Comparison

Holidate vs WidgetLock

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

Head to head
About

Holidate

Plan your year with a comprehensive holiday calendar. Track public holidays worldwide, manage personal religious observances, and optimize vacation days. Get smart notifications and live countdowns.

Highlights
  • Worldwide public holiday tracking (200+ countries)
  • Personal religious holiday tracking
  • Vacation optimizer for long weekends
  • Customizable holiday reminders
  • Live countdowns and widgets
  • Offline mode
Features
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Never miss a holiday again. Holidate is the ultimate holiday planning companion — track official public holidays for over 200 countries, celebrate your religious holidays, and discover smart vacation opportunities to maximize your days off. WORLDWIDE HOLIDAY CALENDAR - Official public holidays for 200+ countries, powered by live data - Offline mode with cached data — works even without internet - Holiday details with local names, nationwide/regional badges, and calendar integration - Navigate between years to plan ahead RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS - Personal religious holiday tracking — independent of your selected countries - Islam: Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Hijri New Year, Ashura, Kandil nights, and Ramadan start — all computed offline using the Umm al-Qura calendar - Christianity: Christmas, Easter & related days (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost), Epiphany, All Saints Day, Assumption - Judaism: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Purim, Passover, Shavuot — fully leap-year-aware Hebrew calendar - Smart deduplication: if your country already observes a religious holiday officially, it won't show twice VACATION OPTIMIZER - Find long-weekend opportunities by combining public holidays with bridge days - See how many days off you get for each day of leave — ranked by efficiency - "Take 1 day off = 4 days" summaries at a glance - Plan smarter vacations with less time off SMART NOTIFICATIONS - Customizable reminders: choose how many days before a holiday you want to be reminded - Holiday greeting notifications on the day — "Eid Mubarak!", "Blessed holiday!", "Chag Sameach!" - Religion-aware greetings for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish holidays - Multi-day holidays (e.g., 4-day Eid al-Adha) send only one notification on day 1 LIVE ACTIVITIES & COUNTDOWN - Real-time countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - Dedicated countdown screen for all holidays with active reminders - Days, hours, minutes — always up to date WIDGETS - Home Screen widgets: Next Holiday and Holiday Countdown (small & medium) - Lock Screen widgets: circular, inline, and rectangular accessory widgets - Displays religious holiday symbols alongside country flags SIRI SHORTCUTS - "Hey Siri, when is the next holiday?" - "Hey Siri, is today a holiday?" - "Hey Siri, upcoming holidays" - Test shortcuts directly from the app AUTOMATIC COUNTRY DETECTION - GPS-based country detection during onboarding - Add your detected country with one tap MULTILINGUAL - Full localization in 30+ languages - Holiday names displayed in local language or English — your choice PREMIUM Go ad-free and unlock unlimited country tracking with a single purchase. - Ad-free experience — no interruptions, ever - Unlimited countries — track holidays from as many countries as you want - Monthly Plan: $0.99 / month - Annual Plan: $9.99 / year - Lifetime Plan: $17.99 — one-time payment, yours forever - Restore purchases across all your devices Privacy : http://firtina.co/privacy Terms of Service : http://firtina.co/tos

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WidgetLock

Features
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WidgetLock puts your calendar on your iPhone's Lock Screen, and you design it by chatting. Tell WidgetLock what you'd like to see, such as "my next meeting and this week" or "the whole year in dots over a starry night", and it builds the Lock Screen, shows you a preview, and puts it on your iPhone. Want the month on a dark card, or a different background? Just ask. CALENDAR, YOUR WAY • Day: today's date, your week, and what's left of today • Events: your next events, each in its color • Next days: day by day, quiet days included • This week, and the next event with its time • Month in large numbers, with the days left in the year • Quarter, four months or the whole year in dots Each sits on a glass, light or dark card. Event titles are optional: hide them and events show as "Busy". BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUNDS Snowy peaks, a calm ocean, aurora, glossy silk, a starry night and more, or a simple gradient. START IN SECONDS Pick a calendar look, then a background, and WidgetLock sets everything up. Change anything afterwards by asking. MORE THAN A CALENDAR Add a countdown to an event that matters, a QR code, and with WidgetLock Pro a website or dashboard snapshot, or stock prices (latest daily close). WORKS WITH CHATGPT AND CLAUDE Connect WidgetLock to ChatGPT or Claude and change your Lock Screen from your computer, in plain words. HOW IT STAYS UP TO DATE WidgetLock adds a Shortcut that sets your Lock Screen image, and can set up a Shortcuts automation that refreshes it on the schedule you choose, so your events stay current. FREE AND PRO A calendar, countdowns and QR codes are free; designs made with them carry a small WidgetLock watermark. WidgetLock Pro adds unlimited calendars, the quarter, four-month and year calendar layouts, website and dashboard widgets and stocks, and removes the watermark. Pro widgets show blurred until you have Pro. WidgetLock Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. The available plans, prices and any free trial are shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings or from Settings in the app. PRIVACY WidgetLock doesn't ask for your name or email. The chat's replies are written by an AI model; your messages are sent to it to answer you. If you add a calendar, the app reads upcoming events from the calendars you choose and sends our server only what the Lock Screen shows, to draw it; the server keeps them only in the pictures of your design that the chat shows, and they are never sent to the AI model. If you subscribe, Apple handles the payment and we only receive your subscription status. See our privacy policy for details. TERMS Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://widgetlock.app/privacy

Screenshots

Holidate3 screens
WidgetLock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Holidate at 18.4 against WidgetLock's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Holidate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and WidgetLock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Holidate ships an update every 4 days, WidgetLock every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Holidate versus WidgetLock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHolidateWidgetLock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB72 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKerem ORSDEMRAppflares

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Holidate

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Annual Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$17.00
2 purchases

WidgetLock

Subscriptions2
  • WidgetLock Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • WidgetLock Pro Yearly3 Days trial$60.001 Year

Questions

Is Holidate free?
Holidate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WidgetLock free?
WidgetLock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Holidate or WidgetLock have ads?
Both Holidate and WidgetLock show ads.
Which is updated more often, Holidate or WidgetLock?
Holidate ships an update every 4 days, and WidgetLock every 3 days. Most recently, Holidate was updated on October 30, 2026 and WidgetLock on October 31, 2026.

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