Special Dates vs Note & Widget
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
Note & Widget
This offline note-taking app allows for quick and easy jotting down of ideas on a single page. It features persistent keyboard functionality and seamless integration with system dark mode. All your notes are stored locally on your device, ensuring privacy and accessibility without an internet connection.
- Single page interface
- Offline data storage
- Persistent keyboard
- Native sharing options
- Adaptive app icons
- System dark mode support
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A single page notepad with a few essentials. - Widget support - System, serif, or mono fonts - Persistent keyboard - Link support - Choose to insert text above or below by default - Undo and clear all actions - Natively share selected text - Fully offline What you write stays on your device. No cloud, no servers, no accounts. Just notes. If you like single-purpose software let's be friends, hello@internetfriends.llc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Note & Widget at none against Special Dates's 3. Note & Widget also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). Special Dates's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Note & Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Special Dates holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Special Dates's written reviews are positive against 67% of Note & Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Special Dates ships an update every 3 months, Note & Widget every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | Note & Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Internet Friends LLC |
Customer experience
Special Dates
Note & Widget
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
Note & Widget
No in-app purchases
