Reminder & Countdown vs Nimbus8
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
Nimbus8
An on-device AI studio for iPhone and iPad, enabling local model execution for chat, coding, image generation, and more. Enjoy privacy with no data sent to servers for inference, with optional cloud features available.
- On-device AI model execution
- Local chat and coding agents
- Image generation and translation
- Hybrid local/web search
- Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
- Background agents and scheduling
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Nimbus8 is an on-device AI studio for iPhone and iPad. Run open models locally — chat, code, search, vision, image generation, audio, translation, and background agents — with nothing sent to Nimbus servers for inference. Gale (chat) is free forever. Download models from Hugging Face, attach photos and PDFs, and stream replies entirely on your device. Nimbus8 Pro (one-time in-app purchase) unlocks: • Cirrus — repo-aware coding agent with inline diffs • Ashe — confirm-first background agents and scheduled Hands • Mist — hybrid local search with optional web layer • Mirage — on-device image generation • Stratus — camera, OCR, and vision Q&A • Overture — speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and audio tools • Zephyr — on-device translation • Haze — cross-module memory and recall Built native in Swift with a Rust core. No Nimbus account required. Optional cloud inference. No telemetry. Models you choose are downloaded to your device and run locally. Processing stays on your phone unless you explicitly enable optional network features (such as web search or a BYOK cloud provider in Cirrus). Purchase Nimbus8 Pro once through Apple In-App Purchase. Restore anytime with your Apple ID. Family Sharing follows Apple's IAP rules. Privacy policy: https://trynimbus.org/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reminder & Countdown at none against Nimbus8's 2. Reminder & Countdown also leads on ratings volume (17K vs 6) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Nimbus8's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and monetization model 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. Nimbus8 sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Reminder & Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown against 4.8 for Nimbus8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown has 17K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Reminder & Countdown's written reviews are positive against 89% of Nimbus8's.
Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Nimbus8 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown | Nimbus8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17K ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 269 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Robert Georges Jr. |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown
Nimbus8
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
Nimbus8
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown
No in-app purchases
Nimbus8
- 3-day TrialFree
- Nimbus8 Pro - Lifetime$19.99
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