Back in September I reviewed Due, an interesting new app to quickly create reminders and set up timers on your iPhone. The first version of the app featured a cool UI and a good set of functionalities, allowing you to easily switch between the reminder and timer window. Most of all, the best thing about Due was that it looked great and enabled you to just forget about the app once reminders were set.

It’s really simple: once you enter a new item you can choose a due date & time, but there are some handy shortcuts in the same screen. If you find yourself constantly using some reminders as countdowns, you can create a timer. That’s it. The interface is clean and polished, and the app doesn’t even need an internet connection to work as it’s based on iOS 4′s local notification system.

The new 1.2 version, which was approved yesterday and I have been beta testing for a while, adds terrific new features to an already great package. If you tap on a reminder in the main screen, for instance, you’ll be presented a bar containing shortcuts to turn snooze on and off, set the reminder as repeating, reschedule the whole thing to 10 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day later. Useful. The developer added reminder management (something many fans hoped they would not, in order to keep the app simple) but by stuffing it in a bar you’ll only see after a tap, they didn’t clutter anything. It feels good.

Due for iPhone is available at $2.99 in the App Store. Check out the huge changelog with all the new features and more screenshots below.

Persistent Reminders

Overdue reminders now stay in sight until they’re marked done.

Auto Snoozing

Repeatedly notify you of missed reminders until marked done or rescheduled

Tap To Reschedule (Manual Snoozing)

Tap to reschedule, toggle repeat and auto snooze with the all new Quick Panel

Repeating/Recurring reminders: daily, weekly, monthly

Smart Badging (Today + Overdue)

See at a glance how many outstanding tasks you have for the day (thanks Graham!)

Smart Badging (Overdue only)

Badge only reminders you’ve ignored or missed

Brand New Alert Sounds

New premium alert sounds we licensed specially for you + choice of louder and longer alerts

Secondary Alert & Alarm mode

Choose and apply longer and louder alerts for reminders and timers you absolutely cannot miss, such as your nap timer

Time Zone Shifting

Receive timely reminders, no matter where you are in the world

Better ‘View’ button

Tapping ʻViewʼ when an alert fires now scrolls right to the reminder or timer with options to postpone (snooze) or mark done

More Focused

Easily distinguish reminders due today with its larger typeface from those due in future

3x Faster Scrolling

Now 3x faster scrolling through large lists, with a smaller memory and CPU usage

Fully localized for Deutsch, 日本語, Italiano, Nederlands

Thanks to Andreas & Bastian (German), Atsushi (Japanese), Diego (Italiano), Sean and Adam (Nederlands)

Runs on the iPad (iOS 4.2 compatible)

Now runs as an iPhone app on iPads running iOS 4.2

Other Improvements & Changes

- Now warns you on launch and resume if phone is on silent mode

- Recycling now moves instead copy the expired reminder out of the logbook

- New icons for Reminders, Timers, and Logbook

- New checkmark graphics

- Streamlined Settings view; now cleaner

- Reminders now show the weekday names of all seven days from today

- Changing alert sounds now changes all existing reminders and timers

- Flipped the direction of switches in ʻTimers Viewʼ

- Quitting the app at the ʻSettingsʼ screen now applies any changes that were made

- ‘Show keyboard first’ option no longer applies to Timers

- Swipe to delete now applies the same changes to the navigation bar buttons as tapping the ʻEditʼ button does

- Recycling a reminder to ʻ1 hour laterʼ no longer rounds the time to the nearest ʻMinute intervalʼ specified in Settings

- Normalized volume of alert sounds

- … and many more!

Bug Fixes

- Resolves an issue when Due does not respond to user input during certain animation

- Resolves an issue where tapping ʻEditʼ does not register correctly in swipe-to-delete mode

- Resolves an issue where Due shows an extra reminder alert when app launches from scratch (ie. not resumed from background) with the ʻViewʼ action button

- Resolves an issue where recycling by an hourʼs time from logbook wrongly uses the time of the due timing instead of the current time.

- Resolves an issue where app crashes when an alert fires after a low memory situation

- Resolves an issue where help prompts appear blurry on non-retina display devices

(iPhone 3G/3GS and older generation iPod touches)

- … and many more!