Comparison

Recall vs Day Base

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

Head to head
About

Recall

Enhance your iOS Contacts with personal CRM features. Add birthdays, anniversaries, notes, and reminders to your contacts to keep track of important details and nurture relationships. All data stays private on your device.

Highlights
  • Personal CRM for contacts
  • Track birthdays and anniversaries
  • Add custom notes and gift ideas
  • Sync reminders with iOS Reminders
  • Organize contacts with tags
  • Dashboard with upcoming events
  • Private and on-device storage
Features
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Recall is the personal CRM hiding inside your iOS Contacts. You already have hundreds of people in your phone. Recall adds the human context around them — birthdays, anniversaries, kids' names, gift ideas, notes from your last conversation — so you never blank on something that matters. It sits on top of the Contacts app you already use. Standard fields (name, phone, email) stay synced with iOS Contacts. The rest — the stuff that makes a relationship a relationship — lives only in Recall, on your device. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • Birthdays and anniversaries, with a freeform label (Wedding / Met / Sober since / whatever) • Kids' names and birthdays — never forget a niece's birthday again • Per-contact notes for the little things (coffee order, dietary preferences, gift ideas) • Reminders that sync two-way to a dedicated "Recall" list in iOS Reminders — so Siri, Apple Watch, and Mac all see them • Social profile links with one-tap launch • Tags to organize your people (Family, Friend, Business, or whatever you make) • Call logs to track the cadence of your relationships WHAT YOU GET ON THE DASHBOARD • Today's birthdays and anniversaries with a celebratory hero • Reminders due for the day • "Upcoming in 30 days" — never get caught off guard • Smart Lists to slice your people (Birthdays this month, Kids' birthdays this quarter, etc.) • A gentle "maybe reach out?" card when contacts go quiet • Home screen widget showing what's next PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads • No in-app purchases • No tracking • No accounts to create • No servers — everything stays on your device Recall is for the people you orbit.

About

Day Base

Features
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Day Base is your database for everything — a simple, powerful place to organize, track, and keep the things that matter. Most apps decide what you can store. Day Base hands you the blueprint: create your own collections, define your own fields, and shape the app around your life instead of the other way around. WHATEVER YOU COLLECT OR TRACK Books, records, and wine. Sneakers and trading cards. Home inventory and warranties. Travel memories and restaurants. Recipes, plants, projects, clients — if you can list it, you can build it. DESIGN YOUR OWN FIELDS Add exactly the fields each collection needs — text, numbers, dates, yes/no, links, single-select, and photos. No rigid templates. Your data, your structure. SEE IT YOUR WAY Browse a beautiful card view with cover images, or switch to a sortable table to scan and compare. Tap any photo for a full-screen look. START IN SECONDS Already have a spreadsheet? Paste a CSV and Day Base builds the fields for you automatically — no setup required. ADD THINGS HANDS-FREE Day Base works with Siri and the Shortcuts app, so you can add or look up records by voice, from the Home Screen, or the Share Sheet — without opening the app. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your data lives in your personal iCloud, synced across all your devices. It's yours, and yours alone. Powerful when you need it. Simple when you don't. Start your first collection in under a minute.

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
Day Base4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Day Base at every 4 days against Recall's every 3 weeks. Day Base also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, Day Base every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recall versus Day Base: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallDay Base
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArha Ventures LLCRyan McMillen

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

None

Day Base

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Base free?
Day Base is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recall or Day Base have ads?
Neither Recall nor Day Base shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall or Day Base?
Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, and Day Base every 4 days. Most recently, Recall was updated on October 4, 2026 and Day Base on October 1, 2026.

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