Comparison

Remindfulness vs Thyme

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

Thyme

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Thyme keeps fixed reference schedules and personal routines on time, together with growing microgreens and monthly plant care in one quiet, focused app. REFERENCE SCHEDULES • On iOS 26 or later, alarm reminders can ring through Silent mode or Focus with your permission • On iOS 16 to 18, regular notifications follow your system sound and Focus settings • Fixed times, intervals, daily counts, day boundaries and pauses tracked for you • Static reference amounts and preparation details. Thyme handles reminders and logging DAILY ROUTINES • Morning: follow your morning steps and waiting intervals • Rest: a quiet timer, optional gentle ending sound and a record of completed rests • Sunset: local sunset times and optional reminders • Stargazing: optional cloud-cover forecasts and an evening reminder when conditions match your settings GROW • Microgreens: soak, sow, blackout, watering and harvest reminders across parallel trays • A monthly plant-care schedule with a mixing calculator • Extras like a pineapple ripening timer PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no developer-operated cloud service • No developer-operated network service. Your app data is not transmitted to us • Core schedules work offline. Optional Stargazing uses internet access and approximate location for weather • Your data is processed locally. Your system may include it in device backups you control • Export your history to a destination you choose, with personal notes included only when you select that option • Local history of reminder events, rounds, routines, rotations and sowing, with private notes for schedule rounds Thyme is an independent scheduling and reminder tool. Source cards identify the references used for static schedules. Thyme is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author or publisher. It is not medical advice. Consult your doctor before using any supplement schedule. All reference amounts shown are adult amounts.

Screenshots

Remindfulness4 screens
Thyme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thyme at none against Remindfulness's 1. Thyme also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months). Remindfulness's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

Both are free to download. Remindfulness sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thyme asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, Thyme fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Remindfulness versus Thyme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemindfulnessThyme
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNaomi JanzenPawel Wesolowski

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

Thyme

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remindfulness

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Thyme

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remindfulness free?
Remindfulness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thyme free?
Thyme is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Remindfulness or Thyme have ads?
Remindfulness shows ads; Thyme does not.
Which is updated more often, Remindfulness or Thyme?
Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, and Thyme fortnightly. Most recently, Remindfulness was updated on October 10, 2026 and Thyme on October 15, 2026.

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