Linger vs Remind Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Remind Calendar
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Remind Calendar helps you keep the things you do not want to forget in simple lists and check off today’s tasks one at a time. TODAY AT A GLANCE Open the app to see each list, its tasks, and how much you have completed. Check off an item as soon as it is done. REPEAT AT YOUR OWN PACE Repeat every day, at a chosen interval, or on selected weekdays. You can skip weekends and holidays or move a task to the next weekday. GENTLE REMINDERS Set a task time and an optional reminder before it is due. SEE YOUR RHYTHM Use the calendar to view upcoming dates and past completion. Choose a progress theme such as chicks, flowers, stars, or simple marks. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Your lists and progress are stored on your device, so you can start right away. The app is free to use and displays ads. A one-time purchase in Settings removes ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Linger at none against Remind Calendar's shown. Linger also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Remind Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Linger sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Remind Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Linger ships an update every 2 days, Remind Calendar every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Linger | Remind Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neel Chary | Bruno Studio |
In-app purchases
Linger
- Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99
Remind Calendar
- Remove Banner Ads$0.99







