Reminder & Countdown vs Better Memory Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time countdowns
- Customizable alerts
- Event personalization (icons, backgrounds, fonts)
- Import birthdays and calendar events
- Event sharing via multiple platforms
- Multiple reminder options
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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
Better Memory Mobile
Never miss a special date again with this free reminder app. It helps you keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, providing countdowns and customizable notifications.
- Birthday and anniversary reminders
- Countdown to important dates
- Customizable notification settings
- Clean and intuitive UI
- Free to use
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Never forget an important birthday or anniversary again. Your phone's got a lot of memory, time to let it do some remembering for you. Better Memory is an app designed to help you remember important dates in your life. It's got a great looking UI that shows upcoming occasions and counts down the days until the occasion. It also sends notifications to remind you of important dates without having to open the app. It can be configured to send you reminder notifications on the day of the occasion, the day before the occasion, and even a week before, so you have time to prepare. Better Memory is 100% free and has no annoying pop up ads. Get it now and get reminded!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Better Memory Mobile at none against Reminder & Countdown's shown. Better Memory Mobile also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Reminder & Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (16K vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Better Memory Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown has 16K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Reminder & Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Better Memory Mobile's.
Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Better Memory Mobile every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown | Better Memory Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (16K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Cory Smith |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown
Better Memory Mobile
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
Better Memory Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown
No in-app purchases
Better Memory Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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