Special Dates vs Аҧхьаҩ
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
Аҧхьаҩ
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Аҧхьаҩ reads Abkhazian text from a photograph, from the Bagrat Shinkuba Foundation. Photograph a page of a book, a newspaper or a document. The app breaks it into blocks, recognises the text and hands it back in letters: copy it, hear it read aloud, correct it, save it. WHY IT EXISTS Almost everything written in Abkhazian over the past century exists only on paper. Until a text is typed, it cannot be searched, quoted, translated or read aloud. Аҧхьаҩ is a way to put those pages back into circulation. HONEST ABOUT QUALITY Recognising Abkhazian is hard: the language has letters of its own and there is little material for models to learn from. The app marks the places where it is unsure and lets you correct them. The result is a draft that saves you the typing, not a finished publication. WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPH The image goes to our server only to be turned into text, and is deleted the moment that finishes. It is not stored, not looked at by a person, and not used to train models. No account, no advertising, no trackers. Details at bagrat.fund/privacy.html Needs a connection: recognition runs on the foundation's servers. There is a daily request limit — the service runs on hardware the foundation pays for. ABOUT THE FOUNDATION The Bagrat Shinkuba Foundation carries the name of a poet, linguist and statesman who spent a lifetime proving that a small language can hold a whole world. UNESCO lists Abkhazian as vulnerable. We build digital tools that keep it spoken, read and heard. info@bagrat.fund
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Аҧхьаҩ at 100% against Special Dates's 61%. Аҧхьаҩ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Аҧхьаҩ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Special Dates ships an update every 3 months, Аҧхьаҩ weekly. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Special Dates | Аҧхьаҩ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Danial Zakaria |
Customer experience
Special Dates
Аҧхьаҩ
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
Аҧхьаҩ
No in-app purchases








