Comparison

盼日 · Countdown Widget vs Anniversary

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

Head to head
About

盼日 · Countdown Widget

Track upcoming events and celebrate milestones with a visual countdown. Organize important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and exams with customizable widgets and reminders. Never miss a special moment again.

Highlights
  • Countdown and count-up timers
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch integration
  • iMessage stickers
  • Repeating events
  • Categories and notes
  • Reminders and iCloud sync
Features
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helps you track and celebrate every important day in your life. How many days until your birthday? How many days have you been together? Days left to an exam, anniversary, due date, or payday — see it all at a glance, and never miss a moment. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Countdown + Count up: count down to what's coming, and count the days since what mattered (365 days together!). • Home Screen widgets: put your most important days right on your Home Screen in multiple sizes. • Apple Watch: glance at your next big day right from your wrist. POWERFUL, SIMPLE FEATURES • Repeating events: birthdays and anniversaries automatically repeat monthly or yearly — the date is always right. • Categories & notebooks: organize by love, birthdays, festivals, study, work, and life. • Notes & photos: add a memo and photos to each day to keep the moments worth remembering. • Reminders: get notified as an important day approaches, on your schedule. • iCloud sync: sign in with Apple to safely sync your data across devices. • Local-first & backup: guest mode keeps data on-device; import/export your backup anytime. PERFECT FOR Relationship & wedding anniversaries, birthdays, baby's milestones, exam and graduation countdowns, trips, paydays, retirement, sobriety streaks, holidays (Christmas, New Year) — every day worth remembering. Add your first countdown today and never forget what matters.

About

Anniversary

This app provides gentle, handwritten reminders for important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. It features unique ink illustrations for each person and offers a "Relationship Receipt" to track interactions. Widgets display upcoming events without unlocking your device.

Highlights
  • Handwritten date reminders
  • Personalized ink illustrations
  • Solar and lunar calendar support
  • Contact log for interactions
  • Monthly relationship receipts
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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A gentle reminder app for the people who matter, and the days worth remembering. Not another to-do list. Every person gets a hand-drawn card that lights up when their day comes. Solar and lunar, both accurate Your mom's lunar birthday, a memorial day, the number of days you have been together. Set it once and get reminded every year. Lunar dates support leap months and show alongside solar dates. Custom repeat intervals Beyond daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, set your own gap: every 40 days, every 100 days, anything from 2 to 365. Perfect for check-ups, prescription refills, watering plants, pet treatments, or simply reaching out to someone on your own rhythm. Advance reminders Get a heads-up 1 to 30 days early, at the time of day you choose. A week before a birthday to shop for a gift, three days before a payment to set money aside. No more remembering on the day itself. Holiday countdowns 24 built-in holidays including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day and Lunar New Year, each with the days left calculated for you. Filter by Chinese or international, sort by date, and open any holiday as a full-screen card you can share as an image. Hand-drawn cards 15 ink-style illustrations to match each person or mood. Family, friends, partners, pets. No cold lists. Widgets Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets show what is coming up, so you remember without opening the app. Calendar sync Choose per reminder whether it appears in your system calendar. Edits and deletions update the calendar automatically, and the event links straight back to the app. Lunar reminders are added at their next occurrence, leap months included. Contact log Keep track of meetups, calls and messages. The app quietly shows you which friends you have not reached out to in a while. Monthly relationship recap At the end of each month, get a shareable recap of who you spent time with and who deserves a call back. Pro Unlimited reminders and contact logs, custom repeat intervals, widgets, past recaps and iCloud sync across devices, whenever you need them. Advance reminders and calendar sync are free. Privacy first No accounts, no data collection. iCloud sync uses your own iCloud storage. Privacy Policy: https://softminilabs.github.io/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

盼日 · Countdown Widget4 screens
Anniversary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: 盼日 · Countdown Widget at free against Anniversary's freemium. 盼日 · Countdown Widget also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. 盼日 · Countdown Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Anniversary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 盼日 · Countdown Widget against 5.0 for Anniversary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

盼日 · Countdown Widget ships an update weekly, Anniversary every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
盼日 · Countdown Widget versus Anniversary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter盼日 · Countdown WidgetAnniversary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer献慧 陈婉 唐

Customer experience

盼日 · Countdown Widget

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Anniversary

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

盼日 · Countdown Widget

One-time1
  • Unlock permanent usage$0.99
3 purchases

Anniversary

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is 盼日 · Countdown Widget free?
盼日 · Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anniversary free?
Anniversary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 盼日 · Countdown Widget or Anniversary?
盼日 · Countdown Widget and Anniversary are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do 盼日 · Countdown Widget or Anniversary have ads?
Neither 盼日 · Countdown Widget nor Anniversary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 盼日 · Countdown Widget or Anniversary?
盼日 · Countdown Widget ships an update weekly, and Anniversary every 4 weeks. Most recently, 盼日 · Countdown Widget was updated on October 27, 2026 and Anniversary on October 28, 2026.

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