There are lots of important dates that you need to keep in mind in your day to day life, and alongwith remembering your project deadlines, homework submissions, job interview dates, anniversary, you also need to remember the most important day in the life of your friends and family members — their birthdays.
Now remembering everyone’s birthday isn’t as tough but recalling them when the date arrives is certainly a herculean task. While you can use the built-in calendar app on your Android devices or even use Facebook as a birthday reminder like many, do, if you’re looking for a specifically developed one to remind your birthdays of your near and dear ones, here we’ve listed seven of the best birthday reminder apps available on Android and iOS.
Birthdays for Android
Developer: Open Me | Size: 3.2 MB | Price: Free
Alongwith birthdays, this app also reminds you of the anniversary and other important dates. You can manually enter birthdays or sync it with your contacts. You can also ask the app to remind you of birthdays in advance; by default, it’ll set a reminder for the birth date itself. This app is available only for Android users.
Download the Birthday app here
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Hip
Developer: Celebrate Labs Inc. | Size: 130.2 MB | Price: Free. Offers In-App Purchases
For all the iOS users out there, you can try this powerful app which also has an option for backup and restore. This reliable app offers stylish gift ideas to its users in USA. You can sync the app with contacts and calendar and also opt for reminders to be sent to your iPhone or Apple Watch. You can also send a card by choosing from more than 100 templates available in this app.
Download the hip app here
Countdown+ Calendar
Developer: Apps Beyond LLC | Size: 94.3 MB (iOS); 24 MB (Android) | Price: Free. Offers In-App Purchases
Keep track of birthdays, concerts, holidays, and many such events. This app offers you to sync your Facebook event with your device. A countdown timer can be created for multiple events, which is customisable as you can select the units in years, months, weeks, days, minutes, and seconds. You can also customise the design of the timer as well as the font and colours.
Download the Countdown+ app for iOS here
Download the Countdown+ app for Android here
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Greeting Cards and Wishes
Developer: 123Greetings.com, Inc. | Size: 111.3 MB (iOS); Varies with devices (Android) | Price: Free. Offers In-App Purchases
This app not only keeps reminders but also helps you send cards on that special day. The cards are easily sharable via Facebook, Twitter, Email, SMS, Messenger Chat, and much more. You get to choose from over 40,000 cards. You can get birthday reminders a month before the date, or you can select when you want to get reminded. You can sync your phone contacts as well as Facebook contacts for easy access.
Download the Greeting Cards and Wishes app for iOS here
Download the Greeting Cards and Wishes app for Android here
Google Calendar
Developer: Google LLC. | Size: 193.1 MB (iOS); Varies with devices (Android) | Price: Free
Events present in your Gmail account are automatically synced to this app, hence keeping a record of birthdays, concert, hotel, restaurant reservation, flights, and much more. You can also add video conferencing to your Google calendar. While saving the event, you also get suggestions for the titles. The app does more than reminding you of birthdays. It works with many other Calendars, including iCloud and Exchange.
Download the Google Calendar app for iOS here
Download the Google Calendar app for Android here
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Birthday Reminder and Countdown
Developer: New Marketing Lab, Inc. | Size: 24.7 MB | Price: Free. Offers In-App Purchases
Never forget birthdays by using this simple app. It lets you sync with contacts so that you can easily import birthdays. You can add a widget to your lock screen. In this app, you can see the upcoming birthdays alongwith how old they will turn alongwith their photo. It lets you sync with iCloud and is only available on iOS.
Download the Birthday Reminder app here
Birthdays Reminder
Developer: Apps From the Locker | Size: 7.5 MB | Price: Free
This app is available only for Android users. You can import birthdays from your contacts or also from the Facebook account. You can choose from a preset notification which gets sent one week in advance, or you can customise the reminder according to your wish. The app also brings a widget to your drawer that allows you to keep track of reminders directly through your home screen.
Download the Birthdays Reminder app here
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