Comparison

The Simple Reminder vs Sit Still

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

Head to head
About

The Simple Reminder

Organize your life with reminders, goal tracking, and daily journaling. Capture moments, prepare for events, and monitor progress towards your objectives. Access your data across multiple devices with flexible scheduling and voice input.

Highlights
  • One-time and recurring reminders
  • Flexible repeat schedules
  • Email and push notifications
  • Goal tracking and progress monitoring
  • Daily reflection journaling
  • Voice input for reminders
  • Multi-device access
Features
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The Simple Reminder brings your reminders, goals, and daily reflections together in one organized place. REMINDERS • Create one-time and recurring reminders • Choose flexible repeat schedules • Receive reminders by email or push notification • Add preparation items so you know what to do before an event • Use voice input to create reminders more quickly TARGET BOARDS • Organize long-term goals and personal projects • Track your progress in a clean, focused workspace • Keep important targets visible alongside your daily reminders DAILY JOURNAL • Record daily reflections and activities • Review entries using the calendar • Add photos and videos to capture meaningful moments • Revisit your progress over time ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Switch between English and Chinese • Access your reminders and journal from multiple devices • Manage notification preferences from your account settings The Simple Reminder is designed to help you remember what matters, prepare ahead, and make steady progress toward your goals. An account and internet connection are required. Notification delivery depends on your device settings and granted permissions. Please see https://www.thesimplereminder.com for more details

About

Sit Still

This app helps you focus by blocking distracting applications and offering a calming timer experience. Earn rewards to unlock new cozy rooms and accessories for your virtual companion.

Highlights
  • App blocking modes (Open, Whitelist, Strict)
  • Customizable timer (Countdown, Open-ended, Pomodoro)
  • Collectible cozy rooms with unique soundscapes
  • Virtual cat companion with unlockable accessories
  • Screen time tracking and analysis
  • Task list sync with Reminders
  • Widgets and wallpapers
Features
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Sit Still is a focus timer and app blocker that gives you somewhere to be. Most focus apps punish you, Sit Still keeps you company. A cat sleeps in a painted room while you work, and the reward for sitting still is a collection you build. Blocking is real, and as firm as you want it to be. The rooms are the heart of it: watercolour illustrations painted like the pages of a childhood picture book, meant to feel cozy and nostalgic — to stir a memory of being small and safe somewhere — each with its own soundscape. APP BLOCKING FEATURES Three app blocking modes for a focus session: Open, Whitelist and Strict. App blocking rules put away the apps that keep distracting you throughout the day: on a schedule of your own, held to a daily limit, or right away with a quick block. You can also set a bedtime lock on a night schedule you choose. Before you switch off a lock that is running, take a moment with the cat — or turn on hard mode, and it holds until it ends. With the deletion lock on, no app can be deleted during a hard-mode block, so Sit Still can't be removed to end it early. YOUR SCREEN TIME, IN THE SHIELD TAB See where your time went, day by day and week by week: your most-used apps, each with its own chart, the categories your hours went to, and what a lifetime at this pace adds up to. Set a daily goal and the cat keeps an eye on your day. WALLPAPERS AND WIDGETS Any room you have can be saved to your Photos as a wallpaper, drawn at the full resolution of your phone or iPad, with your cat in the corner or without it. There are widgets too: the room you are sitting in with your focus stats under it, the collection with a different room every hour, a calendar of the month with your cat beside it, and your streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. A TIMER WITH THREE SHAPES Countdown, open-ended, or pomodoro. The pomodoro starts at the classic 25 / 5 / 15, and all three lengths are yours to change. A session carries on with the screen locked, and shows itself on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A COLLECTION OF ROOMS A permanent collection of rooms, from a bookshop loft in Porto to a stilt house on the Mekong Delta, and two new rooms on the first of every month that leave with it. Every room has its own illustration and its own ambience loop, levelled against all the others so changing rooms is never a lurch. On iPad and iPhone Duo, every room opens out into a wide painting, upright or sideways. A CAT, AND THINGS FOR IT TO WEAR Six companions, hand-drawn and animated. Focusing earns whiskers, and whiskers buy cat accessories and the monthly rooms. Pet the cat and it notices. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND WHAT YOU DID A task list that stays in sync with your phone's own Reminders. A record of every session — hours, streaks, and the note you left about what you were working on. Sit Still Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings › your Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alteraapps.com/sit-still/privacy/

Screenshots

The Simple Reminder4 screens
Sit Still4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Simple Reminder at 5.0 against Sit Still's 4.5. The Simple Reminder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sit Still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. The Simple Reminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Simple Reminder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Simple Reminder ships an update every 2 days, Sit Still every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
The Simple Reminder versus Sit Still: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Simple ReminderSit Still
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB177 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJundi ChenJohannes Butzke

Customer experience

The Simple Reminder

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sit Still

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Simple Reminder

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sit Still

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is The Simple Reminder free?
The Simple Reminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sit Still free?
Sit Still is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Simple Reminder or Sit Still?
The Simple Reminder is rated higher. The Simple Reminder averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Sit Still averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do The Simple Reminder or Sit Still have ads?
Neither The Simple Reminder nor Sit Still shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Simple Reminder or Sit Still?
The Simple Reminder ships an update every 2 days, and Sit Still every 4 days. Most recently, The Simple Reminder was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sit Still on November 6, 2026.

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