Comparison

Happy vs Recapper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Happy

This app helps you track important dates like birthdays and anniversaries with customizable countdowns and count-ups. It offers widgets, event journaling, and automatic calculations for special occasions.

Highlights
  • Countdown and count-up support
  • Anniversary and birthday tracking
  • Customizable widgets
  • Event journaling
  • Automatic date calculations
  • Birthday constellations and dynamic age icons
Features
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Happy:Days is a lovely and modern day counter for 2023 and beyond. It doesn't just count things down or up, but helps people to remind and celebrate the little things in a special way. • Support countdown & count-up, anniversary, birthday, and age. • A wide-time collection of widgets with customizable designs. • Linked relevant events in a two-way that to see how things connected. • Annotate the event node and time of journaling. • Automatically calculate the number of birthdays or anniversaries. • Display birthday constellations and dynamic age icons. • Support different time and age units. --- Happy:Days Pro Subscription Pricing and Terms Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription will automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You can managed to turn off auto-renewal in your Apple ID Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited after purchases a subscription. Term of Service: https://floatingislandapps.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://floatingislandapps.com/privacy-policy --- If you have any questions or suggestions, welcome to drop us a line: allen@floatingislandapps.com Happy:Days @Instagram

About

Recapper

Features
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Great ideas don't wait for your desk. On the move, out of the office, on the way back from a meeting — "voice memos" used to mean recording, transferring to a PC, pasting into a summary service, and copying the result into your own tools. Recapper folds that whole round trip into one step. Just speak. Your words are transcribed on the spot, turned into a summary and to-dos, and delivered straight to Obsidian, Reminders, and Calendar. By the time you're home, your action items are already where they belong. ■ Fully on-device speech recognition - Real-time transcription (Japanese, English, and more). Nothing is sent to a network for recognition - Works in airplane mode — confidential meetings and private voice memos stay on your device - No analytics, no ads, no tracking ■ From speech to something you can use - Automatic summaries and to-dos. Choose your engine: on-device AI, keyless Recapper Cloud (generated by Google Gemini via our relay server — content is never stored), or your own API key (GPT / Gemini / Claude) - Cloud summaries run only when you select them in Settings; the default is on-device - Customizable summary prompts - Meeting-minutes format with timestamps and participants - Full-text search across your history — participants, context, every utterance ■ Delivered to your everyday tools - Obsidian: Markdown with timestamps, summary, and to-dos written straight into your vault - Apple Reminders / Calendar: register to-dos and events on the spot - Notion / Slack / Webhook (Pro): send results to where your team already works ■ On Mac and iPhone - Universal purchase — buy once, Pro unlocks on both Mac and iPhone - Mac: also captures the other side of online meetings (system audio) — meeting minutes, hands-free - iPhone: optimized for in-person conversations, lectures, and voice memos - A visible indicator is always shown while recording. When recording calls or meetings, please make sure you have the other participants' consent where required ■ Pricing The free version includes on-device transcription, summaries, and Obsidian / Reminders / Calendar integration. Plus, on iPhone you can try 5 keyless cloud AI summaries free every month. - Recapper Cloud (monthly subscription): 30 keyless cloud AI summaries per month. No setup, no API key - Recapper Pro (one-time purchase): unlimited summaries with your own API key (GPT / Gemini / Claude) plus Notion / Slack / Webhook integration. Not a subscription ■ About the subscription Recapper Cloud is an auto-renewable monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://recapper.neuronest.jp/privacy

Screenshots

Happy4 screens
Recapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Recapper at daily against Happy's every 3 weeks. Happy's advantage is 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Happy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Recapper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Happy ships an update every 3 weeks, Recapper daily. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Happy versus Recapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappyRecapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFloating Island Technology Co., Ltd.YUUYA SATOU

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions2
  • Happy:Days Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Happy:Days Pro Yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Happy:Days Pro Lifetime2 variants$12.99
2 purchases

Recapper

Subscriptions1
  • Recapper Cloud$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Recapper Pro$11.99

Questions

Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recapper free?
Recapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Happy or Recapper have ads?
Neither Happy nor Recapper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happy or Recapper?
Happy ships an update every 3 weeks, and Recapper daily. Most recently, Happy was updated on September 18, 2026 and Recapper on September 17, 2026.

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