Special Dates vs Things take time
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
Things take time
This app helps you track small, consistent actions to visualize compounding progress over time. Monitor habits, routines, and personal metrics with detailed analytics and a unique side-by-side view of multiple trackers. Designed for ease of use and privacy, it makes invisible progress visible.
- Track any habit or metric
- View multiple trackers side-by-side
- Monthly progress overview
- Intuitive and fast interface
- Detailed analytics for patterns
- On-device and iCloud privacy
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Good things take time. Real progress is built through small things done consistently — it won’t feel like much, until it does. Things take time is an app for tracking what matters, the small things, and seeing how they compound over time. KEY FEATURES • Track anything From habits and routines to personal metrics, notes, and daily actions — build trackers that fit your life, not the other way around. • See everything side by side Most apps show one tracker at a time, which hides the bigger picture. This one shows them all together so you can see patterns across your month. • Your month at a glance See how small things add up across your month, so you can stay consistent and notice real progress. • Built for ease of use Tracking should feel effortless. Everything is designed to be fast, simple, and intuitive. • Understand your patterns Detailed analytics for every tracker to help you uncover trends and better understand your progress over time. • Privacy first Your data stays on your device or in your iCloud. Nothing is collected, and nothing is tracked. Progress is often invisible in the moment. Things take time was built to make it visible — by showing how small things add up over time. Terms & Privacy: https://thingstaketime.app/terms-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Things take time at 5.0 against Special Dates's 4.0. Things take time also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Special Dates's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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 Things take time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Things take time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Special Dates's written reviews are positive against 100% of Things take time's.
Special Dates ships an update every 3 months, Things take time weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | Things take time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Chester How |
Customer experience
Special Dates
Things take time
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
Things take time
- Things take time + Monthly$2.991 Month
- Things take time + Lifetime$34.99
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