Week vs The Week Number
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Week
This app displays the current week number directly on its icon as a badge, updating automatically in the background. It also offers a widget for your home or lock screen and an Apple Watch app with complications for quick access to the week number.
- App icon badge displays current week number
- Background updates via local events
- Notification Center widget
- Apple Watch app with complications
- Calculate week number for any date
- Universal app for all Apple devices
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The week app you don't even have to launch to use! Week shows you the current week number on the app icon as a badge. It will update it's badge number to the current week in the background using iOS local events. From version 4.1 you can also use the built-in Notification center widget to swiftly get the current week on your lock screen or home screen. Version 4.2 also includes an app for your Apple Watch. Now you can add week complications to your watch faces and never miss the current week again. Inside the app you can calculate the week number for any arbitrary date just like before. Week is also a universal app so you can run it on any of your devices, like the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. So if you're looking for THE week app you found it.
The Week Number
Quickly determine the week number for any past or future date. Offers both US and ISO week numbering methods. The app icon updates to display the current week number upon launch.
- Calculate week number for any date
- Supports US week numbering (Sunday start)
- Supports ISO week numbering (Monday start)
- Icon badge displays current week number
- Past and future date calculations
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This application calculates the number of the week for any date in the past and the future. It can either use the US method (first day of week is a Sunday) or the ISO method (first day is a Monday, first week contains the first Thursday of the year). It updates the icon badge to the current week number on each start.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Week at 52% against The Week Number's 0%. Week also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and monetization model (free vs paid). On price, ratings volume, 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
Week costs $0.99 and The Week Number $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Week holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Week's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Week Number's.
Week ships an update every 6 months, The Week Number every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Week | The Week Number |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bitfield AB | Piet Jonas |
Customer experience
Week
The Week Number
In-app purchases
Week
No in-app purchases
The Week Number
No in-app purchases
