giftstring vs DayKeeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
giftstring
Create a unique, lasting gift by weaving together voice and video messages from loved ones. Perfect for special occasions, this app allows you to record your own message, invite others to contribute, and send a private, playable link.
- Record audio or video messages
- Invite contributors via email
- Create a single, lasting gift
- Send private playable links
- Delete messages anytime
- Cancel gifts before sending
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giftstring is a quiet way to gather what matters: the voice and video of the people who love someone, woven together into a single gift. Mom's eightieth, a friend's wedding, a graduation, a goodbye — moments that ask for more than a card. With giftstring, you record a short message of your own, invite the people who matter, and email it as one beautiful, lasting gift. — Record an audio or video message in seconds. — Invite contributors by email; they each add their own. — When the gift is ready, send it. The recipient gets a private link they can play anywhere. — Your recordings are yours. Delete a message anytime before the gift ships. Cancel a gift entirely if you change your mind. giftstring is built around a simple idea: the most precious thing you can give someone is a few minutes of yourself, and the voices of the people who love them. We don't sell your data, we don't use your recordings to train anyone else's AI, and you can delete everything with one tap. Made for the moments that matter.
DayKeeper
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DayKeeper reminds you in time about important occasions in the lives of friends, loved ones, colleagues, and clients, composes a greeting in your chosen style, creates a beautiful card for it, and helps you send it to the recipient. DayKeeper tracks dates from Contacts and events you add, reminding you in advance and on the day. For very important events, alarm mode provides a persistent alert. And with AI, DayKeeper can compose a greeting in seconds — warm, romantic, poetic, playful, or humorous. DayKeeper offers a wide range of customization options to suit every taste. Tailor DayKeeper to your habits and lifestyle: customize individual reminders, appearance, app behavior, and much more. What DayKeeper can do: - track birthdays, anniversaries, and any other occasions; - create greeting texts with AI, place them on beautiful cards, and send them through the iOS share sheet (with Pro); - add unlimited records for people who are not in Contacts; - add unlimited custom events, choose event icons and colors, and mark events as priority; - show today’s, upcoming, and overdue events as a list or calendar; - show a counter of days remaining until an event or elapsed since it, in the app and widgets; - quickly find people and their events using search and flexible filters; - remind you before an event and on the event day, and let you snooze reminders; - remind you of very important events with a persistent alarm (with Pro, on iOS 26 or later); - quickly start a call, compose a message, or open a person’s details; - mark events as completed manually or automatically with a configurable auto-completion period; - show a current event in widgets, and several current events and the nearest upcoming events in the large widget; - use quick actions in widgets to mark an event as completed, snooze a reminder, or open the card editor; - customize reminders, the app badge, widgets, event icons, app appearance, and event behavior. What else DayKeeper can do: - assign priorities to people and events and configure automatic repeat reminders for priority events; - create group events, each with its own shared date for the people added to that event; - set custom pre-reminders and same-day reminders for specific people and events; - choose a custom reminder sound for events (with Pro); - add an additional contact number for a person; - link a person to an iOS contact appropriate for sending greetings for all of that person's events; - link a specific event to an iOS contact appropriate for sending a greeting for that event. DayKeeper Pro unlocks: - iCloud sync; - AI greeting generation; - alarm mode for very important events; - advanced widgets; - advanced app settings; - additional reminder sounds; - additional ready-made themes and app icons; - an editor for creating your own theme with live preview and contrast checks. If your Pro AI generation limit runs out, you can buy additional Plus greeting generation packs. DayKeeper suits both personal use and companies, offices, and teams: keep track of birthdays, professional holidays, company dates, and other important occasions, even for employees who are not in your Contacts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: giftstring at none against DayKeeper's 7. giftstring also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. DayKeeper sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. giftstring asks for nothing beyond the download.
giftstring ships an update every 8 days, DayKeeper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | giftstring | DayKeeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akila Kesavasamy | Alexander Bekherman |
In-app purchases
giftstring
No in-app purchases
DayKeeper
- DayKeeper Pro (Monthly)$2.491 Month
- DayKeeper Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year
- DayKeeper Plus 5 AI Greetings$1.49
- DayKeeper Plus 10 AI Greetings$2.99
- DayKeeper Plus 20 AI Greetings$5.49
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- DayKeeper Plus 30 AI Greetings$7.99
- DayKeeper Plus 50 AI Greetings$12.49









