Comparison

Geofency vs Midnight Dates

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

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About

Geofency

Automatically track your time based on your location. This app records arrival and departure times as you enter or leave designated places, eliminating manual clock-in and clock-out. It offers detailed statistics, calendar export, and even integrates with home automation systems.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based time tracking
  • Graphical visualization of dwell times
  • Rich statistics and summaries
  • Webhook for home automation
  • Calendar export (iCloud, CalDAV, Exchange)
  • Apple Watch app
  • Export data to Excel-friendly format
Features
Currently charting
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GEOFENCY enables fully automatic location-based time recording on iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch, where manual clock-in and clock-out becomes an absurdity of the past. Arrival and departure times are automatically recorded as soon as you enter or leave an interesting place – it works like magic! Of course all very energy efficient, thanks to the latest Geofencing & iBeacon technologies! With the integrated Webhook and Apple HomeKit automation features, you can trigger your smart home as you arrive or leave a place (e.g. switch on the lights when coming home)! Ideal for automatic monitoring of working hours, client visits, lunch breaks or the stays on your favorite places! GEOFENCY offers the easiest and most effective way to MONITOR your DURATION OF STAYS on interesting places. Unpleasant manual time recording was yesterday! • Are you tired of having to write down working hours again and again? • Fed up leaving the office absently, missed to check the clock? • Can't you remember when you came or left your favorite places? Let the iPhone take over this nerve-racking time monitoring for you! With GEOFENCY this is now possible in a smart and clever new way! Simply mark your points of interest on a map and leave the rest to Geofency! GEOFENCY automatically tracks the times when you enter or leave your points of interest. Simply carry your iPhone in your pocket or bag with you. You will automatically receive extensive statistics and graphics over time! Automatic Location-based Time Tracking – The (GEO)FANCY way! FEATURES • Automatic location-based time tracking - 24/7 time recording for your points of interest! • Graphical visualization of your dwell times - with zoom! • Rich statistics: Single-, Day-, Week- & Month-Summaries. • Map-View: Manage your points of interest directly on a beautiful fullscreen map view. • Add new locations in seconds – With just one tap! • Runs completely in the background while trying to maintain good battery life! • Automatic recognition when you enter or leave a place or region. • Tags: To group places into tags. • Home Automation: Integrates with Webhooks and Apple HomeKit to trigger automations when arriving at or leaving a place – from turning on lights to running complex smart home scenes! • Journaling feature: Automatic recognition of frequent visited places – to know exactly when you've been where and how long! • Calendar-Export: Export events automatically into your calendar (iCloud, CalDAV & Exchange) – view your data comfortable even from Mac or PC! • Widgets: Time Clock widgets to quickly clock in or out from the Home- or Lockscreen. • Apple Watch App! • Export feature: Send time recordings via e.g. email in an Excel-friendly format! • Export time data and use it directly in Excel or Numbers! BENEFITS Simple to use daily timesaver! You don't have to fiddle around with time recordings on yourself. Free your mind and just don't bother about manual time tracking anymore! PRIVACY 100% Private: Only YOU can see your data. We will never collect or share any information about you. We respect and care about the privacy of our users! REQUIREMENTS For the best and most accurate monitoring results, Wi-Fi, carrier and location services should always be enabled for Geofency. iBeacon monitoring requires at least Bluetooth 4. BATTERY USE Continued use of GPS in the background can significantly reduce battery life. Geofency was designed to use GPS very sparingly and never in the background. The app relies mostly on cell tower + Wi-Fi locations. This has been carefully chosen to get the best battery life. WHAT PEOPLE SAY • "I had no idea that my iPhone could do such things!" • "Beautiful, polished and elegant designed. Extremely simple to use." • "Perhaps the most overall effective app available." Find out more on our landing page: www.geofency.com Sample-Scripts for easy webhook integration: www.geofency.com/geo.zip

About

Midnight Dates

Easily track countdowns and count-ups for all your significant life events. Share these milestones with friends and family through various messaging and social platforms. Discover fun date-based facts and impress others with your knowledge of time.

Highlights
  • Track past and future dates
  • Share dates via email, messages, and social media
  • Supports iOS and watchOS with iCloud sync
  • Import and export date URLs
  • Backup dates via email
  • Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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This app calculates exactly how long it’s been, or how long it will be until, all the important dates in your life. And Midnight Dates also helps you share these with your friends and family. It’s a fountain of really fun date-based information! Impress your friends: • “Honey, we’ve been together 157 weeks… awww.” • “Next Monday is the 400th day since I quit using Windows!” • “It’s 1 year, 7 months, 2 weeks and 5 days until retirement!” • “We have only 218 years until James T. Kirk is born.” • “Tomorrow is the 17,500th day since the Moon landing!” • “Only 50 more days until Christmas!” Simple to use: • Tap the "+" button to create new dates to track. • Tap the date in the list to see it’s details. • Tap the "…" button in to edit and share the date in various methods supported by your devices such as email, messages, Twitter, Facebook, or AirDrop. Features include: • Supports all iOS 10 and later compatible iPhones and iPads with universal layout and split app view • Includes watchOS 3 app and watch face complication to view your dates on the go • Syncs via iCloud automatically with iOS and watchOS versions • Track any Gregorian calendar date from January 1, 1 to December 31, 10,000 • Sort by name, date, and day of the year • Share via: email, messages, Twitter, Facebook and other text based methods • Share directly to another device via AirDrop • Import and export urls from email and web and other iOS apps • Backup all date via email (send to yourself) Tell everyone: If you are enjoying Midnight Dates, please leave us a five-star review. It helps us keep development going. Some features we're considering for future versions are: • Today widget for macOS and iOS • System notifications and reminders • Localizing to lots of languages • Date calculation in other calendar systems • Customizable font and color themes, and dark mode • Date information such as: moons, zodiac, number-names (i.e. sesquicentennial) If you are interested in any of these possible features, or have other ideas or questions, please email us at support@midnightbeep.com. More Tips When sharing via email the date’s full description is included, while sharing via Messages, Twitter or Facebook will only be a short summary. You can use AirDrop in the sharing panel to give the date to another person running Midnight Dates on their device. Backup or share all your dates by sending yourself an email from the Options view. The long url at the end will import them all together. Share dates via the web and email using the Midnight Dates url format: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31 or from multiple dates: mbd://DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31/DateName?2014-12-31

Screenshots

Geofency4 screens
Midnight Dates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Geofency at every 9 days against Midnight Dates's every 4 months. Geofency also leads on ratings volume (626 vs 4) and chart position (#62 vs unranked). Midnight Dates's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Geofency costs $4.99 and Midnight Dates $1.99 up front. Geofency sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Midnight Dates sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Midnight Dates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Geofency has 626 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Geofency ships an update every 9 days, Midnight Dates every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Geofency versus Midnight Dates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeofencyMidnight Dates
Price$4.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.7 (626 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings626 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#62 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarl Heinz HerbelMidnight Beep Softworks

Customer experience

Geofency

All ratings626 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews256 reviews
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.1%
Negative8.2%

Midnight Dates

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Geofency

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Inconsistent background tracking on newer iOS versions
  • Unreliable webhook integration for home automation

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to manually add/edit locations
  • Improve iBeacon integration and reliability
  • Implement more advanced filtering and reporting options
  • Add support for exporting data to other formats
  • Introduce a dark mode option

Midnight Dates

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Geofency

One-time6
  • Small Coffee Tip$1.99
  • Medium Coffee Tip$3.99
  • Large Coffee Tip$5.99
Show 3 more
  • Generous Tip$7.99
  • Enormous Tip$12.99
  • 1 kg Coffee Tip$22.99
4 purchases

Midnight Dates

One-time4
  • Coffee Tip$0.99
  • Taco Tip$1.99
  • Burrito Tip$4.99
Show 1 more
  • Beer Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Geofency free?
Geofency costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Midnight Dates free?
Midnight Dates costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Geofency or Midnight Dates?
Midnight Dates is rated higher. Geofency averages 4.7 out of 5 from 626 ratings, while Midnight Dates averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Geofency or Midnight Dates have ads?
Neither Geofency nor Midnight Dates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Geofency or Midnight Dates?
Geofency ships an update every 9 days, and Midnight Dates every 4 months. Most recently, Geofency was updated on October 13, 2026 and Midnight Dates on September 28, 2026.

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