Due — Reminders & Timers App Reviews

This would be a great app, however Apples own reminders functionality in Mountain Lion is much better. Also, if you get both Alfred and Fantastical, you can set a keyboard shortcut to add new events and reminders straight into your calendar via Alfreds quick search bar. For me, I press CMD+Space to pull up Alfred, then I type f+"meet frank @ 12PM tomorrow" or whatever else I want and bam, new event or reminder in my calendar. Not to mention, it will be synced across all my iOS and OS X devices. Absolutely perfect.

Itd be nice to be able to have a reminder that repeats only on weekdays, or weekends, MWF, Tues Thurs… you get the idea. That would make this truly useful.

I use this for implementing the Pomodoro method, and its nearly perfect for that. Ive got two saved timers that Ive set at 25 and 5 minutes apiece. When one expires, I simply start the other. It requires manual work, but its nice because it allows me to work past my 25m timer when Im in the zone, and forces me to acknowledge the end of my 5m break to start the 25m timer again. Would love to see the ability to automate timers by sequencing them and starting automatically (though one workaround if people need this is to set up a 25m, 30m, 55m, 60m, 85m timer, etc. Oh, would also love to have an option to make the Due window automatically disappear after starting a timer. Keep up the good work, sir developer.

Am I missing something? THis app gets great reviews but I cant get it to do much of anything. When the promo says it syncs with "reminders" (lower case r), does that refer only to reminders that are created in Due? I cant get it to sync with my "Reminders" (the Mac OS app). Shouldnt it? If Due only syncs with itself, then I dont need it. Also, when I create a reminder in Due, if I type "do something tomorrow", the reminder says "do something tomorrow" and it is due today. I thought it was supposed to say "do something" and be due tomorrow. FWIW, I have the same problem with the Reminders app, but Fantastical does it right. Im using the latest OSX 10.8.2 on a brand new MacBook Pro Retina. Bill

I love the idea of syncing reminders, countdowns, and alarms between devices (something reminders already largely does) but paying 10 dollars is ridiculous. I bought the mac version (5 dollars) because I wanted a nice timer and was hoping it would play nice with my iPhone, but that apparently costs another 5 dollars. The mac version of the app doesnt do anything that reminders doesnt do with the exception of multiple timers. 5 dollars is plenty for both apps considering the mac version doesnt do anything unique. The developers are getting greedy. Is their a policy on refunds?

The app on the iphone is amazing, the desktop app is good (not as great as the iphone, but better than anything else Ive seen), but the syncing is always messing up between the app and desktop...

This app does what it says and does it in an excellent way. User-friendly interface that is intuitive and efficient to navigate. Set reminders and you know your attention will be directed to the right action at the right time. The repeat and delay features are also very well done. If only more apps were this good… I highly recommend this app and I dont say that often.

Dont bother buying Due for the Mac if you use it on your phone. The iCloud sync never seems to work, which results in reminders for tasks marked complete on ones phone will still show up on ones Mac. Annoying.

Ive tried several different reminder apps and Due is the only one that has met all my needs: - Repeating reminders - Specific days of the week (also repeating) - Variety of sound alerts (including custom) - Easy to use and stays out of the way unless needed (Menu Bar only option) - Integrates with Notification Center I dont use the sync function, but if I needed reminders on my phone, I wouldnt hesitate to purchase the iOS app. Heres a tip to reward those who actually read reviews: I managed to accidentally close Due a couple of times by pressing Cmd+Q when I meant to press Cmd+W. To prevent this from happening again, I remapped the Quit menu item to Option+Cmd+Q in Keyboard system preferences.

Due is seriously the best app for what it does, and the seamless iOS sync is just perfect, congrats to the developers! I have one small request though, I mainly use due for timers, would it be possible to add a setting to open due in the timers tab?

I like this app a whole lot, and Ive tried probably a dozen or so apps that Ive shoved to the side pretty quickly for one reason or another. But not with this app, and that says a lot. I really like the clean, aesthetically appealing interface, very simple, very efficient, very elegant. Really easy to add new alerts or change old ones with natural language input. The adjustments from the pop out list adequately allow me to readjust and modify with ease. I would like to see the same interface with the drop down menu as is evident in the iOS versions (icons instead of text), but the dev says it was decided against already. Maybe in the future with customer requests? Either way, keyboard shortcuts are great, too. Besides the nuts, bolts, and embroidery/interface aesthetics, syncing with the corresponding iPad and iPhone apps means that I have a very appealing, fluid, cross-platform option for times when I just need a simple alert with a time and name. Add to that custom repeating intervals and really easy natural language input, and this app is worth the price. I literally use this app all day long, and its really great to get organized again. Due handles all of those little things that I need prodding about, but without complex GTD methodology. Lastly, I must say that the support by the developer has been extraordinary. I have had a lot of sync issues that are not common, according to the dev, but even just me as one customer, "JJ" went the extra mile, time and again, to help me out. Havent had that kind of quality support and service probably ever. Great app!

I bought this app because the developer is the developer from the very excellent iPhone email app Dispatch. I think this app is pretty cool. I use it for timers. I hope that it continues to have good development.

I absolutely love the Due app and rely on it almost every day as a college student both on my phone and on the computer. As of late when I check something off my list on the computer it lags and takes around 5 second to process it. It seems like a minor complaint but it starts to get frustrating. Outside of that I recommend to anyone.

Due is the first and only app I have bought from the app store on my macbook air. I set reminders for homework due dates, appointments, tests, basically everything. It takes me less than a minute to set multiple reminders and the daily reminders are amazing.

I tried Due to replace another program I was using because it died under Mavericks. Very glad I did. The natural text entry is how all scheduling products should work. Due’s text entry works much better than Calendar and gives me options that neither Calendar or reminders can address.

OK so far. It’s nice to have reminders sync accross my Mac, iPad, and iPod. So far I haven’t found the feature set particularly exciting, and even at the sale price of $3 for iOS and $4 for OSX it’s a bit pricey relative to alternatives. But the design is clean and attractive and perhaps I’ll discover more to like as I continue to use it.

This app is fantastic in the sense that it continues to remind you of a to-do until you mark it complete, which is a feature that you would think would be abundant in to-do apps but isn’t. Here is where this app falls greatly short: Firstly, its not worth its price due to a lack of features; secondly, (and the most important reason) the app does not sync seamlessly with its iPad/iPhone sister app (I’ll explain). If you mark a to-do as complete on your Mac (regardless of whether you use iCloud or Dropbox to sync your tasks), the act of completion is NOT pushed to your other device(s) unless Due is open and running on that device. So, even if Due is running in background mode on your other device(s) you will continue to get notifications for a task that has already been marked as complete on your Mac. I sent an email to the developer of the app and he stated, “Due on iOS is not able to do that at the moment if it’s not running.” This shortcoming greatly reduces productivity on what would otherwise be a 4.5- or even a 5-star app.

This app has a lot of potential, but I’m really frustrated with it. I LOVE the iOS app, but this one seems like it hasn’t been updated to match the iOS version. Additionally, I get syncing errors ALL the time. Normally the lists do actually sync with each other, but I receive errors saying that it didn’t work. Now that I’ve updated to OS X Yosemite, I can’t sync at all. Very disappointing.

It was the perfect reminder app for me - you can’t just ignore the reminder…it bugs you until you take action on it. All well and good until I updated to Yosemite. Now nothing but failed syncs over and over. I hope the developer updates soon, as the app just turned less than half useful to me.

Broken on Yosemite, either dont upgrade or stick with iOS version of the app.