Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Reminder Notes Widget

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

Reminder Notes Widget

Organize your tasks and deadlines with this free reminder app. Create unlimited notes and folders, set custom notifications with various sounds, and utilize home screen widgets for quick access. It offers a simple interface with features like color-coding and dark mode.

Highlights
  • Unlimited folders and notes
  • Deadline setting and tracking
  • Customizable reminder notifications
  • Home screen widget support
  • Color coding and pinning
  • Dark mode
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It's a simple and easy-to-use reminder notes app. widgets, reminders, etc. are available. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Create unlimited folders and notes - Set deadline for notes - Remaining days until deadline/days elapsed display - Reminder notification settings - Repeat notification support - Notification sound settings (more than 70 types) - Supports vibration alarm (silent notification) - Color coding and pinning - Home screen widget support - Icon badge display - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: remindernotes://

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Reminder Notes Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Reminder & Countdown Pro at 88% against Reminder Notes Widget's 20%. Reminder & Countdown Pro also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Reminder Notes Widget's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On in-app purchases 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

Reminder Notes Widget is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reminder & Countdown Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.2K ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 20% of Reminder Notes Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Reminder Notes Widget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Reminder Notes Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProReminder Notes Widget
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better4.3 (37 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better37
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#166 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovFugaPiyo Inc.

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown Pro

All ratings3,217 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews352 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative6.8%

Reminder Notes Widget

All ratings37 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral5.4%
Negative13.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Reminder Notes Widget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reminder Notes Widget free?
Reminder Notes Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Reminder Notes Widget?
Reminder & Countdown Pro is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Reminder Notes Widget averages 4.3 from 37 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Reminder Notes Widget have ads?
Reminder Notes Widget shows ads; Reminder & Countdown Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Reminder Notes Widget?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Reminder Notes Widget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on October 2, 2026 and Reminder Notes Widget on September 15, 2026.

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