Special Dates vs Pocket Goals
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
Pocket Goals
This app helps you save money and organize your aspirations. Set goals, track your progress with notes and photos, and stay motivated with milestone celebrations and smart nudges. Organize your objectives into folders and pin important ones for easy access.
- Track savings and goal progress
- Create goals with photos, notes, and links
- Organize goals into folders
- Pin important goals
- Milestone celebrations and smart nudges
- iCloud sync
- Siri/Shortcut support
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Pocket Goals helps you save money, organize goals, and stay motivated. Set goals for anything you want to accomplish, whether it’s a product or an experience. Track your progress, add notes, organize goals into lists, queue up next ones, and celebrate milestones along the way. Features: • Track savings and goal progress • Create goals with photos, notes, and links • Organize goals into lists • Queue up next goals • Milestone celebrations and smart nudges • Receipt, showing your prices and a summary • iCloud sync • Siri/Shortcut support Pocket Goals is designed to make progress feel motivating, visual, and rewarding, one update at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Goals at 5.0 against Special Dates's 4.0. Pocket Goals also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. Pocket Goals asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Goals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Special Dates's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Goals's.
Special Dates ships an update every 3 months, Pocket Goals weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | Pocket Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Barnabas Kordas |
Customer experience
Special Dates
Pocket Goals
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
Pocket Goals
No in-app purchases
