Comparison

MinDrop vs Winter Calendar

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

Head to head
About

MinDrop

Features
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MinDrop is a board of sticky notes for everything you need to remember. Write it down in a second, find it later, and get a nudge when it matters. It's free, with no ads. MinDrop is in early access, so sign-ups are by invite for now. You can request one from the sign-in screen or at mindrop.app. CAPTURE IT WHEREVER YOU ARE โ€ข Type a drop on the board, or tap a Home Screen widget. โ€ข Forward an email or send a text to MinDrop and it lands on your board. โ€ข Share a link, photo or file from any app through the share sheet. โ€ข Set the Action Button to Tell Mia, hold it, and say what you need. NOTES, LISTS AND REMINDERS Every drop is one of three things. A note keeps a thought. A list has checkboxes and is done when every box is ticked. A reminder has a time, can repeat, and notifies you when it's due. Color tags, pins and search keep the board tidy, and reminders sync both ways with Apple Reminders. TODAY Today puts your reminders and your calendar events on one timeline, so you can see the whole day at a glance. WIDGETS, LIVE ACTIVITIES AND APPLE WATCH Widgets keep your next reminders on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. When a reminder is coming up, a Live Activity shows it on the Lock Screen. On Apple Watch you can record a meeting with MeetDrop right from your wrist. EARLY ACCESS: MIA AND MEETDROP Mia is an assistant for your board. Say or type "milk, eggs and bread, and remind me Friday at 6 to call Mom" and she makes the list and the reminder for you. MeetDrop takes notes in your meetings. Record on iPhone or Apple Watch and you get a summary, decisions and suggested tasks you can add to your board. The audio is deleted once the transcript is ready. During early access we turn these on per account, at no charge. TWO ACCOUNTS Keep work and personal apart. Add a second account and switch between them from your profile picture. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your drops are encrypted for your account. There are no ads and no tracking, and we don't sell your data. You can lock the app with Face ID and delete your account from Settings at any time. Questions or ideas: support@mindrop.app

About

Winter Calendar

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Winter Calendar turns your schedule into a briefing, not a grid. Instead of colored blocks, your week reads like a short editorial written for you: Today, Tomorrow, and This Week, in plain sentences with relative times like "tonight at 7" or "Thursday afternoon." WRITTEN FOR YOU On-device Apple Intelligence rephrases event titles and adds short notes, so you can see at a glance what matters and what to bring. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your iPhone. Your events come from the calendars already on your device, and the AI never sends your schedule to a server. ADD EVENTS BY TYPING Type something like "dinner with Sam Friday at 7" and Winter Calendar creates the event for you. Long-press any event to edit it, delete it, or ask about it. LIVE AT A GLANCE Events show as upcoming, happening now, or done. Overlapping events are flagged, and tomorrow's briefing is ready the evening before. WIDGETS Put your day on your Home Screen: what's on now and next, today's date, a mini calendar, or the full editorial. Winter Calendar works with the calendars you already use through iOS, including iCloud, Google, and Exchange.

Screenshots

MinDrop4 screens
Winter Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

MinDrop and Winter Calendar are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MinDrop ships an update every 2 days, Winter Calendar every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MinDrop versus Winter Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinDropWinter Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 โ€” better27.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAniel ReyesRogue Superintelligence LLC

In-app purchases

None

MinDrop

No in-app purchases

None

Winter Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MinDrop free?
MinDrop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Winter Calendar free?
Winter Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MinDrop or Winter Calendar have ads?
Neither MinDrop nor Winter Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MinDrop or Winter Calendar?
MinDrop ships an update every 2 days, and Winter Calendar every 4 days. Most recently, MinDrop was updated on October 31, 2026 and Winter Calendar on October 31, 2026.

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