Garbage Day Reminder vs What Colour Bin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
What Colour Bin
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What Colour Bin makes bin night simple. Keep track of your household bin collection days, colours and schedules in one easy-to-use app. Set up each of your bins, choose how often it is collected, and receive reminders so you know exactly which bin needs to go out and when. Whether you have general waste, recycling, garden waste, food organics or another type of bin, What Colour Bin can be customised to match your local collection system. Features include: • Add multiple bins with different names and colours • Daily, weekly, fortnightly and every 4 weeks collection schedules • Choose your next collection date • Reminders the day before or on collection day • Select your preferred reminder time • Global Bins guide showing common bin colours used in different countries • Custom bin colours for local collection systems • Support for 12 languages • Simple, colourful and easy-to-read design Perfect for households, families, renters, travellers or anyone who has ever asked, “What colour bin goes out this week?” Set it once, let What Colour Bin keep track, and make forgotten bin nights a thing of the past. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: What Colour Bin at 3 against Garbage Day Reminder's 1. What Colour Bin also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Garbage Day Reminder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and What Colour Bin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Garbage Day Reminder | What Colour Bin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Szymon Tadrzak | Alexander Murray |
In-app purchases
Garbage Day Reminder
- 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
What Colour Bin
- What Colour Bin Monthly2 Months trial$1.991 Month
- What Colour Bin Annual2 Months trial$11.991 Year
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