On This Date

Explore more than 5,000 facts, choose your favorite topics and share history as image cards. With Pro, bring today’s fact to your Lock Screen.

What happened on this day? Make a little room for history with On This Date, from great breakthroughs to surprising moments in science, culture, politics and sports.

DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Explore more than 5,000 facts covering every day of the year. Discover up to five new facts a day for free and swipe through your discoveries. New facts are available for the current day; revisit days you have already collected whenever you like.

HISTORY THAT FITS YOUR INTERESTS Choose the topics and subtopics you enjoy, with optional preferences for a region or period. Exclude topics or sensitive events you would rather skip. Your saved facts and favorites stay available. Your choices may leave fewer new facts available for a day.

TAKE HISTORY OFFLINE Discover and read facts without an internet connection, in English, German or Spanish. Want to learn more? Follow source links to further reading.

SHARE YOUR DISCOVERIES Send interesting facts to friends as image cards: square for messages or portrait for stories. You can share plain text too. All sharing features are free.

EXPLORE MORE WITH PRO An optional one-time purchase gives you: • An ad-free app • Up to ten new facts per day • Favourites to find your best discoveries again • A timeline of your discoveries for the day you are viewing • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets

Widgets put today's fact right on your iPhone. See the event year and a text preview on your Lock Screen, then tap to open the fact shown. Widget previews and a step-by-step guide help you get set up.

Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. See the price before you buy. The free version contains ads.

Get a reminder on days when you have not opened the app. Have an idea or a question? Send bug reports and feature requests by email straight from Settings.

For iPhone with iOS 26 or later. Ads, purchases and external sources require an internet connection.