BusyBox Sign vs Midnight Dates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BusyBox Sign
Easily manage your smart signs by controlling their on/off status, selecting light colors, and setting various modes. Group multiple signs together to simplify status control and create visual messages.
- Set on/off status
- Pick light colors
- Set display modes
- Group signs together
- Simplify status control
- Create visual messages
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BusyBox Control app allows you to set on/off, pick light colors, set modes, group signs together. Control like this never felt so easy. BusyBox signs can work alone, or together as part of a one team of devices. You decide. Simplify your status control with groups. Sometimes an image is worth a thousand words. Use the App and the BusyBox D to make your message clear, fun and visual.
Midnight Dates
Easily track countdowns and count-ups for all your significant life events. Share these milestones with friends and family through various messaging and social platforms. Discover fun date-based facts and impress others with your knowledge of time.
- Track past and future dates
- Share dates via email, messages, and social media
- Supports iOS and watchOS with iCloud sync
- Import and export date URLs
- Backup dates via email
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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This app calculates exactly how long it’s been, or how long it will be until, all the important dates in your life. And Midnight Dates also helps you share these with your friends and family. It’s a fountain of really fun date-based information! Impress your friends: • “Honey, we’ve been together 157 weeks… awww.” • “Next Monday is the 400th day since I quit using Windows!” • “It’s 1 year, 7 months, 2 weeks and 5 days until retirement!” • “We have only 218 years until James T. Kirk is born.” • “Tomorrow is the 17,500th day since the Moon landing!” • “Only 50 more days until Christmas!” Simple to use: • Tap the "+" button to create new dates to track. • Tap the date in the list to see it’s details. • Tap the "…" button in to edit and share the date in various methods supported by your devices such as email, messages, Twitter, Facebook, or AirDrop. Features include: • Supports all iOS 10 and later compatible iPhones and iPads with universal layout and split app view • Includes watchOS 3 app and watch face complication to view your dates on the go • Syncs via iCloud automatically with iOS and watchOS versions • Track any Gregorian calendar date from January 1, 1 to December 31, 10,000 • Sort by name, date, and day of the year • Share via: email, messages, Twitter, Facebook and other text based methods • Share directly to another device via AirDrop • Import and export urls from email and web and other iOS apps • Backup all date via email (send to yourself) Tell everyone: If you are enjoying Midnight Dates, please leave us a five-star review. It helps us keep development going. Some features we're considering for future versions are: • Today widget for macOS and iOS • System notifications and reminders • Localizing to lots of languages • Date calculation in other calendar systems • Customizable font and color themes, and dark mode • Date information such as: moons, zodiac, number-names (i.e. sesquicentennial) If you are interested in any of these possible features, or have other ideas or questions, please email us at support@midnightbeep.com. More Tips When sharing via email the date’s full description is included, while sharing via Messages, Twitter or Facebook will only be a short summary. You can use AirDrop in the sharing panel to give the date to another person running Midnight Dates on their device. Backup or share all your dates by sending yourself an email from the Options view. The long url at the end will import them all together. Share dates via the web and email using the Midnight Dates url format: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31 or from multiple dates: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BusyBox Sign at Free against Midnight Dates's $1.99. BusyBox Sign also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Midnight Dates's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and device support (5 vs 2). On 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
BusyBox Sign is free to download; Midnight Dates costs $1.99 up front. Midnight Dates sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. BusyBox Sign asks for nothing beyond the download.
Midnight Dates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BusyBox Sign has 25 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BusyBox Sign ships an update every 2 months, Midnight Dates every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BusyBox Sign | Midnight Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Small Stage LLC | Midnight Beep Softworks |
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BusyBox Sign
No in-app purchases
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