Comparison

Bin Day Alert vs Dawnboard

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

Screenshots

Bin Day Alert4 screens
Dawnboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Bin Day Alert versus Dawnboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBin Day AlertDawnboard
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews93.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple TV
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoff HackworthMoxiebytes LLC

Customer experience

Bin Day Alert

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%

Dawnboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bin Day Alert

No in-app purchases

None

Dawnboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bin Day Alert free?
Bin Day Alert costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dawnboard free?
Dawnboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bin Day Alert or Dawnboard?
Bin Day Alert is rated higher. Bin Day Alert averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Dawnboard averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Bin Day Alert or Dawnboard have ads?
Neither Bin Day Alert nor Dawnboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bin Day Alert or Dawnboard?
Bin Day Alert ships an update every 2 months, and Dawnboard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bin Day Alert was updated on October 23, 2026 and Dawnboard on October 18, 2026.

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