Comparison

Reminderbase vs Lest

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reminderbase

Schedule text messages and emails for reminders, appointments, and audience engagement. Automate communication, grow contact lists with sign-up links, and integrate with your calendar. Stay connected and informed with audience trends and two-way conversations.

Highlights
  • Schedule text and email reminders
  • Automated recurring messages
  • Contact list management
  • Sign-up links for audience growth
  • Calendar integration for appointments
  • Audience trend monitoring
  • Two-way messaging
Features
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Reminderbase transforms how you communicate – from planning trips to automating appointment reminders, reducing no-shows, and growing your audience with hassle-free opt-ins. Our app ensures you never miss a beat in keeping your customers, colleagues, family, and friends top of mind. Trusted by over 16,000 users worldwide, turn every notification into a moment of connection. Remember everything better with Reminderbase! We help you remember the important stuff, so you don’t have to. **Schedule text and email reminders.** Schedule automated email and text messages from your personal or custom phone number on a one-off or recurring basis, with links and multimedia. Personalize your messages and save time with templates, all while ensuring your messages are delivered reliably. **Grow your audience with contact lists and sign-up links.** Import contacts from your phone book and create contact lists for seamless bulk messaging. Generate subscribe links and share them anywhere, for your favorite people to join. **Remember more with calendar integration.* Sync your Apple calendar with Reminderbase for automated reminders to yourself for personal or work-related appointments such as meetings, doctor appointments, deadlines, birthdays, and crucial tasks. **Stay connected and boost your impact with audience trends.** Monitor the growth trends and patterns of your contact list through our weekly updates. Gain valuable insights into your audience's engagement and identify peak sending times for creating well-timed interactions. **Engage your audience with two-way conversations.** Enhance engagement with two-way messaging and provide instant support through Conversations, fostering stronger relationships and ensuring a seamless support experience with an upgraded plan. **Important Note on Messaging Limits and Usage:** - International text messages sent outside the U.S. are subject to higher costs. Depending on the country's cost, they will reduce your SMS/MMS limit by more than 1. - With our upgraded plan, you can now enjoy the flexibility to send text messages using your custom number and choose one of our available local U.S. phone numbers. Thank you for your understanding and happy remembering with Reminderbase! Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Service URL: https://www.reminderbase.com/terms-of-service

About

Lest

Create reminders using your voice, set to trigger by time or location. It intelligently understands context like events and places, and can even send reminders to friends. No typing or complex setup required.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated reminders
  • Location-based triggers
  • Event-based reminders
  • Place memory
  • Plain time reminders
  • Thought saving
  • Send reminders to friends
Features
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Say it once. Lest reminds you at the right time, in the right place. "Take the chicken out of the freezer when I get home." That's the whole reminder. It goes off as you walk in the door, even with the app closed. No typing, no lists, no picking a time from a wheel. Easily change any time or location if needed. WHAT IT DOES • Place reminders. Say the store, the gym, home, work. Lest works out which one and fires when you arrive, or when you leave. • Looks up the time. "Record the next Texans game." "Remind me about the Severance finale." Lest finds when it's on and reminds you before it starts. • Remembers your places. Say "the gym" once and pick it on the map; every "the gym" after that is that gym. • Plain time reminders too. "Call the vet tomorrow at nine." Done. • Thoughts. Something worth keeping but no when yet? It lands in Thoughts instead of nagging you for a time. • Send one to a friend. "Send Jack a reminder to get protein bars" opens a text with it written out, and a reminder for him. HOW IT WORKS Speech is transcribed on your iPhone. Place reminders use iOS's own region monitoring, so your location never leaves the phone. There is no account and no sign-up. LEST PRO Everything above, with a free first month. Nothing is charged today; cancel any time in the first 30 days and pay nothing. After that it renews monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app before you subscribe, managed by Apple Terms: https://getlest.app/terms Privacy: https://getlest.app/privacy

Screenshots

Reminderbase4 screens
Lest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lest at 100% against Reminderbase's 44%. Lest also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Reminderbase's advantage is ratings volume (448 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Reminderbase sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Lest sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminderbase has 448 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Reminderbase's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lest's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Reminderbase versus Lest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminderbaseLest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (448 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings448 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTheRoaming, IncTREVOR NICHOLAS TAYLOR

Customer experience

Reminderbase

All ratings449 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive43.9%
Neutral9.8%
Negative46.3%

Lest

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Reminderbase

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Messages not being delivered to recipients
  • In-app purchases not registering on free plan
  • Military time format not supported
  • App glitches when setting future times with templates
  • Dark mode text visibility issues
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  • Touch sensitivity issues on mobile
  • Extra '+1' added to phone numbers after saving
  • Reminders continue sending after account deletion
  • Inconsistent message delivery logic

Requested features

7 requests
  • Unlimited text messages and emails
  • Ability to send to multiple recipients at once
  • Sort reminders by date in the app
  • Freemium model with basic free features
  • Contact syncing capability
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  • Customizable message templates
  • Ability to use personal phone number for reminders

Lest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Reminderbase

Subscriptions13
  • Standard Plan - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Standard$4.991 Month
  • Standard$6.991 Month
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  • Deluxe Plan - Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Deluxe Plan$9.991 Month
  • Deluxe Plan$12.991 Month
  • Plus Plan - Monthly$13.991 Month
  • Plus Plan$19.991 Month
  • Standard Plan - Annual$29.991 Year
  • Standard Plan Annual$49.991 Year
  • Deluxe Plan - Annual$79.991 Year
  • Deluxe Plan Annual$109.991 Year
  • Plus Plan - Annual$139.991 Year
One-time1
  • 100 Messages$6.99
4 purchases

Lest

Subscriptions4
  • Lest Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Lest Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Lest Pro Yearly1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Lest Pro Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Reminderbase free?
Reminderbase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lest free?
Lest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminderbase or Lest?
Lest is rated higher. Reminderbase averages 4.5 out of 5 from 448 ratings, while Lest averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Reminderbase or Lest have ads?
Reminderbase shows ads; Lest does not.

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