I built KeepDates after realizing I kept missing important dates that were already saved in my contacts.

Birthdays are automatically handle by iOS, but everything else was just ignored. I always dutifully curated my contacts, adding different dates to each (friends' kids' birthdays, anniversaries, significant events), but always seemed to forget about them as the day approached. I tried manually adding them to my calendar, but it quickly became annoying to maintain.

So, this app is just there to handle it - it runs in the background (as much as that's possible on iOS) and periodically checks for changes to the contacts, and updates a separately maintained calendar with new dates/events (or removing ones that disappeared). That way, I can be sure that when I update a contact with new date information, it will be reflected in my calendar, and I'll get alerted on time.

That's it... that's the app.

It also has a bunch of different toggles, customizations, notifications and widgets, if handling it all by calendar isn't enough.

Happy to answer any questions or hear feedback! Would love to hear if others have run into this problem too, or if I'm the only one filling up my contacts data with all sorts of dates.