Comparison

Piday vs Blackjack Trainer

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

Head to head
About

Piday

This app reveals the precise location of any date within the first five billion digits of pi. Search for significant dates like birthdays or anniversaries and explore their placement in pi's infinite sequence. It supports various date formats and allows you to save and share your discoveries.

Highlights
  • Find today's date in pi
  • Search for any date in pi
  • See exact position of dates
  • Compare multiple date formats
  • Explore calendar heat map
  • Save favorite dates
  • Share discoveries as cards
Features
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PiDay is the nerdiest calendar app ever made. Every day, PiDay opens to today and shows you exactly where that date appears in the first five billion decimal digits of pi. Search for your birthday, an anniversary, or any date you care about, then see where it lives in infinity. PiDay searches multiple date formats and highlights the best match, so you can explore your date from different calendar conventions and compare where each one appears. Features: Find today’s date in pi instantly Search birthdays, anniversaries, and any other date See the exact position where a date appears Compare multiple date formats Explore a calendar heat map of how early dates appear Save favorite dates Share your discoveries as cards Personalize the app with multiple themes Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac PiDay keeps things simple: No accounts No ads No tracking A decade worth of bundled dates, or search any string using a live lookup service for dates outside the bundled range. If you’ve ever wondered whether your birthday is hiding in pi, this is the app for you.

About

Blackjack Trainer

Master blackjack strategy with this trainer. Learn optimal plays for any table rules, practice card counting, and improve your decision-making through interactive drills and instant feedback. Track your progress and build consistent habits for better gameplay.

Highlights
  • Adaptive basic strategy charts
  • Hi-Lo card counting drills
  • Instant feedback and explanations
  • Progress tracking and mastery heatmap
  • Offline practice mode
  • Daily habit building features
Features
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Blackjack Trainer is a blackjack strategy trainer: learn the basic strategy chart for your table rules, then train Hi-Lo card counting. Every decision is graded, explained in plain English, and drilled until it sticks. Every recommendation is basic strategy, the mathematically optimal play for each hand, verified against a reference expected-value engine, not gut feel or folklore. Play practice hands at a first-person table, get instant feedback the moment you act, and learn exactly why a play is right or wrong. WHAT IS BASIC STRATEGY? Basic strategy is the set of optimal decisions for every blackjack hand: when to hit, stand, double down, split or surrender against each dealer upcard. It can't guarantee any single hand, but it is the strongest way to play, and this app makes it second nature through repetition and clear explanations. A STRATEGY CHART FOR YOUR TABLE RULES Correct strategy changes with the rules, and the app adapts: - Dealer hits or stands on soft 17 (H17 / S17) - 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 decks - Late surrender offered or not Change any of these in Settings and every recommendation and the full chart update to match. The charts assume double after split is allowed. LEARN BY PLAYING - A living practice table with a dealer and a real deck of cards - Instant feedback on every hit, stand, double, split and surrender, with the reason in plain English - "Remember" cards that teach the pattern behind a decision, not just the answer - The full basic strategy chart (blackjack cheat sheet): hard totals, soft totals and pairs, color-coded - Lessons and drill packs built from your own mistakes and lowest-mastery hands - Progress: an accuracy ring, a trend line and a mastery heatmap across every hand and dealer upcard BUILD A HABIT - Daily: ten hands, the same for everyone, one attempt a day - A day streak that allows one rest day a week - A 14-day path through every lesson and drill pack - Your trickiest hand deals first when you return - Optional reminders, off until you turn them on - Share cards for your streak and progress HI-LO COUNT AND SPEED MATH The Count tab trains the Hi-Lo running count and the true count conversion on cards the app deals, with three drills: card by card, a timed deck countdown, and true count conversion. It is skill practice, like a chess tactics trainer, with no way to enter cards from a real table. Speed Math builds quick mental arithmetic: add up a hand before the timer runs out. EDUCATION, NOT GAMBLING This is a study tool, not a gambling app. There is no real money and no virtual currency. There are no chips, no bets, no bankroll, and no payouts: nothing is staked, and nothing is won or lost. You practice decisions and the app grades them, the way a chess tactics trainer grades moves. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Practice works offline. There's no account and no sign-up. Your progress is stored only on your device. Only an optional Pro purchase goes online, confirmed through Apple and RevenueCat under a random anonymous ID, never your name or email. There are no ads, no analytics, and no third-party tracking of any kind. BLACKJACK TRAINER PRO Every lesson, the strategy chart, the counting drills and the Daily challenge come with the app, along with 10 practice hands a day. Pro adds unlimited practice and the advanced study tools: index plays (the Illustrious 18 and Fab 4 deviations), Shoe Lab, decision math and the Daily archive. Pro comes as a yearly plan or a Lifetime unlock. The yearly plan renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Strategy guides and printable charts: https://blackjack-trainer-coach.vercel.app/ Terms of Use: https://blackjack-trainer-coach.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blackjack-trainer-coach.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Piday4 screens
Blackjack Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Piday at none against Blackjack Trainer's 4. Piday also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Blackjack Trainer's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Blackjack Trainer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Piday 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 Piday against 5.0 for Blackjack Trainer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackjack Trainer 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Piday versus Blackjack Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPidayBlackjack Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB55 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperErik VelandAppana Ventures LLC

Customer experience

Piday

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blackjack Trainer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Piday

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Blackjack Trainer

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99
  • Pro Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Piday free?
Piday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blackjack Trainer free?
Blackjack Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Piday or Blackjack Trainer?
Piday and Blackjack Trainer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Piday or Blackjack Trainer have ads?
Neither Piday nor Blackjack Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piday or Blackjack Trainer?
Piday ships an update every 2 weeks, and Blackjack Trainer every 2 weeks. Most recently, Piday was updated on November 5, 2026 and Blackjack Trainer on November 10, 2026.

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