Remember Important Days With Date Calculator - D-Day Pro
Date calculator - D-Day Pro ($0.99) by CultStory Inc. is an app to help you remember those important days that occur during your life.
Face it - there are a lot of memorable days that happen, but it can be a bit difficult to remember everything all the time, right? Ever need an app to help you remember all those dates? Date calculator - D-Day Pro is here.
The app can be split into four main listings from the bottom toolbar - D-Day, Calendar, Calculator, or Settings.
In the D-Day view, it's essentially a list of upcoming days with a countdown of days to the left. There are also three views here - Left, Past, and Birth. Left is for upcoming events, Past is for events from before, and Birth is for all birthdays.
When you manually add in a "D-day" event, you can give it a title and a date. Notes or description of the event can be placed in the Memo section, and if it's a birthday, you can toggle that (it will go in the Birth list). If not, the event can be repeated every year, month, or 100 days.
Unfortunately, at the moment it doesn't seem like there is a customizable repeat option. I'm not sure how often that happens, but some events may need to be repeated every couple of days or something like that - there's no option to customize the amount of days, or even months and years. I hope the developer can think about implementing this in the future, as it can be useful for some people.
The Calendar view allows the user to view their special days in a calendar that looks similar to the default iOS one. Any days with events will be marked with a little star icon. Selecting a day with a star will have the event show up beneath the calendar, which can take you to the Event Detail page.
Event Detail is accessible from both D-day and Calendar view, and will display all the information that you input into the creation of the day. These events can be saved to your iPhone's calendar too, a nice touch. If you need to change any detail of an event, you can with a simple tap of the button.
The Date Calculator is pretty unique and nifty to have around. It's something that I don't believe I've encountered before, so it's pretty innovative for an app for memorable dates. This calculator allows you to see the date that is "x" amount of days after or before the current date or any date you choose. Or, if you want to know how many days remain until a certain day, there's that option too.
The Settings is where you can do all that fun stuff like setting a passcode, alerts, choice of Lunar calendar or the "Count from 0 on start" toggles. Another great thing from the app is that you can import all of your data from the default iPhone calendar - just choose the specific calendar(s). An option to erase all data is there as well.
My overall reaction to Date calculator - D-Day is positive. I like the app: it has a great icon, colorful and unique interface, and great layouts. My only quip is that there needs to be a way to add a customizable repeat option for events. The option for more color themes would be good as well. Other than that, the app looks good.
So if you've been looking for an app to keep track of all those important days, then give Date calculator - D-Day a try. This review was for the $0.99 Pro version, but there is a free version to try with an in-app upgrade to Pro for $0.99 as well. There is a difference in the icons - Pro has gold stars, while the Free version has white stars. As far as the functionality goes, the developer does not state the difference between free and pro, but I would assume it would be a limitation on the amount of events you can add or limited features.
