Shortly vs Sound Reminder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shortly
This utility allows you to create and manage short URLs using the Bitly service directly from your iPhone or iPad. Easily copy shortened links for use in other apps and track their click statistics with helpful charts. It also includes a tool to look up existing Bitlinks and their performance.
- Create short URLs (Bitlinks)
- Copy links to clipboard
- Track click statistics
- View charts and metadata
- Bitlink lookup tool
- Auto Shorten feature
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Shortly is an easy-to-use utility that lets you create short URLs (Bitlinks) with your iPhone or iPad using the Bitly service. You can copy these links to the clipboard for use in other iPhone applications. Once you've created your Bitlink and pressed the button to put it on the clipboard, you can launch another application, click anywhere you can enter text and select Paste — it's that simple! Additionally you can track the click statistics for Bitlinks you create in the app, or Bitlinks you've shortened on the Bitly website with helpful charts and metadata. There is also a Bitlink lookup tool, so you can enter in a Bitlink you've found and see who created it, including the number of global clicks it has received this week. The app requires a Bitly account to enable the URL shortening and tracking features. If you don't have an account, signing up is easy and free. Just click on the Account tab in the app and click the button to get a new account. Auto Shorten feature: If you go into the Settings screen and turn this on, the Shortly app will look on the clipboard when it launches, and if it finds a valid URL there, it will automatically shorten it and place the Bitlihnk on the clipboard at the same time.
Sound Reminder
This app allows you to set custom sound or voice reminders that play in the background. It can play your favorite music or sound files at set intervals or specific times, and can also announce the time or read text messages in various languages.
- Background sound playback
- Customizable reminder intervals
- Text-to-speech for time and messages
- Support for various audio file formats
- Multiple reminder event types (daily, hourly, interval)
- Background operation with other apps
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Use this App as the partner of Apple Music, Use this App as the background sound reminder by playing our favorite sound file. Use this App as the background talking reminder by talking text message with the language we prefer. 1 Use this App as the partner of Apple Music When the device is locked, or when we are using many other Apps. The App could start playing our favorite music every five minutes, every 10 minutes, every 30 minutes, the number of minute could be 1 to 59. Step1: in Apple Music, select our favorite music, then download it to the local Step2: in this App, tap the import button, and import this music. Step3: add the interval event. select the music and set the number of interval minutes. Step4: save the event and tap start button. Step 5: when the job list view is displayed, press the home key or lock the device. 2 Use this App as the background sound reminder by playing our favorite sound file. Every night, before going to bed, just tap the start button, and lock the device, in the next morning, the App could remind us to wake up by playing our favorite music or sound file. First Step: Add the every day event, set the remind time, for example, 6:00 and select the sound file or music, tap the save button. Second Step: Every night, before going to bed, launch this App, tap start button. Then, locked the device. 3 Use this App as the background talking reminder Every hour, at the indict time, report the current time by talking in the language we select. Step: Add the every hour event, set the remind time, select to talk the time, select the talking language. If we hope this App to talk text message, we need to select to talk text and input the text message. Then tap save button, and tap the start button. When the job list view is displayed, we could press the home key or lock the device. Main Features: 1. Import the sound file from iCloud disk, Import the sound file by using iTune File Sharing 2.It could talk the current time or talk the text messages in more than 20 languages. 3. In the background status, this App could run when we are using safari, when we are reading the file , when we are viewing the video. 4. When this App is running in the background, we could hear a little running sound of clock. 5. This App includes every day, every hour, every week, every month, one time and interval event. 6. The sound file from iCould or iTunes File Sharing could be: MP3 file,M4A ,WAV, MP4, CAF ,AIFF file 7. Save our reminder data to the Core Data database system 8 When Sound Reminder is running in the background, we want to stop the running status, then just relaunch Sound Reminder, tap the stop button at the top left corner in the job view. 9 The background job will be interrupted by incoming phone call, or Siri, or some other apps. So in the situations above, we need to notice whether the App could recover correctly. If the App cannot play the background running sound correctly, we need to launch this App again. About overlay situation:if the first job has been playing and another playing sound job is coming, the current playing sound job will be stop, the new sound job will start successfully.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Shortly at free against Sound Reminder's paid. Shortly also leads on review sentiment (11% vs 0%). Sound Reminder's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Shortly costs $0.99 and Sound Reminder $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shortly ships an update every 5 months, Sound Reminder every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shortly | Sound Reminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Dressler | 方 沈 |
Customer experience
Shortly
Sound Reminder
In-app purchases
Shortly
No in-app purchases
Sound Reminder
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Shortly free?
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Do Shortly or Sound Reminder have ads?
Which is updated more often, Shortly or Sound Reminder?
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