Comparison

Strive Planner vs Your Dates

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

Head to head
About

Strive Planner

This app helps you connect your daily tasks and events to your overarching goals. It focuses on the 'why' behind your productivity, ensuring your actions align with your aspirations.

Highlights
  • Goal connection to daily events
  • Weekly planning
  • Task management
  • Productivity focus on 'why'
Features
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What exactly do most calendar, task list, and productivity apps get wrong? They either focus on the *when* or the *how*, but they never focus on the *why* Strive fixes that. With Strive, you're able to connect the goals you work on to the events in your day. Enjoy! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Your Dates

Features
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Your Dates keeps you on top of every occasion: birthdays, anniversaries, important events, and more — all in one place! Timely reminders help you plan something nice or prepare for an important meeting. Create profiles for people you know and add events for them. Share events with others who have the app installed. Back up to iCloud anytime so you never lose data or can move it to another device. FEATURES • Upcoming: today's events and everything in the next 30 days • Calendar with color markers — each event has its own color • People profiles with photos, notes, greeting drafts, and wish history • Import from Contacts (read-only) and bulk birthday import • Age on the day — ""turns N"" — with an option to hide the birth year • Per-event reminders and a daily digest at a time you choose • Menstrual cycle tracking on the calendar, future-only prediction • Import and export events with Apple Calendar, with duplicate detection • Share Extension and Shortcuts: add events from anywhere • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets; Live Activity for today's events • Search people and events; merge duplicates • ZIP backup with photos to iCloud Drive, plus auto-backup • Optional iCloud sync between your devices • CSV and ICS export, themes, and 9 languages PRIVACY Your data stays on your device by default. No analytics, no ads. iCloud is optional. Part of the Your … app family by Lutarea.

Screenshots

Strive Planner3 screens
Your Dates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Your Dates at none against Strive Planner's 3. Strive Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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. Strive Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Your Dates asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, Your Dates every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Strive Planner versus Your Dates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrive PlannerYour Dates
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (58 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings58 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeiss Solutions LLCAlexandr Lutenko

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Strive Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$64.99
None

Your Dates

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strive Planner free?
Strive Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Your Dates free?
Your Dates is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Strive Planner or Your Dates have ads?
Neither Strive Planner nor Your Dates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strive Planner or Your Dates?
Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, and Your Dates every 2 months. Most recently, Strive Planner was updated on October 12, 2026 and Your Dates on September 29, 2026.

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