Birthyay vs TickDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Birthyay
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Birthday is your all-in-one comprehensive birthday management app designed to help you be the friend who always remembers. It allows users to input dates, and ages, and set custom reminders well in advance and on the birthday itself. But it doesn’t stop there. Users can also share birthdays, add notes about their friends, making it easier to prepare meaningful gifts and messages when reminded of upcoming birthdays. There’s also a persistent home screen widget that ensures you see these upcoming reminders often.
TickDay
This minimalist app helps you privately track important dates with a clean, offline design. See upcoming events at a glance with home screen widgets. Start with a few free countdowns and unlock unlimited events with a one-time purchase.
- Offline countdown tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Minimalist black and white design
- One-time purchase
- Yearly repeat events
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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TickDay counts down the days to the moments that matter — birthdays, anniversaries, trips, and deadlines — right on your home screen. • Beautiful widgets: see your next countdown at a glance, in 6 sizes • Start with 3 countdowns; unlock unlimited with a one-time purchase • Yearly repeat for birthdays and anniversaries • Reminders so you never miss an important date • Count up (days since) or count down (days until) Your data stays on your device — private by design. No account, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Birthyay at none against TickDay's 1. Birthyay also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). TickDay's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. TickDay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Birthyay asks for nothing beyond the download.
Birthyay ships an update every 3 weeks, TickDay every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birthyay | TickDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pillowcode Limited | Quanhong Zhao |
In-app purchases
Birthyay
No in-app purchases
TickDay
- Lifetime Full Access$1.99
