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Edmund vs Apple Reminders

Reminders is an excellent free task manager already on your Apple devices. Edmund does not replace it: it catches the thought, works out where it belongs and can put it into the Reminders list you chose.

Apple Reminders is where a lot of people’s tasks should stay. It is quick to capture into, syncs through iCloud, and goes far beyond a dated checklist: repeating and location-based alerts, subtasks, tags, Smart Lists, shared lists and assignments are all built in. Edmund is not trying to be a richer task manager. It starts one step earlier, when the thought is still half formed, then sorts it and sends it to Reminders or whichever work tracker actually owns it.

Side by side

The same job, two ways.

Edmund
Apple Reminders
The job it owns
An inbox for raw thoughts, followed by triage and routing
A task manager for organising, scheduling and completing reminders
Quick capture
Type, dictate or use Siri without choosing a project first
Type, use Siri, or capture from the Control Centre, Action Button and other apps
Works out where it belongs
On-device AI suggests the project and type
You choose a list and details; Smart Lists collect reminders that match your filters
Reminds you at the right moment
A date-and-time nudge on the note
Date, time, repeating, location and next-time-I-message-someone alerts
Task planning
A short note with a project, type and tags
Subtasks, sections, flags, priorities, tags, templates and grocery lists
Doing it with other people
Send the thought to the team’s existing tracker
Share a list, let everyone add or complete items, and assign reminders
Where work can land
One tap to Reminders, or to issue and task trackers
It stays in the Reminders lists you choose
Knows when a routed reminder is done
Complete it in Reminders and the Edmund note marks itself Done
Completion syncs across your Apple devices through iCloud
Price
Free tier; Pro £29.99/year
Free
An honest steer

Neither one’s wrong. It depends on you.

Reach for Apple Reminders when
  • You need a proper task list with repeating, location or person-based alerts, subtasks and Smart Lists.
  • You share lists with other people and want to assign reminders between you.
  • Everything you capture is already a task and Reminders is where every one of those tasks belongs.
Reach for Edmund when
  • You need to catch a half-formed thought before you know which list, project or app owns it.
  • Some thoughts belong in Reminders and others need to become work in Linear, GitHub, Jira or elsewhere.
  • You want Edmund to sort the note, route it into Reminders and notice when you complete it there.

Try the one that files itself.

Free to start, on the iPhone, iPad and Mac you already own. No account, and your notes are never sent to an AI provider.

Coming to the App Store

Apple Reminders details were verified on 9 September 2026 against Apple’s Reminders App Store listing, the iPhone and Mac Reminders User Guides, and the iCloud Reminders guide. Those sources list the free price, Siri and system capture, iCloud sync, scheduled, repeating, location and person-based alerts, tags, Smart Lists, subtasks, sections, templates, shared lists and assignments. Apple owns those features and can change them.