Due — Reminders & Timers Ratings and Reviews

I’m a new user of Due, and I’ve given it four stars because: a) the simplicity of adding tasks means that I’m likely to record them, and b) the reminder function is persistent and works. All that said, I’m also experiencing a few annoyances that might be correctable, but support by the developer is lacking. For example, every time I modify a task I receive a notification on my Apple Watch that a task has been modified. I could simply turn off the Watch reminders, but then I’d lose some of the functionality of Due. Perhaps there’s a setting I haven’t yet discovered. Or, perhaps this is an easy fix by the developer? Bottom line is my note to the developer has gone unanswered, and I’m really frustrated by a few of these items. If the developer were more engaged, I think this could be a killer app, and I’d have given it 5 stars.

The system reminders app has gotten super buggy in recent years, to the point where I found it basically unusable. I've been looking for a good replacement for it, and after trying many different apps, settled on Due.

Some of the key features for me are Siri support so I can make a reminder when I'm driving, good natural language processing so I can create a reminder without having to manually put in a time/date, and clients for both Mac and iOS. The UI for snoozing a reminder is also excellent, with presets you can set for certain times of day, and buttons to quickly offset from those times.

It's still being developed, which is great. I have two top requests: 1. Have the natural language processing be able to handle creating repeating reminders. 2. Have the natural language processing be able to handle creating a reminder shortly before an event. For example "remind me that I have a doctor appointment at 10am, at 7am on Friday".

I am very happy with this redesign (and am updating my review from 1 star to 4 stars). However, there are a couple of flaws that lower the score from a 5 to a 4.

1. Not very compact. My main problem is with the sidebar. It takes way too much space and there is no way to hide the sidebar (which I would prefer) or even resize it.

ALSO: there are lots of complaints about the UI being less compact, so I suggest creating a "compact" mode that makes the UI more compact and information-heavy. I think that would be helpful to everyone.

2. Some weird bugs. When I use the command to show the window, it usually works fine and shows up in my full screen window. However, if I press the hide window command that is set (same as show window command), and then move to a different fullscreen window, it ends up moving me to the wrong window. This problem can be solved by just pressing cmd w though. Just a minor annoyance.

ALL IN ALL: Really the only thing keeping me from the 5 star rating is that huge sidebar. It's way bigger than it needs to be.

Have owned this app for a long time. Has a lot of versatility (both timers and reminders), and just worked. However, with some recent updates, I have encountered issues. The first issue is Lack of Support. No one is or has timely responded to my problems. Here are the current issues with Due. Snycing, I run Due on both my Mac and Iphone, Worked great until a recent update. Now my phone and my Mac are out of sync so I am constantly getting pinged by both my Mac and my phone for the same reminders. Second issue: the IOS version of the app keeps pinging me on my Apple Watch. Historically, I have turned Due Reminders off on my phone. I have tripled checked. DUE notifications are not turned on for my Iphone nor are the “mirrored” from my Iphone. But somehow they keep showing up on my watch. Not sure how this is even possible. The Most frustrating part is no one is getting back with me.

I had the Due app for iOS for quite a while and I loved it. However, I wanted to get it for the computer since I am usually at my computer when the reminders go off. The description says that the desktop app syncs with the iOS app, but only when I first log in. If I am logged in and I add a due on the computer, it never shows up on my phone (and vice versa) unless I do a manual sync. I have tried to go through the troubleshooting, but nothing seems to change. I admit I have not used dropbox for syncing, but I don't want to install that on my computer and installing it on the computer is the only way to make it work. I reached out to the support team and it has been a week and I still haven't heard back. I also requested a refund because of the complete inaccuracy of their claims. Paying twice as much for two apps that don't communicate is a waste. Keep the iOS, but stay away from the macOS version.

Due has become one of my must have apps for my iPhone as well as my desktop. What I most appreciate about this app are its’ many features. You can select alarm sounds, repeat items, sync with the Desktop app and for those who like me are very busy you can snooze alarms using presets. As someone who is not only very busy with many tasks but ADD this app is a real asset to my productivity. Before getting this app I would set reminder alarms and when I was very busy turn off the alarm trusting myself to remember to complete the alarmed task when I finished my current work. More often than not I would forget to do the task that I had set an alarm for. Due’s easy “Snooze” feature solved that problem.

I've been trying find an app that has "nagging" auto-snoozing reminders to remind me to take out the trash, take my medicine and other tasks that I need to do at a fixed time, but may not be able to. Sometimes I am not able to find the notification and snooze it. This does it all for me. Just tonght I got reminded to take my medicine at 8:00 PM. But I wasn't home. While i was out, I got reminded at 8:30 and 8:45 to take my meds, I got home at 8:55 PM and had totally forgotten I still needed to take my medicine. But Due didn't forget. I got a notification at 9:00 PM and immediately took my medicine.

I am never going fo foget to put the trash out again! Can I give this app 6 stars?

Due was an essential app for me for years, but has been going downhill. First, the reliability of alerts started to drop - sometimes I'd get them on one of my various devices, sometimes not. It got to the point that I learned not to rely on Due for anything actually important. Now they've redesigned the UO but managed to make it worse. Used to be a nice, small window that took up minimal space on the screen. Now the smallest possible window takes up about 10% of my (large) screen, and about half of that is blank white space. You can pay for the upgrade to "collapse" the sections, but that doesn't actually make the window smaller - it just hides the text and leaves a large, blank white space. Who wants that? I don't know whose ideas went into the redesign, but they defintely were not thinking of the user experience.

I didn't want to pay annually, but I understand the developer needs to make a living. I think that in a year I will be able to decide if paying for another year is worth the money at that time. You don't loose any features once you get them if you decide to stop your subscription, so I'm good with that. Many don't like the color scheme options. Not my favorite, but good enough. Hopefully there will be more before too long. I really like being able to dock the windows to the menu bar! I hope Due stays simple and easy to use, and syncing between iPhone and Apple Watch is reliable. The rest is just nit picky to me.

I guess I bought into the hype on this app and bought it on a whim. On the Mac, it's quite odd becuase I keep getting a pop-up confirming if I want to quit when I have not interacted with the app. Quickly adding timers is NOT as easy as they say, SIRI doesn't understand all the time and uses Reminders instead of Due and I can't get this to fit into my workflow at all! Plus, the list of features you've paid for almost pisses you off to go to that level of detail of the minor number of upgrades this app has had. Partly due to Apple not allowing default apps, but I can't let this app off the hook--it's not what you've been told it is!