Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Pinning

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

Pinning

Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.

Highlights
  • Event countdown and count-up
  • Calendar event syncing
  • Birthday and anniversary tracking
  • Event organization with notebooks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • iCloud collaboration
  • Recurring event notifications
Features
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Pinning is a more powerful countdown app and a simple calendar viewer. It’s a tool to help you record life stories or track project milestones. It’s easy to create events and organize them with notebooks. Pinning also comes with built-in lists for birthdays and anniversaries. Events will be shown in timeline with self-selected icons or emojis. You can put the most important events on Home Screen or Lock Screen with beautiful widgets. Pinning supports iCloud collaboration so that you can easily share important events with family and friends. ## Features - Event countdown and count-up. - Sync upcoming calendar events and scheduled reminders. - Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries. - Organize with notebooks and tags. - Create recurring events and receive notifications. - Home Screen widgets for single event and event timeline. Lock Screen widgets for the most important events. - iCloud collaboration. - Siri Shortcuts support. - Save single event or list of events as images. - Import birthdays from birthday calendar. - Create events from calendars. Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy Terms of Services: https://pinning.app/terms

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Pinning4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pinning at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Pinning also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (3.2K vs 51). On rating, ads 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

Pinning is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. 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 Pinning. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.2K ratings behind it against 51, 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 75% of Pinning's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Pinning every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Pinning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProPinning
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better4.7 (51 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better51
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#140 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovAnybox LTD

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown Pro

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

Pinning

All ratings51 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative15.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Pinning

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
  • Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Pinning?
Reminder & Countdown Pro is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Pinning averages 4.7 from 51 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Pinning have ads?
Neither Reminder & Countdown Pro nor Pinning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Pinning?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Pinning every 3 weeks. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on September 26, 2026 and Pinning on September 22, 2026.

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