Comparison

Nintendo Today! vs Hitoiro

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

Head to head
About

Nintendo Today!

Receive daily Nintendo news, game information, videos, and comics tailored to your interests. Track upcoming releases and events with an animated calendar and customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Daily Nintendo updates
  • Animated character calendar
  • Event and game release schedule
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Nintendo Switch 2 news
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Nintendo Today! is an app that brings you daily updates from Nintendo based on what you like. ◆ Animated Calendar Keep track of the date with an animated calendar featuring your choice of characters. ◆ Daily Updates Get updates on all things Nintendo—including Nintendo Switch 2 news, game info, videos, comics, and more—every day. ◆ Event Schedule Keep up with Nintendo related events, including game releases. Link with the Calendar app to display your own events as well. ◆ Customize Your Home Screen Add a calendar widget featuring art from your favorite Nintendo game series. [Terms of Use] Nintendo Account and persistent internet connection required. Data charges may apply. Requires iOS 16.0 or later. © Nintendo

About

Hitoiro

Discover a new traditional Japanese color daily by mixing pigments. Dye a monthly creature with your creations and track your progress. Enjoy a mindful, offline experience with optional Pro features for expanded creativity.

Highlights
  • Daily traditional Japanese color discovery
  • Pigment mixing for custom colors
  • Dye a monthly creature with your colors
  • Offline daily ritual
  • Mindful color mixing in Zen mode
  • Color journal and results tracking
Features
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Choose from five pigments to mix and match a traditional Japanese color each day. Hitoiro is a hands-on color craft that takes just a few minutes. Make a color, see how closely it matches, and slowly dye the creature of the month. No art or paint experience is needed. YOUR COLOR OF THE DAY A color tied to Japan's seasonal almanac and 72 microseasons arrives each morning. Read its name and story, choose pigments from the palette, drop them into a dish, and stir with your finger. Before your brushstroke, you can add more pigment and stir again to adjust the color, or use Rinse the dish to start the mix over. Compare your paint with the target by eye. When you're ready, lay down one brushstroke and let it dry to see your matching score. You get one scored result per day. ONE MONTH, ONE CREATURE Every color you make dyes one part of the month's creature. The colors build with the season until a one-of-a-kind creature comes to rest on your folding screen. Your Book keeps each day's color sample and result. Days you miss remain blank—because the blank space is part of your month too. MIX FREELY IN ZEN Explore subtractive color mixing without scores or goals. It is a quiet place for mindful play with color, like a short meditation. A MINDFUL DAILY HABIT • The daily experience, records, monthly creature, and sharing are free • No account required • The daily ritual works offline; only purchases and restores need a connection • At most one notification a day • A traditional color connected to Japanese culture and its seasonal almanac, every day The Paint Box (Pro) expands your Zen palette from 5 to 23 pigments and adds three papers with different textures and bleeding effects. In the Book, decorate monthly pages with three scroll cloths and personalize the yearly folding screen with three additional papers. Yearly and lifetime purchases unlock the same materials. The daily color match stays free, with the same one scored result per day. Pro is for making your tools and Book your own. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nintendo Today!4 screens
Hitoiro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nintendo Today! at none against Hitoiro's 2. Nintendo Today! also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 8). Hitoiro's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 62%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ads, device support 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. Hitoiro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Nintendo Today! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hitoiro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nintendo Today! has 1K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Nintendo Today!'s written reviews are positive against 91% of Hitoiro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nintendo Today! ships an update every 2 weeks, Hitoiro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Nintendo Today! versus Hitoiro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNintendo Today!Hitoiro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (1K ratings)4.6 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews91.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNintendo Co., Ltd.Kodai Aoyama

Customer experience

Nintendo Today!

All ratings1,020 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral6.4%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews502 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral12.4%
Negative25.9%

Hitoiro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Nintendo Today!

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to dismiss certain pop-ups in settings
  • Calendar widget doesn't display real-world holidays

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to add personal events to calendar
  • Include more Nintendo game themes for calendar
  • Implement widescreen video player mode
  • Add background music or jingles to the app

Hitoiro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Nintendo Today!

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Hitoiro

Subscriptions1
  • Materials Box Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Materials Box Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Nintendo Today! free?
Nintendo Today! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hitoiro free?
Hitoiro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nintendo Today! or Hitoiro?
Hitoiro is rated higher. Nintendo Today! averages 4.3 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Hitoiro averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Nintendo Today! or Hitoiro have ads?
Neither Nintendo Today! nor Hitoiro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nintendo Today! or Hitoiro?
Nintendo Today! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Hitoiro every 4 days. Most recently, Nintendo Today! was updated on October 30, 2026 and Hitoiro on October 25, 2026.

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