Comparison

Garbage Day Reminder vs Bin Day NZ

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
Read full description

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 Day NZ

Features
Read full description

Never wonder whether it's recycling week again. Bin Day NZ shows what goes out next, reminds you the evening before and the morning of, and keeps rubbish, recycling and food scraps on their own weekly or fortnightly schedules, so the whole household is on the same page. - Notifications: an evening-before and a morning-of reminder for each collection. - Widgets: the next collection on your home screen or lock screen. - Calendar: optional recurring events in Apple Calendar, or a 90-day .ics export. - Holidays: move or skip a single collection without changing the regular schedule. - Sorting guide: what goes in which bin in Auckland, with links to the official sources. - Five languages: English, Te Reo Māori, Simplified Chinese, Hindi and Korean. Good to know: you set each bin's schedule yourself after checking Auckland Council's website, which remains the source for your dates; Bin Day NZ doesn't fetch them for you. It's made for Auckland Council kerbside collections, so shared bins, private services and island collections may differ. Reminders are scheduled in batches and renew whenever you open the app, so open it now and then. Adding your address is optional and only labels your schedule. There's no account, no ads and no tracking, and everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

Garbage Day Reminder4 screens
Bin Day NZ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bin Day NZ 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. Bin Day NZ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garbage Day Reminder ships an update every 2 weeks, Bin Day NZ fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Garbage Day Reminder versus Bin Day NZ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarbage Day ReminderBin Day NZ
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSzymon TadrzakKexin Li

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
Show 1 more
  • Pro Access$17.991 Year
None

Bin Day NZ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garbage Day Reminder free?
Garbage Day Reminder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bin Day NZ free?
Bin Day NZ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garbage Day Reminder or Bin Day NZ have ads?
Neither Garbage Day Reminder nor Bin Day NZ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garbage Day Reminder or Bin Day NZ?
Garbage Day Reminder ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bin Day NZ fortnightly. Most recently, Garbage Day Reminder was updated on November 7, 2026 and Bin Day NZ on November 9, 2026.

Other comparisons