Comparison

Pinning vs MARGIN

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

MARGIN

Features
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MARGIN is your schedule inbox. Share screenshots or text from any app, and MARGIN uses AI to extract event details and add them to your calendar. HOW IT WORKS 1. Share - Send a screenshot or text to MARGIN from any app 2. Review - MARGIN reads it and extracts the event details 3. Confirm - One tap to add it to your calendar PERFECT FOR • Meeting invites buried in chat messages • Event details in screenshots • Appointment confirmations in emails • Any schedule info scattered across apps FEATURES • AI-powered event recognition • Works with screenshots and text • One-tap calendar integration • Daily Brief to review your upcoming schedule • Voice input support SUBSCRIPTION MARGIN offers auto-renewable subscriptions: • Standard: $7.99/month - 100 recognitions/month • Pro: $17.99/month - 500 recognitions/month Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://margin.theunclej.com/privacy-en.html Terms of Service: https://margin.theunclej.com/terms-en.html

Screenshots

Pinning4 screens
MARGIN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MARGIN at daily against Pinning's every 3 weeks. MARGIN also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Pinning's advantage is device support (5 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 and MARGIN sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, MARGIN daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pinning versus MARGIN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinningMARGIN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnybox LTD鑫宇 胡

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
2 purchases

MARGIN

Subscriptions2
  • MARGIN Standard$7.991 Month
  • MARGIN Pro$17.991 Month

Questions

Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MARGIN free?
MARGIN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pinning or MARGIN have ads?
Neither Pinning nor MARGIN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pinning or MARGIN?
Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, and MARGIN daily. Most recently, Pinning was updated on October 9, 2026 and MARGIN on October 2, 2026.

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