3minders vs Live Activities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
3minders
This app places your three most important reminders directly on your lock screen, ensuring you never miss crucial tasks. Personalize your experience with stunning wallpapers and elegant fonts to stay focused on what matters most.
- Three prominent lock screen reminders
- Customizable wallpapers from Unsplash
- Hand-selected font options
- Daily self-reflection prompts
- Personalized user experience
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You probably tried lots of different apps to make you remember to do something really important. But you keep just ignoring and dismissing all of notifications and reminders. Now you have 3 reminders on your lock screen. Right in your face. Always with you. So go ahead. Think about what’s really significant for you. Make just three most important notes and remind yourself daily right from your lock screen. Explore amazing photos provided by Unsplash and set them as wallpapers. Personalize experience with beautiful hand selected fonts. Don’t wait and start a journey within yourself!
Live Activities
This app allows you to create dynamic to-do lists that appear on your iOS device's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Manage multiple lists in tabs and receive reminder notifications. All features are free to use.
- iOS 16 Live Activities
- Dynamic Island integration
- Lock screen widgets
- Home screen widgets
- Multiple list tabs
- Reminder notifications
- Icon badges
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iOS16 live activity, dynamic island, home & lock screen widget compatible tab type to-do list app. All features are completely free to use. - iOS16 live activities - Dynamic island - iOS16 lock screen widgets - iOS14 home screen widgets - Display multiple lists in tabs - reminder notifications - Display icon badges and so on...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Live Activities at none against 3minders's 1. Live Activities also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 8). 3minders's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. 3minders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Live Activities asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for 3minders against 4.4 for Live Activities. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 26 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of 3minders's written reviews are positive against 91% of Live Activities's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 3minders | Live Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) | 4.4 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Alexandr Moscaliuc | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
3minders
Live Activities
In-app purchases
3minders
- Premium Version$3.99
Live Activities
No in-app purchases
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