22 Days HD looks a lot like a lovely interactive poster of your upcoming events. The whole app is basically a set of countdowns for your upcoming events, divided into days, months, and years.
The main screen serves as an overview of all your upcoming events, with descriptions, countdowns, and pictures. One tap on an event will view it, a double tap will bring you to the edit screen, and a triple tap will trigger deletion. Swiping right along the top third of the screen will bring up a “new event” dialogue, with sections for an event name, date, notification time, and an event image. Creating events is quick and easy in 22 Days HD, but it could be improved upon with a 30-day date picker(like 2Do’s) to take advantage of all of the iPad’s extra screen space and the addition of cropping for picture events. The latter would be especially wonderful, since the auto-cropped iSource logo just didn’t fit in with the gorgeous stock images.
Ideally, 22 Days HD can be used to create reminders for birthdays and upcoming holidays, but as a Google Calendar user myself, I struggled to find a good use case for this app. I already have a database of birthdays, dentist appointments, and parties with Google, and it was disappointing to find that I had to manually re-enter all of my information if I wanted to use 22 Days HD. Some sort of calendar tie-in would have made the transition a lot easier.
I was also surprised to find that developer Omar Sosa has a similarly priced ($0.99) iPhone app on the App Store called 22 Days. I respect the fact that the iPhone version came out first and creating a tablet version of an app requires effort that deserves pay, but I think this is a missed opportunity: having two separate 22 Days clients on the App Store (one for iPhone, one for iPad) with separate databases that do not sync seems like wasted potential. Ideally, these apps would be universal (even if it meant a higher price) and would sync nicely over Google Sync or Dropbox.
22 Days HD is a gorgeous and affordable niche app for users who don’t care much for calendars, but still want event reminders. As long as you don’t need sync and don’t need to enter too many events in a sitting, this $0.99 purchase should serve just fine.
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