Epoch — RBen

What happened on

this date

Plenty, over the centuries. Here is how Epoch tells it — with 12 October as the example.

It opens on today.

No sign-up, no onboarding, nothing to tap through. The events are on screen before you have finished unlocking the phone — all of them, not a sample.

Epoch's Today screen: events from 12 October

One sentence, then the fuller account.

Every entry is one sentence, the year in full, and how long ago it was. Tap it for more, and a link to the Wikipedia article it came from.

Any date in the calendar.

The day you were born, an anniversary, a date you half-remember. Events span every year on record.

Made to be shared.

A card for a group chat: the year in brass on dark, the event, and nothing else.

A streak, kept quietly.

It counts the days you turned up. The weekly board is there only if you want it.

Also in Epoch

A few more things.

One notification a day.

At a time you pick, with the event itself on the lock screen. Never a second one.

EPOCHnow

On this day, 1964

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew…

Interests, or not.

Set a few and the feed puts them first. Leaving them empty is a perfectly good answer.

SpaceExplorationScienceArtLiteratureSportMusicPolitics

Light and dark.

Both designed, not inverted, and three text sizes that work with your phone's own setting.

What it costs

Free. Today, always.

Today's events are always free and always complete. Looking up other dates is where the ads are — or pay once, and they are gone for good.

Watch one short ad

Every date in history, free for the next 24 hours.

Or pay once

No ads, ever, and every date. One payment — not a subscription.

Nothing in your way

No pop-up ads, no banners, no ads when you open the app.

Privacy

No sign-up.
Nothing to hand over.

Epoch never asks for your name, email or location, and has no third-party analytics. Ads come from Google and ask for consent first where the law requires it. Delete everything from Settings in three taps.