Talking Calendar Clock vs Remba
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Talking Calendar Clock
This app provides spoken time announcements and calendar event reminders in multiple languages. It features a voice timer and customizable layout options for hands-free timekeeping and event notifications.
- Spoken time announcements
- Calendar event notifications
- Voice timer with interval alerts
- Multilingual support
- Customizable layouts
- Hands-free operation
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A practical voice time reminder tool, supporting English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. It offers various layout options, allowing you to set the device to announce the time at specific intervals. If calendar access is granted, it can also announce upcoming events. It also features a voice timer, which can announce the elapsed time every 5 or 10 seconds. Use cases: Use an old tablet as a calendar or clock in your living room, with hourly time announcements. Add events to your calendar, and the tablet in the living room will announce them. This can be used to remind family members at home about dinner plans. The voice timer can help you while making coffee; it will announce the time, allowing you to focus on making the coffee without constantly checking the clock.
Remba
This app provides a straightforward way to set and receive reminders without any complex setup or accounts. It focuses on simplicity, with a clear interface and gentle notifications to help you remember important tasks.
- One-tap reminder creation
- Large, clear text and buttons
- Customizable reminder frequencies
- Gentle notifications with snooze
- Completely private, no data collection
- Instant trial feature
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Remba is a reminder app that anyone can use — designed to be so simple it gets out of your way. Open it, tap one big button, type what you want to remember, pick a time, and you're done. No accounts to create. No menus to dig through. No clutter. Just reminders that show up when you need them. WHY PEOPLE LOVE REMBA • Genuinely simple — one screen of large, easy-to-read reminders and one button to add another. If you can send a text message, you can use Remba. • Built for real life — remind yourself to take medicine, call a family member, water the plants, or anything else, every day, every week, every month, or just once. • Big and clear — large text, high contrast, and roomy buttons. Text grows automatically if you use larger text on your iPhone. • Gentle and reassuring — friendly notifications with a "Remind me in 10 minutes" snooze and an "I did it" button, right on the alert. • Try it instantly — a "Try It Now" button sends a sample reminder in a few seconds, so you can see exactly how it works and trust it. • Completely private — every reminder stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no data collected, ever. PERFECT FOR • Remembering medication and daily routines • Parents and grandparents who want something that just works • Caregivers setting up reminders for a loved one • Anyone tired of complicated to-do apps Remba does one thing and does it kindly: it helps you remember. That's it. No subscriptions. No ads. No catch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Remba at none against Talking Calendar Clock's shown. Remba also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Talking Calendar Clock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Talking Calendar Clock against 5.0 for Remba. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Talking Calendar Clock | Remba |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yihang Huang | James Gottschalk III |
In-app purchases
Talking Calendar Clock
No in-app purchases
Remba
No in-app purchases
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