Due Reviews

From Smartshoppennycounter I am a mature customer who can read well, comprehend, and follow a three-step process. I don't understand your directions on how to use Due. I am already giving up. I purchased this subscription a few hours ago, but I'm ready to cackle in the next few hours. I only need an app that shows the simplicity of setting up reminders to repeat daily. Leave alone the weekly repeat. I have spent hours looking for the clarity of Due ’s daily repeat feature, and then I am triggered by irrelevant videos in the help section. How can weekly and monthly repeat features be open and accessible to the weekly and monthly repeat gesture but not for the daily feature? How can you only set the time for the day’s reminder but have not made it available or set it up to repeat? Which one comes first? The day of the week? Are you guys kidding with people's time and money? I don't want to watch irrelevant, waste-of-time videos to figure out solutions for what I have paid for. Please implore you to fix this problem, and that will convince me to embrace your persuasive advertisements about efficiency and customer-friendliness. Thanks. Smartshoppennycounter

Review #5 Great app, but now Due has new problems caused by the recent IOS updates. The MAX number of times that I can be reminded is now 10 times which is not enough. I often miss those alerts because I am away from my phone. Additionally Due shows a number next to Due ’s icon. Mine shows a 7, but I only have 1 past this app alert. I guess the other 6 alerts are for the future alerts. That simply does not make any sense. So I have completely stopped using Due . I am now using only the calendar app in IOS.
Review #4 on this app. This is probably my fourth review on this app. I use it all the time and it's simply the best reminder system that I've ever found.
review #3
Over the years Due has been enhanced and improved. The current edition is spectacular. It easily handles any number of reminders. I can even assign the unique sounds. On various occasions I've emailed the developer asking for feature requests. Every one of them have been added. I can imagine that other users were clamouring for the same additions. Look no further, because this is a must have reminder system. High credit is this app this developer! This is my most used app. Thanks.

This is one of favorite apps of all time. I hate the thought of not using it. I refuse to be forced into a yearly subscription though and I don’t care if it is $4.99 or 0.99. I paid for the original app thinking that was it. Version 3 came out and I paid again to upgrade. Now we have widgets which truthfully I have been waiting for some time for. I updated this app today and big surprise now they require a yearly subscription for widgets to work. I understand that time went into planning and development for this feature and I am WILLING TO PAY FOR IT, ONCE!! Saying that you will get all upgrades for the next year is not good enough, I’m still paying $4.99/year for features that I have no way of knowing whether I want or not until they arrive.

So unfortunately unless there is an option within the next few days for a one time in app purchase to unlock this feature I will find another to do app that will work with widgets and delete this one.

I swear I miss the days of paying for something and getting what you pay for. Now it’s subscription this and subscription that everywhere. I understand that everybody need to make a buck but I’m not looking to make an investment into a company. I just want to buy a dang product and have it work.

Due is really top quality and probably the best of its kind — with two easy changes I would give Due 5 stars. If it allowed a back up that could be imported to restore all the reminders into Due rather than just a text file, and if it let you choose more friendly colors that ack and white — like and earthtone green and/or other more pleasant colors. That said Due lets you set reminders and makes it as easy and seamless as possible— it also lets you add alarms to your reminders and the small price for it all is very much worth it, and they don’t charge you a subscription like some apps so you get what you pay for — you can get future features after a year with a subscription which seems reasonable to help them develop for it, but it being unlocked once you buy it is important. There’s a lot of other details I haven’t mentioned here, but definitely just try Due out for a bit and see what you think of it

Edit: The developers responded to this post about how to back up data, which I appreciate — that said I would like to be able to back up my data locally to be restored later locally on my computer or elsewhere as I prefer to keep my data off the cloud. If this can be added it would be greatly appreciated and I would update this review

I just got this and so far I’m excited. Right off the bat though, here are some things I wish I could do with Due.
1. Categorize the reminders. Perhaps with color coding, I wish I could categorize things as home, work, weekend, exercise, entertainment, kids, vacation plans, etc. Not only would this allow me to see the difference, it could also allow me to get reminders for “home” from 7am to 9 am, but then if I don’t address, the reminder starts up again at 6 pm (or other such modification).

2. Share some reminders with family members. For example, if my husband and I both have this app, I could set a reminder to “Change the bedsheets” that shows up on both of our calendars until one of us marks it as complete. If the suggestion in “1” was implemented,” then I could set a category to “shared task” and have everything in there shared between us. If this were implemented, I could insist my whole work team use this app, and set reminders that were accessible to everyone, where anyone could check it off the list. There could even be badges or kudos for people who check things off other people’s lists.

The best reminder app available. I’m really enjoying Due, it’s beautifully designed, easy to use, and so convenient to have. The snooze function is what I really appreciate. I’m not sure if it’s a glitch but sometimes reminders don’t turn on if I’m streaming video or music, after I close out on whatever I’m doing, I get a bunch of notifications all at one time. Hopefully that can be fixed. I’ve been using the Alarmed app by Yoctoville, and I’ve been looking for an alternative- Due fits the bill and I’m so glad I found it. The only thing I wish it had is a greater selection of sounds to choose from since I like to associate different reminders with different sounds (saves time not having to look at my phone every time I have a reminder). Please consider including such sounds as musical instruments, animals, and human voices (like the Alarmed app), I would definitely pay extra for additional sounds. Also, it would be great if you could pause a reminder. Thank you and I look forward to future updates. Keep up the great work!

I have been an iOS user for many years now. Last December I found out about this app. It so seamlessly fills the gaps on reminder updates that I seriously can’t live without it. Why Apple doesn’t just buy Due and enter integrated into their OS I’m not sure. It truly is useful. There hasn’t been many applications that I’ve recommended to all my friends and family, until this app. I have slowly been moving my random reminders into here, and it’s great. I love the fact that you can set a repeating reminder and check it off only when it’s done. Have a dentist appointment in six months? Add it to this app. One of you reminded each day to do something and only check it off when it’s done? Put it in this app. Have a meeting at work? Outlook will remind you 15 minutes before the meeting, then your head is down working on other things and the meeting comes and goes. Now I can alert myself every minute and coast all the way till The last moment to get into the meeting. Game changer for this procrastinator. Thank you developer for doing this.

I’ve only been using Due for three days. But the past three days have been the most productive in months. I love the gentle alarms and the ability to have them remind me as often as I choose; without being overwhelmingly annoying. I’ve tried to create similar schedules/lists on my own in the past, but I’m usually instantly irritated by the alarm which hinders my desire to complete the task. Even when I’m doing nothing, I can’t stand interruptions, and Due provides such subtle, yet insistent reminders, it’s as if I want to please it, because it’s so “polite.” Seriously. I also really REALLY LOVE being able to pull the widget onto my home page, so I always know my next task at a glance. (I just discovered this was possible because of Due,) I’ve tried a few other apps in the past too, and this is the first one that I find myself responding to.
It’s uncomplicated; which eases set up, and thereby does not frustrate me into “trying again later” as is usually the case. I love everything about Due so far! Thank you!!

Due is probably the most used in my productivity portfolio. I use it for anything that I MUST do: take meds, call someone, check on something at work. It is so effective because it does one thing better than any other app I’ve ever found: it bugs the you-know-what out of you until you get something done.

For example: I take medicine every day at lunch. But my lunch time varies, anytime between 11-1. I have a reminded set here for 11, and it reminds me again and again (based on an interval I select) until I mark it completed. So, at 11, it dings me. If I ignore it, or don’t hear it, or don’t have my phone on me, it will ding me again, and again, and again, until I mark it complete. This is the behavior I need. An app that reminds me once and then ends up in notifications is useless to me; I need constant reminding until I have the time and focus to mark it done.

This will be the best $5 you spend in Due Store. I’ve been using it for years now, and, as I said in my review title, it’s indispensable.

Due has changed my life completely! I was diagnosed with ADHD back when I was 5. I’m now 26 and in the past few years I’ve been learning a lot about my disorder. Learning things like how to remember to complete tasks on time and how to prioritize them. I’m not gonna lie, I sucked at remembering anything no matter what I did. Hence, having ADHD. Though, since I downloaded the this app app, everything’s changed. It’s like your own personal assistant hired only to remind you repeatedly of your daily tasks and to keep you on track. It’s default setting is to remind you every 5 minutes of a task you need to complete/start and it won’t stop reminding you until you act on the notification.

Example: I set Due to remind me to upload pictures of our new employees to our website. When it reminded me I was out grabbing lunch so I tapped the “+30 min” option so it would remind me again in 30 minutes. Then when I got back from lunch it reminded me again but I was busy talking to a co-worker at the moment. So then 5 minutes later it reminded me again and I had to tell the co-worker I needed to go work on something. When I was uploading the pictures it reminded me once again but this time I tapped the “Mark Done” option.

I know it seems like it would get really annoying but if you’re a person who’s really forgetful, Due will change your life!

Highly recommended!!!

UPDATE:
The developer responded to my complaint, and corrected the bug. I now have everything unlocked again! I updated my rating to 5 stars, because as I mentioned below, this is an incredible app!! Tons of thanks to the developer!!!

They had been honest from the get go. Signing up you’re given the impression that whatever you have access to upon purchasing, you will maintain after the first year’s subscription(included in the initial purchase) is expired, EXCEPT for the new features. I’m here to tell you this is a lie. Just a moment ago, apparently one year later exactly TO THE MINUTE, I noticed my widget for Due no longer works, and I must pay the annual premium to be able to use its widgets. I now regret recommending Due to the dozens of people that I have, I feel as though I’ve misled them in some way. I see that the developer reads this stuff. Due has literally been a lifesaver, and I will continue to use it because it’s helped me manage my ADHD so well. But the lack of integrity and transparency upon the purchase is really disheartening. I’m still giving it 3 stars, as opposed to the 1 I almost gave it, because it truly is an incredible app, and has helped me have a more organized life.

Due is awesome, the developer seems to really care and I hope Due will be around for a long time to come. I'm not a fan of subscriptions and appreciate the upgrade pass model, paying for upgrades you feel are worth while or passing if not, but being able to keep all previously paid for features permanently. My only concern is if I subscribe and then immediately unsubscribe kinda of a paid upgrade its good for a year, but I have seen complaints involving other apps where customers are having trouble unsubscribing and continued to be billed. I'd love to see a onetime lifetime payment option offered, and would seriously consider purchasing if offered. Anyhow keep up the great work, and if for any reason Due can't be maintained, I hope Apple would consider purchasing this app and keeping it around, it's that good. Due continues to improve and impress me. I have one request, in the timers section would it be possible to add days, months, and years and custom time picker like 360 days? It would work sort of like a timer reminder. Really appreciate Due, great job.

Due is basically almost perfect. I’ve been designing consumer product user interfaces for 35 years - and whenbthe iPhone first came out and first batch of “to do” apps came out they all frustrated me like crazy. I would check once a year and still be disappointed by all of them. Then about a year ago I discovered this app and I’ve been using it every day completely seamlessly since ... sorry it has taken me forever to write this review. I don’t want to reiterate the key features and benefits - those are described very well by this app - I just to add that it is rock solid, reliable, fast performing, and completely intuitive UI that uses the available screen real estate to minimize the conceptual and mechanical complexity of using all the most common features. I use Due as a teaching example in excellent UX and UI design and to use as positive model in teaching task analysis. Bravo team this app!!!

I have had Due for years and learned recently how I absolutely cannot live without it! I recently turned it off while on a vacation. Got back and was super busy. Forgot to turn it on. Boy was that a mistake! I missed so many important items. Stuff that repeats weekly monthly quarterly annually you name it. Sometimes you forget how many reminders you need, and how many you have set up. I encourage everyone to support Due and purchase the upgraded version. It is super cheap and is a fantastic app. Most apps are so expensive and not useful. The creator really cares about Due as well… most apps never do fixes or listen to folks using Due trying to get help with problems. Not this creator. Always reading and fixing issues in updates. USE Due. PURCHASE the upgrade so we can all continue to save our lives and stay organized with these awesome reminders!

I use Due for quick things I want to get done, and then repeat it daily/weekly/monthly ~i.e. daily meds or weekly bathroom clean. For weekly bathroom clean, you could set it to repeat every Saturday at 9am no matter what. Or set it to repeat at exact time of completion such as exactly one week out from complete day. The swipe gesture to complete a task is so satisfying. Swipe it away, and next week it’ll be there again to remind us to clean bathroom. The postpone window is also quick and easy. Not ready to clean at 9am?! ~just let the reminder sit there if you want and all your reminders form a todo list. Or, you want to postpone it until 3pm so it’s farther down your list?! Click into it and quickly pick predefined times such as 3 PM or 6 PM or 9 PM. Much quicker gestures compared to all the other reminder apps. It’s so simple and elegant like I said it’s very satisfying to use.

this app helps me focus on the important things when I am innundated with many things to take care of in a typical week. There is an interesting effect about writing down what to do and being reminded of it again and again as I sometimes end up not feeling like doing it. I may choose to delay it by an hour, three hours, or a day, but I actually end up doing the task eventually more than likely (I began to think more seriously about the power and benefits of writing down long-term goals and recite it every morning, too).

Another huge takeaway from this app is its elegant design and intuitive UI and UX. I make a living as a programmer and often feel challenged or lost when trying to keep the UI clean and simple (Yes, I have enormous respect for those UI and UX designers who make this internet-driven, device-saturated 21st century a better, more livable place). I find this app a highly inspirational app especially for programmers.

Due is amazing! It helps me keep important tasks in view so I can check several times a day to see what I may have otherwise lost sight of. With Daily Recurring Tasks, I can check each task off for today, and it will pop up for me again tomorrow. NOTE: At first I had set each task with audible alarms and snooze timing, but soon learned that drove me crazy since I use this app for so many different tasks. Now, just the time-sensitive tasks are set that way and I set mundane tasks without alarms or snooze - that way they just pop up on a list of this app items and I can quickly mark several of them done throughout the day without as many nagging reminders. I also love being able to delay the timing for tasks if I’m running behind. If you’ll take the time to understand each of the features and options I think you’ll love Due, too!

For an app that makes you remember things, it does its job pretty well. However, I don’t JUST use my phone. I use my macbook too. And if a reminder goes off while my phone is on silent, I don’t see it. There is a mac app for this app that allows syncing and notifications, but it hasn’t been updated in 2 years (yeah you read that right: 2 years). It has a very rough design and syncing is still very inconsistent and doesn’t work every time. I just really really really wish that the macbook app was, at the very least, updated and modernized. 2 years is way too long for an update (especially for a mac app that costs 10 dollars). Is Due great? Yes, the iphone app is great. That’s why I gave it five stars. But the mac app needs an improvement, and helping the mac app also will help the iphone app, since many users are invested in the ecosystem. It would drastically improve our user experience.

I have one app I had been using but it is unbearably slow to use on a regular basis. It did not do that when I first got it. It has slowed over time. I do not think it is my phone because all my other apps work at a decent speed. That is the only one but unfortunately, it is the one I use the most. My phone timed out before it finished what I would set it out to do! That is unacceptable to me. I have asked repeatedly to get help on the issue and got nothing. Bad juju. I notified them that I was going to look elsewhere for a more timely app.
I will no longer be using that app now that I found this one.
I do not mind purchasing a product if I get my needs met, within a reasonable cost, just not a ‘monthly’ or ‘yearly’ or whatever fee. I hate the auto deduction from my account.
There are so many features to Due!! It just keeps getting better as I continue to use it. 🥰

Other apps have lots of list making features to plan all the things you need to do. But—they can’t remind you at an exact time. Reminders can remind you but it’s not quick to postpone/re-remind. Due does both. It’s soooo easy to make a quick task and a time to remind and it’s just as easy to postpone 5, 10, 60 minutes or even the next day. Want to remember to do something when you get home? Set it in Dues. Traffic bad and you’re not home when it reminds you? It will keep reminding you until you either mark or complete, delete it, or postpone it for a later time. It’s easy to do any of those three. It offers many settings an options as to how you want to be reminded—such as sound or vibrate. I love Due and so does my wife and teen.