Comparison

Cake Day vs Vitrine

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

Head to head
About

Cake Day

Features
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Never forget a birthday or anniversary again. Cake Day syncs with your phone contacts to find birthdays and anniversaries, then sends you smart reminders so you're always prepared. No account needed -- your data stays on your phone. WHAT MAKES CAKE DAY DIFFERENT Unlike other birthday reminder apps, Cake Day handles the real-world complexity of dates that matter: - Shared anniversaries let you track events involving multiple people -- wedding anniversaries, friendship milestones, or any date that belongs to a group. - Discontinued events for when life changes. Mark an anniversary as discontinued without losing the history. - Direct messaging with one tap. Send a WhatsApp or Signal message right from the reminder. - No contact limits. Ever. Free means free. - Privacy first. No account, no cloud, no tracking. All your data stays on your device. Even greeting cards encode personal data in the link, so nothing is stored on our servers. FEATURES Dashboard A beautiful timeline of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries with countdown badges. See who's celebrating today, this week, and beyond. Smart Reminders Configurable reminder presets -- get notified days, weeks, or hours before the big day. Create custom presets for different occasions. Shared Anniversaries Track wedding anniversaries, friendship milestones, band anniversaries, and more. Add multiple people to a single event. Calendar View Browse all your events month by month. See the full picture at a glance. Home Screen Widgets Three widget styles keep important dates visible: today's events, this week's events, and the next upcoming birthday. Statistics Discover patterns in your celebrations -- busiest months, milestone birthdays, and more. Contact Groups Organize contacts into groups like Family, Friends, or Colleagues for easier management. Quick Actions Send birthday wishes via WhatsApp, Signal, or text message directly from the app. Backup & Restore Export and import your data. Your reminders are always safe. FREE, PRO & ULTRA Cake Day is free to use with no contact limits and full reminder functionality. Pro (one-time purchase): Unlocks widgets, calendar, statistics, custom presets, custom groups, up to 10 shared events, and more. Ultra (subscription): Everything in Pro plus unlimited shared events, custom icons & colors, greeting cards, and personal messages. Download Cake Day today and never miss another cake day, birthday, or anniversary. Terms of Use (EULA): https://cakeday.miniapps.ch/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://cakeday.miniapps.ch/privacy-policy

About

Vitrine

Features
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What is there to say about a countdown app? It counts down. You add the things you can't wait for. Countdown tells you how long is left, in years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds, ticking live on a card you'll actually want to look at. And when the day has come and gone, it keeps counting, so "the day we moved in" becomes "2 years, 3 months and 14 days ago". Memories with a running clock. THE SLIDER Drag it to measure how anxious you are. 2 months? Fine. 9 weeks? Getting real. 1,616 hours? Go pack. THE SMALL THINGS, DONE WITH CARE โ€ข Birthdays that come back: mark an event as yearly and it rolls forward on its own, telling you which time it is โ€ข Photos, because the home screen deserves it: a picture turns every card into a little poster โ€ข Eight quiet colours, one for every mood โ€ข Widgets for the home screen and the lock screen: the next event, always in sight โ€ข Reminders on the day, one day before, one week before โ€ข Past events count up, with totals in days, weeks, hours and minutes โ€ข English and Portuguese, following your phone FREE iCLOUD SYNC iPhone and iPad, always the same list. No account, no server, nothing to sign up for. YOUR DATA IS YOUR DATA Everything lives on your phone and in your own iCloud. Nothing is collected, tracked or sent anywhere. And you can always take it with you: export a CSV with all your events, keep it in Files or Drive, import it back on any device. Changed your Apple ID? Lost a phone? Moving to another app? The file is a plain spreadsheet, so even if you leave, you still know when everything happened. FREE FOR TEN EVENTS Ten events cover most of life's waiting. Need more? Countdown Unlimited is a single purchase, not a subscription, and it follows your Apple ID to every device. Widgets, reminders, sync and backup are free for everyone. Made by one person.

Screenshots

Cake Day4 screens
Vitrine4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cake Day and Vitrine are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cake Day sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Vitrine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cake Day versus Vitrine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCake DayVitrine
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukas SchulzeFabio Eleuterio

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cake Day

Subscriptions2
  • Ultra Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Ultra Annual1 Month trial$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro$14.99
1 purchases

Vitrine

One-time1
  • Unlimited events$1.99

Questions

Is Cake Day free?
Cake Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vitrine free?
Vitrine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cake Day or Vitrine have ads?
Neither Cake Day nor Vitrine shows ads.

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