Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Ready Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reminder & Countdown Pro
Organize tasks, projects, and events with a distraction-free interface. Customize alerts, icons, and backgrounds to suit your needs. Sync across devices and secure your data with biometric authentication.
- Distraction-free task management
- Customizable event alerts
- Icon, background, and sound customization
- Date, time, and repetition settings
- iCloud sync across devices
- Biometric app locking
- iOS 14 home screen widgets
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Reminder Pro is designed to manage your tasks, projects, and anything else you want to keep track of in really easy way taking away distraction and various shiny things that often lead us off course of whatever it is we’re trying to do. Reminder Pro highlights: ▸ Specify the event title. ▸ Assign default or custom category. ▸ Adjust icon, background, sound, time of alerts, font and text color. ▸ Set up date and time, duration, repetition, and units of countdown time. ▸ Add an optional description. ▸ Sort events by date, title, category or custom. ▸ Show or hide icons of the events. ▸ Set up events default values. ▸ Manage categories of the events. ▸ Import data from Address book, iCal, Reminders. ▸ Sync events between devices via iCloud. ▸ Show a badge number on the app’s icon. ▸ Switch between the old UI and the new UI. ▸ Locking / Unlocking the app using Touch & Face ID. ▸ IOS 14 home screen widgets. ▸ Run in the background. Information on events comes in a nicely-wrapped card which you can create by yourself, just open an event and swipe left or right to pick a screen and arrange custom boxes to fit your needs. Additionally, the app is complemented with excellent sharing options which give you an opportunity to share your reminders with the world via Email, Facebook, Twitter and even more.
Ready Time
This app helps you manage your schedule and avoid being late for appointments and events. It calculates when you need to leave and alerts you for tasks, offering features like calendar integration and task suggestions.
- Alerts for Countdowns and Tasks
- Calendar Autocomplete
- Task Suggestions
- Search for Countdowns
- Flight alerts with pre-filled details
- Dark Mode
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Always running late? Ready Time works backward from your deadline to schedule every step and alerts you when it's time to start each one. Add your steps (pack, shower, drive, whatever). Set your deadline. Ready Time calculates start times and sends a notification for each one. ・Morning routines: know when to start each thing so you're not rushing ・Catching a flight: from packing to TSA, timed out ・Getting kids out the door: the version where nobody yells ・Dinner prep: work backward from "guests arrive at 7" Features: ・Alerts for each step in your plan ・Add a destination to any step to see travel time by driving, cycling, or walking ・Shared plans: share with friends and family; they get the same reminders, so you're all ready together ・Calendar integration: tap a flight or event to start a new plan with the details filled in ・Step suggestions from your history ・Time Lock: pin a step to a fixed time and schedule everything else around it ・Buffers between steps ・Repeating daily and weekly plans ・Sync, duplicate, and archive ・Start a new plan from a template No subscription. No ads. No login. You already know what you need to do. Ready Time just tells you when. --- Terms & Conditions: https://getreadytime.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://getreadytime.com/privacy/ Ivan ivan@getreadytime.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ready Time at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Ready Time also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (3.2K vs 10). On rating, ads 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
Ready Time is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Ready Time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown Pro against 4.7 for Ready Time. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.2K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ready Time's.
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Ready Time every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown Pro | Ready Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Nerd Tower |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown Pro
Ready Time
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown Pro
No in-app purchases
Ready Time
- Countdown: Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Repeating Plans, Themes & More$4.99
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