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Other Dates
Contact dates become events

Turns the custom date fields on your contacts into yearly calendar events, automatically.

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Free · iPhone · coming to the App Store

Main screen: a contact list paired with a calendarSynced dates: milestones for six people

A calendar entry is ephemeral — it fires and it’s gone. A date stored on the contact is persistent: you see the story of the relationship every time you open the card. Other Dates keeps the two in sync, so you enter each date once, on the person it belongs to, and the calendar takes care of remembering.

Birthdays are intentionally left to iOS, which already shows them. Other Dates is for all the other dates.

How it works

1 · Add dates in Contacts

Edit any contact, add a date, give it your own label — friendiversary, gotcha day, retirement.

2 · Pair a list with a calendar

Pick one contact list and one calendar. Sync every label, or only the ones you choose.

3 · Let it run

Edits to contacts flow to the calendar automatically. Every event links back to the person's card.

Built to stay out of the way

Any account

iCloud, Exchange, CardDAV servers, or on-device lists — pair whatever holds your people.

Self-healing

Renamed labels, changed dates, deleted events — everything converges back on the next sync.

Work / personal separation

One pairing per world, each into its own calendar. Private dates stay in private calendars.

Optional alerts

One default alert for everything, with per-label overrides when a date deserves more notice.

Multi-device aware

Run it on iPhone and Mac — duplicate events are detected and cleaned up automatically.

Nothing collected

No accounts, no analytics, no servers. Your data never leaves your devices.

Free for 10 people

The free version syncs dates for up to 10 people. A one-time unlock — no subscription — removes the limit, with Family Sharing.