Comparison

StarDay vs Upcoming

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

Head to head
About

StarDay

Easily track important life events with unlimited countdowns. Customize widgets to visualize your progress and forget about intrusive advertisements. This app helps you stay on top of your milestones.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns
  • Customizable widgets
  • Streak tracking
  • Ad-free experience
  • Event tracking
Features
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Do you need to track some important events in your life? Try our new app. Add unlimited countdowns, customize widgets, forget about noisy ads. Terms of use: https://about-me.app/terms_of_use Privacy policy: https://about-me.app/privacy_policy

About

Upcoming

Track important dates with a customizable countdown widget. Visualize your progress towards goals, events, or holidays with daily updates. Stay motivated and focused by seeing how much time remains until your next milestone.

Highlights
  • Daily countdown tracking
  • Customizable icons and colors
  • Event card styling
  • Motivation for goal completion
  • Sense of urgency for tasks
Features
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Upcoming is a simple and easy to use countdown day by day app. It is user friendly and highly customisable. You are able to select the icon, color to style your events card. It can use to track the day of your anniversary, birthday, holiday, graduations or anything you can think out. Motivation - The willingness to complete something - Knowing how much time left to your goal is pure motivation to get ti done faster. Sense of Urgency - Looking at it day by day it will install a sense of urgency in you. Therefore, you will spend less time on social media or Netflix and will be more focused on the task at hand. If you have any suggestion, please leave us a review on App Store. We hope to read them soon so that we can make the app even better for you. Terms and pricing: Upcoming offers an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $10.49 USD/year to provide you with unlimited access to groups, colors, icons and all the premium features while you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the payment method connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNCHjdEaUqFAD1AAu1UufTuoq4-qbyzt3BvMIHGcQn8/edit?usp=sharing Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

StarDay4 screens
Upcoming4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StarDay at none against Upcoming's 4. StarDay also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating 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. Upcoming sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. StarDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for StarDay against 4.7 for Upcoming. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StarDay has 576 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of StarDay's written reviews are positive against 57% of Upcoming's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StarDay ships an update weekly, Upcoming every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
StarDay versus Upcoming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarDayUpcoming
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (576 ratings) — better4.7 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews — better56.5% of reviews
Number of ratings576 — better40
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB21 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAboutMe Apps, Inc.Kok Keong

Customer experience

StarDay

All ratings576 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative16.0%

Upcoming

All ratings40 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive56.5%
Neutral30.4%
Negative13.0%

Bugs and requests

StarDay

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Widget not displaying custom countdowns
  • Countdown restarting unexpectedly after deleting an event

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to display multiple countdowns on widget
  • Option to customize countdown display (time, background, etc.)
  • Automatic sorting of events by date

Upcoming

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

StarDay

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Upcoming

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$11.491 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime - Early Bird Discount$5.99
  • Lifetime$20.99

Questions

Is StarDay free?
StarDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Upcoming free?
Upcoming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, StarDay or Upcoming?
StarDay is rated higher. StarDay averages 4.8 out of 5 from 576 ratings, while Upcoming averages 4.7 from 40 ratings.
Do StarDay or Upcoming have ads?
Upcoming shows ads; StarDay does not.
Which is updated more often, StarDay or Upcoming?
StarDay ships an update weekly, and Upcoming every 2 months. Most recently, StarDay was updated on September 25, 2026 and Upcoming on September 22, 2026.

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