Comparison

Remindfulness vs Reality checks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Remindfulness

This app helps integrate mindfulness into your daily routine with customizable practice reminders. Choose from over 100 prompts and unique alert sounds, or create your own. Schedule reminders at set intervals or opt for random delivery to foster a consistent mindfulness practice.

Highlights
  • Over 100 practice reminders
  • Customizable reminder timing (random or scheduled)
  • Choice of alert sounds or custom tones
  • Create custom reminders
  • Share reminders with others
  • Auto suspend and resume functionality
Features
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As featured in Cosmopolitan. Life moves fast, and most of it slips by on autopilot. Remindfulness sends gentle reminders throughout your day to pause, breathe, come back to the present, and remember who you really are. These aren't generic wellness tips. The reminders included draw on a wealth of non-denominational spiritual teachings, the perennial wisdom found at the heart of every tradition yet belonging to none: presence, gratitude, surrender, compassion, and reconnection with your Source. Each one has been distilled into a practice simple enough to do in a few moments, in the middle of anything. If you walk a spiritual path, whatever its shape, these reminders will feel like coming home. You have learned so many ways to reconnect with your Source, to bring your attention to the Present Moment... If only you could remember to do them throughout your busy day! Remindfulness is designed to run quietly in the background and gently call you back to your truth throughout your waking hours. This extends spiritual practice beyond isolated periods of meditation or contemplation. Woven into the fabric of your day, it can become a real way of life. Over a hundred simple yet powerful practices have been created so that you can perform them easily, in the space of no more than a few moments, often without having to physically move or even close your eyes: a breath received with gratitude, a blessing silently sent, a question that dissolves the mind's chatter, a return to the awareness behind your thoughts. This makes them easy to do the moment they appear on your screen, no matter what else you might be in the middle of. And even when you can't read a reminder right away, for example while driving or in a meeting, the simple awareness of its arrival can be your prompt to spend the next five minutes being as present as possible. FEATURES - Over 100 beautiful practice reminders. - 26 unique alert sounds, plus a Random option. - Time reminders to arrive at regular intervals, or choose random timing and how many arrive within your chosen time frame. - Custom reminder editor for writing your own. Then tell the app to use ours, yours, or a mixture of both. - NEW: Import a whole list of your own reminders at once. Paste a column from a spreadsheet, or a list from your notes, one per line. - NEW: Back up your reminders with a tap, then restore them any time through Import. - Auto suspend and resume sleeps the app overnight and wakes it with you in the morning. - Sound on or off at a touch, and share any reminder with loved ones via email or text message. Customization lets you shape how Remindfulness works for you. Choose whether reminders arrive with an alert tone, and which one. Choose random timing, and how many reminders you'd like, or pick a regular interval that suits your rhythm. Suspend the app while you sleep, without quitting it, and reminders resume by themselves in the morning. You can also write your own reminders and save them in a list, and now bring a whole list in at once, or back your list up for safekeeping. Tell the app to draw from your reminders exclusively, not at all, or shuffled in with ours via the Yours, Ours, and All options. NOTE: For the best experience, allow notifications for Remindfulness in your device's Settings > Notifications, and open a reminder from time to time; iOS quietly pauses notifications from apps whose alerts are never viewed. Please enjoy Remindfulness. I created it to help me, throughout my day, to return joyfully to the present moment. I hope it will help you do the same. Remindfulness... Helping you remember to be mindful Freedom Techniques www.remindfulnessapp.com

About

Reality checks

This app helps users determine if they are dreaming by prompting them to perform reality checks. Users can set up custom notifications and select the type of reality check they wish to perform to enhance their lucid dreaming practice.

Highlights
  • Set up notifications
  • Choose reality check types
  • Lucid dreaming aid
  • Customizable prompts
Features
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To make lucid dreams, the mind needs to perform frequent "Reality Checks". A reality check is a method used to determine whether you are in a dream or in real life. This app helps you perform reality checks by allowing you to set up notifications and choose which type of reality check to perform.

Screenshots

Remindfulness4 screens
Reality checks3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Remindfulness at Free against Reality checks's $0.99. Remindfulness also leads on rating (3.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). Reality checks's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). On in-app purchases, device support 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

Remindfulness is free to download; Reality checks costs $0.99 up front. Remindfulness sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Reality checks sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Remindfulness holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remindfulness has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Remindfulness's written reviews are positive against 100% of Reality checks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, Reality checks daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Remindfulness versus Reality checks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemindfulnessReality checks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.7 (20 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaomi JanzenGianpiero Spinelli

Customer experience

Remindfulness

All ratings20 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.0%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative29.7%

Reality checks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Remindfulness

Reported bugs

28 issues
  • No sound for notifications
  • Custom reminders not showing up
  • App freezes or crashes
  • Reminders disappear too quickly
  • App stops working after iOS updates
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  • Notifications not triggering reliably
  • App turns itself off
  • Time settings are broken
  • App quits from notification shortly after opening
  • Hangs and only shows the first reminder
  • Quotes disappear before they can be read
  • Banner alerts don't stay
  • Last quote doesn't stay long enough to read
  • Ad version is unusable due to frequent ads
  • Asked to share app every time a notification is opened
  • Alarmas no suenan en hibernación del iPhone
  • App doesn't work as advertised
  • App is inoperable, freezes when customizing
  • App crashes when trying to customize
  • App freezes on option screen
  • App freezes and only shows first reminder
  • App stops working, frozen
  • App turns itself off
  • App is buggy and confusing
  • App freezes on option screen and won't return to main screen
  • App freezes and refuses to work
  • App keeps freezing
  • Sound option doesn't work

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add more sound options
  • Allow reminders less frequent than daily (e.g., weekly, monthly)
  • Option for once a day or specific times/days
  • Port to Apple Watch for proper alert tone
  • Improve UI and iPhone 5 optimization
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  • Increase the limit of custom reminders
  • Add backup or data sharing options
  • Dark mode option

Reality checks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remindfulness

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
3 purchases

Reality checks

One-time3
  • Support us with a coffee2 variants$0.99
  • Support us with two coffees2 variants$4.99
  • Well, this is a lot of love2 variants$9.99

Questions

Is Remindfulness free?
Remindfulness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reality checks free?
Reality checks costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remindfulness or Reality checks?
Remindfulness is rated higher. Remindfulness averages 3.7 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Reality checks averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Remindfulness or Reality checks have ads?
Remindfulness shows ads; Reality checks does not.
Which is updated more often, Remindfulness or Reality checks?
Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, and Reality checks daily. Most recently, Remindfulness was updated on October 18, 2026 and Reality checks on October 25, 2026.

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