Date Today vs DateSmith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Date Today
Enhance your home screen with customizable calendar widgets. Choose from numerous themes and styles to personalize your display, or create your own unique widget designs. Save multiple widgets for different looks.
- Minimalist calendar widgets
- Dozens of theme styles
- Customizable background, text, and fonts
- Save multiple widgets
- Different widget sizes
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Calendar Widget is the most easy-to-use minimal design calendar widget app. Add stylish calendar widgets directly onto your home screen. Customize your home screen ▲ There are dozens of cute theme styles to meet your home screen beautification needs. ▲ Easily design your own widget with Calendar Widget ▲ Customized background, text color & fonts ▲ Save many widgets and have a different type of widget on your home screen at the same time ▲ Choose from different sizes (small, medium, large)
DateSmith
Enhance your iPhone's lock screen with a beautifully formatted date display. This app specializes in the premium space above your clock, offering customizable formats and reliable midnight updates. Track important events with a countdown mode and enjoy a minimalist, privacy-focused design.
- Custom date widget for above lock screen clock
- Multiple widget formats
- Personalized date formats
- Countdown mode for events
- Automatic midnight updates
- Privacy-focused design
- Battery efficient
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Your date, above the clock. DateSmith puts a clearer, fuller date in the line above your Lock Screen clock, or a countdown to the day you are looking forward to. Now with bold Home Screen widgets you can make your own. YOUR FORMAT, YOUR WAY Pick any two of month, date, weekday and year, each in the style you like. See it live in a Lock Screen preview that changes with every tap. COUNTDOWNS Name it and pick the day. DateSmith shows the days left until a trip, a birthday or a big day. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small, medium and large widgets show your date or countdown in big, clear type, with a week strip on the medium size, a month calendar on the large size and a date page on medium countdowns. - Themes: Dawn, Ocean, Aurora, Graphite and System - Your own photo, framed for the square and wide widget shapes - A different photo for Dark Mode if you like - Liquid Glass style text with a soft highlight and depth, or crisp solid text UPDATES ON ITS OWN DateSmith prepares the week ahead, so your widgets change each day, even when the app is closed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads and no analytics. Your widgets need no internet connection. DateSmith never uploads your photo. SIMPLE SETUP 1. Touch and hold your Lock Screen 2. Tap Customize 3. Tap the date above the time 4. Choose DateSmith 5. Tap Done For the Home Screen, touch and hold an empty area of your Home Screen, tap Edit, tap Add Widget, then choose DateSmith. PLANS Try every format, countdown, theme, photo and text style free for 7 days. When the preview ends, your widgets show Preview Ended in place of your date or countdown until you subscribe. DateSmith Monthly or DateSmith Yearly keeps your widgets working. DateSmith Monthly includes a one-week free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ben637482548.github.io/datesmith/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DateSmith at 100% against Date Today's 29%. DateSmith also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Date Today's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (28 vs 2). On price, 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. Date Today sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DateSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DateSmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Date Today has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Date Today's written reviews are positive against 100% of DateSmith's.
Date Today ships an update every 4 days, DateSmith every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Date Today | DateSmith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC | Benjamin Staab |
Customer experience
Date Today
DateSmith
In-app purchases
Date Today
- Lifetime$9.99
DateSmith
- DateSmith Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- DateSmith Yearly$4.991 Year
