Comparison

UK Holidays vs Reminder & Countdown Pro

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

Head to head
About

UK Holidays

Easily add UK holidays, including bank and notable days, to your iPhone calendar with a single tap. Customize by selecting specific holidays and years, and optionally include country flags. The app offers a duplicate detector and a holiday cleaner for a tidy calendar.

Highlights
  • One-tap holiday insertion
  • Editable all-day events
  • Optional country flags
  • Select individual holidays and years
  • Duplicate detector
  • Holiday cleaner
Features
Read full description

Insert the UK holidays into your iPhone calendar with one tap. The holidays will be added as all-day events so you can edit or delete them (they are not subscribed). You can also choose to add the country flag. Saves you a lot typing! Once added all holidays can be easily edited, deleted or shifted to another calendar and synced with Calalarm, iCal, Google, Outlook, iCloud, etc VERY SIMPLE, FLEXIBLE AND EASY TO USE - Select individual holidays and years you want to add. - Insert into a calendar of your choice (home, work). - Adds country flags. - Apply your selection across all years. - Duplicate Detector, deletes duplicates caused by overlapping calendars. - Unique Holiday Cleaner. - No subscriptions, you buy the holidays of one year for all calendars. THIS APP CONTAINS - UK Holidays (Bank and Notable days). - UK Bank Holidays (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland). - Bank holidays of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. - Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish and Pagan festivals. - Holidays of Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States. Week numbers you can add with our app: Week Numbers - PRO. Privacy Policy: https://www.devart.nl/holidaycalendars/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Organize tasks, projects, and events with a distraction-free interface. Customize alerts, icons, and backgrounds to suit your needs. Sync across devices and secure your data with biometric authentication.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free task management
  • Customizable event alerts
  • Icon, background, and sound customization
  • Date, time, and repetition settings
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Biometric app locking
  • iOS 14 home screen widgets
Features
Read full description

Reminder Pro is designed to manage your tasks, projects, and anything else you want to keep track of in really easy way taking away distraction and various shiny things that often lead us off course of whatever it is we’re trying to do. Reminder Pro highlights: ▸ Specify the event title. ▸ Assign default or custom category. ▸ Adjust icon, background, sound, time of alerts, font and text color. ▸ Set up date and time, duration, repetition, and units of countdown time. ▸ Add an optional description. ▸ Sort events by date, title, category or custom. ▸ Show or hide icons of the events. ▸ Set up events default values. ▸ Manage categories of the events. ▸ Import data from Address book, iCal, Reminders. ▸ Sync events between devices via iCloud. ▸ Show a badge number on the app’s icon. ▸ Switch between the old UI and the new UI. ▸ Locking / Unlocking the app using Touch & Face ID. ▸ IOS 14 home screen widgets. ▸ Run in the background. Information on events comes in a nicely-wrapped card which you can create by yourself, just open an event and swipe left or right to pick a screen and arrange custom boxes to fit your needs. Additionally, the app is complemented with excellent sharing options which give you an opportunity to share your reminders with the world via Email, Facebook, Twitter and even more.

Screenshots

UK Holidays4 screens
Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: UK Holidays at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. UK Holidays also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On review sentiment, 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

UK Holidays is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. UK Holidays sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

UK Holidays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of UK Holidays's written reviews are positive against 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UK Holidays ships an update every 3 months, Reminder & Countdown Pro every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
UK Holidays versus Reminder & Countdown Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUK HolidaysReminder & Countdown Pro
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (3.3K ratings)
Positive reviews82.6% of reviews87.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB41 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperDevart B.V.Sergey Astakhov

Customer experience

UK Holidays

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative13.0%

Reminder & Countdown Pro

All ratings3,217 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews357 reviews
Positive87.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

UK Holidays

One-time9
  • 2019 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2020 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2021 for all holiday calendars$0.99
Show 6 more
  • 2022 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2024 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2025 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2027 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2026 for all holiday calendars$0.99
  • 2023 for all holiday calendars$1.99
None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UK Holidays free?
UK Holidays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, UK Holidays or Reminder & Countdown Pro?
UK Holidays is rated higher. UK Holidays averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 from 3.3K ratings.
Do UK Holidays or Reminder & Countdown Pro have ads?
Neither UK Holidays nor Reminder & Countdown Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UK Holidays or Reminder & Countdown Pro?
UK Holidays ships an update every 3 months, and Reminder & Countdown Pro every 9 days. Most recently, UK Holidays was updated on October 18, 2026 and Reminder & Countdown Pro on October 30, 2026.

Other comparisons