Birthday Keeper

What it does

Never miss a birthday again. Birthday Keeper reads the birthdays already in your Contacts, shows who is next and how old they will be, and reminds you in good time — days ahead, the day before, and on the day.

It is the birthday app you pay for once so it never has to pay for itself with your address book. No account, no ads, no subscription, no tracking, no internet connection needed. Your contacts never leave your phone.

Features

• Everything coming up — days to go, the age they are turning and milestone badges (18, 21, 30, 40, 50…); birthdays without a year work too; add people by hand with a photo
• Reminders that actually arrive — a week ahead, three days, the day before, on the day, for everyone or per person, at the time of day you choose; an optional weekly summary; scheduling built to stay reliable with hundreds of birthdays, not just a handful
• Act from the reminder — Call and Message buttons on the notification, and Call, Message, FaceTime and Share on the person's page
• Widgets — the next birthdays on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, ticking over at midnight
• 29 February handled — choose to celebrate on 28 February or 1 March in other years
• Your data stays yours — import from Contacts in one tap, paste or import a list from another app or a note, and export a plain backup file you keep
• iPhone and iPad — a sidebar layout on iPad, full Dynamic Type support

Contacts are read on your device, only when you ask, with the minimum of names, birthdays and photos, and are never uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy.

Moving from another birthday app?

If your old app can export or email its list, paste it into Birthday Keeper (Settings → Paste a list). One person per line, name then date, in any common date form, year optional — for example Maya Okafor, 14 Sep 1996. The app previews what it understood before it imports anything.