Comparison

Quietdays vs Ritrovo

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

Head to head
About

Quietdays

Features
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The countdown app with no ads, free basic widgets, free sync and no subscriptions. Count down to birthdays, trips, weddings, exams and Christmas, or count up the days since you met. Quietdays puts them on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch as beautiful cards, and keeps them in sync on all your devices. How many days until my birthday? Until Christmas? Until our vacation? How many days have we been together? Quietdays answers at a glance. WHY QUIETDAYS β€’ No ads, ever. No pop-ups, banners or videos to watch. β€’ Basic widgets are free: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. β€’ Syncs across your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with iCloud, free. Get a new phone and your events come back. β€’ Pay once. Pro is a one-time purchase, never a subscription. β€’ No tracking. No ad or third-party analytics SDKs. Beautiful cards Storybook, romance, photographic and pure typography styles with matching colors. Put the picture beside, below or behind your countdown. Count down together A full-screen countdown made for setting your phone down where everyone can see it. The final hour, the final minute and the last ten seconds build up with sound and light, and fireworks go off at midnight. Count in days, sleeps or even heartbeats. Put countdowns on your Lock Screen too: a full-width illustrated card or an always-on widget (Pro, free 3-day trial). When the holiday is over, it simply starts counting to the next one. Lock Screen wallpapers with Pro. Widgets and Apple Watch Small and medium Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and watch face complications with a progress ring. Updates at midnight and never drifts a day across time zones. The new Multiple Events widget shows two at once on a small card, and a countdown widget can rotate through several events (Pro). Count down, count up, repeat Yearly, monthly, weekly or every N days, including lunar dates. Reminders on the day or days before, at the time you choose. Calendar and holidays A month view with your events, every 100th day, anniversaries and the public holidays of your region. Tap a holiday to count down to it. Share the moment 10 share layouts, from boarding pass to postcard, as an image or a short video with music. On day 100, day 1,000 and anniversaries, make a keepsake poster. All free. Never lose a day Free iCloud sync, a daily backup kept for 30 days, and backup files you can save anywhere. No account needed. Perfect for: birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, weddings, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year, exams, graduation, baby due date, retirement, concerts, moving day and more. QUIETDAYS PRO (one-time purchase) Multiple Events and rotating widgets, your own photos on cards and widgets, every template, 4K wallpapers, cloud backup, and share images without the Quietdays mark. Privacy Policy: https://quietdays.app/privacy

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Ritrovo

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Ritrovo finds your group's date in three steps: a title, a few times placed on your calendar, a link to send. Guests vote in their browser, with no app, no account and no ads. YOUR CALENDAR, ON YOUR IPHONE ONLY Ritrovo reads every calendar on the iPhone β€” iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook β€” and greys out the times you're busy in the week view. Tap to place a time, drag to set how long it lasts. "Suggest times" offers 3 to 5 free slots for the length, days and hours you want. Nothing from your calendar leaves the device. ANSWER IN ONE TAP Invited and have Ritrovo? "Answer from my calendar" says no where you're busy and yes elsewhere. Check, send: only your choices go out. Yes, if need be or no, a comment, and change your mind whenever you like. EVERYONE CAN VOTE The link opens on Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac or Linux, in thirteen languages. A circle where everyone has Ritrovo goes through iCloud only. THE BEST TIME, FRONT AND CENTRE A table of times and people, the best one on top, reminders for those who haven't replied, and "Confirm this date": the event goes into your calendar with the place and the note. Guests get the .ics file or a link to Google Calendar and Outlook. AND THE EVENING A "who brings what" list. What to wear with Indosso, what to serve with Mescita, if you have them. EVERYWHERE iPhone and iPad, Apple Watch to vote, widgets, a Live Activity while voting, a Messages extension, Siri and Shortcuts. FREE, NO ADS 3 open polls, 20 times each, calendars, reminders and 30 days of history. Voting is always free. Ritrovo Pro (monthly or yearly subscription, Family Sharing): unlimited polls and times, recurring series ("the second Thursday of the month"), availability grid, hidden polls, event themes and pictures, CSV and PDF export, full history. The subscription renews until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. The voting service keeps only the poll, the names typed and the votes, and erases them 30 days after the date. No account, no telemetry. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Β© 2026 Nidello β€” Made in Canada

Screenshots

Quietdays4 screens
Ritrovo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Quietdays at 17.0 against Ritrovo's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Quietdays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ritrovo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Quietdays versus Ritrovo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuietdaysRitrovo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size167 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerζ·±εœ³εΈ‚ζ™Ίθ”εˆ›η½‘η»œη§‘ζŠ€ζœ‰ι™ε…¬εΈDaniel Rheaume

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quietdays

One-time1
  • Quietdays Pro$5.99
2 purchases

Ritrovo

Subscriptions2
  • Ritrovo Pro, monthly$1.991 Month
  • Ritrovo Pro, yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Quietdays free?
Quietdays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ritrovo free?
Ritrovo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quietdays or Ritrovo have ads?
Neither Quietdays nor Ritrovo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quietdays or Ritrovo?
Quietdays ships an update every 3 days, and Ritrovo every 3 days. Most recently, Quietdays was updated on November 13, 2026 and Ritrovo on November 13, 2026.

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