Lest vs Linger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lest
Create reminders using your voice, set to trigger by time or location. It intelligently understands context like events and places, and can even send reminders to friends. No typing or complex setup required.
- Voice-activated reminders
- Location-based triggers
- Event-based reminders
- Place memory
- Plain time reminders
- Thought saving
- Send reminders to friends
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Say it once. Lest reminds you at the right time, in the right place. "Take the chicken out of the freezer when I get home." That's the whole reminder. It goes off as you walk in the door, even with the app closed. No typing, no lists, no picking a time from a wheel. Easily change any time or location if needed. WHAT IT DOES • Place reminders. Say the store, the gym, home, work. Lest works out which one and fires when you arrive, or when you leave. • Looks up the time. "Record the next Texans game." "Remind me about the Severance finale." Lest finds when it's on and reminds you before it starts. • Remembers your places. Say "the gym" once and pick it on the map; every "the gym" after that is that gym. • Plain time reminders too. "Call the vet tomorrow at nine." Done. • Thoughts. Something worth keeping but no when yet? It lands in Thoughts instead of nagging you for a time. • Send one to a friend. "Send Jack a reminder to get protein bars" opens a text with it written out, and a reminder for him. HOW IT WORKS Speech is transcribed on your iPhone. Place reminders use iOS's own region monitoring, so your location never leaves the phone. There is no account and no sign-up. LEST PRO Everything above, with a free first month. Nothing is charged today; cancel any time in the first 30 days and pay nothing. After that it renews monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app before you subscribe, managed by Apple Terms: https://getlest.app/terms Privacy: https://getlest.app/privacy
Linger
This app places reminders directly on your lock screen, ensuring they remain visible until completed. It uses natural language processing to understand scheduling and allows for quick completion with a simple swipe. Track your progress with visual streaks and archive past reminders.
- Persistent lock screen reminder cards
- Natural language reminder scheduling
- One-gesture completion
- Habit streak tracking
- Reminder archiving
- Home screen widget
- Customizable colors and dark mode
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Reminders that don't go away. Every reminder gets its own card on your Lock Screen, and it stays there until you deal with it. No badge to miss, no list you have to remember to open. Swipe the card away and it's done. If you have ever closed a reminders app and forgotten the reminder existed, Linger is built for exactly that. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Type "water the plants every Tuesday at 8am" and Linger reads the schedule out of the sentence. It shows you what it understood, so nothing gets silently misread. Every repeat you'd actually want is there — daily, weekdays, every Tuesday and Thursday, the 1st of the month — without a form to fill in. FINISHING IS ONE GESTURE Swipe the card off your Lock Screen and the reminder is complete. A repeat rolls forward to its next date on its own. You never have to open the app at all. SEE WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Every reminder keeps a grid of each day you ticked it off — months of it, readable at a glance. Streaks count themselves. It's the difference between thinking you've kept something up and knowing you have. PUT SOMETHING DOWN WITHOUT LOSING IT Archive takes a reminder off your Lock Screen and out of the list, and keeps its whole history. Bring it back whenever you like and the grid comes back with it. Something archived in March and restored in August returns on its next real date, not five months overdue. YOUR REMINDERS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. What you write is a file on your device and nowhere else — there is no copy of it on any server, ours included. ALSO • A Home Screen widget, so it's there before you unlock • Fourteen colours, so a glance tells you which is which • Dark mode, lit properly rather than dimmed • A backstop notification, so a reminder can never quietly vanish FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS Linger is free to use, with one reminder on your Lock Screen at a time. Linger Plus lifts that limit — keep as many as you like, each on its own card — and is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase. The yearly plan starts with seven days free: the whole app, nothing held back. We'll remind you the day before the trial ends, so it can't turn into a charge you didn't expect. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Linger Plus is available as a monthly subscription and a yearly subscription, both auto-renewing, and as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. The price in your local currency is shown on the purchase screen before anything is charged. A subscription renews at the end of each period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before that period ends. You can turn it off at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spicelabs.app/linger/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Lest at 15.1 against Linger's 26.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Lest sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Linger 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 Lest against 5.0 for Linger. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Lest | Linger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TREVOR NICHOLAS TAYLOR | Neel Chary |
Customer experience
Lest
Linger
In-app purchases
Lest
- Lest Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Lest Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Lest Pro Yearly1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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- Lest Pro Yearly$79.991 Year
Linger
- Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99









