Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder vs Checklist Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder
Organize your repeating chores and responsibilities with a customizable checklist. Receive timely alerts and benefit from automatic task resets to streamline your daily, weekly, or monthly routines and save valuable time.
- Recurring task management
- Automatic task reset
- Manual task reset
- Hide completed tasks
- Customizable reset date/time
- Repeat intervals (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Alert notifications
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Create a checklist of your recurring tasks, and take advantage of alert notification and auto reset. Save your time and make your life easier. This reminder app is designed especially for repeating jobs – daily cleaning, weekly housework and so on. Features: • Designed especially for recurring tasks • Support both auto reset and manual reset for completed tasks • Hide completed tasks automatically • Customizable reset date and time • Repeat interval - daily, weekly, monthly and yearly • Can send alert notification • Super easy to use, and friendly UI
Checklist Widget
Organize your daily tasks with a clean and minimalist interface. This app offers home screen widgets for quick access and management, with iCloud sync for seamless device synchronization. It provides various tools to efficiently handle your checklists, including automatic URL recognition and color customization.
- Minimalist UI
- Interactive home screen widgets
- Infinite checklists
- iCloud sync
- Tools for checklist management
- Automatic URL recognition
- Color and icon customization
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Features: - Cool, simple, and minimalist UI - Widgets for your Home Screen - With iOS 17 it's possible to check and uncheck items directly from the widget - Infinite checklists: as many checklists as you need - iCloud sync: all your checklists will be automatically synced between all your devices - Intuitive inputs: you will find everything you need without losing your mind - Tools to handle a checklist better: - Show/hide checked elements - Clear the checklist - Move to bottom the checked elements - Uncheck all elements - Remove the checked elements - Add an item to the checklist directly from your clipboard: just make a long tap on the "+" button - Sort items alphabetically - Reset Every. To uncheck all items every day, week or month - Fancy indicator for the status of the checklist - Automatic URL recognizer: automatically find URLs inside your checklist and make it tappable - Color customization: You will be able to choose the main color of the app, from a set of choices - App icon customization: You will be able to change the app icon from a set of choices Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Checklist Widget at 93% against Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder's 37%. Checklist Widget also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Checklist Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Checklist Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 286 and 342 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder's written reviews are positive against 93% of Checklist Widget's.
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder ships an update every 8 months, Checklist Widget every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder | Checklist Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (286 ratings) | 4.7 (342 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews | 92.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 286 | 342 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 齐 陈 | Giacomo Pignoni |
Customer experience
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder
Checklist Widget
User reviews
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder
From 286 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Fits recurring checklists
- 👍 Good for time blocking
- 👍 Good reminder functionality
- 👍 Completed tasks hidden until reset
Room to improve
- 😠 Unusable due to aggressive ads
- 😠 Full-screen ads before use
- 😠 Ads make the app impossible to use
- 😠 Ads are overwhelming
- 😠 Ads are too much
Checklist Widget
From 342 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- ✨ Minimalist and clean design
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 💡 Interactive widgets
- 💰 Free to use with no ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy list rearrangement
- 🤔 Widget refresh issues
- ❓ Widget usability confusion
Bugs and requests
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder
Reported bugs
7 issues- Unable to create new tasks
- Cannot add items to lists
- App constantly freezing
- Lost all lists after reinstall
- Ads returned after purchasing no-ads version
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- Developer contact redirects incorrectly
- Not updated for iPhone X+
Requested features
5 requests- Add 'quarterly' to recurrence options
- Add notes to each task
- Manually change task order
- Remove ads (premium upgrade)
- Allow repeating tasks every 2 months, quarterly etc.
Checklist Widget
Reported bugs
4 issues- Cannot rearrange list order without glitching
- Widget does not refresh after edits
- Widget stopped working
- Confusion on how to use widgets
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to drag and organize list items
- Add urgent task flag or due by date feature
- Add reminders/notifications
- Add sub categories
- iCloud sync
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- Larger font or style change options
- Lock Screen widget compatibility
- Group lists into categories
- Option to clear when completed as a setting
- Repeating tasks
- View task stats
- Duplicate checklist
- Add confirmation screen to delete checked items
In-app purchases
Easy Recurring Tasks Reminder
- Remove Ads$0.99
Checklist Widget
- Check Me Plus3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Check Me Plus$9.99
- Check Me Plus Lifetime$14.99
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