Comparison

Garbage Day Reminder vs My Routine

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

Head to head
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/

About

My Routine

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My Routine is your daily structure tool — plan routines, track habits, and reflect with purpose.

Screenshots

Garbage Day Reminder4 screens
My Routine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Routine at none against Garbage Day Reminder's 4. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Garbage Day Reminder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. My Routine asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garbage Day Reminder ships an update every 2 weeks, My Routine weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Garbage Day Reminder versus My Routine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarbage Day ReminderMy Routine
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB211 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSzymon TadrzakArooj Fatima

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
None

My Routine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garbage Day Reminder free?
Garbage Day Reminder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Routine free?
My Routine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garbage Day Reminder or My Routine have ads?
Neither Garbage Day Reminder nor My Routine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garbage Day Reminder or My Routine?
Garbage Day Reminder ships an update every 2 weeks, and My Routine weekly. Most recently, Garbage Day Reminder was updated on November 4, 2026 and My Routine on October 28, 2026.

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