Comparison

Anniversaries countdown vs background

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

Head to head
About

Anniversaries countdown

Features
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Never forget the birthdays of your family, friends, and coworkers. All birthdays live in one list, with the soonest at the top. For each person, you can see how old they’re turning and how many days are left until the big day. FEATURES - Upcoming birthdays at a glance, plus search across records and groups - Age, zodiac sign, and the animal and element of the Chinese zodiac - Notes for every record, like gift ideas - Groups with a color and an icon: family, friends, coworkers - A notification on the birthday, or a yearly calendar event with a reminder - Import birthdays from Contacts, with photos from linked contacts - The Upcoming widget for your Home Screen and Mac desktop - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Find and merge duplicates when the same person was added on more than one device - Back up your records to a file, and share a record with someone else ALL YOUR DEVICES The app runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and iCloud keeps your records in sync across all your devices. On Mac, it’s a full-fledged app with menus, keyboard shortcuts, and settings. PRIVACY Your records are stored only on your devices and in your personal iCloud account. The developer never sees or receives them: the app has no analytics, no ads, and no tracking. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.

About

background

Features
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background is a personal space for everything you watch, read, listen to, and play. Build an organized collection of movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks, music albums, games, anime, manga, and comics. Create custom categories for any other interest. Features: β€’ save titles, dates, ratings, notes, links, and cover images; β€’ mark completed, wanted, and recommended entries; β€’ track seasons and episodes; β€’ find entries with search and filters; β€’ synchronize your collection across devices; β€’ import content from connected services; β€’ create a public profile and publish only selected categories and entries; β€’ follow public profiles and receive recommendation notifications. You control what is public: entries remain private until you explicitly enable sharing. App license agreement (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Anniversaries countdown4 screens
background4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: background at Free against Anniversaries countdown's $0.99. background also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Anniversaries countdown's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

background is free to download; Anniversaries countdown costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anniversaries countdown ships an update fortnightly, background every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Anniversaries countdown versus background: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnniversaries countdownbackground
Price$0.99Free β€” better
Update frequencyFortnightly β€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.6 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB35 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperIbragimov RinatEgor Knyazkov

In-app purchases

None

Anniversaries countdown

No in-app purchases

None

background

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Anniversaries countdown free?
Anniversaries countdown costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is background free?
background is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Anniversaries countdown or background have ads?
Neither Anniversaries countdown nor background shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anniversaries countdown or background?
Anniversaries countdown ships an update fortnightly, and background every 2 months. Most recently, Anniversaries countdown was updated on October 30, 2026 and background on October 25, 2026.

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