Bins vs Garbage Day Reminder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bins
This app helps Ottawa residents manage their garbage and recycling schedules. It provides easy access to pickup dates for your neighborhood and official recycling rules directly from the city's website.
- Garbage and recycling pickup schedule
- Neighborhood-specific collection dates
- Official recycling rules
- Search by address or current location
- Clean and elegant interface
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The simplest way to keep up with Ottawa's garbage and recycling schedule. With Bins, Ottawa residents can see what will be picked up on the next garbage day in their neighbourhood and can have quick access to the official rules. FEATURES • A clean and elegant interface for seeing the schedule for your neighbourhood • A straightforward setup process—just search for your address or use your current location • Quick access to garbage and recycling rules—tap on a bin to see the official instructions from the City of Ottawa website Bins is only supported in Ottawa.
Garbage Day Reminder
Never miss a trash day again with this intuitive app. Customize reminders for all your waste pickups, including general trash, recycling, and yard waste. Share your schedule with others for seamless household coordination.
- Customizable bin names and colors
- Flexible collection schedules (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)
- Pre-pickup or on-day reminders
- Schedule sharing with family and neighbors
- Support for multiple waste types
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Never miss trash pickup again. Set up, track, and organize trash, recycling, and waste pickup schedules in one clear app. Check your next pickup, set reminders, and customize containers to match the real schedule for your home, rental property, shared pickup point, or business site. Basic features, with more in Plus and Pro: • Suggested pickup schedules where available • Basic dashboard with your next pickup • Reminders the day before or on pickup day • Custom residential containers with names, lid/body colors, and schedules • Support for trash, recycling, food waste, yard waste, glass, and other pickup types • Match schedules from your city, municipality, HOA, shared property, or private hauler Plus unlocks more control: • Dashboard with more upcoming pickups • Calendar view for every pickup day by location or individual container • Home Screen widgets • Up to 3 pickup locations and 8 containers per location • More household and shared container types: bags, boxes, caddies, containers, and shared 4-wheeled carts • Container contents: add lists of accepted and rejected waste items for each container • Mark containers as put out and collected • More accurate reminders when dates change • Holiday schedule handling • Add extra pickups, skip dates, or move individual pickup days • Flexible weekly and monthly repeat rules with reminder times • Snooze notifications or temporarily pause locations Pro includes everything in Plus and adds features for busier schedules: • Up to 10 pickup locations and 12 containers per location • Commercial container types such as commercial carts, roll-off dumpsters, and compactors • Daily schedules and repeats every chosen number of days • Multiple weekdays in one schedule Simple enough for one household. Flexible enough for shared homes, rentals, shared collection areas, and business schedules. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Garbage Day Reminder at 3.9 against Bins's 2.6. Garbage Day Reminder also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Bins's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Garbage Day Reminder holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Bins's written reviews are positive against 67% of Garbage Day Reminder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bins ships an update every 7 months, Garbage Day Reminder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bins | Garbage Day Reminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Lutaaya | Szymon Tadrzak |
Customer experience
Bins
Garbage Day Reminder
In-app purchases
Bins
No in-app purchases
Garbage Day Reminder
No in-app purchases








