Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Birthday Reminder Countdown

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Birthday Reminder Countdown

Never forget a special occasion again with this app that counts down to birthdays and other important dates. Receive timely notifications, customize reminders, and access upcoming events directly from your home screen via a widget. Organize contacts into groups and share celebrations with loved ones.

Highlights
  • Birthday countdowns
  • Customizable reminders
  • Home screen widget
  • Contact grouping
  • Greeting templates
  • Dark mode support
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Features • Count how many days are left until your birthday • Get notifications at the time of your choosing on each birthday • Customize reminder settings for specific birthdays • Access upcoming birthdays right from home screen with powerful widget • Group contacts such as friends, classmates, colleagues, etc • Share your birthdays with family and friends • Greeting template for easy blessings • Add notes to each special day • Also be used for anniversaries, holidays, vacations, etc • Support dark mode Review from users "Great and very simple to use" "I really like how I can keep track of all my family and friends birthdays." "The free version is great and easy to use! I like using it! A good app to track birthday and countdown!" "This app keeps me accountable. I never miss a birthday now." "Couldn’t do without this Birthday app. It has never let me down." Most of the app's content is free. Some selected features require the purchase of a full version in the app. Get Birthday Reminder Pro • No ads forever • Unlimited reminders • Add a widget • Backup data to iCloud • Gesture passwords to protect private information And much more ...

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Birthday Reminder Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Birthday Reminder Countdown at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, 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

Birthday Reminder Countdown is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Birthday Reminder Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown Pro against 4.7 for Birthday Reminder Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.3K ratings behind it against 530, 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 62% of Birthday Reminder Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Birthday Reminder Countdown every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Birthday Reminder Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProBirthday Reminder Countdown
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.3K ratings) — better4.7 (530 ratings)
Positive reviews87.7% of reviews — better61.9% of reviews
Number of ratings3.3K — better530
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovDeebex Tech Ltd.

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown Pro

All ratings3,217 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews357 reviews
Positive87.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative6.7%

Birthday Reminder Countdown

All ratings525 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral12.7%
Negative25.4%

Bugs and requests

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Birthday Reminder Countdown

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when attempting to purchase Pro version
  • Plus button triggers paywall instead of adding entries
  • User data not persisting after entry
  • iOS 14 compatibility issues with Pro purchase

Requested features

7 requests
  • Contact book synchronization
  • Name search functionality
  • Gender selection option
  • Theme color customization
  • Earlier notification times (6 AM instead of 9 AM)
Show 2 more
  • More invitation/sharing options
  • Edit functionality for birthday entries

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Birthday Reminder Countdown

One-time1
  • Birthday Reminder Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Birthday Reminder Countdown free?
Birthday Reminder Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Birthday Reminder Countdown?
Reminder & Countdown Pro is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Birthday Reminder Countdown averages 4.7 from 530 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Birthday Reminder Countdown have ads?
Birthday Reminder Countdown shows ads; Reminder & Countdown Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Birthday Reminder Countdown?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Birthday Reminder Countdown every 3 weeks. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on November 6, 2026 and Birthday Reminder Countdown on November 3, 2026.

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