Comparison

Event Days Timer vs BriefFeed

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

Head to head
About

Event Days Timer

Track time elapsed and remaining for important dates like anniversaries, exams, and deadlines. Organize events into past, future, or recurring lists with customizable display units and system alarms. Sync data across devices and personalize the look with various themes and widgets.

Highlights
  • Elapsed, Countdown, and Recurring event lists
  • Customizable display units (year, month, day, hour, minute, second)
  • System-level alarms with default ringtone
  • Home screen widgets and lock-screen layouts
  • Optional iCloud sync for data
  • Gregorian and lunar calendar support
  • Archiving of past events
Features
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Event Days Timer keeps every important date in one place: birthdays, anniversaries, credit card bills, holidays, exams, concerts. Add it once and the app counts how long to go, or how long it's been, and reminds you right on time. HOME AT A GLANCE • Featured: pin up to 3 moments to the top of Home • Overdue: moments that are due but not done yet, with a one-tap Done button • Coming Up: everything due in the next 7 days, sorted by time DONE OR NOT, AT A GLANCE • Cards show Not Done, Overdue, Done Early or Completed; tap Done or Undo to switch • Finishing early skips this time's notification and alarm; repeating moments start fresh next time • On by default for Payment Days; set it for any group under Edit Group and apply it to existing cards in one tap • The app icon shows how many moments are overdue, even before you open the app JUST TYPE, AUTO-SORTED • Type "Mom's Birthday", "Rent" or "Christmas" and the group and repeat rule are set for you • Holiday dates fill in automatically, including lunar holidays like Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn • Anything not recognized goes to Life, and you can change it anytime IMPORT FROM REMINDERS & CALENDAR • Pick dates you already keep in Reminders or Calendar and import them in one tap, sorted into groups • Lunar birthdays are imported as lunar dates, so they stay right every year • Read-only: your original data is never changed, and access is only requested when you tap Import BIRTHDAYS • Ages calculated automatically, including traditional Chinese nominal age • Gregorian and lunar birthdays repeat every year ANNIVERSARIES • Dating, wedding, baby's birthday, new home: years, months and days counted for you • Count up to see how long it's been, or count down to the next one BILLS, NEVER LATE • Credit cards, mortgage, car loan: monthly countdowns that repeat on their own • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or every few days or weeks REMINDERS THAT REACH YOU • Notifications days or minutes ahead, showing the date and time; they come through even in Focus • Real system-level alarms on iOS 26 that ring even on the Lock Screen • Tap a notification to open that moment 7 GROUPS, ORGANIZED • Life, Work, Anniversaries, Payment Days, Holidays, Birthdays, Appointments • Search and Archive; one-time moments archive themselves when they're done 8 THEMES, 7 IN SOFT MUTED TONES • Fresh Cards, Lotus Pink, Dusty Rose, Caramel Latte, Evening Breeze, Celadon, Misty Blue, Starry Night • Set an icon and color for each moment, or for a whole group at once • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets have their own themes too YOUR UNITS, YOUR WAY • Turn years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds on or off; hours by default • In the final stretch it switches to hours, minutes and seconds automatically BATTERY, SYNC & PRIVACY • Only cards you can see are refreshed; collapsed groups use no power • Optional iCloud sync to restore on a new phone • No account needed; your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud FREE & PREMIUM • The free version holds up to 10 moments, with every feature included • A one-time Premium purchase removes the limit (no subscription) Event Days Timer: never forget the days that matter.

About

BriefFeed

This AI-powered tool generates concise summaries of articles, posts, and web content, allowing users to quickly grasp key information before diving deeper. It offers a Safari extension for seamless summarization while browsing and syncs saved content across Apple devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • AI-powered article summarization
  • Safari browser extension
  • Save summaries with source links
  • Sync library across Apple devices
  • Search reading history
  • Optional Notion integration
Features
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See the key points, then decide what to read in depth. BriefFeed uses AI to summarize supported articles, posts, and web content, keeping source links close so you can return to the original. Explore all features, real examples, and the demo video: https://brieffeed.app Share a link to see an AI summary Share a link from another app or paste a URL into BriefFeed. For supported content, BriefFeed generates a summary after fetching or opening the page. Some pages need to load and have their text expanded in the reader first. See key points while browsing Safari Enable the included Safari extension on iPhone and iPad to see AI summaries beside supported posts, discussions, and pages. The extension summarizes supported content already loaded on the page, helping you choose what to read in depth. Keep what is worth returning to Save summaries with their source links and browse your saved items by author. Sync your library across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your Apple iCloud account, without creating a separate BriefFeed account. Find what you read Search recent reading by words you remember, open the original source, or save a useful item from history. Revisit retained content by author, with portraits and biographies when available. History contains only supported content encountered by BriefFeed within the selected retention period. Continue from the browser extension Connect a compatible BriefFeed browser extension on your Mac to sync saved items and browsing history within your selected retention period while the Mac app is running. Synced items continue through your Apple iCloud account to iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can find a source from your computer when you need it on your phone. Supported content NetEase News articles are supported on recognized article pages, using the rendered title, byline, and visible article text. Hidden content, comments, and account data are excluded. On selected websites, the Safari extension supports social posts, discussions, articles, repositories, paper pages, podcast show notes, and available video text. Support depends on the site, page type, and accessible content. Video summaries use only the current video's available transcript, subtitles, timeline text, or chapters. Podcast summaries use show notes. BriefFeed does not directly analyze audio or video frames. Links that cannot be summarized can still be saved for later. Optional Notion sync Connect your own Notion integration to sync items you explicitly save in the Safari extension. The Notion token stays in that extension's local storage. Synced content goes directly from Safari to Notion, without passing through BriefFeed servers. Stay connected to the source Summary requests use the source text and limited source information needed for the summary. The extension does not send cookies or account sessions to BriefFeed. Original links remain available so you can check details and read in context.

Screenshots

Event Days Timer4 screens
BriefFeed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BriefFeed at none against Event Days Timer's 1. BriefFeed also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Event Days Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BriefFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Event Days Timer ships an update weekly, BriefFeed daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Event Days Timer versus BriefFeed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvent Days TimerBriefFeed
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB25 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWujie Yibang (fuzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd博 吴

Customer experience

Event Days Timer

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BriefFeed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Event Days Timer

One-time1
  • Premium$1.99
None

BriefFeed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Event Days Timer free?
Event Days Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BriefFeed free?
BriefFeed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Event Days Timer or BriefFeed have ads?
Neither Event Days Timer nor BriefFeed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Event Days Timer or BriefFeed?
Event Days Timer ships an update weekly, and BriefFeed daily. Most recently, Event Days Timer was updated on November 6, 2026 and BriefFeed on November 10, 2026.

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