Befoor vs Shadowfetch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Befoor
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This app will read the calendars you specify and alert you before the meeting happens. Customizable pleasant sounds and haptics inform you of the meeting coming up, reminding you several times (and with a more insistent alert at the time of the meeting). Fully customizable timings, sounds, haptics. Allow you to see keywords to ignore certain meetings (like "lunch"). You can also skip notifications on the weekends. The app will periodically recheck your calendar to keep up to date. Note app needs to be not force quit to play an audio alert. You can have the app running on your phone and mac (one set to main the other secondary) Optionally the app also allows you to track 1:1 meetings, take notes, follow ups, etc.
Shadowfetch
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Shadowfetch keeps important dates visible, whether you are counting down to something ahead or counting up from something that already happened. Add a birthday, anniversary, trip, launch, deadline, ceremony, or personal streak. Shadowfetch sorts it, counts it live, helps you protect it with reminders, and gives you clean exports when you need a backup or handoff. Core features: - Count down to future dates with live days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds - Count up from past dates for anniversaries, sobriety streaks, product launches, and milestones - Pin a priority event so it leads the home screen and widget - See a Countdown Progress bar showing how far through the wait you are - Organize events by category: Birthday, Anniversary, Travel, Health, Deadline, Celebration, Milestone, Sports, Holiday, or Other - Create one-time, yearly, or monthly countdowns - Choose all-day dates or exact times - Use absolute time zones or local wall time - Schedule local reminder alerts before important events - Enable milestone notifications for notable countdown moments - Personalize events with a color or background photo - Keep a priority countdown visible with home screen and lock screen widgets - Share polished countdown or elapsed-time cards - Export all events as a spreadsheet-ready CSV - Share an Event Health Report summarizing reminders, pinned items, recurrence, categories, photos, stale records, and upcoming dates Shadowfetch is local-first. It does not require an account, does not include analytics or tracking, and does not upload your event data to a Shadowfetch-operated server. MOMENTS (NEW IN 1.7) Every other countdown app dies at zero - Shadowfetch makes zero the whole point. Events glow TODAY when the day arrives, erupt into confetti in their own color at the exact moment, and then retire to a Memories shelf that keeps the story alive: "127 days ago." One tap turns a finished moment into a count-up ("days since our wedding") or a yearly tradition. Anticipation, celebration, memory - all offline, all yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Befoor at Free against Shadowfetch's $3.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Befoor is free to download; Shadowfetch costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Befoor ships an update every 6 days, Shadowfetch every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Befoor | Shadowfetch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free โ better | $3.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiro Feingold | Robert Corbin |
In-app purchases
Befoor
No in-app purchases
Shadowfetch
No in-app purchases
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