Comparison

EasyDue vs Linger

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

Head to head
About

EasyDue

Features
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EasyDue is a reminders app for the things you actually have to do. Most reminder apps notify you once. If you're driving, in a meeting, or half asleep, that notification is gone and so is the task. EasyDue keeps nudging until the thing is genuinely done. CAPTURE IN PLAIN LANGUAGE Type "pay rent on the 1st of every month" or "call the dentist Friday at noon" and EasyDue works out the date and the repeat as you type. Add a #category to file it. Paste a link and it moves into its own field. ALERTS THAT DON'T GIVE UP Turn on Auto Snooze and an overdue reminder re-alerts on your schedule — every minute if that's what it takes — until you complete or postpone it. Press and hold any alert to mark it done or push it to one of your own quick times, without opening the app. DONE MEANS DONE EVERYWHERE Complete a reminder on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch and every other device goes quiet. Everything syncs privately through your own iCloud account. BUILT FOR REAL SCHEDULES • Repeats that match life — monthly on the last weekday, every third Tuesday, or counted from when you actually finish • Twelve Quick Access Times you define, one tap away in the app and on the notification itself • Categories with colours, so you can see at a glance what a reminder belongs to • Vacation Mode — mark reminders or whole categories to stay silent while you're away, then pick up with the next occurrence • Urgent alerts that break through Focus modes • Notes and a link on any reminder, so "pay rent" can take you straight to your bank • Logbook of everything you've completed • Home screen widget, Apple Watch app, and a watch complication • Import your backup from Due PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No servers. Your reminders live on your devices and in your personal iCloud, and we cannot read them. EASYDUE PRO The free tier keeps 3 active reminders. EasyDue Pro removes the cap and adds Urgent alerts and Due backup import: $1.99/month or $10.99/year. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://easydue.app/privacy

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

EasyDue4 screens
Linger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Linger at every 2 days against EasyDue's every 5 days. EasyDue's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EasyDue sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EasyDue ships an update every 5 days, Linger every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EasyDue versus Linger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasyDueLinger
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerinifo, LLCNeel Chary

In-app purchases

2 purchases

EasyDue

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Yearly$10.991 Year
3 purchases

Linger

Subscriptions2
  • Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is EasyDue free?
EasyDue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linger free?
Linger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EasyDue or Linger have ads?
Neither EasyDue nor Linger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EasyDue or Linger?
EasyDue ships an update every 5 days, and Linger every 2 days. Most recently, EasyDue was updated on October 29, 2026 and Linger on October 24, 2026.

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