I used to know about this app and think meh, it's another reminder app š .
But hearing and reading so many of you here made me just buy it, and it really does work for me.
The recurring/nagging reminder irritates me to the point where I get that task done. I swear on it a lot 
, but at least the task gets done haha
Subscription - hard pass.
Not really a subscription.
Due is also available on SetApp.
Katie
I use the Due app all day, every day. It is easily worth the five bucks I pay each year. (Tried Reminders but came back to Due!) And you can quit anytime and keep the features and settings you already have. The app will keep working until Apple does something to break it.
Thatās what I never understand about people who say āNo Subscriptions, hard passā. Iām not judging anyone, live your life how you want. I just donāt get it.
For me itās about what value you get out of it. Due is Ā£3.99 a year. I get far more benefit than that in a month, never mind a year.
Itās not subscription. See what @karlnyhus mentioned. Itās an upgrade-able app. I paid $5 more than a year ago. Lol. Still works and keep getting updates
Iām not a fan of typical subscriptions, but this looks like a hell of a good deal:
I donāt currently use Due, but this has me seriously considering it.
The way I pay for it, It is a subscription. I pay Ā£3.99 a year to continue to receive updates, and to continue to support the developer.
Beyond that, my point was about Subscriptions rather than Due specifically. I pay for Overcast, Up Ahead, Ivory, Drafts, Backblaze, Callsheet and other apps/services because I get value out of them Iām happy to pay for. Could I get free apps to do the same things, possibly, would the quality be as high, possibly, But these are apps I (usually) enjoy or find to meet me needs well.
Iām transitioning off of Due. I realized that I donāt like the nagging but I do like having the reminder on my phone homescreen at all times until Iāve checked the item off as done. Iām starting to use Reminders instead of Due. I check the phone a million times a day and every time I do, I see a reminder to get the mail, or police the backyard for dog by-product, or bring out the trash or whatever.
No disrespect to Due, which is a great app and likely useful for people who need more specificity in their scheduling. Like if you need to take a pill at noon, you can afford to put that off a few minutes but probably not put it off for an hour. Due would be great for that.
Weāre all different. I do need some nagging because I canāt always drop what Iām doing when a reminder comes in, but I donāt want tasks to get lost. Itās also easy to bump a reminder to a future time or date if conditions require it. I especially like setting a task to be done every two weeks, for example, with the option to set it for every two weeks from when I actually complete the task.
The same for me. If Iām at work in a meeting or focusing on something but thereās something I have to do it reminds me at the right time, if I canāt do it right then, I can push it out 15 minute or an hour and sort it then. The regular reminders on my watch are really useful.
I always describe Due as the tasks that come to me (Have to be done at that time or around that time) but OmniFocus are the tasks I go to when I want to work.
I use the Due app only on my iPhone, although it is also available for the Mac.
Some of the things I see in the app now are: release dates for books Iām looking forward to, get-togethers with friends and family, doctor and dentist appointments, yard and gardening chores, dates Iām serving as election judge, property tax payments, disk drive swaps for backups stored in safe, backups of my iPhone to my Mac via USB cable, trash (or trash and recycling) out to the curb, pay credit cards, treat sink drains, etc, etc
I also keep a plain text list of tasks (both scheduled todo items and un-dated todo items) in NotePlan. Appleās calendar appears in Noteplan so I often add events to it.
Due has been one of my āreminderā apps for nearly 10 years. I use the Health app to remind me to take my meds. And until Apple added āFollow Up Remindersā in iOS 17 I used Due for that function.
I use Tasks for most items because it is integrated with Gmail in the browser, and the Gmail app on iPhone/iPad. And I like that I can have Tasks displayed on Googleās mobile calendar. But Due remains my ācanāt forgetā app for things like checking blood pressure and doctor appointments.
Widgets display most of the above plus weather, etc. on my iPad, and Tasks and Gmail on my phone, but I mainly rely on notifications on my Apple Watch.
Anything that was too personal, I wouldnāt tell you 
Reminders for:
Medication
Watering plants
Feeding the Dog in the evening
Putting the bins (trash) out
Setting up Hairdressing appointments
Certain chores (e.g. putting my Wifeās bottle in the freezer the evening before her work shifts)
Charging of Electric toothbrushes
Refilling tablet boxes
Requesting prescriptions
Taking my blood pressure
Charging Apple TV remotes
Charing USB Batteries
Resetting the data usage on my phone and ipad each month
The sorts of things that if I miss them actually have consequences or could have consequences.
Interesting. @karlnyhus Do you use any other reminders or calendar apps other than Due? Because it looks like you have all your reminders and appointments in there.
@geoffaire We have the dog to remind us to feed the dog. Sheās excellent at that. 
I mentioned some use of the NotePlan app for tasks and events but I do not have audio or visual alerts turned on for NotePlan or Apple Calendar. The Due app on my phone pings to get my attention and is what keeps me on track and tells me when I am falling behind.
I also have been using Due for a long time. Before the Health app got medications, I used it for that.
Now I continue using it for tasks that I remember to do but forget to do āearly enoughā in the evening (like putting out the trash and recycling bins). Also, cat maintenance goes in there. One is on chemotherapy with an odd dosing schedule and itās been helpful for that. Another needs weekly allergy immunotherapy injections. These things could be on my calendar, but then I donāt have a record of having completed them.
Recurring tasks like watering indoor plants and outdoor window boxes also have a better home in Due than OmniFocus. Mostly because I like to keep these non-work recurring maintenance tasks separate if theyāre not critical.
I also use Due it for reminders for routines, especially when establishing new ones. For example, I restock the kitchen cleaning rags and bathroom toilet paper on Sundays. A simple ārestockā reminder makes sure I donāt forget this task until itās ingrained in my memory (assuming it ever is).
I also have a daily reminder to check my calendar. I used to be embarrassed about needing that reminder, but in the past few years with the pandemic and my health problems, my schedule and energy levels became inconsistent. It broke my habit of checking the calendar each morning.
Dueās flexibility of the time interval of the recurring reminder is really useful. Some items need a 5 minute interval, some can be 30 minutes. I donāt like having to constantly defer things on my watch. Too many taps! Itās nicer if I can just ignore the first notification, knowing that Iāll get another one at the correct time interval.
Iāve used Due for many years. One of my favourite uses, over and above the nagging USP, is to schedule āsend later,ā messages. Due supports x-callback-url, so with a Drafts message action, itās easy to send a message to a particular contact when the alert pings in Due.
I suppose this could now be done with Shortcuts, and I did hear something about this coming to iOS 18 as native functionality? I donāt play with betas so am not sure on that front. Itās worked so well that Iād probably stick with it anyway.
