Date Formatter vs ScratchPads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Date Formatter
This utility helps developers easily test and understand date and time format strings. It allows for setting custom dates, time zones, and supports over 689 locales for localized formatting.
- Test any date/time
- Set different time zones
- Support for 689+ locales
- Quick guide with examples
- Detailed reference for format symbols
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Have you ever felt a headache when dealing with date/time format string? When things come to a localized date/time format, it's even more difficult. Date Formatter is a handy tool for the developer who is dealing with date/time format string. It makes your life with date format easier! With this tool, you can test any format string with any date/time and see the result simultaneously. Never tweak format strings in code and run the program again and again. Features: - Set any date/time - Set different time zones - Support more than 689 locales (you can test date strings in any country your iOS device support) - Quick guide with examples - Detailed reference with the symbol, number of symbols, examples and descriptions Now, speed up with your work with date time string and localization!
ScratchPads
Quickly jot down notes and have them automatically saved. This utility app offers multiple scratch pads for easy organization and instant recall of your thoughts. Simply close the app to save your work.
- Multiple scratch pads
- Automatic note saving
- Quick text deletion
- Restores last active pad
- Simple interface
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Very simplistic utility app to allow for scratch pad notes to be quickly added and automatically saved. USE: Open app, select one of the "Pads", and record scratch pad notes. To clear a pad, tap the trash icon in the upper right side of the screen and then confirm to delete the pad text. To save the text, just close the app. FEATURES: Five different "Pads" to store scratch pad notes. Delete all text on a Pad with two taps. Scratch pad notes are automatically saved when the app is closed, and restored the next time the app is opened. The last active Pad tab is saved when the app is closed, and restored the next time the app is opened.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Date Formatter at Free against ScratchPads's $0.99. Date Formatter also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). ScratchPads's advantage is update cadence (every 10 months vs every 29 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Date Formatter is free to download; ScratchPads costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Date Formatter against 5.0 for ScratchPads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Date Formatter ships an update every 29 months, ScratchPads every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Date Formatter | ScratchPads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 10 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Honghao Zhang | Thomas Dalke |
Customer experience
Date Formatter
ScratchPads
In-app purchases
Date Formatter
No in-app purchases
ScratchPads
No in-app purchases
