Friendly Reminder vs Hourly Move
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Friendly Reminder
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Friendly Reminder keeps the right note visible at the right moment. Create a reminder, choose its days and times, then add a widget to your Home or Lock Screen. MAKE REMINDERS FIT YOUR DAY • Simple daily, weekday and weekend schedules • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Compact notes with emoji • Optional step-by-step widget setup help • No account required FREE Create up to 5 reminders with simple schedules. Free use is supported by ads when available; your privacy choices do not block access. FRIENDLY REMINDER PRO • Places: location-based reminders • Unlimited reminders • Ad-free With Pro, choose saved places such as Home and Office, or On the go outside all saved places. Day, time and place settings work together. Location-based updates depend on your location permission and iOS widget refresh timing; widgets are not timed alarms. Your reminders stay saved if Pro ends. Items above the free limit and place-based rules require Pro again; nothing is deleted. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. If a free trial is available and you are eligible, it renews into the selected paid plan unless canceled. The App Store shows your local price and terms before purchase. Manage or cancel in your App Store account. Support & Privacy: https://claudiusthelen.com/data/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Hourly Move
This app helps you avoid sedentary habits by providing customizable reminders to stand up and move. It features unique anti-habituation technology to ensure reminders remain noticeable and offers flexible scheduling options for various needs.
- Anti-habituation reminder jitter
- Customizable break intervals (down to 5 minutes)
- Active window and skip window scheduling
- Separate profiles for different days/activities
- 24-hour Day Ring visualizer
- Lock screen and home screen widgets
- Siri integration for control
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Sitting is the easiest habit to fall into and the hardest to notice. Hourly Move gives you one glance and one job: stand up and move — on the schedule you set. REMINDERS YOU WON'T TUNE OUT Most reminder apps fail for one reason: your brain learns the pattern and starts ignoring it. Turn on anti-habituation jitter and Hourly Move shifts each reminder by a small, random few minutes every day — same schedule, never the same rhythm — so it stays noticeable instead of fading into the background. It's free, and it's the whole point. ANY INTERVAL — DOWN TO EVERY 5 MINUTES Most reminder apps stop at "hourly". Hourly Move lets you set a repeating alert at any interval — every 5 or 10 minutes, every 25, every 90, every 2 hours. Great for stand-up and stretch breaks, eye-rest and posture checks, hydration, medication, or Pomodoro-style focus and break cycles. YOUR HOURS, YOUR RULES Set an active window (say 9:00–17:00), pick your interval, and keep lunch quiet with skip windows. Reminders fire inside your window and nowhere else. WEEKDAYS ≠ WEEKENDS Create separate profiles — Workdays, Weekend, Study — each with its own days, hours, pace, and sound. They switch automatically with your week. THE DAY RING Home is a true 24-hour dial: your active window drawn at its real clock position, skip windows dimmed, the next reminder glowing, a live countdown underneath. One glance tells you what's next. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN, HOME SCREEN, AND SIRI Add the Day Ring as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget so your next break is always in view. Turn on the Live Activity to watch the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Pause or resume from a Control Center toggle, or just say "Hey Siri, pause my reminders" — and ask Siri when your next one is. SEE YOURSELF MOVE History counts every break — done, snoozed, or missed — by day, week, month, and year. Watch the habit build. RELIABLE, NOT SPAMMY Time-sensitive notifications arrive on the minute you scheduled. Pause for an hour, skip past lunch, or pause everything from one switch when you need quiet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No internet access at all — your settings and history never leave your iPhone. Back up to a file you control, restore anytime. MAKE IT YOURS Five accent themes (Sunrise, Ocean, Forest, Blossom, Midnight), bundled reminder tones or import your own, custom reminder messages, full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support, and reduced-motion respect throughout. Stand up. Stretch. Every hour. Your back will thank you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hourly Move at none against Friendly Reminder's shown. Friendly Reminder's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Friendly Reminder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Hourly Move sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Friendly Reminder | Hourly Move |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Claudius Thelen | Tien Le |
In-app purchases
Friendly Reminder
- Friendly Reminder Pro$1.991 Month
- Friendly Reminder Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Year
Hourly Move
- Hourly Move Pro$5.99









