hip: Birthday Reminder App

I have been using this app for years and it has not disappoint me. It reminds me of all my friends and loved ones birthdays, anniversaries, etc. I like that it keeps all their pictures beside their names. I like that it gives you suggestions of what to say and able to add words to it. Nice card selections to send. You have the choice to select who the person’s is to you such as brother, sister, mother etc, if relation not named you can customize it. I’ve had this very birthday app for years. A touching part of this app is the “ Memorialize Contact” where Hip indicates love ones who passed way & will remove celebratory marks and have silent reminders about their events. Thank you Hip for that. I never had to change to another birthday app bc this one keeps updating with the new and improved.

This is my first review ever, but I wanted to write it to congratulate the Hip team for their accomplishment. I always had trouble keeping track of important birthdays, and would periodically go through the awkwardness of forgetting to wish someone in my circle a happy one. Hip has enabled me to offload the cognitive task of remembering birthdays and track them from a single source of truth, with a beautiful UI. As a suggestion, the gift idea feature can be better tailored for people. Maybe you can prompt users to add some keywords that represent the interests of the birthday person, and show results and similar products based on suggestions. For example, if I input ‘yoga’, I wanted to see mats and rollers, but also related items like aromatherapy vials, wellness gift cards (experiences!), books by Ram Dass, and ayurveda teas. Thanks again for a wonderful app!

Day Stars was a much better app, which the developers abandoned to start this one. It is not supported anymore and you can’t find it on App Store. Hip cuts off the top portion of the thumbnail in the card, in most of the cases it’s the persons head. The birthday card wording is weird, this one says “celebrates 16 years” instead of “turned 16 today” in Day Stars. There is a big white stamp in the bottom in hip, instead of a watermark of Day Stars. I still use my Day Star app even its still has some bugs, like you can’t save the birthday reminder card. While improvement is always welcomed but it should be in the right direction.