Comparison

Set and Forget vs Days Until

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

Head to head
About

Set and Forget

This app helps you remember and send thoughtful messages for important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. It allows you to schedule messages in advance, using templates or your own words, ensuring you never miss a special occasion.

Highlights
  • Schedule messages for special dates
  • Use pre-written templates or custom messages
  • Set preferred message send times
  • Receive optional reminders
  • Data stored privately on device
Features
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Set and Forget makes staying connected effortless. Add a friend's birthday or anniversary once, write a heartfelt message, and we'll send it automatically—every year, right on time. No more forgotten birthdays. No more last-minute guilt. Just thoughtful messages, delivered when they matter most. Features: • Schedule messages for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and more • Use ready-made templates or write your own personal messages • Set your preferred send time—morning, afternoon, or evening • Get optional reminders before messages go out • All your data stays private and secure on your device Be the friend who always remembers.

About

Days Until

This app helps you count down to important dates by allowing you to exclude weekends, holidays, and custom days off. You can choose to count only working days or all calendar days, with options for various units and visual customization.

Highlights
  • Skip weekends, holidays, and custom days off
  • Count working days or calendar days
  • Display countdowns in various units
  • Customizable colors and icons
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Milestone reminders
Features
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Count calendar days — or only the days that count. Days Until is the countdown that can skip weekends, US federal holidays and your own days off, so you see the working days that actually remain until retirement, your last day, the end of school, or any date you choose. Or count every day — it's your call, per event. COUNT ONLY THE DAYS THAT COUNT (PRO) Some countdowns shouldn't include every day. With Pro, a one-time purchase: • Skip weekends — see remaining workdays, not calendar days • Skip US federal holidays, computed automatically every year • Add custom skip dates — company closures, vacations, anything • Reminders — get notified at milestones like "5 working days left," at the time you choose • Photo backgrounds — your own picture behind any countdown and its widget COUNT THE DAYS YOUR WAY (FREE) • Track as many events as you like • Show each countdown in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds — whatever units you prefer • Give every event its own color and icon so it's recognizable at a glance • A detail screen with the big number, a progress bar, and calendar days vs. working days side by side • Home Screen widgets in three sizes and Lock Screen widgets — pick which countdown each one shows No subscriptions. No accounts. No ads. Your events stay on your device. Perfect for counting down to retirement, the last day of work, graduations, weddings, due dates, vacations, moves, product launches, PCS dates, and the end of anything you're ready to be done with.

Screenshots

Set and Forget4 screens
Days Until4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Set and Forget at none against Days Until's 1. Set and Forget also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Days Until sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Set and Forget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Set and Forget against 5.0 for Days Until. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Set and Forget has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Set and Forget versus Days Until: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSet and ForgetDays Until
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKyle ZartmanAerial Aspect Media LLC

Customer experience

Set and Forget

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Days Until

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Set and Forget

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Days Until

One-time1
  • Countdown Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Set and Forget free?
Set and Forget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Days Until free?
Days Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Set and Forget or Days Until?
Set and Forget and Days Until are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Set and Forget or Days Until have ads?
Neither Set and Forget nor Days Until shows ads.

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