Holidate vs WidgetBlocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Worldwide public holiday tracking (200+ countries)
- Personal religious holiday tracking
- Vacation optimizer for long weekends
- Customizable holiday reminders
- Live countdowns and widgets
- Offline mode
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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
WidgetBlocks
Create custom widgets for your device with extensive customization options. Add elements like time, date, photos, and calendar events. Everything is free to use.
- Create custom widgets
- Move, recolor, and resize elements
- Add time and date components
- Include photos and calendar events
- Support for notes and countdowns
- Free to use
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With WidgetBlocks, you can make your own widgets! And not just in a preset matter, ACTUALLY make your own widgets with the ability to move, recolor, resize, and make your widgets, YOUR widgets! (btw, EVERYTHING is free) Supported components: Time Date Photo Calendar events Reminders Shape Drawing Note Countdown/up Links ...and more coming soon! Try WidgetBlocks today! - Noah :) Follow @nonosthings on Instagram for updates!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WidgetBlocks at 5.0 against Holidate's 4.0. WidgetBlocks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Holidate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and WidgetBlocks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgetBlocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Holidate ships an update every 4 days, WidgetBlocks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Holidate | WidgetBlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kerem ORSDEMR | Noah Novak |
Customer experience
Holidate
WidgetBlocks
In-app purchases
Holidate
- Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
- Annual Premium$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$17.00
WidgetBlocks
- Extra Small Tip$0.49
- Small Tip$1.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
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- Large Tip$10.00
- Extra Large Tip$25.00





