Comparison

AfterFolder vs Anniversary

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

Head to head
About

AfterFolder

Features
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AfterFolder is a private estate and family handoff organizer for people who want important details collected in one calm place. Build a local vault for documents, accounts, contacts, wishes, review dates, expiry dates, and executor handoff notes. Key features - Biometric vault protected by Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode - Handoff Runbook that combines vault evidence with personal confirmations - Day-One Brief that turns the vault into a prioritized executor handoff summary - Estate Audit dashboard for stale records, missing locations, due reviews, expiring documents, and unverified critical entries - Separate profiles with profile-specific handoff progress - 15 estate categories for identification, financial accounts, insurance, real estate, legal documents, digital identity, subscriptions, pets, vehicles, valuables, storage, health notes, and more - Readiness scoring with a prioritized next action - Quick Start templates for common estate organizer sections - Document expiry tracking and review reminders - Contact roles for executors, attorneys, advisors, doctors, family, and key helpers - Wishes, legacy notes, and keepsake instructions - ICE card, encrypted packet export, PDF export, and CSV export - Designed for iPhone and iPad The Handoff Runbook checks whether the vault contains practical evidence for identity, legal records, emergency contacts, financial accounts, insurance, digital access, and personal wishes. Manual confirmations help you record conversations and packet-readiness steps. A shareable status summary deliberately excludes names, account references, record contents, document locations, passwords, PINs, and recovery secrets. The Day-One Brief highlights missing legal records, missing emergency contacts, unverified critical records, expiring documents, digital access hints, subscriptions, insurance, and the next packet export step. The app is local-first. It does not require an account, include third-party analytics SDKs, or send your records to a developer server. AfterFolder is an organizational tool, not legal, financial, tax, medical, or estate-planning advice. Confirm important decisions and deadlines with qualified professionals in your jurisdiction.

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

AfterFolder4 screens
Anniversary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Anniversary at Free against AfterFolder's $0.99. AfterFolder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Anniversary is free to download; AfterFolder costs $0.99 up front. Anniversary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. AfterFolder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AfterFolder ships an update weekly, Anniversary every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
AfterFolder versus Anniversary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfterFolderAnniversary
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRobert Corbin婉 唐

In-app purchases

None

AfterFolder

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Anniversary

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

Questions

Is AfterFolder free?
AfterFolder costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anniversary free?
Anniversary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AfterFolder or Anniversary have ads?
Neither AfterFolder nor Anniversary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AfterFolder or Anniversary?
AfterFolder ships an update weekly, and Anniversary every 4 weeks. Most recently, AfterFolder was updated on October 14, 2026 and Anniversary on October 28, 2026.

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