Snowglobe vs Birthday Reminders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snowglobe
Transform your phone into a dynamic snow globe with interactive falling snowflakes. Customize scenes, add your own photos or live video, and enjoy festive holiday fun with adjustable effects and sound.
- Interactive falling snowflakes
- Tilt-activated movement
- Customizable scenes
- Use personal photos/videos
- Adjustable snowflake size/speed
- Optional sleigh bell sounds
- Live video integration
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Download some holiday fun! Turn your phone into a classic toy with snowflakes that swirl around, falling whichever way you tilt the phone. Touch and move your finger to add more flakes to the globe, and shake the phone to really get things flying! But don't shake too much, or you may get a surprise :) Choose from wonderful built-in scenes, including a Christmas tree with flickering lights, a snowman, baby polar bear, dancing penguin, and a bunny giving out carrots as holiday presents. Or take a picture with your iPhone camera or choose one from your photo library to show inside the snow globe. Fully customizable with adjustable snowflake size and speed, optional sleigh bell sound effects when you shake the phone, and the ability to make your own scenes. Or if you aren't feeling wintry, turn the snowflakes into rainbow colored confetti. - Now with the ability to show live video inside the snowglobe!
Birthday Reminders
Never miss an important date again. This app helps you organize and track birthdays and anniversaries from your contacts. Receive timely notifications and easily add missing birthday information.
- Organize contact birthdays
- Search and fix missing birthdays
- Receive customizable notifications
- See upcoming and missed birthdays
- Add birthdays to contacts
- Syncs with address book
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Never forget a birthday or anniversary again. Birthday Reminders turns the birthdays in your Contacts into a clear, timely reminder list. See what is coming up, what you missed, and which contacts still need a birthday. Add or correct birthdays quickly, then receive a local notification at the hour you choose. Features: • View upcoming birthdays and recently missed birthdays • Find contacts with missing birthdays • Search and filter your contacts • Add or edit birthdays directly in your Contacts • See countdowns and ages at a glance • Receive configurable birthday notifications • Keep birthdays in your standard Contacts database Your birthdays stay connected to the Contacts features already built into iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Birthday Reminders at 4.2 against Snowglobe's 2.0. Birthday Reminders also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Snowglobe's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 20%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ratings volume, 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
Snowglobe costs $0.99 and Birthday Reminders $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Birthday Reminders holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Snowglobe's written reviews are positive against 20% of Birthday Reminders's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Snowglobe ships an update every 2 months, Birthday Reminders every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Snowglobe | Birthday Reminders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 20.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maverick Software LLC | bitrzr, LDA |
Customer experience
Snowglobe
Birthday Reminders
In-app purchases
Snowglobe
No in-app purchases
Birthday Reminders
No in-app purchases
Questions
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