Comparison

ReminDown vs DayDrop

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

Head to head
About

ReminDown

This app helps you track important dates and events with customizable countdowns. It offers home and lock screen widgets for quick access and smart notifications to ensure you never miss a moment. Personalize your countdowns with photos, notes, and colors for a delightful experience.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Smart notifications
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Display time in seconds
  • Archive past events
  • Light and Dark Mode
Features
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Remindown is a free, easy-to-use countdown timer and reminder app for the important events and dates in your life. From birthdays and vacations to exams and big milestones, Remindown helps you stay organized and never miss what matters. Features • Home Screen widgets to see your countdowns at a glance • Lock Screen widgets for quick access to upcoming events • Smart notifications and reminders • Powerful editor to fully customize your countdowns • Display remaining time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds • Add photos, notes, colors, and icons to your countdowns • Sort countdowns by time, name, or distance • Archive past countdowns and revisit them anytime • Light and Dark Mode support • Create unlimited countdowns • Clean, distraction-free experience • No ads Use Remindown For Vacation • Birthday • Anniversary • Exam • Holiday • Wedding • Trip • Deadline • Event • Launch • Graduation • Goals • Concert • Party • Memories and more Simple. Free. Thoughtfully Designed. Remindown is built to feel fast, clear, and delightful — so you can focus on your moments, not managing apps. Download Remindown and start counting what matters today. Support: ishanapps@protonmail.com Privacy: https://ishanapps.onrender.com/ReminDown/privacy.html EULA: https://ishanapps.onrender.com/ReminDown/eula.html Terms: https://ishanapps.onrender.com/ReminDown/terms.html

About

DayDrop

Features
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DayDrop turns the dates you care about into something you actually see. Make a countdown for a trip, a birthday, a launch, or a wedding. Give it a color, an emoji, and a photo. Then watch a progress ring fill as the day gets closer — on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and your Mac. One thing, done beautifully. BEAUTIFUL BY DEFAULT • A progress ring that fills as the date approaches • Ten colors, gradients, and your own photos as backgrounds • Big, friendly numbers you can read from across the room • Standard or compact cards, whichever suits your list WIDGETS EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets in every size • Lock Screen and StandBy widgets • An "Up Next" widget for your soonest countdowns, or just one folder • Live Activities that tick down the final hours on your Lock Screen • A menu bar countdown on Mac — free for everyone COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • Days, weeks, hours, working days, or a full year-month-day breakdown • Count up from a start date for streaks, sobriety, and milestones • Repeating birthdays and anniversaries that roll over on their own • All-day dates never drift when you travel or change time zones NEVER MISS THE DAY • Reminders a week out, a day out, and on the morning of • Pick the time all-day reminders arrive • Past countdowns can archive themselves automatically SHARE IT • Send any countdown to a friend in Messages with a rich preview • They can open it in DayDrop and keep it, or just see the link • Import a calendar event and turn it into a countdown ON EVERY DEVICE • Native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — not a stretched phone app • iCloud keeps everything in sync through your own private database • Split view, keyboard shortcuts, and a real menu bar on iPad and Mac • Shortcuts and Siri support for making countdowns by voice • Export and import your countdowns as a file, any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Your countdowns sync through your own iCloud, and nobody — including us — can read them. DAYDROP PRO DayDrop is free to use with one active countdown, sharing, iCloud sync, a day-of reminder, and the Mac menu bar countdown. DayDrop Pro unlocks unlimited countdowns, all widgets and Live Activities, photo and gradient backgrounds, repeating dates, multiple reminders, count-up mode, alternative time units, folders, notes, custom app icons, Shortcuts, calendar import, and export/import. Pro is available weekly, monthly, or yearly with a 7-day free trial — or as a one-time lifetime purchase. If a subscription ever lapses, nothing is deleted. Your oldest countdown stays editable and the rest wait, read-only, until you come back.

Screenshots

ReminDown4 screens
DayDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DayDrop at every 4 weeks against ReminDown's every 3 months. DayDrop also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. ReminDown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and DayDrop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReminDown ships an update every 3 months, DayDrop every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ReminDown versus DayDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminDownDayDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIshan NandwalDevScape.io LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ReminDown

Subscriptions2
  • Montly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$14.99
4 purchases

DayDrop

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Pro Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro Subscription$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Features$399.99

Questions

Is ReminDown free?
ReminDown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayDrop free?
DayDrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ReminDown or DayDrop have ads?
Neither ReminDown nor DayDrop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReminDown or DayDrop?
ReminDown ships an update every 3 months, and DayDrop every 4 weeks. Most recently, ReminDown was updated on October 5, 2026 and DayDrop on October 25, 2026.

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