Comparison

days vs Instint

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

days

This app helps you track important past and future dates, from personal milestones to expiring documents. It offers a clear interface to manage events outside of standard calendars, with customizable reminders and categorization.

Highlights
  • Track past and future life events
  • Customizable reminders up to 31 days in advance
  • Clear UI with extensive categorization
  • Manage events outside of standard calendars
  • iCloud sync across iOS devices
  • Filtering, searching, and sharing capabilities
Features
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days, the perfect complement to Calendar - Keep track of the most important dates in your life! ① If you’re tired of fishing through calendar apps to find important dates that you occasionally need, either from the distant past or the far off future, then days is for you! ② If you want to see clearly the events coming up in your calendars without being shown lots of empty white boxes with entries in text so tiny you can’t even read what’s there on a given day, then days is for you! ③ If you want to know how long it’s been since you left school / university, had your last hair cut, saw a doctor, had a vaccination, started your current job, left your previous job, when you bought your car, how old your television is, then days is for you! ④ If you want to be reminded up to 31 days before your passport / drivers license expires, when your mortgage / loans run down, when your next medical appointment is, when you need to perform routine maintenance on your household devices, when you have to renew your subscriptions / contracts, how long to go before your vacation starts or you can retire, then days is for you! ⑤ If you want a single app that keeps track of ALL the most important dates in your life, and lets you manage these in a simple and clear UI, yet provides extensive categorisation, sorting, filtering, searching, and sharing capabilities, showing how old a past event is or a countdown to when a future event will occur, then days is for you! Unlike most calendar apps which focus on events coming up in the near future, days has been designed to keep track of the most important dates in your life from the distant past to the distant future. It manages this by seamlessly combining calendar entries with its own database to store events outside of calendar. Use days to store distant past events such as your entire education, employment, medical history, and events off in the future like legal documents expiring, contracts running down, etc. Use days own database to store events in three broad stores: ► Days Gone - Great for important dates you need to remember from the past: Medical Dates, Personal Dates, Project Milestones, Employment Dates, Education Dates, Equipment Age, Journal / Log Book ► Annual - Great for annually recurring events, just enter the details once and days will always remember: Birthdays, Anniversaries, Name days, Death dates, Public Holidays, Historic Events, National Celebrations ► Days To Go - Excellent as a to-do reminder store for keeping track of important dates coming up in the future: Warranties Expiring, Membership / Subscription Renewals, Contractual Dates, Legal Documents Expiring, Bank Cards Expiring, Project Deadlines, Appointments, House Chores, Equipment Maintenance, Vacations and important Life Events Features _________ ► Universal app (iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch) with iCloud synch and other sharing features to transfer events between all iOS devices. ► Local notification alerts, you choose which events you want to be alerted to and how many days before, up to 31 days for Days To Go and Annual events. ► Instant sorting by Days-to-Go / Gone / Alphabetical - How many calendar's let you sort events alphabetically? ► Instant filtering on multiple Categories / Calendars. ► Copy entries across the lists, and to and from Calendars. ► Powerful search feature with drill down filtering. ► Add unlimited notes to each event, which are also checked when searching. ► Built in date calculator. ► Preferences to control display behaviour and set alert time. ► Change UI Theme Colours ► Choose from SF Symbols or Emojis to set category icons, and choose your own category colour ► Supports Light & dark Modes with the ability to set in the app your preferred choice, and supports adaptive text for using larger text reading sizes. All day’s events can be exported for backup, importing, or sharing. Note: Calendar events are integrated from 1 day back to 1 year forward.

About

Instint

This app helps families manage household chores, track birthdays, and share photo memories. Parents can assign tasks to children, set up rewards, and receive notifications for task completion. It also includes a feature for sharing family photos on home screens.

Highlights
  • Chore assignment and rewards for children
  • Birthday reminders and event planning
  • Real-time photo sharing widget
  • Household task management for parents
  • Task status updates and notifications
  • Family status sharing
Features
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Instint is a productivity app for families. With Instint, you can manage your household chores by assigning them to children and rewarding them for completing chores. The 'Pay Day' reminders allow you to ensure that your children are rewarded for completed their chores on time. The app has notifications for assigning new tasks, when they're completed, and when they're approved. Instint is a quick and fun way to stay on top of your family's chores. With the app, one or more parents can assign and mark tasks as complete for the entire family. Families can even use Instint to share their current status privately with each other. Keep track of birthdays with the entire family, plan celebrations together, and now you could also share photo memories right on your family's home screens with the real-time Memories photo widget. It's the best way to stay together all day even when you're not there with each other. Instint wants to become the productivity and task management app for families of all sizes. We want to make chores fun for all! You can create an account using Sign In with Apple, or using an email address. The account is required to be able to invite family members to your household and to enable notifications. Our goal is to make this process as easy as possible, especially for children. To create a household, all you need to do is scan a QR code displayed on your screen with your kids' phones. Some features: • No collecting and sharing of your personal information • A Birthdays tab to be able to remind yourself of upcoming birthdays as well as block time on your shared calendar for family activities • Photo Memories feature to see your wonderful family members' pictures on your Home Screen • Easy sign-in using Sign in With Apple • Household customization, including auto-approval of completed chores • Easily assign chores and tasks to kids • Made a mistake? No problem! Edit or delete assigned tasks • Could be used by one or more parents to manage the household • Parents could also assign tasks to another parent for a complete chore management functionality • Capability to send simple reminders to complete tasks • Approve and reject completed chores • Ability to mark a status as 'In-Progress'. Soon: ask someone for help! • A history view to browse all previously assigned and completed tasks • Widgets to keep an overview of tasks to be completed or approved • An upcoming birthdays widget • Simple and functional Status functionality to share what you're up to with the entire family. All without excessive notifications or algorithms • Actively developed with a long list of features in the pipeline We are working on some more amazing new features, and would be releasing them from time to time. Thank you for being a part of our journey! It is only possible with your help and support. Instint is not built to use your data for tracking or showing ads. There are no marketing notifications or email lists to opt out of. We are working towards creating a sustainable app that does not rely upon selling your information to stay in business. This is an app that would grow with your family members. While we now support pay-days that reward children with money, we plan to add even more reward types. This is an app that is fun to use for every age group, and we even use it to improve Instint itself! We are developers and designers with decades of experience building amazing apps, and our hope is that Instint would become a daily part of your household. We look forward to reading your feedback!

Screenshots

days4 screens
Instint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: days at 63% against Instint's 0%. days also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Instint's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Instint is free to download; days costs $0.99 up front. Instint sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. days asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

days ships an update every 3 weeks, Instint every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
days versus Instint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdaysInstint
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaim ChoudhrySaurabh Garg

Customer experience

days

All ratings13 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral23.1%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral13.3%
Negative24.2%

Instint

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

days

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Instint

One-time5
  • Coffee Tip$2.99
  • Breakfast Tip$3.99
  • Lunch Tip$8.99
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  • Brunch Tip$12.99
  • Family Dinner Tip$22.99

Questions

Is days free?
days costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Instint free?
Instint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do days or Instint have ads?
Neither days nor Instint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, days or Instint?
days ships an update every 3 weeks, and Instint every 4 weeks. Most recently, days was updated on October 5, 2026 and Instint on September 26, 2026.

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