Comparison

Big Day vs Memories

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

Head to head
About

Big Day

This app helps you track the time until important life events with customizable countdowns. It offers detailed timers, personalized visuals, and repeating alerts to enhance anticipation for holidays, anniversaries, and more.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive event countdowns
  • Hour, minute, and second timer
  • Customizable background visuals
  • Personalized countdown timer
  • Repeating and multiple alerts
  • Social sharing of events
  • Unlimited event tracking
Features
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“Big Day–The Countdown Clock” transforms your anticipation for every significant life event into an exhilarating countdown journey. Our Event Life Timer-Counter Clock is the epitome of precision and personalization, making sure you revel in the buildup to every special moment, from my love relationship countdowns to beach holiday adventures. Exceptional Features: • Comprehensive Countdowns: Centralize your life’s landmarks with our app—from every vacation countdown to each holiday milestone. • Versatile Timer: Not just a day countdown, but also hours, minutes, and seconds. Perfect for every holiday inn stay or event countdown pro. Customizable Visuals: Choose background images from our curated selection, your Photo Album, or snap a fresh one with your Camera. Ideal for remembering those special moments. • Personalized Countdown Timer: Tailor your event countdowns with customized visuals, and celebrate progress with our unique countdown.app. • Repeating Alerts: Never miss an anniversary or a weekly meeting with our repeating alerts, perfect for those recurring special moments. Set your countdowns to repeat in any pattern—ideal for recurring events like anniversary dates or weekly meetings at the holiday inn. • Multiple Alerts: Stay informed with up to five reminders for each countdown, ensuring you’re always on track, be it for next holiday’s prep or your event time management. • Social Sharing: Ignite shared excitement for your big events, from a wedding countdown to the next holiday, with our easy social sharing feature. • Unlimited Events: Your potential for celebration is limitless. Add endless countdowns for everything from those holiday inn stays to tracker day events and special days. Enhance your Big Day anticipation with stunning background images in the "Big Day-Event Countdown Clock - Our Life Timer-Special Counter app . Each image sets the perfect scene for every dream destination: Immerse yourself in a tropical paradise with a lush Hawaiian waterfall. Experience serenity with breathtaking beach scenes. Traverse an adventurous hiking trail. Watch the day end with a picturesque sunset. Relax at a peaceful campground adorned with tents. Celebrate love with an unforgettable honeymoon theme. Navigate your European adventures with a detailed map of Europe. Stand in awe of the powerful Statue of Liberty in New York. Journey through captivating sights in Italy, France, London, and other thrilling locations. Venture into an adventurous mountain valley. Savor the essence of Italy with a vineyard landscape, perfect for wine enthusiasts. With picturesque backdrops, your big days becomes an inspiring journey to the world’s most beloved destinations. Embrace the Countdown Journey, and start the countdown to your next big event. Let the anticipation of your holiday, summer travel, or any significant date turn into an interactive, joy-filled experience. Whether you're looking forward to your next holiday, tracking the time to a beach holiday, or counting down to the next big year with our countdown to new year feature, "Big Day–The Countdown App" is here to ensure your countdown events pro are always a joy. Don’t just count the days—make the days count with “Big Day–The Countdown Clock”: Download now and begin the countdown to life’s unforgettable milestones with our event counter clock, be it for personal milestones or shared celebrations. Your Moments, Memorably Counted: We’re all about making your special days even more memorable. Connect with us at info@bigday-countdown.com to share your journey and how we can enhance it. Your insights inspire our progress. The stage is set for your next grand event or intimate countdown. Seize the excitement with "Big Day–The Countdown App" and let the anticipation build to its crescendo. Here’s to every countdown and every moment in between! We used also some misspelling keywords such as: countd, coontdown and countdo so that you easy find our app in the app store!

About

Memories

Track and count down to important dates and special moments. Review past events and share them with others. Offers customization options and reminders to ensure you never miss a significant day.

Highlights
  • Countdown to events
  • Record special moments
  • Event day classification
  • Event day reminders
  • Customizable themes and backgrounds
  • Repeatable event days
  • Password protection
  • Desktop widgets
Features
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Time gives good advice. A day is a miniature of eternity. Memories is a Days Countdown app. It help you to countdown and record all your special moments. You can review and share these events and every moment of the day Memories features: 1. Full support for the new system iOS14. 2. Countdown and positive number of event days. 3. Event Day Classification. 4. Reminder of event day. 5. Multi-point color and multi-point theme selection. 6. Event days allow repeatability. 7. Easy to use operation, simple and beautiful interface. 8. Customize the day item background. 9. Password protects your exclusive days. 10. Customized desktop widget. If there is any problem during the use, please feedback your needs to us. Email: xiaolong520xu@gmail.com This subscription will be automatically renewed through your iTunes account, and the renewal fee will be deducted according to your package within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel the automatic renewal at the account settings office, and cancel the automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. If your trial is not over, the remaining days will automatically expire after you start to subscribe. To open a subscription, you need to agree to the following terms. Privacy Terms: http://huayang.kindofpure.cn/Junchuan/zh_doc.html Terms of service: http://huayang.kindofpure.cn/Junchuan/memory_zh_terms.html

Screenshots

Big Day4 screens
Memories4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Memories at Free against Big Day's $3.99. Memories also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Big Day's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (81 vs 8). On update cadence, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Memories is free to download; Big Day costs $3.99 up front. Big Day sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Memories sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Memories holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big Day has 81 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Big Day's written reviews are positive against 100% of Memories's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Big Day ships an update every 5 weeks, Memories every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Big Day versus Memories: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBig DayMemories
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (81 ratings)4.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings81 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWW Productions BVBA俊川 林

Customer experience

Big Day

All ratings81 ratings
Positive72.8%
Neutral8.6%
Negative18.5%
Written reviews222 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral7.2%
Negative22.1%

Memories

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Big Day

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Countdown time not always accurate
  • Inability to restore purchased content
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to set recurring events
  • Widget support for home screen
  • More free background image options
  • Countdown alerts/notifications

Memories

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Big Day

One-time9
  • package of 32 different Anniversaries background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Holidays background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Parties background images$1.99
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  • package of 32 different Events background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Celebrations background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Yearly background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Career background images$1.99
  • package of 32 different Personal background images$1.99
  • All background images$9.99
3 purchases

Memories

Subscriptions2
  • Memories Plus3 Days trial$1.491 Month
  • Quarterly Memories Plus3 Days trial$4.493 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$5.99

Questions

Is Big Day free?
Big Day costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Memories free?
Memories is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Big Day or Memories?
Memories is rated higher. Big Day averages 4.0 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Memories averages 4.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Big Day or Memories have ads?
Memories shows ads; Big Day does not.
Which is updated more often, Big Day or Memories?
Big Day ships an update every 5 weeks, and Memories every 2 months. Most recently, Big Day was updated on September 21, 2026 and Memories on June 24, 2026.

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