Comparison

days vs Swatches Reader

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

Swatches Reader

Manage GIMP color palettes with this tool. Select colors, copy them as UIColor or hex strings, and grab colors from anywhere on your screen. It also extracts main colors from images and includes thumbnail and QuickLook extensions.

Highlights
  • GIMP color palette management
  • System color picker integration
  • Copy colors as UIColor, hex, or RGB
  • Grab color from any screen location
  • Auto extract main colors from images
  • Thumbnail and QuickLook extensions
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Color palettes management tool based on a GIMP format ( *.gpl ). Selected color can be changed by system's color picker or copied to clipboard as a UIColor or hex string or RGB description. You can grab color from any place on the screen. Auto extract main colors from the given image. The app also has included fast worked Thumbnails and QuickLook extensions.

Screenshots

days4 screens
Swatches Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: days at 63% against Swatches Reader's 0%. days also leads on price ($0.99 vs $5.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

days costs $0.99 and Swatches Reader $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

days ships an update every 3 weeks, Swatches Reader monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
days versus Swatches Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdaysSwatches Reader
Price$0.99 — better$5.99
Rating3.1 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaim ChoudhryViktor Goltvyanytsya

Customer experience

days

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

Swatches Reader

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

In-app purchases

None

days

No in-app purchases

None

Swatches Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is days free?
days costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swatches Reader free?
Swatches Reader costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do days or Swatches Reader have ads?
Neither days nor Swatches Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, days or Swatches Reader?
days ships an update every 3 weeks, and Swatches Reader monthly. Most recently, days was updated on October 5, 2026 and Swatches Reader on October 1, 2026.

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