Comparison

Reminder & Countdown vs Goalism

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
Read full description

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

Goalism

Features
Read full description

Goalism blocks the apps that pull you in, and puts the goal you wrote for yourself in their place. Start a focus session when you sit down to work. For as long as it runs, the apps you named stay shut — and if you reach for one anyway, you meet your own words instead of a scoreboard. FOCUS SESSIONS • Pick a length, name it, start it • The screen becomes one quiet scene and a countdown, and nothing else • Eight scenes to sit with — molten glass cooling, an ink well filling, an eclipse, sand falling • Ending early costs you a short wait, on purpose HOW IT WORKS • Choose the apps you keep losing hours to • Write down what you actually wanted • Goalism steps in the moment you open them A DOOR, NOT A WALL There is a way past the block screen, on purpose. A wall with no door only teaches people to switch the whole thing off. Goalism asks you to wait a few seconds and read your own goal first — long enough to decide instead of react. BLOCK ON YOUR SCHEDULE • Time windows — block only during the hours that matter • Per-app windows — one app blocked all evening, another only during work • Daily limits — let an app run twenty minutes a day, then lock it until midnight SEE WHAT CHANGED How many sessions you finished and how many you ended early, your streak of days with a session in them, your longest one, and how often the block screen caught you. PRIVATE WHERE IT COUNTS No account. No advertising. No tracking across apps or websites, and no advertising identifier is ever read. Your goals, the apps you chose, and everything you write stay on your iPhone — Apple hides which apps you picked even from Goalism itself, and none of that is ever sent anywhere. What does leave the device is anonymous usage counts — that an app was opened, that a session was started or finished — so we can find where people get stuck. Never what you blocked, never what you wrote. GOALISM PRO Unlimited apps and goals, daily minute limits, hour-by-hour blocking, and your own photos on the block screen. Seven days free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown4 screens
Goalism4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reminder & Countdown at none against Goalism's 3. Goalism's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). On price, 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. Goalism sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Reminder & Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Goalism daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Reminder & Countdown versus Goalism: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & CountdownGoalism
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings16K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovAn Nguyen

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

Goalism

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Goalism

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$15.99

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown free?
Reminder & Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Goalism free?
Goalism is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reminder & Countdown or Goalism have ads?
Reminder & Countdown shows ads; Goalism does not.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown or Goalism?
Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, and Goalism daily. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown was updated on October 17, 2026 and Goalism on October 9, 2026.

Other comparisons