The ever popular reminder app Due has recently received another major update, 1.6. The newest version adds natural date and time parsing for reminders, much like Fantastical is doing for the Mac. This method lets you create reminders while the due date fills in automatically by typing into the title directly, i.e. “Wash the car in 20 mins”, “Leave for soccer at 3pm on Friday”, “Buy gift for Ticci’s birthday on July 30 at 1pm”, etc. Due also handles more than 64 reminders and timers as there was a limit before.

There were some tweaks and changes as well like interval on date picker now dynamically changing to accommodate due times that cannot be accurately displayed by a user’s preferred interval setting. Editing the value of a timer with an auto-generated label now updates the label to match the new countdown value. The app now hides any transient animation on quit to prevent jarring transition on next resume. Overdue and Today+Overdue badging is now faster when setting up a new repeating reminder and ‘Repeat from date’ follows the ‘Due date’ automatically.

There were a number of fixes as well and all the full change-log can be found on the Due’s blog.

Due received a slight bombshell when iOS 5 and Apple’s Reminders.app were announced, but I agree with the developer, it’s no real threat to Due or other nice reminder apps. People love having custom apps and more importantly supporting small developers. “Reminders.app isn’t trained on Due, but on simple todo list and GTD managers. The good news here is, Due has never strived to be a todo list or a calendaring app.” Due isn’t going to RIP (Rest In Peace), it’s more likely to (RiP) Rule on the iPhone (and iPad).

We’ve been fans of Due since we first reviewed it in September, and it keeps getting better with each update. Now we’re giving away five copies so newcomers can start off with the latest and greatest quick reminder tool for the iPhone, normally $4.99 in the iTunes App Store.

The Giveaway:

• We have 5 copies of Due to give away.
• To enter the giveaway, tweet the following message before 11.59 AM PDT (July 21st): Win a copy of Due on @MacStoriesNet via @DueApp http://mcstr.net/oE5ldZ
• We will search Twitter.com for tweets and retweets and randomly pick up the winners.
• Make sure to follow @macstoriesnet on Twitter so we can get in touch with you once the giveaway is over. If you want to increase your odds of winning, you can also leave a comment to this post.
• Winners will be contacted via Twitter on July 22nd.