CHOOSING AN APP
How to pick a
birthday reminder app.
There is no single best app for everyone. These are the questions that decide it, and how Birthday Reminder answers each one.
GIFT IDEAS
Art supplies, pottery class, museum membership.
- Art
- Pottery
- Museums
THE SHORT ANSWER
Start with what you need
If you only need to see a birthday on the right day, your phone’s calendar may be enough: on iPhone, birthdays from Contacts can appear in Calendar. A dedicated app earns its place when you want more than a calendar entry.
Use the checklist below to compare any app, this one included. The answers for Birthday Reminder describe how the app works today.
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How do birthdays get in?
Typing every birthday is the part people give up on. Look for an import.
- Birthday Reminder imports from Contacts and from birthday events in Calendar, shows a review list, and also lets you add people manually.
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How flexible are the reminders?
A reminder on the day is often too late to buy a gift.
- Birthday Reminder offers the day itself or 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month before, and you can pick several.
- On the free plan there is one reminder on the day at 9:00 AM; choosing timings and the time of day is Premium.
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What does it do beyond reminding?
Some apps stop at the reminder. Others help with the gift.
- Birthday Reminder adds countdowns, interests, gift ideas for each person, and AI gift suggestions with Premium.
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Where does your data live?
Birthdays are personal data, so check where they are kept.
- In Birthday Reminder, your people and settings are stored on your device, and there is no account or sign-in.
- AI gift suggestions send a limited request to a server: age, gender, interests, ideas to exclude and the app language, not the name or birthday.
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What is free and what costs money?
Free apps still have limits. Find them before you add everyone.
- Birthday Reminder is free to download. The free plan limits birthdays, gift ideas and interests, and the reminder timing. Premium is an optional subscription that lifts them.
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Does it speak your language?
The app’s language matters more than it seems for daily use.
- Birthday Reminder is available in 12 languages: English, Turkish, French, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Malay, Indonesian and Russian.
QUESTIONS
Choosing an app: questions
Is the iPhone Calendar enough for birthdays?
For seeing a birthday on the day, often yes. The iPhone birthday reminders guide shows the steps. Choose an app if you want countdowns, several reminders or gift ideas.
Is Birthday Reminder the best birthday reminder app?
It depends on what you need. Use the checklist above to decide; it is built for people who want countdowns, flexible reminders and gift ideas in one place.
Is there an Android version?
Yes. Birthday Reminder is on both the App Store and Google Play.
What does it cost?
It is free to download, with a free plan that has limits. Read about the free plan.
See also: free birthday reminder app and birthday tracker app.
More birthday guides
Birthday countdown app
Count down to every birthday in days, hours, minutes and seconds.
Read the guide →Birthday reminders on iPhone
Set up birthdays in Contacts and Calendar, and see what an app adds.
Read the guide →Birthday calendar app
See every birthday on a month calendar and in an upcoming list.
Read the guide →AI gift ideas
Get gift suggestions from a person’s age, interests and saved ideas.
Read the guide →Import birthdays from contacts
Bring birthdays in from Contacts or Calendar instead of typing them.
Read the guide →Birthday notifications
Choose how many reminders you get and how far ahead they arrive.
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See if it fits
Download Birthday Reminder for iPhone or Android and try it against your checklist.