When's That vs SMARTY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
When's That
Track important life events with a beautiful countdown timer. Get notified before events or see how long ago they occurred. Customize timers with images, fonts, and colors. Includes weather and map features.
- Unlimited countdown timers
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
- Customizable event backgrounds
- Event notifications
- Current weather for event locations
- Event mapping
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When's That is a beautiful countdown timer app to keep track of the important events in your life. • Want to know how long it is until you jet off to Paris for that amazing weekend? • What about being reminded a few days before it's someone's birthday so you can get them a gift? • How about wanting to know how long you've had your cat? All possible with When's That (especially the cat timer). When's That will track these events, and notify you on your iPad, iPhone and Watch when they happen, or before they happen! Features: • Unlimited countdown timers in years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets! • Amazing complications for the Watch! • Universal app - works on your iPhone and iPad. Fully compatible with iPad's multitasking modes. • Works on the Watch. See all your events, view and change the cover event, delete events, change settings... • A background image for each event - choose from your own photos, one of the images included, or even generate images with emoji! • Lots of customisations - choose different fonts and colours for every part of an event's information. • Local notifications on your iPhone, iPad and Watch when an event happens, or at a specified period before the event. • Current weather for each event's location, including high, low & 'feels like' temperatures, cloud cover, air pressure... • Set a 'cover' event and see that event take up the full screen - it really does look gorgeous. • A map showing the location of your events across the globe. • Add notes to each event so you can remember the important details. • Timers count up once an event has happened, so you can also track past events. • Events can be added to Spotlight Search, so you can jump straight into an event from search on your Home Screen. • Events and their details can be added to your calendar. • Contextual menus in the events list let you perform common tasks quickly. • You can add a new event or view the cover event by pressing and holding down on the app icon. • Accessibility built-in: Differentiate Without Colour, Button Shapes/Show Borders, Bold Text etc. • Compatible with iOS/iPadOS 17+ and watchOS 10+.
SMARTY
Manage your mobile account with ease. Track data usage, renew plans, and purchase add-ons. Access support and refer friends for rewards.
- Check data usage
- Renew plan
- Purchase add-ons
- Access web chat
- Refer friends for rewards
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Exciting things have been happening at SMARTY HQ and our new app is now available, packed full of great features that will make managing your account easier. - Check your data usage - Renew your plan - Purchase add-ons - Easy access to web chat, help and support - Refer your friends to SMARTY and you'll both get a reward
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SMARTY at Free against When's That's $1.99. SMARTY also leads on rating (3.4 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). When's That's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 20%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
SMARTY is free to download; When's That costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SMARTY holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of When's That's written reviews are positive against 20% of SMARTY's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
When's That ships an update every 3 months, SMARTY every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | When's That | SMARTY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.5 (2 ratings) | 3.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 19.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Haynes | Hutchison 3G UK Ltd |
Customer experience
When's That
SMARTY
Bugs and requests
When's That
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SMARTY
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login page issues after recent app update
- App crashing when trying to make payments
- Account information not displaying correctly
Requested features
4 requests- Face ID or fingerprint login support
- Data usage tracking widget
- Ability to stay logged in on the app
- Improved network coverage and reliability
In-app purchases
When's That
No in-app purchases
SMARTY
No in-app purchases
