Simple Routine vs Reminder Notes Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Routine
This app helps you stay on track by sending timely notifications for your daily repetitive tasks. Register your tasks and receive reminders when it's time to complete them.
- Daily repetitive task registration
- Scheduled time notifications
- Task completion reminders
- Simple interface
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Simple and Repetitive notification. Once, you register daily repetitive tasks, Simple Routine will notify you and schedule the time has come.
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.
- 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://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Reminder Notes Widget at 4.4 against Simple Routine's 3.2. Reminder Notes Widget also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 10). Simple Routine's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (44% vs 20%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Reminder Notes Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 45 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Simple Routine's written reviews are positive against 20% of Reminder Notes Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Simple Routine ships an update every 6 weeks, Reminder Notes Widget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Routine | Reminder Notes Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (10 ratings) | 4.4 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.9% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tetsuya Hirano | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Simple Routine
Reminder Notes Widget
In-app purchases
Simple Routine
No in-app purchases
Reminder Notes Widget
No in-app purchases
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