Comparison

Due vs impcat

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

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About

Due

This app ensures you never forget tasks or appointments with persistent, effective reminders. It offers quick setup, natural language input, and powerful recurring options, all while prioritizing user privacy and accessibility across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Persistent reminders with auto-snooze
  • Critical and prominent alerts
  • Natural language input for setting reminders
  • Powerful recurring reminder options
  • Countdown timers with auto-snooze
  • Apple Watch, Widget, and Shortcut support
  • iCloud and Dropbox sync
Features
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Due remembers all the things that you need so you don't have to. It reminds you again and again until you act, so it’s impossible to forget anything. And it's lightning-fast to set and postpone reminders, all thanks to a clever time picker and natural date parsing. KEY FEATURES 1. Persistent & Effective Auto Snooze* keeps nudging you about a missed reminder until you mark it done or reschedule it. Choose between every 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes. 2. Impossible to Miss Some reminders can't wait. Use Critical Alerts to get through silent mode and Focus. Or use Prominent Alerts†, which ring like an alarm until you act. 3. Fast to Set, Fast to Postpone Keep the times you use most a tap away. Twelve Quick Access Times—all fully customizable—make setting or postponing reminders a piece of cake. 4. Just Type or Say It Type or say “Dentist 3p Thu” or “Meeting in 1h 20m”. Due spots the date, and one tap sets it. 5. Powerful Recurring Reminders From simple daily reminders to the every-3rd-Wednesday-of-the-month kind, Due keeps up with your routine. 6. Countdown Timers Not every reminder happens at a time of day. Some happen when the laundry cycle is done. That's what timers are for: precise to the second, with Auto Snooze too. Or just say “Hey Siri, start Laundry timer in Due”. 7. On Your Apple Watch Wear an Apple Watch? Due comes with you. Mark reminders done, snooze them, add new ones, start and stop timers—all from your wrist. It's a companion to Due on iPhone, so keep your iPhone nearby. 8. Widgets, Control Center & Shortcuts See what's coming up on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Start timers and add reminders from Control Center, and automate the rest with Shortcuts. 9. Everywhere You Are Your reminders and timers on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac‡, all kept in sync with iCloud or Dropbox. 10. No Account, Completely Private There's no account to sign up for. We don't store, and we can't access, your reminders and timers. And you don't need internet to receive reminders. 11. Accessible to Everyone Due follows the text size you set on your device, on every screen, and offers full VoiceOver support. It's also localized in 17 languages. * By default, auto snooze repeats 5 times, and can be configured to repeat up to 10 times. Due can auto snooze any overdue items indefinitely when you launch Due or act on any of its notifications. † Prominent Alerts require iOS 26 or later. ‡ Sync on Mac requires Due for Mac (sold separately). WHAT'S THAT IN-APP PURCHASE ABOUT? When you purchase Due today, you will have access to every feature in the app today—no further purchase required. You will also get every new feature released within a year of your purchase. The optional Due Upgrade Pass subscription gives you access to new features released after that first year. And here's the deal: Every feature that you have unlocked will remain available to you, forever—even if you stop subscribing. Even without a subscription, you'll always receive bug-fix and compatibility updates for free. These updates add support for the latest iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches, and keep Due working well on the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. Due has a pretty good track record with that. To illustrate: If you bought Due back in 2010 for your iPhone 3G running iOS 4, that very same app in 2026 is now optimized for iPhone 18 Pro Max running iOS 27. It even works on devices that didn't exist back then, such as the iPhone Duo, the iPad Pro and the Apple Watch. TERMS & PRIVACY POLICY Our terms of use and privacy policy are available here: https://www.dueapp.com/terms.html COMPATIBILITY Due requires an iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 or later. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 10 or later, and your paired iPhone nearby.

About

impcat

This app simulates photorealistic painting results for gaming and tabletop miniatures. It allows users to customize miniature sections with colors they own or plan to buy, using manufacturer-promoted palettes. The simulation includes base coloring, layering, shading, and highlighting.

Highlights
  • Photorealistic painting simulation
  • Customizable miniature sections
  • Manufacturer-promoted color palettes
  • Automated color complement recommendations
  • Shopping list generator
  • Custom color creation and mixing
  • Color scheme inspiration randomizer
Features
Currently charting
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impcat (short for Interactive Miniature Painting Catalogue) is a simulator for photorealistic painting results on gaming and tabletop miniatures. This tool gives you a variety of miniature images with individually customizable body sections, that you can paint with colours you own or perhaps wish to purchase. It works with predefined colour palettes, using names and values as promoted by their manufacturers. To achieve a high quality result the system simulates a four step painting process: Base colouring, layering, shading and highlighting. Features: - A set of 6 built-in miniatures, by Artel "W", with up to nearly 30 individually paintable sections - A set of built-in colour palettes, as well as additional palettes from our DLC server (around 1000 paints to choose from, and growing) - A file handling system for importing custom image and paint templates (visit impcat.de/faq for instructions) - Access to a growing online library of free DLCs (visit impcat.de/about for full list of contents) - An automated complement recommendation mode that lets you select a base colour and then automatically applies harmonizing layer, shade and highlight paints, which you can then customize at will. - A photorealistic simulation of the applied paints. - A shopping list generator that collects the data of all applied colours and gives you the links to the corresponding shop pages - Saving and loading options for your colour configurations - A colour creating tool, for creating opaque and metallic paints of any colour you like - A colour mixing tool, for testing mix results of your paints - A randomizer, for getting colour scheme inspiration by letting impcat ramdomly distribute a set of colours across the model

Screenshots

Due4 screens
impcat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Due at 82% against impcat's 32%. Due also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 18 months). impcat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and price ($2.99 vs $7.99). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Due costs $7.99 and impcat $2.99 up front. Due sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. impcat asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Due holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Due has 2.8K ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Due's written reviews are positive against 32% of impcat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Due ships an update every 2 weeks, impcat every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Due versus impcat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDueimpcat
Price$7.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.7 (2.8K ratings) — better2.6 (51 ratings)
Positive reviews82.3% of reviews — better32.1% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better51
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#10 — better#51
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDue Apps LLPDesign Bench - Immersive Agency

Customer experience

Due

All ratings2,832 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews795 reviews
Positive82.3%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%

impcat

All ratings48 ratings
Positive31.3%
Neutral14.6%
Negative54.2%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive32.1%
Neutral17.0%
Negative50.9%

User reviews

Due

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Quick to set reminders
  • 📆 Customizable repeat options
  • ⏰ Persistent reminders until completed
  • 🔔 Variety of alert sounds

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional syncing issues
  • 🔇 Notification volume could be louder
  • 📂 Lack of folder/category organization
  • 🕰️ Limited snooze time options

impcat

From 51 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for planning paint schemes
  • 💡 Useful for visualizing colors
  • ✨ Realistic rendering
  • 🚀 Helpful community support (subreddit)
  • ✅ Good for beginners

Room to improve

  • 👎 Very limited built-in models
  • 💸 High cost for limited content
  • 🧩 Complicated import process
  • 🤷‍♂️ Lack of clear instructions
  • ⏳ App feels abandoned/no updates

Bugs and requests

Due

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Reminders not triggering on Apple Watch
  • Completed reminders not clearing from all devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Location-based reminders
  • Integration with calendar apps
  • Ability to set reminders for specific time ranges
  • Custom reminder sounds
  • Backup and restore functionality

impcat

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • In-app store not working
  • App restarts when using mixed colors
  • Update broke Apple Pencil functionality on iPad
  • File browser is annoying
  • Importing models on iOS not functional
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  • Touch locations for buttons are off

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add more Warhammer 40K .SVG models
  • Include Citadel paint color references
  • Permanent toggle-off for auto mode
  • Landscape mode
  • Easier way to import minis
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  • Add GW paint sets or equivalents
  • Improve UI/UX design
  • Add option to save work as an image
  • Add more paint manufacturers
  • Improve stability and performance
  • Add Apple Pencil support for iPad version
  • Make import process more intuitive

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Due

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Upgrade Pass (Mobile)$4.991 Year
One-time3
  • Kind Tip$3.00
  • Generous Tip$5.00
  • Wonderful Tip$10.00
None

impcat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Due free?
Due costs $7.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is impcat free?
impcat costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Due or impcat?
Due is rated higher. Due averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while impcat averages 2.6 from 51 ratings.
Do Due or impcat have ads?
Neither Due nor impcat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Due or impcat?
Due ships an update every 2 weeks, and impcat every 18 months. Most recently, Due was updated on November 1, 2026 and impcat on November 3, 2026.
Which is more popular, Due or impcat?
Due currently peaks at #10 in the App Store charts, and impcat at #51. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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