Comparison

Sound Reminder vs List Widget Maker

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

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About

Sound Reminder

This app allows you to set custom sound or voice reminders that play in the background. It can play your favorite music or sound files at set intervals or specific times, and can also announce the time or read text messages in various languages.

Highlights
  • Background sound playback
  • Customizable reminder intervals
  • Text-to-speech for time and messages
  • Support for various audio file formats
  • Multiple reminder event types (daily, hourly, interval)
  • Background operation with other apps
Features
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Use this App as the partner of Apple Music, Use this App as the background sound reminder by playing our favorite sound file. Use this App as the background talking reminder by talking text message with the language we prefer. 1 Use this App as the partner of Apple Music When the device is locked, or when we are using many other Apps. The App could start playing our favorite music every five minutes, every 10 minutes, every 30 minutes, the number of minute could be 1 to 59. Step1: in Apple Music, select our favorite music, then download it to the local Step2: in this App, tap the import button, and import this music. Step3: add the interval event. select the music and set the number of interval minutes. Step4: save the event and tap start button. Step 5: when the job list view is displayed, press the home key or lock the device. 2 Use this App as the background sound reminder by playing our favorite sound file. Every night, before going to bed, just tap the start button, and lock the device, in the next morning, the App could remind us to wake up by playing our favorite music or sound file. First Step: Add the every day event, set the remind time, for example, 6:00 and select the sound file or music, tap the save button. Second Step: Every night, before going to bed, launch this App, tap start button. Then, locked the device. 3 Use this App as the background talking reminder Every hour, at the indict time, report the current time by talking in the language we select. Step: Add the every hour event, set the remind time, select to talk the time, select the talking language. If we hope this App to talk text message, we need to select to talk text and input the text message. Then tap save button, and tap the start button. When the job list view is displayed, we could press the home key or lock the device. Main Features: 1. Import the sound file from iCloud disk, Import the sound file by using iTune File Sharing 2.It could talk the current time or talk the text messages in more than 20 languages. 3. In the background status, this App could run when we are using safari, when we are reading the file , when we are viewing the video. 4. When this App is running in the background, we could hear a little running sound of clock. 5. This App includes every day, every hour, every week, every month, one time and interval event. 6. The sound file from iCould or iTunes File Sharing could be: MP3 file,M4A ,WAV, MP4, CAF ,AIFF file 7. Save our reminder data to the Core Data database system 8 When Sound Reminder is running in the background, we want to stop the running status, then just relaunch Sound Reminder, tap the stop button at the top left corner in the job view. 9 The background job will be interrupted by incoming phone call, or Siri, or some other apps. So in the situations above, we need to notice whether the App could recover correctly. If the App cannot play the background running sound correctly, we need to launch this App again. About overlay situation:if the first job has been playing and another playing sound job is coming, the current playing sound job will be stop, the new sound job will start successfully.

About

List Widget Maker

Personalize your iPhone's home screen with custom text widgets. Easily add lists of notes, reminders, or any text you want to display directly on your main screen.

Highlights
  • Customizable text widgets
  • Easy home screen integration
  • Supports all widget sizes
  • Dark mode support
  • Simple text input and saving
Features
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Customize your iPhone screen with List widgets! ◆ The app is super easy to use! ◆ ① Open the "ListWidget" app, input some texts and save. ② Go back to home screen and press for a while. ③ + button shows up in the top-left/top-right corner, so tap it and choose 'ListWidget'. After you select the size, you can see the widgets on your home screen. That's all! ◆ Sticking points ◆ 1. Supported all sizes of widgets. 2. Supported Dark mode. ◆ Future plans ◆ We will add as many features as possible. Thank you for your warm support message for the review!

Screenshots

Sound Reminder4 screens
List Widget Maker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: List Widget Maker at Free against Sound Reminder's $0.99. List Widget Maker also leads on rating (3.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). Sound Reminder's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

List Widget Maker is free to download; Sound Reminder costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

List Widget Maker holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: List Widget Maker has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sound Reminder versus List Widget Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSound ReminderList Widget Maker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)3.8 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings113 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer方 沈Lisfee, Inc.

Customer experience

Sound Reminder

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

List Widget Maker

All ratings13 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%

In-app purchases

None

Sound Reminder

No in-app purchases

None

List Widget Maker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sound Reminder free?
Sound Reminder costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is List Widget Maker free?
List Widget Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sound Reminder or List Widget Maker?
List Widget Maker is rated higher. Sound Reminder averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while List Widget Maker averages 3.8 from 13 ratings.
Do Sound Reminder or List Widget Maker have ads?
Neither Sound Reminder nor List Widget Maker shows ads.

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