Comparison

Sparkling Day vs Catendar

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

Head to head
About

Sparkling Day

Features
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Sparkling is an app designed to help you effortlessly record the important days in your life. Whether it’s a special anniversary, a family member’s birthday, a countdown event, or a holiday arrangement, lets you document and be reminded with ease. Beyond that, Sparkling integrates a suite of practical features, giving you instant access to traditional almanac guidance, Five Elements information, and holiday schedules. Core Features • Days Worth Remembering Easily record and receive reminders for every meaningful moment in your life—anniversaries, birthdays, festivals, countdowns, and more. Each day supports rich, detailed notes including text, voice, video, and photos, making your memories vivid and complete. • People Management Manage the important people in your life, whether close or unfamiliar. Record essential information, flexible custom metadata (such as gender, preferences, religious beliefs, etc.), and rich life events (birthdays, education history, work history, key conversations, and more). People are tightly connected with days, notes, and tasks, giving you a structured approach to managing relationships. • Flash Notes Quickly capture sparks of inspiration and everyday thoughts. Supports mixed content—text, images, videos, and audio—so you can record anything, anytime. The intelligent AI assistant automatically analyzes your flash notes, identifies mentioned people and dates, and links or creates them for you, making your records smarter and more efficient. • To-Dos Manage tasks and plans with clarity. Supports three types of tasks: normal tasks, recurring activities, and habit tracking. Plan your daily activities and build healthy routines. To-dos can be linked with people, days, and notes, helping you stay organized and in control. • Almanac Understand the daily Auspicious vs. Inauspicious (宜忌), follow the Five Elements changes, and explore traditional cultural insights such as compass directions and Yin-Yang trigrams. Integrated lunar calendar support helps you stay aware of traditional solar terms and key cultural dates. • Holiday Calendar Check your annual holiday balance at a glance and get leave-planning suggestions to help you make the most of your time off. Clearly see all holiday arrangements and plan work–life balance with confidence. • Smart Calendar View both solar and lunar calendars with important information displayed directly on the calendar—your days, people-related events, holidays, and more. Understand your schedule at a glance and never miss a key moment. • AI Smart Assistant Powered by advanced AI, the assistant analyzes your notes, recognizes people, dates, and tasks within them, and automatically links or creates related content. This reduces manual organization and makes your entire recording experience more intelligent. ----- Sparkling - Let every important day shine.

About

Catendar

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Catendar is a cute cat shift calendar for nurses and every shift worker, with a simple budget diary built in. Shift schedule See Day, Evening, Night and Off at a glance, each in its own color. Add and rename shift types however your job needs. Fill a repeating rotation across the month in one go with Pattern Fill. A calendar that fits on one screen Under the calendar you get a summary of the selected day's schedule and money, plus this month's totals. Tap a line to open the full list. Income and expense ledger Pick a category such as Food, Cafe, Transport or Home and the entry saves without typing anything else. Daily income and expenses are totaled by month automatically. Choose won, dollar, yen, yuan, Taiwan dollar or euro. Monthly report Your shifts by type, this month's income, spending and top spending categories on one card you can save and share as an image. Schedules and notes Record appointments, clinic visits and to-dos by date, with a reminder at the time you choose. Your own cat Pick one of eight cats for the home screen and the calendar greeting. A new title is chosen on the 1st of each month based on last month's activity. Share and back up Turn this month's shift table into an image to send to a friend. Export and import a backup file so your records move with you to a new device. Local notifications Reminders for shifts, appointments and notes fire on the device itself and never pass through a server. Seven languages Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and French, switchable inside the app at any time. No account is needed, and every record stays on your device.

Screenshots

Sparkling Day4 screens
Catendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sparkling Day at none against Catendar's shown. Sparkling Day also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Catendar's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sparkling Day ships an update fortnightly, Catendar every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Sparkling Day versus Catendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSparkling DayCatendar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer展威 李Bumjoon Lee

In-app purchases

None

Sparkling Day

No in-app purchases

None

Catendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sparkling Day free?
Sparkling Day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catendar free?
Catendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sparkling Day or Catendar have ads?
Catendar shows ads; Sparkling Day does not.
Which is updated more often, Sparkling Day or Catendar?
Sparkling Day ships an update fortnightly, and Catendar every 5 days. Most recently, Sparkling Day was updated on October 28, 2026 and Catendar on October 31, 2026.

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