Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Dictate.life

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

Dictate.life

Capture your ideas, tasks, and information with a system designed for organization and reflection. Inspired by GTD principles, it helps you manage your life's data efficiently. Features include quick storage, organized lists, wikis, and a distraction-free journal.

Highlights
  • Quickly store textual ideas, tasks, and information
  • Organize content into Lists, Wikis, and Agile tasks
  • Distraction-free journaling for focused reflection
  • Personalized YouTube video lists for inspiration and learning
  • Web and iPhone cross-platform compatibility
Features
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Your most important ideas deserve a home that’s built for them - not some retrofitted note taking app. Inspired by David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD), Dictate.life is dedicated to helping you manage the information in your life. WHAT YOU CAN DO Quickly store anything textual - ideas, tasks, and information Organize your ideas into Lists, Wikis, and an Agile-inspired task management interface Reflect on your day with the journal designed to help you eliminate distractions so you can quickly focus in a familiar environment Revisit your own personalized list of youtube videos so you can stay creatively inspired or stay up-to-date on learning Dictate.life is geared primarily toward ambitious writers - creative, technical, software, and beyond. Folks who aren’t primarily writers will find value in Dictate.life as well - it’s for anyone who wants to level up their productivity and organization. To get the best experience out of Dicatate.life, use both the web and iPhone versions. Dictate.life is available with a free trial. The minimum length of the trial is 14 days. Since this is an initial launch, the trial period will likely be longer to allow more feedback to be gathered. Our goal is to make Dictate.life the best personal productivity and organization software, and your feedback will be an essential part of making that happen. Once the trial period concludes, payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of the period, for the same price. If you cancel the auto-renewal, you’ll still be able to access your data but will eventually lose write access, your feeds will no longer update, and you will no longer receive notifications. WHY DICTATE.LIFE? Most productivity apps offload the responsibility of deciding how to structure your data on you. This represents thousands hours wasted each year to inefficiency and disorganization. Dictate.life lets you hit the ground running because it’s based around the modern organizational best practices of GTD and Agile, and incorporates the theme of minimalism so you can maximize your focus and your time in the flow state.

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Dictate.life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dictate.life at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Dictate.life also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dictate.life is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Dictate.life sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.99 per month. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dictate.life holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Dictate.life every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Dictate.life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProDictate.life
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovAmerican Secure Technology LLC

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown Pro

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

Dictate.life

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dictate.life

Subscriptions1
  • Dictate.life - Unlimited$12.991 Month

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dictate.life free?
Dictate.life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Dictate.life?
Dictate.life is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Dictate.life averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Dictate.life have ads?
Neither Reminder & Countdown Pro nor Dictate.life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Dictate.life?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Dictate.life every 5 months. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Dictate.life on October 18, 2026.

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