Days between Dates
Days between Dates is a utility for calculating intervals between two dates, designed for legal and medical professionals using a spin-wheel interface on iOS.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the cognitive friction of manual calendar counting for professionals who need to determine sentence, delivery, or project deadlines.
For Professionals in legal and medical fields needing quick date-to-date duration calculations.
What does it look like?
Key features
Spin-wheel UI for selecting start and end dates to calculate intervals.
Outputs duration in days, weeks, months, and years.
How much does it cost?
Distributed as a free utility with no functional in-app purchase gates due to broken store connectivity.
Velocity
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Development has ceased, with no updates or feature releases in 2,138 days. The app remains in a zombie state, as the last recorded version was published over five years ago. There is no evidence of ongoing maintenance or operational activity.
Who built it?
William Jockusch
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate simple and clean interface allows users to calculate date ranges without unnecessary complexity or bloat and versatile date calculation features provide significant utility for professional workflows like legal and pharmacy scheduling.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Simple and clean interface allows users to calculate date ranges without unnecessary complexity or bloat
- Versatile date calculation features provide significant utility for professional workflows like legal and pharmacy scheduling
- Reliable core functionality makes the app a daily habit for tracking personal and professional deadlines
- Unstable date field behavior causes input values to reset or switch unexpectedly during user interaction
40 of 40 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Days between Dates
How's the Utilities market?
Days between Dates maintains a 4.16-star rating across its limited review pool, serving as a legacy utility in the App Store. The lack of updates since 2020 signals a maintenance-only posture that cedes the professional-utility segment to more active competitors.
The rivals identified
The Analyst's Read
Key takeaways for Days between Dates
Where is it heading?
The utility market is shifting toward integrated project management tools that offer business day logic and cloud sync. Days between Dates remains stable due to its simplicity, but it risks losing its professional user base to more modern alternatives that automate the manual adjustments currently required.
- The five-year development hiatus prevents the integration of business day logic, which forces professional users to manually adjust for weekends and holidays.
- The minimalist interface maintains a steady, positive rating among a small user base that values simplicity over feature expansion.
The SWOT
- Minimalist spin-wheel interface reduces cognitive load for quick date-to-date calculations
- Adding persistent storage for past calculations would address the top user request
Next best moves
Ship persistent storage for calculations because it is the top-requested user feature → increase daily utility
The counter-intuitive read
The app's greatest weakness, its lack of updates…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app's product strategy shifted from general maintenance to a specific focus on persistent storage as the primary development priority. While the codebase remains in a five-year hiatus, the analytical framework now identifies the lack of history logging as the most significant barrier to professional utility.
Bottom line
Days between Dates serves a narrow professional niche through simplicity, but the lack of persistent storage and business day logic limits its retention. Adding a simple history log would unlock the daily habit loop users currently request.
Unlock 2 critical frictions, 1 market threat and the analyst’s take.
Access the full report for freeFAQ
Is Days between Dates suitable for professional project management?
Does Days between Dates save my past calculations?
What is a free alternative to Days between Dates?
Sources
- [1] App Store
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