Comparison

Today Daily Devotion vs Talking Reminder

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

Head to head
About

Today Daily Devotion

This app provides daily devotions to help users refresh, refocus, and renew their faith. Each month features a biblical theme developed by a qualified author to deepen your relationship with God through daily study and prayer.

Highlights
  • Daily devotions
  • Biblical themes
  • Faith renewal
  • Spiritual growth
  • Prayer guidance
  • Bible study
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Today is a daily devotional that helps God's people refresh, refocus, and renew their faith in Christ Jesus. Throughout each month, a talented and highly-qualified author develops a single biblical theme to help readers and listeners grow deeper in love and relationship with God as they spend time with him each day in his Word and prayer.

About

Talking Reminder

This app provides timely spoken reminders with customizable text and voice options. It supports various reminder types, including one-time, recurring, and interval-based alerts, and can function even when the device is locked or other apps are in use. Users can import text, manage reminder status, and adjust speaking speed and volume.

Highlights
  • Spoken reminders in over 20 languages
  • Customizable talking speed and volume
  • Multiple reminder types (one-time, recurring, interval)
  • Notifications with sound and text display
  • Import text from clipboard, keyboard, or files
  • Active/sleep status for reminders
  • Pre-set English talking sounds
Features
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Main Features: 1. Run the reminder at the indicted time 2 When the App is launched, the reminder could talk the text in more than 20 international languages at the indicted time. 3 When the device is locked or the user is using other App, the App could remind the user by playing more than 200 talking in English and also display the message in the notification bar. 4 The App includes the following five standard time reminder:One Time reminder, every hour reminder, every day reminder, every week reminder, every month reminder,interval reminder. Detail features: 1 import the text from the paste board, soft keyboard or text file. 2 In the main list, each table cell contains one cycle button at the right side, after tapping the right button,the user could change that status from active to sleep. In the sleep status, the reminder will be ignored. 3 When the reminder record is running, the right button will be stop button. So tap the stop button could stop the current reminder job. 4 The user could select the talking speed from setting view. 5 The user could control the talking volume from setting view. 6 In the main list view, at tool bar, the right one is the wizard button. Tap the wizard button, users could select the every day template, every week template or every month template. 7 In the main list view, at the tool bar, the left one is the clear button. Tap the clear button, users could delete all the reminder records from the database and notification list. 8 Play the sound file after launching the notification when the app is running. If this app is not running, when the banner of the notification is displayed, please tap the banner immediately, the app will be launched, then the sound file will be played. The duration of the sound could be more than one minute. Screenshot: In the main list view, if using the default iOS sound, only the talking text is displayed. If not, one line is for the talking notification sound and the other line is for the talking text. Tap the + button at the tool bar, the menu list is displayed. So the user could select the reminder type. In the main view list, we tap the active button, the status of reminder event will be changed to sleep. This edition includes iOS default notification sound and 228 talking sound in English. Below is the notification sounds list: 0 - 80 0 iOS default Sound 1 Go home 2 Go to school 3 Go to work 4 Go to the cafeteria 5 Do some exercise 6 Get up 7 Go to bed 8 Set out 9 Go back 10 Take a break 11 Make a reservation 12 Go dating 13 Call up 14 Send an Email 15 Go to the bank 16 Go to the hospital 17 Attend a meeting 18 Go to the grocery 19 Check out the internet 20 Check the email box 21 Play the sound 22 Play music 23 listen the talking 24 Have an afternoon Tea 25 Go to a party 26 Go shopping 27 Have the breakfast 28 Make an appointment 29 Take a photo 30 Make a deposit 31 Withdraw some cash 32 Go on a trip 33 Send a fax 34 Check out 35 Check in 36 Place an order 37 File the paper 38 Check the calendar 39 Take the wallet 40 Take the mobile phone 41 Meet the client 42 Submit the request 43 Finish the report 44 Turn on the computer 45 Turn off the computer 46 Turn on TV 47 Turn off TV 48 Turn on the security system 49 Turn off the security system 50 Turn off light 51 Turn on light 52 Send the short message 53 Water the flower 54 Take pills 55 Look at the pet 56 One Apple a day 57 A friend indeed 58 Lock the door 59 Apologize for mistakes 60 Hurry up 61 Be there on time 62 Make progress 63 Make effort 64 Make some changes 65 Make money 66 Make a compliant 67 Make some notes 68 Make the arrangement 69 Air the room 70 Ask for a help 71 Call back 72 Remit Money 73 Cancel the reservation 74 Check the schedule 75 Check the balance 76 Clean up the room 77 Comb Hair 78 Drink Something 79 Contact our friend 80 Donot let me down 81 - 228 please read the note about V5.2.1 What's new.

Screenshots

Today Daily Devotion4 screens
Talking Reminder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Today Daily Devotion at Free against Talking Reminder's $0.99. Today Daily Devotion also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (33 vs 2). Talking Reminder's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Today Daily Devotion is free to download; Talking Reminder costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Today Daily Devotion holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Today Daily Devotion has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Today Daily Devotion's written reviews are positive against 50% of Talking Reminder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Today Daily Devotion versus Talking Reminder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToday Daily DevotionTalking Reminder
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.3 (33 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews55.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperReFrame Ministries (Apps)方 沈

Customer experience

Today Daily Devotion

All ratings33 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive55.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative27.1%

Talking Reminder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Today Daily Devotion

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Audio not working
  • App freezes when trying to share
  • App crashes upon opening
  • Devotional screen is blank
  • UI broken after updates
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  • Content missing after updates
  • Facebook tab crashes
  • Audio button present but no audio plays
  • App not working after iOS updates
  • App not loading content

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add favorite section
  • Increase font size
  • Offline mode
  • Add personal notes
  • Improve sharing functionality
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  • Fix audio issues
  • Update for new iOS versions
  • Bring back comments and hearts
  • Make audio consistently available
  • Remove ads or offer paid version

Talking Reminder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Today Daily Devotion

No in-app purchases

None

Talking Reminder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Today Daily Devotion free?
Today Daily Devotion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talking Reminder free?
Talking Reminder costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Today Daily Devotion or Talking Reminder?
Today Daily Devotion is rated higher. Today Daily Devotion averages 4.3 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Talking Reminder averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Today Daily Devotion or Talking Reminder have ads?
Neither Today Daily Devotion nor Talking Reminder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Today Daily Devotion or Talking Reminder?
Today Daily Devotion ships an update every 5 months, and Talking Reminder every 5 months. Most recently, Today Daily Devotion was updated on September 28, 2026 and Talking Reminder on October 2, 2026.

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