Comparison

Pinning vs BringUp App

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

BringUp App

This app helps you remember personal notes for specific people and brings them up at the right moment. It allows for private note-taking, secure sharing, and calendar integration to surface relevant conversation starters before meetings.

Highlights
  • Personalized reminders per contact
  • Private note-taking
  • Secure sharing with individuals or groups
  • Calendar integration for meeting context
  • Voice memo and photo attachments
  • Agenda mode for conversations
Features
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BringUp remembers what you want to say to the people who matter — and helps you bring it up at the right moment. Some reminders don't need a time. They need a person. BringUp keeps a gentle, private list for each person in your life: the article you meant to send your brother, the question for your manager, the story you keep forgetting to tell your best friend. CAPTURE IN SECONDS One tap, a few words, done. Add the person it's for and get back to your day. Attach a photo, a link, or a quick voice memo when words aren't enough. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything you save is private to you until you explicitly choose to share a specific item with a specific person. No feeds, no followers, no pressure. SHARE WHEN YOU'RE READY Open a shared space with your partner, a friend, or a small group. Items you share appear for both of you — and they get a gentle notification that you added something to bring up, never the contents. THEY'RE THINKING OF YOU, TOO See how many people have things waiting to bring up with you. Who they are stays a mystery until you both choose to connect. BEFORE YOU MEET Connect your calendar and BringUp quietly surfaces who you're about to see, so the right things come to mind at the right time. ALSO IN BRINGUP • Sign in with Apple or a simple email code — no passwords • Use several email addresses on one account • Reminders that respect your quiet hours • Agenda mode for walking through a conversation • Export or delete your data any time PRIVACY, FOR REAL Your address book never leaves your device. If you add someone's email or phone to a person card, only an irreversible code derived from it is used for mutual matching. Notifications never contain what you wrote. Deleting your account deletes your data.

Screenshots

Pinning4 screens
BringUp App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BringUp App at none against Pinning's 6. BringUp App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Pinning's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). On price and ads 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. BringUp App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BringUp App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinning has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, BringUp App every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pinning versus BringUp App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinningBringUp App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnybox LTDAmir Tarighat

Customer experience

Pinning

All ratings51 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative15.0%

BringUp App

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

BringUp App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BringUp App free?
BringUp App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pinning or BringUp App?
BringUp App is rated higher. Pinning averages 4.7 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while BringUp App averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pinning or BringUp App have ads?
Neither Pinning nor BringUp App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pinning or BringUp App?
Pinning ships an update every 3 weeks, and BringUp App every 4 days. Most recently, Pinning was updated on October 22, 2026 and BringUp App on October 11, 2026.

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