Comparison

Bins vs Garbage Day Reminder

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Garbage and recycling pickup schedule
  • Neighborhood-specific collection dates
  • Official recycling rules
  • Search by address or current location
  • Clean and elegant interface
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Bins3 screens
Garbage Day Reminder4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bins versus Garbage Day Reminder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBinsGarbage Day Reminder
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (5 ratings)3.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.2% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings510 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael LutaayaSzymon Tadrzak

Customer experience

Bins

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative7.0%

Garbage Day Reminder

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Bins

No in-app purchases

None

Garbage Day Reminder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bins free?
Bins is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garbage Day Reminder free?
Garbage Day Reminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bins or Garbage Day Reminder?
Garbage Day Reminder is rated higher. Bins averages 2.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Garbage Day Reminder averages 3.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Bins or Garbage Day Reminder have ads?
Neither Bins nor Garbage Day Reminder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bins or Garbage Day Reminder?
Bins ships an update every 7 months, and Garbage Day Reminder every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bins was updated on June 10, 2026 and Garbage Day Reminder on September 19, 2026.

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