Special Dates vs Pinning
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
Pinning
Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.
- Event countdown and count-up
- Calendar event syncing
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Event organization with notebooks
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- iCloud collaboration
- Recurring event notifications
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Pinning is a more powerful countdown app and a simple calendar viewer. It’s a tool to help you record life stories or track project milestones. It’s easy to create events and organize them with notebooks. Pinning also comes with built-in lists for birthdays and anniversaries. Events will be shown in timeline with self-selected icons or emojis. You can put the most important events on Home Screen or Lock Screen with beautiful widgets. Pinning supports iCloud collaboration so that you can easily share important events with family and friends. ## Features - Event countdown and count-up. - Sync upcoming calendar events and scheduled reminders. - Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries. - Organize with notebooks and tags. - Create recurring events and receive notifications. - Home Screen widgets for single event and event timeline. Lock Screen widgets for the most important events. - iCloud collaboration. - Siri Shortcuts support. - Save single event or list of events as images. - Import birthdays from birthday calendar. - Create events from calendars. Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy Terms of Services: https://pinning.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pinning at 4.7 against Special Dates's 4.0. Pinning also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 5). 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 Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pinning holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinning has 51 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 75% of Pinning's.
Special Dates ships an update every 4 months, Pinning every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | Pinning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — 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 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Anybox LTD |
Customer experience
Special Dates
Pinning
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
Pinning
- Monthly$1.491 Month
- Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
