Mirror Day vs Rabbit Hole
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.
Rabbit Hole
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Five minutes on your phone, and you put it down knowing something new. Rabbit Hole swaps the endless scroll for a calm feed of things actually worth your attention: a castle nobody visits, a cave that swallowed a river, a painting with a strange past, tonight's galaxy. No likes, no comments, no notifications, no account, no ads. Just one good story per screen, and a feed that stays partly random on purpose, so it never traps you. Swipe up for the next card. Tap to read the whole story. Swipe right to save it, left to see less like it. Pinch to look closer. Press Deeper to follow the thread into related stories, as far down the rabbit hole as you like. WHAT YOU GET • A mix of your interests (60%) and pure random (40%). 30 interests: abandoned places, space, castles, caves, architecture, birds, transport, clocks and watches, gems, actors and musicians, books, films, albums, video games, today in the world, on this day and more. • Deeper: from any card, dive into related ones — the same artist, author, animal family or category, plus Wikipedia's "more like this". Levels stack; come back up whenever you like. • Taste: swipe left and the feed shows less of that topic; save and it shows more. The taste model lives on your phone, is visible in Settings and resets with one tap. • Share: turn any card into a clean image for a chat or a story, in portrait or story format, light or dark, with the source credited. • Places nearby: Wikipedia articles about spots within 200 km of you, with a button to open them in Maps. • Eight languages: the interface and Wikipedia in English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, Czech and Polish. Mix reading languages any way you like. • Saved cards, exported as a Markdown file that drops straight into Obsidian or any notes app. • Works with a flaky connection: images are prefetched, and the feed quietly retries when the network drops. PRIVACY No tracking, no account, no ads. Only anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off. Saved cards and the taste model never leave your phone. Location is used only if you turn on "Places nearby", and only to search Wikipedia around you. SOURCES Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Foundation), The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, iNaturalist, Open Library. All content belongs to its authors and is shown with a link to the source.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rabbit Hole at every 5 weeks against Mirror Day's every 22 months. Mirror Day's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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, Rabbit Hole every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mirror Day | Rabbit Hole |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Stephen Mykytyn | ROMAN Petrov |
In-app purchases
Mirror Day
No in-app purchases
Rabbit Hole
No in-app purchases
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