Comparison

Future Date vs Being

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

Head to head
About

Future Date

Easily track important dates and milestones with a beautiful, intuitive countdown app. Get real-time countdowns with animated displays and smart notifications. Features home screen widgets for quick access and works completely offline.

Highlights
  • Unlimited event countdown timers
  • Real-time countdown display (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
  • Smart event reminders
  • iOS home screen and lock screen widgets
  • Offline functionality
  • Clean dark interface
Features
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Future Date - Countdown to Your Special Moments Never miss another important date! Future Date is a beautiful and intuitive countdown app that helps you track all your special events and milestones. KEY FEATURES: Event Management • Create unlimited countdown timers for any occasion • Add custom titles for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, vacations, and more • Edit or delete events anytime with a simple tap • Events automatically sorted by date Live Countdown Display • Real-time countdown showing days, hours, minutes, and seconds • Stunning digital clock display with animated flip transitions • Track past events with "days since" counter • Special "THE DAY IS HERE!" notification when your event arrives • Tap on event-day cards to see a celebratory finish line screen Smart Notifications • Receive timely reminders for your upcoming events • Multiple notifications: 1 week before, 3 days before, 1 day before, and on the day • Never forget an important date again iOS Widget Support • Add beautiful home screen widgets • Lock screen widgets for quick look up • Choose which event appears on your widget with a simple tap • Widget icon indicator shows which event is currently active • Automatic fallback to closest event if no selection made • Automatic daily updates at midnight • Seamless integration with iOS User-Friendly Design • Clean, modern dark interface with black theme • Automatic text capitalization for event titles • Date picker for easy event scheduling • Persistent storage - your countdowns are saved automatically • No account required - works completely offline Perfect For: • Birthdays and anniversaries • Vacation countdowns • Wedding planning • Holiday celebrations • Graduation dates • Project deadlines • Retirement countdowns • Baby due dates • Special events and milestones

About

Being

Features
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HTML is a better content container. Exist is a local reader and library built around HTML. It helps you save webpages, documents, notes, and AI-generated content as local HTML files for reading, organizing, and long-term preservation. We chose HTML not because it is complex, but because it is open, stable, and close enough to the real structure of reading. A piece of content is never just text — it also includes headings, paragraphs, hierarchy, images, links, quotes, and context. Compared to plain text or Markdown, HTML preserves these details better; compared to platform bookmarks, it is lighter and freer, able to be saved, migrated, and archived as a local file. Here, HTML is no longer just a page in a browser, but personal material that can be archived, migrated, translated, and exported. You can save important webpages as offline snapshots, turn documentation, study notes, and generated content into local files, and build your own library organized by folders. Exist does not try to replace the browser, nor does it turn knowledge management into a complex system. It is more like a quiet reading space: bringing content back to local storage from temporary links, chat windows, and scattered bookmarks, in a lightweight, clear, and long-lasting way. AI features require you to configure your own API Key. The Key is stored in the local system Keychain and is never uploaded to Exist's servers — more secure, and more controllable. The Pro version unlocks the translation overlay and PDF export. One-time purchase, yours forever.

Screenshots

Future Date4 screens
Being4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Being at Free against Future Date's $0.99. Being also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). Future Date's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Being is free to download; Future Date costs $0.99 up front. Being sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Future Date asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Future Date ships an update every 3 days, Being daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Future Date versus Being: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFuture DateBeing
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChristopher Lamb伟 唐

In-app purchases

None

Future Date

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Being

One-time1
  • Being Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Future Date free?
Future Date costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Being free?
Being is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Future Date or Being have ads?
Neither Future Date nor Being shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Future Date or Being?
Future Date ships an update every 3 days, and Being daily. Most recently, Future Date was updated on October 24, 2026 and Being on October 25, 2026.

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