Comparison

Bin Day Reminder vs Garbage Day Reminder

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

Head to head
About

Bin Day Reminder

Never miss a bin collection again with this app. Manually input your bin types and collection schedules to receive automatic calendar entries and timely notifications. Customize icons and names to perfectly match your local services.

Highlights
  • Custom bin and collection day entry
  • Automatic calendar integration
  • Timely notification alerts
  • Customizable bin icons and names
  • Widget support
Features
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Does your council or district not have their own bin day app? No problem! Bin Day Reminders allows you to add your own bin and collection days, and provides you with a calendar and notifications automatically. Customise the bin icons, names and collection times to match your area.

About

Garbage Day Reminder

Never miss a trash day again with this intuitive app. Customize reminders for all your waste pickups, including general trash, recycling, and yard waste. Share your schedule with others for seamless household coordination.

Highlights
  • Customizable bin names and colors
  • Flexible collection schedules (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)
  • Pre-pickup or on-day reminders
  • Schedule sharing with family and neighbors
  • Support for multiple waste types
Features
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Never miss trash pickup again. Set up, track, and organize trash, recycling, and waste pickup schedules in one clear app. Check your next pickup, set reminders, and customize containers to match the real schedule for your home, rental property, shared pickup point, or business site. Basic features, with more in Plus and Pro: • Suggested pickup schedules where available • Basic dashboard with your next pickup • Reminders the day before or on pickup day • Custom residential containers with names, lid/body colors, and schedules • Support for trash, recycling, food waste, yard waste, glass, and other pickup types • Match schedules from your city, municipality, HOA, shared property, or private hauler Plus unlocks more control: • Dashboard with more upcoming pickups • Calendar view for every pickup day by location or individual container • Home Screen widgets • Up to 3 pickup locations and 8 containers per location • More household and shared container types: bags, boxes, caddies, containers, and shared 4-wheeled carts • Container contents: add lists of accepted and rejected waste items for each container • Mark containers as put out and collected • More accurate reminders when dates change • Holiday schedule handling • Add extra pickups, skip dates, or move individual pickup days • Flexible weekly and monthly repeat rules with reminder times • Snooze notifications or temporarily pause locations Pro includes everything in Plus and adds features for busier schedules: • Up to 10 pickup locations and 12 containers per location • Commercial container types such as commercial carts, roll-off dumpsters, and compactors • Daily schedules and repeats every chosen number of days • Multiple weekdays in one schedule Simple enough for one household. Flexible enough for shared homes, rentals, shared collection areas, and business schedules. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bin Day Reminder4 screens
Garbage Day Reminder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Garbage Day Reminder at Free against Bin Day Reminder's $3.99. Garbage Day Reminder also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). Bin Day Reminder's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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

Garbage Day Reminder is free to download; Bin Day Reminder costs $3.99 up front. Garbage Day Reminder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Bin Day Reminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bin Day Reminder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garbage Day Reminder has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Bin Day Reminder's written reviews are positive against 70% of Garbage Day Reminder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bin Day Reminder ships an update every 6 weeks, Garbage Day Reminder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Bin Day Reminder versus Garbage Day Reminder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBin Day ReminderGarbage Day Reminder
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.9 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better69.6% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke MulhollandSzymon Tadrzak

Customer experience

Bin Day Reminder

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

Garbage Day Reminder

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive69.6%
Neutral13.0%
Negative17.4%

In-app purchases

None

Bin Day Reminder

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Garbage Day Reminder

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Access1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Pro Access$2.991 Month
  • Premium Access1 Month trial$7.991 Year
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  • Pro Access$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Bin Day Reminder free?
Bin Day Reminder costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garbage Day Reminder free?
Garbage Day Reminder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bin Day Reminder or Garbage Day Reminder?
Bin Day Reminder is rated higher. Bin Day Reminder averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Garbage Day Reminder averages 3.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Bin Day Reminder or Garbage Day Reminder have ads?
Neither Bin Day Reminder nor Garbage Day Reminder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bin Day Reminder or Garbage Day Reminder?
Bin Day Reminder ships an update every 6 weeks, and Garbage Day Reminder every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bin Day Reminder was updated on October 30, 2026 and Garbage Day Reminder on November 7, 2026.

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