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Exactly What I’ve Been Looking For!

I came across a post about this app on Reddit while searching the internet for a free countdown widget. I’ve been searching and searching and couldn’t find anything that was quite what I wanted. Every other app either had super limited options for customization (which were aesthetically unpleasing) or you had to pay for premium to use the widget. I’m SO glad I found this app 🩷
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Response from developer

Great to hear you found us! Glad to know Outside's helping you with our countdowns. If you have any feedback let us know!

Why do developers overcomplicate apps?

All many users want is a simple countdown app that they can see on their homescreen or lockscreen. I was so excited when I first started setting up my timer in your app… Until I got to the mandatory AI screen that promised to offer suggestions and wanted to link all sorts of data and “start exploring”. I immediately deleted the app.

I want to be able to look at my phone and see how much longer until my vacation, retirement, etc. I get that there might be people who could use and may even want that optional (intrusive) AI… But at the very least, please offer just a simple basic countdown timer. Thanks
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Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback! We added the AI feature to see what peoples reactions would be and we've decided to make this as less of a prominent feature. In the next app update we will be removing it from the main tabs in the app, and then also from the onboarding.

Perfect App

I love this counter I wanted to share it with all my friends and family 😍

Response from developer

I'm so glad you're enjoying it! Please let us know how it can be improved since you rated it 4 stars!

Must have countdown app

So far havent encountered any issues so its a 5 star review for me. Has everything i was looking for in a countdown app, custom background, interchangeable widgets for my homescreen, etc. 👍🏽

Response from developer

That’s great to hear! Get ready for our next update, will add millions of new wallpapers to choose from! Thanks for the review!

Greedy Pricing

Love the app, but the pricing is just plain greedy. I would have bought the previously offered $15 lifetime subscription, but now only annual plans are offered, with the cheapest being $20 per year. Deleting and looking elsewhere.

Response from developer

Glad you love the app! And appreciate your feedback on the price. We still do offer a lifetime option which should be visible in the app. Where we have quite a lot of functionality in the app, including the AI assistant, we needed to increase our price slightly as we believe the value is there. We're actively working on the app with multiple updates a week to keep making it better and we're not trying to be greedy but instead be in a place where the app earns enough to keep going. Again really appreciate your time sharing this feedback and hope we'll see you again one day.

Great AI

I love that there is the AI built in to the app. The Assistant helps me with lots of things like where I can find places or find things. I love that there are widgets for free as well as the free countdown!

Response from developer

So glad to hear you're enjoying the assistant. We believe it can really be a big help in discovering new places or totally new ideas for what to do. Thanks for the nice review!

Tried all the others, this is the best

Everything I needed in a countdown app. The widget is actually free, it’s super customizable, awesome wallpapers for the widget and the app Home Screen. It’s perfect. 10/10
Still have optional upgrades for anyone who wants a more premium service using their AI, it looks like a great option.

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review and I'm glad you're enjoying the countdown and widgets! Many more improvements to come!

How did this app self download on my phone ?

I dont remember downloading this app yet here it is…. How did that happen ?

Response from developer

Hey there! We recently changed our app icon so I wonder if you may have downloaded the app a while ago and now with the new icon it sticks out? The only way for Outside or any app to be on your phone is to be manually downloaded from the App Store. Hope this helps and if you have any questions feel free to message in.

Not free and is not a widget.

I read the other reviews who raved about it actually being a free widget app! Completely false. Widget feature does not work. Doesn’t even show up as a widget when you search it up on your phone. 45 day free trial and then have to pay for a countdown app? Come on🙄

Response from developer

Hey, appreciate the review and feedback. It looks like you've ran into a bug affecting other apps which causes the widgets to not appear, this is something unfortunately out of our control. We've got a support article that shows you how to fix it and it's super quick. Also feel free to message and can walk through. We're still learning how as a team of 2 we can successfully run the app, maintains it's costs whilst giving a lot of value for free. During the 45 day trial you get everything, absolutely every feature available to try and then see if you feel it's worth paying for in the end. We feel like this is fair as we've got to find a business model that works for everyone. We are though always trying to improve it and your feedback helps steer it in the right direction. We hope you see that what we're trying to build with Outside is more than just a countdown app as we've got the most feature rich product and we've got lot's more planned. Again appreciate your honest feedback, and hope we can still keep your support. We're hoping with this 45 day trial it also gives us the option to rollout an entirely free plan but we've got to make a few mistakes to get there to learn. Thanks - Blake

I appreciate the quality

But honestly the price is just insulting. I agree with the other reviewer, and they were complaining about $15 for a lifetime membership. A few months later it’s $50! Couldn’t rationalize it for that price.

Update: Despite response received here it was NOT free and my free trial has an expiration. Bait and switch. GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE
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Response from developer

Hey there, appreciate the review and feedback. Glad to know you do appreciate the quality we try to keep with Outside. With the features in Outside, we've made sure that what's usually paid for in other apps is free and the other extra features are for Pro. We're consistently adding more functionality to the app and with new features they'll be more than do have a monthly cost so we've tried to make sure the price accounts for this. We're actively working hard on making the app much better than it is today and learning as we go. This feedback really helps and I hope you keep giving us a shot. Feel free to message us anytime, would be happy to learn how we can improve.

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