Pinning vs Pometro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Pometro
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How far will your focus take you today? Pometro is a Pomodoro focus timer that turns a session into a Seoul subway journey Choose 25, 50, or 75 minutes, or set any time from 5 to 90 minutes Pometro builds a Seoul subway journey that fits your session using official operating data and timetables When you already have a destination in mind, Free Focus lets you ride directly to the station you choose Focus from City Hall to Gangnam, or leave a record from Wangsimni to Jamsil Time that used to be just a number becomes the lines you rode and the stations you reached - Routes and transfers across Seoul Subway Lines 1–9 - Journeys built around your chosen focus time - Custom sessions from 5 to 90 minutes - Time-based passengers from your very first completed ride - Passenger and landmark collections that grow as you focus - Daily, weekly, and monthly stats with focus streaks - Share each session as an illustrated subway ticket - Every line from 1 to 9 is free - Pometro Pass removes ads Travel times are estimates calculated from official operator data and timetables They may differ from real journeys because of live delays and station-specific stops or transfers Operating data: Seoul Metro station intervals and running times (Seoul Open Data Plaza, KOGL Type 1) Weather: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pinning at none against Pometro's shown. Pinning also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Pometro's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Pometro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pinning ships an update every 4 weeks, Pometro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinning | Pometro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anybox LTD | youngwon choi |
In-app purchases
Pinning
- Monthly$1.491 Month
- Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
Pometro
- 증기기관차 스킨$0.49
- Blossom Train Skin$0.49
- Autumn Leaf Train Skin$0.49
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- Pometro Pass$1.99









