Comparison

When vs Candelina

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

Head to head
About

When

Never forget important dates again with this simple event tracking tool. Easily add and customize upcoming events like birthdays and anniversaries to see them all at a glance. Stay organized and ensure you never miss a moment that matters.

Highlights
  • Track birthdays and anniversaries
  • Countdown to concerts and vacations
  • Simple event adding
  • Customizable with emojis
  • Clear event overview
Features
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Always forget to send that birthday card on time? Me too. With When, you'll never forget an important date again. Keep track of all the moments that matter to you, from birthdays and anniversaries to concerts, vacations, and everything in between. Designed with simplicity in mind, When makes it easy to see all your upcoming events at a glance. Quickly add new events, customize with a lil emoji, and voila! You'll never miss a thing.

About

Candelina

Features
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Candelina remembers the birthdays of everyone you care about, and then helps you actually say something. APPLE WATCH AND MAC See today and upcoming birthdays on Apple Watch, mark someone as wished and keep the latest list available offline. The Watch app needs a paired iPhone. The native Mac app brings birthdays, wishes and gift ideas to your desktop, with data synced through your own iCloud. Most reminder apps stop at the notification. That is the moment the problem starts: you know whose birthday it is, and you are staring at an empty message box. Candelina carries it through to a message you are happy to send. REMINDERS YOU CAN VERIFY Family and close people get a reminder the evening before, one on the morning, and a quiet nudge at six only if you still have not written. Friends get the evening before and the morning; work and acquaintances, the morning. Every scheduled reminder is shown in the app, read back from the system, so you see the proof instead of hoping. A WISH IN THE RIGHT WORDS Three drafts in the tone you pick: warm, funny, short, formal, heartfelt, or the way you actually text. Add a detail about the person, by typing or by speaking it, and it lands inside the wish. Then you send it yourself, from your own messenger. Candelina never sends anything for you. NINETEEN LANGUAGES, WRITTEN NOT TRANSLATED English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Japanese and Hebrew, with the right grammar for who you are writing to: formal or familiar, and the right endings for a man or a woman where the language needs them. Candelina guesses the language from the person's name and you can always change it. GET THE DATES IN Contacts and Calendar, or add someone by hand. Share a single contact into Candelina from any app. Or send one link in a chat and your friends add their own dates. FORGOT SOMEONE? STILL FIXABLE Candelina keeps the past week in one place, so a missed birthday is still a message away. AND THE SMALL THINGS Siri knows your birthdays. The age they turn and the next round birthday. Their zodiac sign. A gift idea kept with each person. Save a birthday back into your Contacts. Export everything as CSV or JSON whenever you like. PRIVATE BECAUSE OF HOW IT IS BUILT There is no Candelina account. Your people live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and nowhere else. AI drafts are off until you turn them on. Even then a request carries only what is needed to write the wish: a first name, your relation tag, their gender and the age they turn, the tone and language, your one-line note, last year's text and your own first name. Never your contact list, and nothing that ties two requests to the same person. FREE, AND WHAT UNLIMITED ADDS Free, with no expiry: as many people as you like, the reminders above, imports from Contacts and Calendar, and three AI-written wishes per year. Candelina Unlimited adds: - Knowing two weeks, a week and three days ahead, with your gift idea in the reminder - An AI wish for everyone, in their language - The birthday card sent or saved as a picture - The Home Screen and Lock Screen widget - Importing from Telegram, a contacts or chat export, a PDF, a calendar file or a screenshot - Custom reminders for each person Choose monthly, yearly or lifetime access at the price shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. The lifetime purchase does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

When4 screens
Candelina4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: When at none against Candelina's 3. Candelina's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. Candelina sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. When asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
When versus Candelina: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhenCandelina
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClark DinnisonVolodymyr Shevela

In-app purchases

None

When

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Candelina

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is When free?
When is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Candelina free?
Candelina is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do When or Candelina have ads?
Neither When nor Candelina shows ads.
Which is updated more often, When or Candelina?
When ships an update every 4 days, and Candelina every 4 days. Most recently, When was updated on November 3, 2026 and Candelina on November 6, 2026.

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