Comparison

Almanac vs Quiet Almanac

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

Head to head
About

Almanac

Easily track upcoming events with a personalized countdown. Get notified when your special days arrive. Customize the look and feel to match your style.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • Customizable widgets
  • Personalized appearances
  • Device-specific storage
  • Event notifications
Features
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Almanac is a simple app to keep track of the events you look forward to. Simply add an event in the future and the app will count down the days until then and notify you on the day it happens. Almanac is highly customizable with widgets, custom app icons, and custom appearances to make it feel like your own. All events are stored privately in your device. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Quiet Almanac

This app helps you record your daily habits, important dates, and one-time appointments in a peaceful, distraction-free environment. Track your progress, get timely reminders, and review past events in an organized archive.

Highlights
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Important date reminders
  • One-time appointment logging
  • Event archiving
  • Lock screen widget
  • Progress statistics
Features
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Quiet Almanac is a personal life recorder — for the rhythms you keep and the moments that matter. Track your daily habits, mark important dates, and log one-time appointments. Everything in one calm, distraction-free space. Daily habits — Check off the things you do every day, every week, every two weeks, or on the last day of every month. Quiet Almanac handles the irregular months automatically. See your progress in Stats. Important dates — Never forget a birthday or anniversary. Quiet Almanac reminds you every year, automatically. Appointments & one-time tasks — Add a reminder, complete it, and it moves to your Archive — with a record of whether it happened. Archive — Every one-time task lives here after it's done. Add notes, look back, remember. Lock screen widget — See today's tasks without unlocking your phone. No ads. No subscriptions. No noise.

Screenshots

Almanac4 screens
Quiet Almanac4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Almanac at none against Quiet Almanac's 1. Almanac also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 1). Quiet Almanac's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Quiet Almanac sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Almanac asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quiet Almanac holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Almanac has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Almanac ships an update every 3 weeks, Quiet Almanac fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Almanac versus Quiet Almanac: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlmanacQuiet Almanac
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel Valdiviaxuan liu

Customer experience

Almanac

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Quiet Almanac

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

In-app purchases

None

Almanac

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Quiet Almanac

One-time1
  • Unlock Stats$0.99

Questions

Is Almanac free?
Almanac is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quiet Almanac free?
Quiet Almanac is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Almanac or Quiet Almanac?
Quiet Almanac is rated higher. Almanac averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Quiet Almanac averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Almanac or Quiet Almanac have ads?
Neither Almanac nor Quiet Almanac shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Almanac or Quiet Almanac?
Almanac ships an update every 3 weeks, and Quiet Almanac fortnightly. Most recently, Almanac was updated on November 4, 2026 and Quiet Almanac on October 31, 2026.

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