Comparison

Midnight Dates vs Blabby

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Blabby

This app reads typed text aloud in real-time, word by word. Save frequently used phrases as presets and display sentences in large text for easy viewing. Supports multiple languages with quick switching.

Highlights
  • Real-time text-to-speech
  • Quick Presets for phrases
  • Large text display
  • Multi-language support
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Blabby is a text-to-speech app designed to be a joy to use. What you type is read out loud in real time, word by word, so your conversation partners don’t have to wait for you to type the entire sentence. And there’s no need to type the same things over and over! Commonly used phrases can be saved as Quick Presets for one-tap access, or to the Bookmarks. Sometimes text is the most effective way to communicate. Blabby displays your sentences in huge letters, so you can just show someone your screen, even at a distance. Polyglots can easily enable multiple languages and quickly switch between them. English (UK and US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish are supported. If your language isn’t supported, please email feedback@kaylees.site and let me know. And obviously: no ads, no tracking, no data collection, no account required, no dark patterns. Blabby was built with love and patience. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Screenshots

Midnight Dates4 screens
Blabby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blabby at Free against Midnight Dates's $1.99. Blabby also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (12 vs 4). Midnight Dates's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On rating, update cadence and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Blabby is free to download; Midnight Dates costs $1.99 up front. Midnight Dates sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Blabby asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Midnight Dates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 12 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Midnight Dates versus Blabby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMidnight DatesBlabby
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings412 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMidnight Beep SoftworksKaylee Calderolla

Customer experience

Midnight Dates

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blabby

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Midnight Dates

One-time4
  • Coffee Tip$0.99
  • Taco Tip$1.99
  • Burrito Tip$4.99
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  • Beer Tip$9.99
None

Blabby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Midnight Dates free?
Midnight Dates costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Blabby free?
Blabby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Midnight Dates or Blabby?
Midnight Dates is rated higher. Midnight Dates averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Blabby averages 4.8 from 12 ratings.
Do Midnight Dates or Blabby have ads?
Neither Midnight Dates nor Blabby shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Midnight Dates or Blabby?
Midnight Dates ships an update every 4 months, and Blabby every 4 months. Most recently, Midnight Dates was updated on October 30, 2026 and Blabby on October 24, 2026.

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