Special Dates vs WilliWidgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Special Dates
Easily save and track important dates with a minimalist countdown widget. This app helps you remember upcoming events like birthdays or bills, syncing them across your devices.
- Save important dates
- Track days remaining
- Periodic event saving
- Birthday reminders
- Bill tracking
- iOS 14 widget support
- Cross-device syncing
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Save your important dates and track the days that have left. Simplest app to save dates and see a countdown of each one. Allows to save periodically events like birthday or bills. Supports all the widget sizes that have iOS 26 and the dates will be synced between your devices
WilliWidgets
Personalize your device with a vast array of customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Display essential information like time, battery, storage, or your favorite photos with endless design possibilities. Interactive widgets and unlimited placement options offer billions of unique combinations.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable themes and appearance
- Display time, battery, storage, photos
- Countdown timers
- Interactive widgets
- Unlimited widget placement
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WilliWidgets gives you all the tools you need to make your device useful, but yours at the same time! WilliWidgets has a TON of different widgets that let you show whatever information with various widgets that can be placed on your Home Menu and Lock Screen! WilliWidgets can give you at a glance information, including countdowns, battery, the time, or even your favorite photos and how much storage is left on your device! There's a widget for everyone in this app! Whether you want to customize your Home Menu or Lock Screen, or just want to see more info at a glance, WilliWidgets has you covered! Each widget supports a widget theme so you can make widgets look however you like! Use different backgrounds, fonts, or add borders to it, every aspect is 100% customizable and its scalable with each update, which means that every time we update, there's a chance for some new customization! You can place an infinite amount of widgets, and capture all of the occasions! We offer many widgets, including interactive ones! Theres BILLIONS of combinations possible! Works great on iOS 17.4 - iOS 26 Privacy Policy: https://www.williamgallegos.net/williwidgets-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.williamgallegos.net/williapps-terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: WilliWidgets at weekly against Special Dates's every 4 months. WilliWidgets also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (76% vs 63%). Special Dates's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Special Dates sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and WilliWidgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WilliWidgets holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WilliWidgets has 41 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Special Dates's written reviews are positive against 76% of WilliWidgets's.
Special Dates ships an update every 4 months, WilliWidgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | WilliWidgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.4 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 76.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | William Gallegos |
Customer experience
Special Dates
WilliWidgets
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
WilliWidgets
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
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