Comparison

1Reminder vs Daily Blocks

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

Head to head
About

1Reminder

This app helps you manage tasks and appointments with smart notifications and natural language input. Organize your life with a visual calendar and customizable categories. All your data is stored locally for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Smart notifications with multiple alerts
  • Natural language and voice input
  • Visual calendar view
  • Organize by category
  • Recurring reminders
  • Overdue management
  • Local data storage
Features
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Stay on top of tasks, appointments, and recurring events—all completely free. Key Features • Smart Notifications Set multiple alerts for each reminder: at the scheduled time, 15 minutes before, 1 hour before, or even days ahead. Stay prepared for every deadline. • Natural Language Input Type reminders the way you speak. Write “Buy groceries tomorrow at 5pm” or “Call dentist in 2 hours”—1Reminder understands automatically. • Voice Reminders Create reminders using your voice. Speak naturally and our AI-powered system extracts the details. • Beautiful Calendar View See all your reminders at a glance with a clean, visual calendar. Plan days and weeks effortlessly. • Organize by Category Use categories like Personal, Work, Health, Shopping, and more. Filter to focus on what matters most. • Recurring Reminders Repeat reminders daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly—ideal for medications, meetings, and annual events. • Overdue Management Fell behind? One tap moves overdue reminders to tomorrow so you can reset without stress. • Privacy First Your data stays on your device—never collected, stored externally, or shared. No accounts, no tracking. Why You’ll Love It 1Reminder was built to solve the biggest frustrations with reminder apps: unreliable notifications, cluttered features, and subscriptions. We focused on what actually helps you remember important things. • 100% Free: No ads, subscriptions, or paywalls. • Reliable: Rock-solid notifications with automatic recovery. • Simple: Clean interface that stays out of your way. • Smart: Natural language input makes creating reminders effortless. • Private: Your information never leaves your device. Privacy & Security 1Reminder protects your data by design: • All reminder data is stored locally • No data collection or tracking • No account required • Optional data export in Settings See the full Privacy Policy in the app Settings. What’s New • Improved notification reliability • Enhanced natural-language parsing • Faster calendar performance • General bug fixes and improvements Thank you for using 1Reminder! Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DtX96xtjGSRuxiRvkbz0XucEljUfZ_tBSYG4jO9d3_4/edit?usp=sharing Terms and Conditions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17C7ME_deoJIYUMS4cU3W1IQI6AC6IVNHr27jCvJHcdE/edit?usp=sharing

About

Daily Blocks

This app helps users build and follow daily routines by breaking them down into manageable blocks. It focuses on completing one task at a time, offering a structured approach for individuals who benefit from external organization, especially those with ADHD. The app emphasizes realistic progress and avoids guilt-inducing notifications.

Highlights
  • Task-based blocks for routine building
  • Single-task focus mode
  • Offline functionality
  • Apple Health integration
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island support
  • Progress tracking and analytics
  • Customizable routines
Features
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Most routine apps hand you a checklist and wish you luck. Daily Blocks gives you the pieces instead. Breakdown your morning, the most critical part of the day with different blocks, reuse them across every routine you run, and follow your day one task at a time. BUILT FROM BLOCKS, NOT LISTS Tasks are the things you do. Blocks are named groups of them, like "Morning start" or "Wind down." Routines are a day's worth of blocks, anchored to real start times and scheduled per weekday. Change a block once and every routine that uses it follows. That is the whole idea. ONE TASK AT A TIME Today shows you what is next, not everything at once. Swipe right to complete, left to skip. Or switch to Focus mode, which hides the list entirely and shows a single task until it is done. Prefer buttons to swiping? That is a setting, not a redesign. WHEN THE STRUCTURE HAS TO LIVE OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD If you have ADHD, the problem was never wanting to do the thing. Daily Blocks holds the structure for you: one task on screen instead of twelve, a routine you assembled back when you had the focus to plan it, and a timeline that tells you whether the day you designed actually fits the hours you have. No guilt loops. No streak-loss notifications engineered to panic you back into the app. If today falls apart, tomorrow's routine is still built and still waiting. A DAY YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE Blocks anchor to start times, and the gaps between them render as free time or work time on a timeline. You find out your morning does not fit in forty minutes before you have failed at it for a week. STREAKS YOU HAVE TO EARN The streak counts completed tasks in a row, not days you opened the app. Nothing auto-completes. Nothing celebrates a day you did not finish. A day with no real progress does not count as a win, because it wasn't one. APPLE HEALTH DOES THE CHECKING OFF Opt a task in and a matching workout or mindfulness session from Apple Health completes it for you. Run five miles, and "Run" is already ticked when you open the app. No double logging. GHOST MODE Quietly race today's run against your best comparable past day of the same routine. Only your wins ever surface, so it can encourage you but never scold you. PROGRESS WORTH READING A completion heatmap, all-time records, and custom goals scoped by task, by category, or by life area. See which parts of your routine you actually keep and which ones you have been quietly abandoning for a month. LOCK SCREEN AND DYNAMIC ISLAND A Live Activity keeps the current task on your Lock Screen with a one-tap complete button, so a routine does not require unlocking your phone eleven times. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS EVERYWHERE Opens instantly from a local cache and keeps working with no signal. Your routines sync across your devices and survive a new phone. CALM ON PURPOSE No guilt loops. No manipulative streak-loss notifications. No ads, no subscription, no upsell. Celebrations are a small puff of confetti, not a full-screen takeover. If you want the opposite, there are four optional loud themes, including Pop Comic and Synthwave. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Export everything or permanently delete your account from inside the app, any time. We do not sell your data and we do not track you across other apps. Free. iPhone, iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

1Reminder4 screens
Daily Blocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Daily Blocks at 5.0 against 1Reminder's 4.3. Daily Blocks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). 1Reminder's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. 1Reminder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Daily Blocks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daily Blocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
1Reminder versus Daily Blocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1ReminderDaily Blocks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZORIX LLCJASON ALAN MANCUSO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

1Reminder

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium14 Days trial$14.991 Year
None

Daily Blocks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 1Reminder free?
1Reminder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Blocks free?
Daily Blocks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 1Reminder or Daily Blocks?
Daily Blocks is rated higher. 1Reminder averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Daily Blocks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do 1Reminder or Daily Blocks have ads?
1Reminder shows ads; Daily Blocks does not.

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