Comparison

Garbage Day Reminder vs Bin Days

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

Bin Days

Features
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Never forget bin day again. This app helps you stay on top of your household bin collections with clear schedules and optional reminders. Add one or more homes, set up your bins, and see exactly which bin goes out next. Key features: • View upcoming bin collections at a glance • Set reminders so you never miss a collection • Support for multiple homes or addresses • Simple, clean design with no clutter • Manual schedules or live council data where available Perfect for busy households, landlords, or anyone tired of checking calendars or council websites. Download now and make missed bin days a thing of the past.

Screenshots

Garbage Day Reminder4 screens
Bin Days4 screens

Verdict

The call

Garbage Day Reminder and Bin Days are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and Bin Days sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Garbage Day Reminder versus Bin Days: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarbage Day ReminderBin Days
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSzymon TadrzakVicki Partridge

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
2 purchases

Bin Days

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription14 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Garbage Day Reminder free?
Garbage Day Reminder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bin Days free?
Bin Days is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Garbage Day Reminder or Bin Days have ads?
Neither Garbage Day Reminder nor Bin Days shows ads.

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