LiLiCal vs Cairn

LiLiCal is a calendar and task app that works with the system apps you already use. Your events come from Calendar, your tasks from Reminders, and the days you care about get their own countdown. HOLIDAYS FOR ANY REGION · Public holidays for 37 countries and regions, ready to subscribe · Each subscription gets its own color; one day can carry marks from several regions · Chinese lunar dates, the 24 solar terms, traditional festivals, and mainland China's statutory holidays with make-up workdays — always on WORKS WITH CALENDAR AND REMINDERS · Events and tasks are read and written straight to the system apps — no separate silo · The week ahead grouped by date; show only the calendars you pick · Pre-meeting notifications with one-tap join for online meetings MAKE THE DAYS COUNT · Birthdays, anniversaries, project milestones — with yearly lunar repeat and custom cycles · Grouped by urgency, with milestones that tell you where the next one worth marking is · Syncs with the Mac app through your own iCloud, in real time WIDGETS ON HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN · Four widgets — month, agenda, tasks, countdown — in small, medium and large · A countdown for the Lock Screen too · Tap any row on a widget to open that item THOUGHTFUL TOUCHES · Turn tabs on or off and drag them into the order you want · Start the week on Sunday, Monday or Saturday; show week numbers; choose how many weeks the month view shows · A Pomodoro focus timer (off by default, switch it on in Settings) · iPad and landscape iPhone use a two-column layout: list on the left, editor on the right PRIVACY FIRST No personal information is collected. Events and reminders are read and written on your device only; Days sync through your own iCloud. The only network requests fetch public holiday data.

Cairn counts down to the days you're waiting for, and counts up from the days you don't want to forget. Give it a date. It answers in days — 124 days to go, or 1,024 days since. Everything else gets out of the way. COUNTDOWN AND COUNT-UP, ONE MODEL • Days to go for anything ahead: a holiday, a trip, an exam, a due date • Days since anything behind: an anniversary, a baby's birth, the day you quit • Turn on minute precision when the hour matters — "3 days 4 hours", with seconds only in the final hour • Repeat yearly, monthly, weekly, every N days, or by the lunar calendar • Every event carries its own time zone, so flying across the world never shifts the number • Count only working days when a countdown is about business days • A date calculator for the days between two dates, or a date N days away — save the answer as an event • Pick up dates from a screenshot, a photo or a bit of text, and start a new event already filled in SEE WHERE IT STANDS • A countdown bar reads like a battery gauge: solid is what's left, full to empty • A count-up grid fills one square at a time, a day at a time • Milestones at 100, 365, 520, 1,000 and 1,314 days, marked right on the track • Ring, milestone track or heat grid — pick one per event, or just keep the number • A year view lays out all twelve months at once, so you can see which one is crowded; a month view lays them out day by day • Yearly events show which anniversary it is, and the day a countdown reaches zero gets a small celebration REMINDERS THAT ARRIVE ON TIME • Several reminders per event: days, weeks or months ahead, at the hour you choose • A daily digest each morning for what's today and what's this week • Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the last 24 hours • Time-sensitive delivery for the dates that shouldn't wait behind a Focus EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large: one event, a list, or a chart • Lock Screen widgets — inline, circular and rectangular — each pointed at the event you choose • An Apple Watch app and complications: circular, rectangular, inline and corner • A Control Center control for a new countdown in one tap • Ask Siri how long until anything, or find an event right from Spotlight • Share an event with family or friends: change the date and it changes for them too YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS • No account. Nothing to sign up for. • Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud, and mirrors to Apple Watch from your iPhone • Import dates from Calendar and birthdays from Contacts — read only, never written back • Export everything to a single JSON file and import it back whenever you like; local snapshots and Recently Deleted bring back what you removed by mistake • App Lock asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode when you come back • Cover photos with automatic tinting, six muted themes, categories, pinning, archiving and a share card • English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Thai — dates and month names included Cairn is free to download and keep up to 3 events. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited events. Previous users keep full access permanently; restore with the same Apple Account. No subscription, no ads, no tracking. A cairn is the pile of stones a trail keeps stacking to mark the way — one for every stretch you have walked.