Birthday Reminders vs CircleIt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
CircleIt
Send messages, cards, and gifts to loved ones in the future. Preserve family memories and build a digital time capsule for generations to come. Connect privately with end-to-end encrypted chat and schedule future deliveries.
- Send future messages and cards
- Schedule future deliveries
- End-to-end encrypted chat
- Build family tree
- Digital time capsule for memories
- Guest mode for sending/receiving
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Just imagine if you could send a message to anyone in the future. Would you congratulate your grandchild on their wedding? Would you send your son or daughter advice on looking for jobs or raising their own children? Would you remind your spouse how much you love them, even after you’re gone? This is the magic of CircleIt, the world’s first generational platform. With CircleIt, you can: - Guest Mode: Experience the delight of sending and receiving digital cards and gifts with your friends and family without the need to create an account. Plus, you can use our future - delivery feature to send your card to any future date. - Create & send digital greeting cards for your family and friends, personalize them with attached media, and schedule them to be delivered to any future date. - Chat privately with loved ones on our end-to-end encrypted network. Schedule messages to arrive on any future date or time. So whether you need to wish your child good luck on a final exam, or remind your spouse you love them 20 years from now, you can do it with CircleIt. - Build and nurture your family tree, with information that will be discovered by future generations. Instead of keeping documents and photos in a box in the basement, you can store these precious memories in a secure digital time capsule for your family to cherish and enjoy. The CircleIt app is 100% free to use. We’ve been referred to as “Hallmark for the 21st century” by press and media outlets, and our 4 million+ happy members around the world are happily sharing memories with their families and friends. CircleIt is the perfect app for families. Parents can use it to store memories for their children. Grandparents can send gifts for important milestones in the lives of their grandkids. Terminally ill individuals can leave messages for those that they love to receive in the future. Police, firefighters and military personnel can have peace of mind knowing their families have mementos of their love. Children can create Mother’s Day cards and even send tulips, flowers, carnations, and other flowers to their mom or grandmother in advance. Download & install CircleIt today, and start preserving your legacy and sending cards & gifts to the future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CircleIt at 96% against Birthday Reminders's 20%. CircleIt also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.7 vs 4.2). Birthday Reminders's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
CircleIt is free to download; Birthday Reminders costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CircleIt holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CircleIt has 325 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Birthday Reminders's written reviews are positive against 96% of CircleIt's.
Birthday Reminders ships an update every 3 months, CircleIt every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birthday Reminders | CircleIt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (325 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.4% of reviews | 96.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 325 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | bitrzr, LDA | CircleIt Inc |
Customer experience
Birthday Reminders
CircleIt
Bugs and requests
Birthday Reminders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
CircleIt
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Compatibility issues with older devices
- Unreliable payroll and financial issues
Requested features
4 requests- Expand gifting and delivery options
- Add more customization for cards and messages
- Improve notification system
- Integrate with other communication channels
In-app purchases
Birthday Reminders
No in-app purchases
CircleIt
No in-app purchases
Questions
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