Comparison

days vs BetterReminders

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

BetterReminders

Never miss an important event with this voice-narrated reminder app. Set up reminders in seconds with an easy interface and receive spoken alerts even when your device is locked. Mark tasks as complete to automatically cancel alarms.

Highlights
  • Voice-narrated alarms
  • Easy reminder setup
  • Automatic alarm cancellation
  • Unlimited one-time reminders
  • Unlimited repeating reminders
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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Tired of missing calendar notifications? BetterReminders is the app for you! BetterReminders is a reminders app which provides voice-narrated alarms that tell you exactly which event is coming up -- all without picking up your device! Our easy-to-navigate user interface allows you to set up a reminder in seconds! How it works: Type in a reminder, pick a time, and you’re all set! It’s hassle-free -- no need to record or find audio files -- BetterReminders will handle everything! When it's time to remind you, BetterReminders will ring first, then read out your reminder to let you know which event is coming up. Finished a task early? Mark a reminder as “completed” and the alarm will automatically cancel! BetterReminders supports unlimited one-time and repeating reminders! Notes • Audio will play for up to 30 seconds if your phone is locked and up to 5 seconds if your phone is unlocked. • Supports 7 unique ringtones. • Supports Dark Mode. • Optimized for both iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

days4 screens
BetterReminders4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BetterReminders at 5.0 against days's 3.1. BetterReminders also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). days's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 BetterReminders $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BetterReminders holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of days's written reviews are positive against 100% of BetterReminders's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

days ships an update every 3 weeks, BetterReminders every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 10, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
days versus BetterReminders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdaysBetterReminders
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating3.1 (13 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#200 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaim ChoudhryDerek Luan

Customer experience

days

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

BetterReminders

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

days

No in-app purchases

None

BetterReminders

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is days free?
days costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BetterReminders free?
BetterReminders costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, days or BetterReminders?
BetterReminders is rated higher. days averages 3.1 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while BetterReminders averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do days or BetterReminders have ads?
Neither days nor BetterReminders shows ads.
Which is updated more often, days or BetterReminders?
days ships an update every 3 weeks, and BetterReminders every 6 weeks. Most recently, days was updated on July 10, 2026 and BetterReminders on June 24, 2026.

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