Simple Reminder vs Calendar & Tasks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Reminder
This app helps you remember important tasks and events with smart, reliable notifications. It offers a clean, distraction-free interface for quick reminder creation and management, ensuring you stay organized without complexity.
- Time Sensitive notifications
- Smart repeat for missed reminders
- Quick 'Done' from notification
- Instant open from notifications
- Set date and time for reminders
- Repeat options (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Category icons for personalization
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Never miss a reminder again. Simple Reminder: Tasks is built for one purpose — help you remember what matters. No clutter. No distractions. Just reminders you can rely on. Smart reminders that keep you on track Missed notifications in Silent or Focus mode? Stay in control with: • Time Sensitive notifications (when enabled) • Smart repeat for missed reminders (5 & 15 min) • Quick “Done” right in the notification • Instant open from notifications Important tasks become harder to ignore. Fast and effortless Create a reminder in seconds: • Set date and time • Add repeat (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) • Done No extra steps. No friction. Everything in one place Keep track of what matters: • Birthdays • Bills & payments • Subscriptions • Events • Daily tasks Stay organized without overthinking. Clean and focused • Minimal, distraction-free design • Smooth navigation • Built for clarity Not a complex task manager — just a tool that works. Personalized for you • Large library of category icons • Organized and easy to browse • Quick and intuitive selection Available worldwide • 12 languages • Adapted for each region Why Simple Reminder? Most apps are either: – too complicated – or too easy to ignore Simple Reminder finds the balance. Reliable. Clear. Consistent. Download Simple Reminder: Tasks and stay on top of what matters. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stakhivlabs.com/privacy
Calendar & Tasks
This app integrates your events, tasks, and weather into a single, clear timeline. It offers natural language input for easy event creation and customizable widgets for quick access to your plans and weather forecasts. Manage your schedule and to-do list efficiently in one place.
- Unified calendar and task management
- Natural language event and task creation
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Integrated weather forecasts
- Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
- Multiple view options (agenda, day, week, month, year)
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A calendar for real life. Including the bits you keep moving to tomorrow. Meet Cality Assist: turn rough notes into plans, find time, review unfinished tasks, and prepare for meetings. You review every change before saving. Assist requires compatible Apple Intelligence hardware and software. Some features require Private Cloud Compute. Free weekly usage is included; Pro offers more. Apple’s limits also apply. YOUR DAY, TOGETHER Bring events, reminders and habits into one daily Plan. Connect calendars and reminder lists already available through Apple Calendar and Reminders. Your events and tasks stay in the source you choose. GOOD HABITS, VISIBLE PROGRESS Create habits with your own colors and icons. Check them off once or work toward a daily count. See your history in heatmaps, cards, compact lists and calendars, with streaks and statistics. Correct past entries and archive habits while keeping their history. Two active habits are free; Cality Pro unlocks more. Habits appear in Plan and Habits. Give one a time to place it on your Plan timeline. Showing it in Calendar and agenda is optional. APPLE HEALTH, WHEN YOU WANT IT On supported iPhone and iPad devices, connect selected habits to Apple Health with your permission. Supported goals such as steps, sleep and exercise update from recorded Health data. Health readings and derived progress stay on that device and are not sent through Cality's iCloud sync. CLOSE AT HAND A habit heatmap widget lets you add one step to a manual habit from your Home Screen. Set individual habit reminders or a daily check-in. Standard calendar widgets show plans, months and weather. iPhone also offers Lock Screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion. PLAN AROUND REAL LIFE See events, planned reminder sessions and free time together. Reserve time for a reminder without changing its deadline. Pro adds advanced Plan editing and reusable routines. Keep selected repeating events in Plan without showing them in Cality's Calendar and agenda. FINISH WHAT IS LEFT Review unfinished items in a list or one card at a time. Complete, move, reschedule or skip, with session Undo. Completing an event records Cality progress; completing a reminder updates its source. TYPE LIKE A HUMAN Enter an event or task in natural language, review the details and save. Choose suggested places and addresses as you type. Pro search finds words in event titles, locations and notes without requiring matching accents or capitalization. MAKE IT YOURS Choose calendar views, colors, visible sources and the tab Cality opens on. See three days of weather for free. Optional personality adds a little humor. Cality Pro adds more active habits, routines, advanced Plan editing, calendar sets, search, repeat-rule editing, multiple alerts, extra palettes, custom Review gestures, automatic Review prompts, remembered overlap choices and extended weather. Mac Pro also adds advanced menu-bar customization and the Dock date. Existing data is preserved. Calendar and reminder accounts handle their own sync. Supported Cality settings and manual habit records can sync through private iCloud storage; timing depends on your account and connection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Calendar & Tasks at every 2 days against Simple Reminder's fortnightly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Simple Reminder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Calendar & Tasks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Reminder against 5.0 for Calendar & Tasks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Simple Reminder ships an update fortnightly, Calendar & Tasks every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple Reminder | Calendar & Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Stakhiv | Wystone LLC |
Customer experience
Simple Reminder
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In-app purchases
Simple Reminder
- Simple Reminder Pro — Monthly$0.991 Month
- Simple Reminder Pro — 6 Months$4.996 Months
- Simple Reminder Pro — Yearly$8.991 Year
Calendar & Tasks
- Cality Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Cality Pro Annual$19.991 Year
- Cality Pro Lifetime$99.99
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