Mirror Day vs SimpleDiceWidget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mirror Day
Explore historical figures and events by traveling back in time daily from a chosen significant date. Discover who was alive, deceased, or would be born on any given day in history. Receive daily notifications and access detailed biographies with links to Wikipedia.
- Daily historical reflection
- User-defined Mirror Day
- Historical figure biographies
- Wikipedia integration
- Daily notifications
- Social sharing
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Travel back in time every day from your Mirror Day, which can be your birthday, high school graduation, wedding anniversary, or any other fixed point in time. Every day the reflection of today in your Mirror Day moves back another day, and we show you who was in political office, who was alive, who was deceased, and who would be born in the future. The persons are shown in order of the length of their Wikipedia article. Get a notification once a day on weekdays, weekends, or both to check out a new person of historical importance. Tap a picture tile and get a short biography, a big picture, timelines, and a link to the corresponding Wikipedia page. Share your Mirror Day reflection with friends via text, email, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. Great for history buffs seeking a personal connection to the lives of the people who made history.
SimpleDiceWidget
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This app is a simple dice app with widget functionality for iPhone and iPad. With this app, you can roll numbers instantly. Now you can have fun playing with dice anytime, anywhere!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mirror Day at 14.0 against SimpleDiceWidget's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mirror Day ships an update every 22 months, SimpleDiceWidget every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and March 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mirror Day | SimpleDiceWidget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Mykytyn | Shota Abe |
In-app purchases
Mirror Day
No in-app purchases
SimpleDiceWidget
No in-app purchases
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