On This Day Photos vs On This Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
On This Day Photos
Rediscover your cherished memories by viewing photos taken on this day in previous years. Scroll through your library, select any date to see past events, and easily favorite, delete, or share your pictures. Customizable widgets bring your memories to your home screen.
- View photos from previous years on the current date
- Date picker for custom date selection
- Zoom and pan photo functionality
- Favorite, delete, and share photos
- Home screen widgets that update regularly
- Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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On This Day Photos shows you the pictures you took on today's date in the years gone by. Open it any morning and rediscover the moments you'd forgotten, all from your own photo library. Every day is the anniversary of something. A birthday, a holiday, a quiet afternoon that turned out to matter. On This Day brings those moments back, one date at a time. WHAT YOU CAN DO - See every photo from this day, across every year in your library - Scroll back through the years and relive moments with family and friends - Choose any date to revisit birthdays, holidays and the occasions that matter to you - Zoom and pan to enjoy the fine detail of a photo - Favourite the ones you love, or delete the ones you don't - Share a memory with family and friends in a couple of taps - Add beautiful Home Screen widgets that refresh through the day SIMPLE TO USE Single tap a photo to refresh the list: every year, up to five photos each. Double tap a photo to load up to 100 photos from that one year. Use the date picker at the top right to jump to any day you like. The icons on each photo let you zoom, favourite, share or delete. WORKS EVERYWHERE On This Day runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers with Apple silicon. Widgets work on iPhone, iPad and macOS Sonoma or later. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos are yours. The app collects no data, and your photos never leave your device. There are no logins, no ads, and no subscriptions. Just your memories, on this day. Note: hidden, screenshot and burst photos are not shown.
On This Day
This app displays a photo from this day in previous years on your home screen widget. It uses on-device AI to select the best image from your library, excluding screenshots. An optional one-time purchase unlocks more photos and customization options.
- Daily photo widget
- On-device AI photo selection
- Excludes screenshots
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable themes
- One-time purchase for full features
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On This Day finds photos you took on today's date in earlier years. It selects the best one and puts it in a widget on your Home Screen. One photo a day is free. A single purchase unlocks a gallery showing the five best photos of the day. PHOTO SELECTION On This Day looks through your library for today's date in earlier years. It scores what it finds using Apple's Vision framework, entirely on your device. Your Favourites come first, and screenshots are excluded. You see the highest-scoring photo. WIDGET SIZES Small and large Home Screen widgets, plus a Lock Screen widget. THEMES CRT, No Theme, Mixtape and Pocket. Tap any theme to preview it with today's photo before you choose. FREE • One photo from this day in an earlier year • Small and large Home Screen widgets, and a Lock Screen widget • The CRT and No Theme themes • Tap through to see the photo full-screen FULL VERSION — A ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Five photos a day, rotating from midday into the evening • Page through the day's whole set in the app • Pin a photo to hold it on the widget until midnight • The Mixtape and Pocket themes PRIVACY Everything happens on your device. On This Day needs no account and uses no cloud. Your photos never leave your phone. No tracking, analytics or cloud-based algorithms are ever used. If today's date has no photos, the previous set stays on the widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: On This Day at 5.0 against On This Day Photos's 1.0. On This Day also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On This Day Photos's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. On This Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. On This Day Photos asks for nothing beyond the download.
On This Day holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
On This Day Photos ships an update every 5 weeks, On This Day weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | On This Day Photos | On This Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Webster | Hamish Tennent |
Customer experience
On This Day Photos
On This Day
In-app purchases
On This Day Photos
No in-app purchases
On This Day
- Full Version$1.99
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