Comparison

Reminder & Countdown vs ShareLens

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

Head to head
About

Reminder & Countdown

Never miss an important event with this app. Set up custom reminders for everything from birthdays to holidays, with real-time countdowns and configurable alerts. Personalize your events with unique icons, backgrounds, and fonts, and easily share your countdowns with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Real-time countdowns
  • Customizable alerts
  • Event personalization (icons, backgrounds, fonts)
  • Import birthdays and calendar events
  • Event sharing via multiple platforms
  • Multiple reminder options
Features
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The app is designed to remind you about all your important events, meetings, friends’ birthdays, a long-awaited TV Shows premieres, dentist appointments, coming-soon holidays, a wedding date and any upcoming events you don’t want to miss. Event information comes in a nicely-wrapped pack. All details (such as date and time, font, icon, alert sound, background and other options) can be configured according to your taste. The app is complemented with excellent sharing options giving you an opportunity to send your reminders to anyone throughout the world via SMS, MMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber and other social networks and services. KEY FEATURES: - Multiple reminders - Counting down in real-time - Selection of timing units you wish to count down - Sorting entries by date, name or applying a customizable sorting - Individual names, time&date options, categories - Various icons - Custom intervals to repeat events - Configurable alerts before or after a due date - Individual backgrounds - A wide variety of fonts to choose from - Formatting Dates and Times: Full, Short, and Abbreviated time units can be applied - Importing birthdays from your Address book - Importing events from the iOS Calendar app and Reminders app - Changing the default event icon to a personal photo - Set photos as background - Sharing countdowns through all available ways sending the whole countdown screenshot or only a part of it And you can also: - Enjoy awesome, easy to use UI - Make colourful notes - Brighten up reminders - Use the app as an alarm Thank you for your thoughts, they are very valuable! We are continued to make Reminder & Countdown even better, so never lose the drive to share your impressions and feedback with us at support@persapps.com

About

ShareLens

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Do you often find yourself in a situation where you need to share a piece of text or a URL using your mobile phone, but the text or URL is for example printed on paper? ShareLens allows the user to simply take a picture of this text or URL and converts it to digital text which the user can then immediately share. CURRENT FEATURES: - Scanning and sharing plain text - Scanning and sharing URL's FUTURE FEATURES: - Scanning and sharing IBAN's - Scanning and sharing Addresses

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown4 screens
ShareLens4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Reminder & Countdown at 2 against ShareLens's —. ShareLens's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Reminder & Countdown versus ShareLens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & CountdownShareLens
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings17K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS16.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovArwin Strating

Bugs and requests

Reminder & Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Reminders not clearing after being deleted
  • Countdown timers not always accurate
  • Notification issues after iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow snooze and nag functions for reminders
  • Integrate with calendar apps for better sync
  • Add ability to filter reminders by work/school days
  • Provide more customization options for backgrounds and icons
  • Enable sharing of countdowns with friends and family

ShareLens

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown

No in-app purchases

None

ShareLens

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown free?
Reminder & Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShareLens free?
ShareLens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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