Midnight Dates vs Data Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Data Plan
Monitor your cellular, Wi-Fi, and eSIM data usage with detailed tracking plans and customizable notifications. Stay informed about your consumption and avoid exceeding limits with intuitive widgets and an autonomous background service.
- Cellular and Wi-Fi interface support
- eSIM tracking
- Flexible tracking plan creation
- Multiple plan management
- Home and Lock screen widgets
- Customizable usage limit notifications
- Autonomous background tracking
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Data Plan provides comprehensive network monitoring that fits your specific needs. Stay in control of your data consumption with an intuitive interface that shows exactly what you need to know. FEATURES OVERVIEW - Supports Cellular and Wi-Fi Interfaces The app supports monitoring of cellular and Wi-Fi interfaces, including eSIMs. - Flexible Configuration Create tracking plans that fit your needs. — Rolling Window Track data usage within rolling number of days. For example, if you need to keep tracking 10 GB within the last 3 days. — Rollover Data Automatically move unused data to the next cycle. - Multiple Plans Create as many tracking plans as needed. - Widgets Stay on top of your data usage with clear & intuitive Home & Lock screen widgets. - Notifications Configure notifications for getting reminders about reaching daily or cycle limits. - Autonomous With the needed setup completed correctly, you do not need to open the app, and it will still track the data correctly. WHAT THE APP CAN'T DO While many features are supported, and the app provides the best tracking of network data usage possible, there are still limitations imposed by iOS. - Multiple SIM or eSIMs Data Plan cannot automatically track data usage for multiple SIMs / eSIMs at the same time. Currently, iOS does not allow that. You can still track data per SIM / eSIM, if you allow one SIM / eSIM connection at a time. This can be configured in the Device Settings. - Roaming Data Plan cannot automatically track when you go roaming. This might be possible in the future with location-based tracking. FREE TRIAL Because the app essentially offers one main feature, it requires being on a paid plan. When installing the app, everyone is entitled to a 7-day trial, and the app sends a notification 2 days before the trial expires. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS Data Plan features are available as a $3.99 monthly or $12.99 and $19.99 auto-renewable yearly subscriptions or equal to the same price tier as Apple Store Matrix determines as the equivalent the price in USD. The exact price is only available in the app and is determined by the currently active offer or promo campaign. Your iTunes account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the billing period. You can go to your iTunes Account Settings to manage your subscription & turn off auto-renew. To restore all your previous purchases use the "Restore Purchases" button located at the Become Pro view. Terms of Use - https://dataplan.app/terms Privacy Policy - https://dataplan.app/privacy Download Data Plan today and take control of your data!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Data Plan at Free against Midnight Dates's $1.99. Data Plan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 4). Midnight Dates's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and device support (5 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Data Plan is free to download; Midnight Dates costs $1.99 up front. Midnight Dates sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Data Plan sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Midnight Dates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Data Plan has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Midnight Dates ships an update every 4 months, Data Plan every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Midnight Dates | Data Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.8 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 38.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Midnight Beep Softworks | Oleh Stasula |
Customer experience
Midnight Dates
Data Plan
In-app purchases
Midnight Dates
- Coffee Tip$0.99
- Taco Tip$1.99
- Burrito Tip$4.99
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- Beer Tip$9.99
Data Plan
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
- Lifetime$49.99
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