Special Dates vs TaskFace
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
TaskFace
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TaskFace keeps the top items of the built-in Reminders app on your Apple Watch face, all the time. Just raise your wrist to see what to do next. Your reminders stay where they are: adding with Siri, syncing across devices and viewing in the Reminders app all work as before. ■ On your watch face • Shows your top reminders (up to 4 lines) in a watch face complication • Supported faces: Modular, Modular Compact, Infograph Modular • Show upcoming calendar events too. Choose how many lines, and how many of them are for events • Events stay for 1 hour after they start. All-day events fill spare lines. Holidays are not shown • 15 colors for reminders and events ■ Arrange on iPhone • Drag to reorder — the order is saved as the priority in Reminders itself • Add, complete and rename right in TaskFace. Changes go to your watch face instantly • Check off an item on Apple Watch and you have 5 seconds to undo • A Home Screen widget shows the same list ■ Always up to date • Set up one Shortcuts automation to refresh the face whenever you close Reminders, and you're done • Tap the complication to update it on the spot ■ Your data • Uses only the reminders and calendars on your iPhone. The app stores nothing of its own • No account. No ads. No analytics • The app never connects to the internet. Nothing leaves your devices Requires an iPhone paired with an Apple Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TaskFace at every 5 days against Special Dates's every 3 months. TaskFace also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and TaskFace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Special Dates ships an update every 3 months, TaskFace every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Dates | TaskFace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernesto Fernández Calles | Jin Nakamura |
In-app purchases
Special Dates
- Coffee$0.99
- Cake$2.99
- Party$4.99
TaskFace
- One Coffee$0.99









