Comparison

Pinning vs Gotta!

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

Head to head
About

Pinning

Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.

Highlights
  • Event countdown and count-up
  • Calendar event syncing
  • Birthday and anniversary tracking
  • Event organization with notebooks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • iCloud collaboration
  • Recurring event notifications
Features
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Pinning keeps the days that matter in view. Count down to trips, birthdays, deadlines and anniversaries, or count up from the moments you want to remember, all in one beautiful timeline. COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • See how long until any date, or how long it’s been • Show time in days, weeks, months or years, the way you think about it • Multi-day events, like trips and conferences, show while they’re happening • Repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on a schedule of your own BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES • See the age someone turns and the years you’re celebrating • Import birthdays from Contacts, with their photos • Supports the Chinese lunar calendar ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Group events into notebooks, add tags, and star the ones that matter most • Give every event a symbol, an emoji or your own image • Find anything in a moment with Quick Find SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE • Share a notebook with family and friends over iCloud and plan together • Share any event as a beautiful image NEVER MISS A DAY • Get reminded on the day, or days, weeks or a month before, at the time you choose • See your calendar events and reminders with due dates next to your countdowns • Rewind brings back what happened a month or a year ago today ALWAYS AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Add an event right from Control Center • Siri and Shortcuts support • Apple Watch app with complications • A native Mac app EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your events sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. There’s no account to create, and your events stay in your iCloud. PINNING PRO Try everything free for 7 days. After that, the free plan keeps 7 events. Pinning Pro unlocks: • Unlimited events • Calendars in your timeline • Scheduled reminders • Importing birthdays from Contacts One purchase works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life, each with or without Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://pinning.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy

About

Gotta!

Features
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`Gotta` is a tiered task management app designed to help you organize and prioritize your life. Instead of one overwhelming list, organize your tasks into three priority levels: Daily (high priority), Weekly (medium priority), and Monthly (low priority). KEY FEATURES: Tiered Task Organization • Daily Tasks: Focus on what needs attention today • Weekly Tasks: Plan and track goals for the week ahead • Monthly Tasks: Set and monitor longer-term objectives • Tasks automatically carry forward until completed, so nothing gets forgotten Smart Task Visibility • Weekly and monthly tasks automatically appear in your daily view when their deadline approaches • Incomplete tasks stay visible until you complete them • Completed tasks are organized separately so you can track your progress Category Organization • Organize tasks with color-coded categories • Pre-loaded categories: Home Improvement, Errands, Work, Personal, and Health • Create unlimited custom categories with your own colors • Quickly identify task types at a glance Intelligent Reminders • Set deadlines on any task for timely reminders • Automatic reminders: 1 hour before daily deadlines, 1 day before weekly deadlines, 3 days before monthly deadlines • Recurring reminders for tasks without deadlines (daily at 8pm, weekly on Sundays, monthly on the 23rd) • Full control over notification preferences in Settings Beautiful, Intuitive Design • Clean, modern interface built with SwiftUI • Smooth animations and haptic feedback • Easy navigation between daily, weekly, and monthly views • Quick access floating action button for adding tasks Perfect For: • Professionals managing work and personal tasks • Students organizing assignments and deadlines • Anyone looking to improve productivity and reduce overwhelm • People who want a simple, focused task manager without complexity `Gotta` helps you break down your responsibilities into manageable chunks, so you can focus on what needs attention now while keeping an eye on the bigger picture. Start organizing your tasks today and take control of your time.

Screenshots

Pinning4 screens
Gotta!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gotta! at none against Pinning's 6. Gotta! also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Pinning's advantage is device support (5 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. Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Gotta! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, Gotta! weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pinning versus Gotta!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinningGotta!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnybox LTDSean Raymor

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pinning

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
  • Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
None

Gotta!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gotta! free?
Gotta! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pinning or Gotta! have ads?
Neither Pinning nor Gotta! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pinning or Gotta!?
Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, and Gotta! weekly. Most recently, Pinning was updated on October 22, 2026 and Gotta! on October 15, 2026.

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