Comparison

When Does vs HolyDates

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

Head to head
About

When Does

This app provides the dates for numerous holidays and observances throughout the year. Users can easily add these events to their personal calendars or send them via email to themselves or others. It's a convenient reference for tracking important dates, including major holidays and time changes.

Highlights
  • Holiday date lookup
  • Add holidays to calendar
  • Email holiday information
  • Includes major holidays
  • Tracks US Daylight Saving Time
Features
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When Does tells you when a number of holidays occur in a given year. It allows you to add the holiday to your calendar or to email it to you or to someone else. If you want to know when a holiday occurs, look here! It includes Chinese New Year, Martin Luther King Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Passover, and many more! It also includes the start and end of US Daylight Savings Time.

About

HolyDates

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Version 1.10 No Advertisements, No In-App Purchases Did you ever need to look-up when Easter Sunday or Passover will be this year? Even though many of the religious holydays occur on the same date of the Hebrew calendar every year you may not know the corresponding date on the Gregorian calendar. HolyDates provides a quick answer to these questions. HolyDates uses algorithms provided by Jean Meeus in his book, “Astronomical Algorithms” second edition. His methods have become a sort-of standard for these sorts of computations. The information and functionality provided by HolyDates is divided onto several screens. The Main Screen: The day and date for eleven holy days are shown on the main screen. • Passover • Easter • Unleavened Bread (aka .Matzo) – seven days in length • First Fruits (two methods for determining this date) • Shavuot (two methods for determining this date) • Pentecost • Rosh Hashanah (aka Yom Teruach, Feast of Trumpets, New Year Day) • Yom Kippur (aka Day of Atonement) • Sukkot (aka Feast of Booths, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Tabernacles) The Julian Day Number Screen: Julian Day Numbers are used by astronomers to keep track of dates or perform date-related computations. HolyDates provides a separate screen for converting between the two systems. You can: • convert Gregorian Dates to Julian Day Number • convert Julian Day Numbers to Gregorian Dates The Information Screen: This is the HolyDates help file that provides additional background information. The origin of the modern calendar system and how HolyDates works are discussed.

Screenshots

When Does4 screens
HolyDates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: When Does at every 5 months against HolyDates's every 34 months. HolyDates's advantage is device support (5 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

When Does costs $0.99 and HolyDates $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

When Does ships an update every 5 months, HolyDates every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
When Does versus HolyDates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhen DoesHolyDates
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 34 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.612.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul T CotteyTom Stankey

In-app purchases

None

When Does

No in-app purchases

None

HolyDates

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is When Does free?
When Does costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HolyDates free?
HolyDates costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do When Does or HolyDates have ads?
Neither When Does nor HolyDates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, When Does or HolyDates?
When Does ships an update every 5 months, and HolyDates every 34 months. Most recently, When Does was updated on June 4, 2026 and HolyDates on October 5, 2026.

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