Comparison

Reminder & Countdown vs Lest

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

Lest

Create reminders using your voice, set to trigger by time or location. It intelligently understands context like events and places, and can even send reminders to friends. No typing or complex setup required.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated reminders
  • Location-based triggers
  • Event-based reminders
  • Place memory
  • Plain time reminders
  • Thought saving
  • Send reminders to friends
Features
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Say it once. Lest reminds you at the right time, in the right place. "Take the chicken out of the freezer when I get home." That's the whole reminder. It goes off as you walk in the door, even with the app closed. No typing, no lists, no picking a time from a wheel. Easily change any time or location if needed. WHAT IT DOES • Place reminders. Say the store, the gym, home, work. Lest works out which one and fires when you arrive, or when you leave. • Looks up the time. "Record the next Texans game." "Remind me about the Severance finale." Lest finds when it's on and reminds you before it starts. • Remembers your places. Say "the gym" once and pick it on the map; every "the gym" after that is that gym. • Plain time reminders too. "Call the vet tomorrow at nine." Done. • Thoughts. Something worth keeping but no when yet? It lands in Thoughts instead of nagging you for a time. • Send one to a friend. "Send Jack a reminder to get protein bars" opens a text with it written out, and a reminder for him. HOW IT WORKS Speech is transcribed on your iPhone. Place reminders use iOS's own region monitoring, so your location never leaves the phone. There is no account and no sign-up. LEST PRO Everything above, with a free first month. Nothing is charged today; cancel any time in the first 30 days and pay nothing. After that it renews monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app before you subscribe, managed by Apple Terms: https://getlest.app/terms Privacy: https://getlest.app/privacy

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown4 screens
Lest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reminder & Countdown at none against Lest's 4. Reminder & Countdown also leads on ratings volume (16K vs 1). Lest's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, monetization model, 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

Both are free to download. Lest sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Reminder & Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lest 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 1, 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 Lest's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Reminder & Countdown versus Lest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & CountdownLest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovTREVOR NICHOLAS TAYLOR

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown

All ratings16,368 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews391 reviews
Positive85.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative9.5%

Lest

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Lest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Lest

Subscriptions4
  • Lest Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Lest Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Lest Pro Yearly1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Lest Pro Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown free?
Reminder & Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lest free?
Lest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown or Lest?
Lest is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 16K ratings, while Lest averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown or Lest have ads?
Reminder & Countdown shows ads; Lest does not.

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