These birthday tracking apps can help you remember when everyone’s birthday is as well as a wealth of other useful information. You can see how old people are turning, see a countdown to their next birthday, or even send a message directly from the app when you get a notification. Let’s check out the best options!
1. Birthdays
Even though the app is titled Birthdays, you can keep also keep track of anniversaries too. When you add a new birthday to the app, all it asks for is the person’s name and date of birth. If you don’t know someone’s birth year, you can type in their age and the Birthdays app will figure it out for you.
The app takes all this info and presents it to you cleanly on the home screen. You can easily see all upcoming birthdays and anniversaries and exactly how many months or days there are leading up to the event. On the home screen, you can see how old someone is turning on their birthday and how many years are being celebrated for each anniversary.
You can keep notes in the app too if you ever randomly have a gift idea pop into your head. You can also send cards directly through the app to your messaging app of choice. The Birthdays app gives you five cards for free, but any additional cards have to be purchased for $0.99 each. Once you buy a card, you can send it to as many people as you want.
Download: Birthdays (Free, in-app purchases available)
2. Birthday Calendar Reminder
Birthday Calendar Reminder gives you a nifty year view of all the upcoming birthdays you need to know.
Every person in your life gets a different color balloon with their first initial placed on their birthday, making it easy to see how many birthdays you have in one month. Tapping on individual months when you’re in year-view allows you to see everyone’s names listed out for the month.
Or if you prefer, you can also view all upcoming birthdays in a list view. When you view it like this, you’ll see everyone’s next birthdays for years to come for as long as you can keep scrolling.
If you want to add anniversaries in addition to birthdays, you can easily do that with different icons: a rose or a banner instead of a balloon. Then you can customize your notification settings and you’re good to go.
Download: Birthday Calendar Reminder (Free, in-app purchases available)
3. Birthday Countdown
Birthday Countdown is an awesome app if you love to see the moment it turns someone’s birthday. If you know the time someone was born, like a child or a sibling, you can even enter their specific birth time for a more accurate countdown.
On the home screen, you’ll be able to scroll through everyone’s birthdays. You can assign each person a different color so it’s easy to spot who’s who. You can also add pictures to customize each entry.
Download: Birthday Countdown (Free)
4. Birthdays for Android
Birthdays for Android has a much simpler, no-fuss interface, but it can actually capture quite a bit of information about the people in your life. Clicking on an individual’s name will show you their current age, their Western zodiac sign, and their Chinese zodiac sign. It’ll also tell you what day their next birthday will be on.
On the home screen, you’ll see the person’s name, birthday, how old they’re turning, and how many days there are before their next birthday. If you add a customized picture, that’ll also appear on the home screen next to each person’s name.
One of the unique features of this app is that you can create a custom message template. So if you typically always send someone “Happy Birthday! Hope your day is really awesome!” with a few choice party emojis, you can have that saved and ready to go when it’s someone’s birthday.
Download: Birthdays (Free)
5. Birthday Reminder
Birthday Reminder, just like many of the apps on this list, lets you add birthdays and anniversaries. You can choose to add the year, but it’s not required. What’s neat about this app is that you can group people as Friends, Family, or Work. Then, when you’re viewing everything on the home screen, you can filter by group to see specific people.
Then, you can browse through quite a few different gift idea lists in the app. You can also find the perfect greeting card or message to send someone via text. Even if you’re filling out a physical paper card to send to someone, the Greetings Messages section is useful if you’re tired of always writing the same thing.
Download: Birthday Reminder (Free, in-app purchases available)
6. Contacts’ Birthdays
This is another great birthday tracking app that has a simple, easy-to-read user interface. As the name of the app implies, you can add people directly from your contacts, making it easy to make sure you’ve recorded everyone’s birthday that you can think of. You can enter birthdays, anniversaries, or categorize the date as Other or Special.
On the home screen, you can see the person’s name, birthday, how many more days until their birthday, and how old they’re turning. If you have a picture for someone in your phone’s contacts, that picture will automatically transfer over when you make a new entry in the app.
You can also add a widget to your home screen if you want to constantly be able to see whose birthday is coming up or how many days it is until your favorite person’s next birthday.
Download: Contacts’ Birthdays (Free)
Never Forget a Birthday Again!
There’s so much we can do with our phones nowadays to make our lives easier. With any one of these apps, you’ll never have to send someone a belated message again. And you’ll always know exactly how old someone’s turning without having to do the math in your head.
Plus, being able to keep track of what might be a good birthday gift for someone throughout the year in a birthday-specific app will help keep everything organized. And if you’re celebrating someone from a distance, don’t forget to send a virtual card or even a virtual birthday cake for their special day.
