Bin Day Alert vs Dawnboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bin Day Alert
Never miss a bin collection day again. This app allows you to configure various bin schedules and receive timely notifications. It offers flexible scheduling options and integration with Apple Watch and Siri for easy access to collection information.
- Customizable bin collection schedules
- Timely notification reminders
- Apple Watch app and widgets
- Siri shortcuts integration
- Flexible scheduling options
- Vacation mode to disable alerts
- Backup and sharing of schedules
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Never forget when to put your bins out for collection. Is this week recycling or is that next week? Configure your different bin schedules in the app and then forget about it! Notifications will remind you when it is time to put out each type. Use the Apple Watch App or Widgets to quickly see your next collection. Use Siri shortcuts to ask when the next collection dates are for all bin schedules, which bin schedules are due on the next collection date, or when the next collection date is for an individual schedule. Manage shortcuts in Bin Day Alert's settings screen, the Shortcuts app, or in the Siri & Search section of Apple's Settings app. The app supports a wide range of collection schedules, making it suitable for use at home or business premises: a specific day each week; multiple days each week; a specific day every 2, 3, 4 or 5 weeks; or a specific day on one or more weeks of the month. Each schedule can have up to two alerts. Each alert can either be for the day before or the day of the bin collection. Snooze an alert notification by 15 minutes if you're busy right now, or by 1 day/week if a public holiday has temporarily changed the bin schedule. Going on vacation? There's a single setting to quickly disable all alerts. Back up your bin schedules to iCloud Drive, Dropbox etc. for safekeeping. Easily share your bin schedules with neighbors so they don't have to configure the app themselves.
Dawnboard
Transform your Apple TV into a dynamic dashboard. Customize layouts, themes, and widgets like calendars, photos, and music playlists. Control it all from your iPhone for a personalized viewing experience.
- Customizable layouts and themes
- Widget support (calendar, photos, music)
- iPhone remote control
- Animated themes
- OLED burn-in protection
- Countdown timers
- Visual effects
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Dawnboard turns your Apple TV into a dashboard for the things you want to keep in view. Set it up on your iPhone, then send changes to the TV over your local network. Dawnboard is free to use. Layouts and themes Choose from six layouts: Gallery Hero, Triple Portrait, Quad Square, Mixed Gallery, Cinematic, and Ambient. Each layout has slots that you fill with widgets. Dawnboard includes 19 animated themes, which play as 4K video on Apple TV: New Dawn, Twilight, Ocean Breeze, Aurora, Outer Space, Enchanted Mist, Underwater Kingdom, Winter Wonder, Golden Hour, Valentine, Tiki Paradise, Moss Cathedral, River Canyon, Moss & Rain, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring Blossoms, Fall, and Halloween. You can also make a theme with a nine-color gradient. Display styles Choose Classic, Cozy, Weather, Day Planner, Countdown, or Minimal to control what appears in the header and footer. Widgets Add countdowns, calendar events, weather, lists, photo albums, notes, Tidbits, or an Apple Music playlist to any compatible slot. Notes and Tidbits Leave a note on the TV with an optional sign-off, set to disappear at a time you choose. Tidbits shows a new word with its definition and an example sentence, or On This Day, a moment from history on its anniversary. Choose how often it changes and hide topics you'd rather skip. Layout schedules Give each Apple TV a schedule of layouts by time of day and weekday. The TV switches on its own, even when your iPhone is away. Calendar Import events from Apple Calendar on your iPhone. Eight agenda and month views preserve your calendar colors, and you can choose whether to show locations and past events. Photos An album can hold up to 50 images. Vision-based auto-cropping handles landscape, portrait, square, and cinematic formats, with a separate crop for each format. Albums play as a crossfade slideshow on the TV. Countdowns Create a countdown with up to 10 photos. Dawnboard can send a daily reminder and another reminder on the day before the event. Effects Fire Confetti, Fireworks, Sparkles, Shooting Stars, or Lanterns on the TV from Quick Effects on your iPhone. Fireworks plays one of three shows, and Confetti one of three launches. Pixie Dust turns on a pixie that drifts across the screen until you turn it off. Apple Music Assign a playlist to each paired Apple TV and control playback from the TV remote. Pairing and sync Scan the QR code on the TV to pair it with your iPhone. Changes are sent over your local Wi-Fi network. You can manage more than one TV and give each one a different layout and theme. Privacy Dawnboard does not require a separate account and does not contain ads. The iPhone app stores your Dawnboard content in your private iCloud account. Paired Apple TVs keep a local copy of the dashboard. Local network sync is encrypted. The iPhone and Apple TV can use different iCloud accounts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dawnboard.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dawnboard at Free against Bin Day Alert's $1.99. Dawnboard also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Bin Day Alert's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On 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
Dawnboard is free to download; Bin Day Alert costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bin Day Alert holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
Bin Day Alert ships an update every 2 months, Dawnboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bin Day Alert | Dawnboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geoff Hackworth | Moxiebytes LLC |
Customer experience
Bin Day Alert
Dawnboard
In-app purchases
Bin Day Alert
No in-app purchases
Dawnboard
No in-app purchases









