Comparison

Pinning vs BeDrop

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

BeDrop

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BeDrop is a simple place to keep links, images, and text. Save from Safari, Photos, Notes, and other apps with the iOS share sheet, or add something directly in BeDrop. Everything stays in one clean library, ready when you need it. FEATURES • Save links, images, and text • Add notes to saved items • Organize items into folders • Search by title, domain, note, or content • Star important items • Protect private items with Face ID or a passcode • View saved images and animated GIFs • Open links in the default app or an in-app browser • Choose your preferred language and appearance No complicated setup is required. Save first, organize later—or simply leave everything in All and use search. Drop it here.

Screenshots

Pinning4 screens
BeDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pinning at 5 against BeDrop's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and BeDrop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pinning versus BeDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinningBeDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnybox LTDYunshi Shi

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
1 purchases

BeDrop

One-time1
  • BeDrop Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeDrop free?
BeDrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pinning or BeDrop have ads?
Neither Pinning nor BeDrop shows ads.

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