tip$1.99
  • Burrito Tip$4.99
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  • Beer Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Social_Manager free?
Social_Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Midnight Dates free?
Midnight Dates costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Social_Manager or Midnight Dates have ads?
Social_Manager shows ads; Midnight Dates does not.
Which is updated more often, Social_Manager or Midnight Dates?
Social_Manager ships an update every 2 months, and Midnight Dates every 4 months. Most recently, Social_Manager was updated on October 7, 2026 and Midnight Dates on October 13, 2026.

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