Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Spiral by Digital Generalists

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

Spiral by Digital Generalists

Capture quick notes, sketches, and doodles with a fluid drawing experience that mimics real paper. Designed for smaller screens, it offers versatile tools like pens and highlighters, with options to export and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Pen, highlighter, and eraser tools
  • Unlimited pages
  • Add images from camera/library
  • Export to PDF
  • Share via email, text, social media
  • Multiple line widths and colors
  • Undo/redo functionality
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Spiral - The Ultimate Pocket Notepad Spiral is the perfect application for lovers of pocket-sized paper notepads who want to take quick notes, draw, sketch, doodle, and more! All these things can be done by simply "drawing" on the application with your finger. Spiral uses a world-class drawing engine that provides smooth lines and a fluid writing experience. We worked very hard to make using Spiral feel like writing on an actual notepad, and we're proud of what we built. Designed specifically for the smaller size of the iPhone, Spiral gives the power and features of notepad applications available only on the iPad in a way that works well on a smaller screen. Spiral offers the following features: • draw with pen, highlighter, and eraser drawing tools with enhanced effects to make writing with the app feel like writing on paper • write on unlimited pages • add a picture from the camera or photo library to a page • create a PDF of the entire notepad or just a single page of the notepad • email the notepad or a page • text message the notepad or a page • save pages to the photo library • share pages on popular social media services such as Facebook and X • print the notepad or a page via AirPrint • draw with multiple line widths • draw with multiple colors • feel free to experiment with multi-level undo and redo • clear your drawing, background, or delete a page • rotate the contents of a drawing • make the app look how you like with five styles of paper and the option to use a simple white drawing surface • view an interactive tutorial that shows you how to use the application Give Spiral a try today!

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Spiral by Digital Generalists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Reminder & Countdown Pro at every 9 days against Spiral by Digital Generalists's every 4 months. Reminder & Countdown Pro also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 7). Spiral by Digital Generalists's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 and Spiral by Digital Generalists $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spiral by Digital Generalists 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 7, 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 100% of Spiral by Digital Generalists's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Spiral by Digital Generalists every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Spiral by Digital Generalists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProSpiral by Digital Generalists
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.8 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.3K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovDigital Generalists, 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%

Spiral by Digital Generalists

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Spiral by Digital Generalists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spiral by Digital Generalists free?
Spiral by Digital Generalists costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Spiral by Digital Generalists?
Spiral by Digital Generalists is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Spiral by Digital Generalists averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Spiral by Digital Generalists have ads?
Neither Reminder & Countdown Pro nor Spiral by Digital Generalists shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Spiral by Digital Generalists?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Spiral by Digital Generalists every 4 months. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Spiral by Digital Generalists on October 23, 2026.

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