zeitgeist vs Mirror Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
zeitgeist
A minimalist game that challenges your brain and reaction speed through color and pattern matching. Aim to beat your personal best times and unlock new levels. It's ideal for quick bursts of mental stimulation.
- Minimalist design
- Color and pattern matching
- Brain training
- Reaction time tests
- Unlockable levels
- Beat personal best times
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A minimal color and pattern matching game, designed to test your brain and reaction times. Beat your best time, unlock extra levels, and keep your mind sharp. Perfect for when you have a few seconds to spare.
Mirror Day
Explore historical figures and events by traveling back in time daily from a chosen significant date. Discover who was alive, deceased, or would be born on any given day in history. Receive daily notifications and access detailed biographies with links to Wikipedia.
- Daily historical reflection
- User-defined Mirror Day
- Historical figure biographies
- Wikipedia integration
- Daily notifications
- Social sharing
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Travel back in time every day from your Mirror Day, which can be your birthday, high school graduation, wedding anniversary, or any other fixed point in time. Every day the reflection of today in your Mirror Day moves back another day, and we show you who was in political office, who was alive, who was deceased, and who would be born in the future. The persons are shown in order of the length of their Wikipedia article. Get a notification once a day on weekdays, weekends, or both to check out a new person of historical importance. Tap a picture tile and get a short biography, a big picture, timelines, and a link to the corresponding Wikipedia page. Share your Mirror Day reflection with friends via text, email, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. Great for history buffs seeking a personal connection to the lives of the people who made history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mirror Day at 5.0 against zeitgeist's 3.5. Mirror Day also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mirror Day holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
zeitgeist ships an update every 16 months, Mirror Day every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | zeitgeist | Mirror Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Kennedy | Stephen Mykytyn |
Customer experience
zeitgeist
Mirror Day
In-app purchases
zeitgeist
No in-app purchases
Mirror Day
No in-app purchases
