Anniversa vs Save the Date
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Anniversa
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Whether your contacts are saved in the cloud or directly on your phone, keeping track of everyone's birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones can be a mess. Anniversa gives you instant clarity by turning your native Apple Contacts into a beautiful, easy-to-read timeline. No need to maintain a separate calendar, create an account, or pay for expensive subscriptions. Anniversa simply reads the data you already have and gives you the insights you need to never miss a celebration. Key Features: - Complete Insight: View a clean, chronological timeline of all upcoming birthdays and anniversaries directly from your Apple Contacts. - Spot Missing Dates: Easily filter and see which of your contacts are missing a birthday or anniversary, so you can update your address book and keep it complete. - Smart Notifications: Get reliable alerts right when an event occurs, ensuring you always have time to send a message or buy a gift. - Automatic Milestone Math: Stop doing calendar math in your head. The app calculates exactly how old someone is turning or which anniversary they are celebrating (e.g., "30th Birthday" or "10th Anniversary"). - 100% Local & Private: Your relationships are your business. Anniversa works entirely locally on your device. We don't collect data, use external servers, or track you. Celebrate the people you love, right on time. Download Anniversa today!
Save the Date
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Save the Date is a birthday reminder and countdown app: it keeps birthdays, anniversaries, trips, flights and weddings in one list that counts the days until each one, reminds you days ahead, and finds the important dates for you in your Contacts, your Calendar and any email, message or screenshot you paste or share, with on-device AI on iPhones that support it. Never forget a birthday again. Free for 10 dates, and unlimited dates are a one-time US$2.99 purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account. BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY REMINDERS - Every birthday, anniversary and yearly day in one list, the nearest at the top, showing how many days until each one - Add the year and see how old they are turning or which anniversary it is: "turns 30", "5th anniversary" - Reminders on the day and 1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days before, or any number of days you type, at the time you pick for each date - A note on every date, so the gift idea sits next to the birthday - Pick an emoji and one of eight card colors for each date - February 29 birthdays are remembered on February 28 in ordinary years COUNTDOWNS FOR TRIPS AND EVENTS - Switch off "Repeats every year" for a one-time date: a trip, a vacation, a flight, a wedding, a concert, a graduation, a due date or moving day - Count down the days until it and get reminders before it - Once it has passed it shows how many days ago it was and moves to a Past section FIND DATES IN YOUR CALENDAR AND CONTACTS - Import birthdays and anniversaries from Contacts in one go. Ones you already saved are skipped. - Find dates in Calendar reads the next 12 months of your calendar and offers birthdays, anniversaries, flights and trips, weddings and graduations, plus events you set to repeat every year, as a checklist. You tick the ones you want. - On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model also reads the event titles the simple rules skip. On other iPhones the app uses its built-in rules. - Your calendar and contacts are read on your iPhone only, and never changed. ADD A DATE FROM AN EMAIL OR SCREENSHOT - Paste the text of an email, a message, a booking or flight confirmation or a ticket, or pick a screenshot - Screenshots are read with on-device text recognition - The date is found by Apple Intelligence on iPhones that support it, and by the date detection built into iOS on others - Or share it straight from Mail, Messages, Safari, Notes or Photos: tap Share, then Save the Date. The app reads it next time you open it. - You check the name and date in the editor before it is saved PHOTOS ON EVERY DATE - Add a photo from Photos to any birthday, anniversary or trip - Frame it in a circle by dragging and pinching - Tap it on the date's page to see it full screen - Photos stay on your iPhone A WARM, CALM LOOK - A warm light theme by default, with Dark and Auto in Settings > Appearance PRIVATE: NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING UPLOADED - No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking - Your dates, notes and photos stay on your iPhone. There is no server. - Apple Intelligence features run on the device. Nothing is sent to a cloud AI service. - Contacts and Calendar are read only when you ask, and never changed PRICE Free for 10 dates, with every feature included. Unlimited dates are a one-time US$2.99 in-app purchase, with no subscription and nothing to renew.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anniversa at none against Save the Date's 1. Save the Date's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Save the Date sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Anniversa asks for nothing beyond the download.
Anniversa ships an update every 6 weeks, Save the Date every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anniversa | Save the Date |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin van Diemen | Zhenyi Tong |
In-app purchases
Anniversa
No in-app purchases
Save the Date
- Unlimited Dates$2.99









