Just Reminder vs Standard Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just Reminder
This app helps you remember and get notified about any event, either before or at the scheduled time. It also offers security features like Touch ID or passcode protection for private information and a diary.
- Unlimited event storage
- Today's events widget
- Upcoming events list
- App passcode protection
- Event search functionality
- Customizable event colors and fonts
- Recurring event notifications
- Auto-delete events
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Just reminder will help you to remember and notify you for any event before time and at the time. Just Reminder also support touch ID or passcode to store passwords, secrets, contacts or just keep your diary private. Just reminder is an easy way to relax your self from remembering anything. In addition to providing simple way of remind, it also offer awesome features like :- - No limit to store events - Widget for today's events - Get list of upcoming events - Passcodes for app to secure events - Easy to search event with name from list - Support different font style and font size - Support different colour for events to choose from - Get notification about event at time and before time - Set list of events with custom, date wise and name wise - Easy to setup call, message and pdf export for reminder - Get daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly and yearly notification about event - Support auto delete to delete event automatically after selected time period Now never forget about any important event, meetings and many other things, just get reminder from Just Reminder.
Standard Notes
Securely capture and sync your thoughts across all devices with end-to-end encryption. This app offers a simple, lasting place for all your notes, from personal thoughts to sensitive information, with robust privacy features.
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-device syncing
- Offline access
- Passcode and biometric lock
- Tagging system
- Open-source code
- Optional productivity editors and themes
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Standard Notes is a private and secure end-to-end encrypted notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser. Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes. Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices. Our users love us for: • Personal Notes • Tasks & Todos • Passwords & Keys • Code & Technical Procedures • Private Journal • Meeting Notes • Cross-platform Scratchpad • Books, Recipes, & Movies • Health & Fitness Log Standard Notes comes free with: • Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on iPhone, iPad, Mac, web browsers, and other platforms. • Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection. • No limit on number of devices. • No limit on number of notes. • Passcode lock protection, along with Touch ID and Face ID protection. • A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto). • The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied. Standard Notes is completely open-source, which means when we say your notes are encrypted with industry-leading XChaCha-20 encryption, and that only you can read your notes, you don't have to take our word for it. Our code is open to the world to audit. We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year. To sustain our development, we offer optional paid subscriptions which give you access to powerful tools like: • Productivity editors (like Markdown, Code, Spreadsheets) • Beautiful themes (like Midnight, Focus, Solarized Dark) • Powerful cloud tools including daily backups of your encrypted data delivered to your email inbox every day, or backed up to your cloud provider (like Dropbox and Google Drive). We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at help@standardnotes.com. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Standard Notes at 64% against Just Reminder's 0%. Standard Notes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and ads (none vs shown). Just Reminder's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Just Reminder sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Standard Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $119.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Standard Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Standard Notes has 3.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Just Reminder's written reviews are positive against 64% of Standard Notes's.
Just Reminder ships an update every 3 months, Standard Notes every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Reminder | Standard Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 64.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiren Merja | Standard Notes Ltd. |
Customer experience
Just Reminder
Standard Notes
Bugs and requests
Just Reminder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Standard Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes disappearing or getting deleted unexpectedly
- Sync issues between devices
- Keyboard and UI bugs on mobile
- Compatibility problems with older iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for images and attachments
- Implement a more robust search function
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Allow for better note organization (folders, nested tags)
- Add undo/redo functionality
In-app purchases
Just Reminder
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlimited Color$1.99
- All in one pack$2.99
Standard Notes
- Professional Plan7 Days trial$119.991 Year
Questions
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