Days are off by one, developer needs to fix
Another reviewer mentioned the off-by-one design flaw when using days, and it is still present in the app as of this review. The developer needs to change how they account for days until an event, or at least give users the option to consider how many days until an event as the way humans actually think about it.
Two days before your birthday, the app should not return “1” for the number of days until then. From midnight to 11:59 pm two days before your birthday, it should report “2”. On the day of your birthday, it should return “0” just like the other reviewer described (or even better, return “Now” or “Today” or user-supplied custom text, instead).
This design flaw seems to be due to basing the remaining days count on the number of hours divided by 24. Easy fix: add an option to consider days-until as *calendar* days.
Otherwise a great app, with watch infograph complications!
Two days before your birthday, the app should not return “1” for the number of days until then. From midnight to 11:59 pm two days before your birthday, it should report “2”. On the day of your birthday, it should return “0” just like the other reviewer described (or even better, return “Now” or “Today” or user-supplied custom text, instead).
This design flaw seems to be due to basing the remaining days count on the number of hours divided by 24. Easy fix: add an option to consider days-until as *calendar* days.
Otherwise a great app, with watch infograph complications!
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Response from developer
Version 4.2.1 is out now with support for this. Each countdown now has a setting for "Round up smallest unit"
Exactly what I wanted
Concise, clear & uncluttered. Perfect. I love the new complications on the infograph Watch face. Would like to be able to select color of complications. (Minor issue)
Good with an odd caveat
I currently use a different countdown app. I liked the look of this app, and the watch complication is very well done (and even supports the new Infograph watch face), so I downloaded it to try. Unfortunately, when counting down by days (as opposed to days+hours+minutes) there is a weird off-by-one design in the countdowns from this app. For example, if you have a countdown to your birthday, you'd reasonably expect the count to be "2" when it is two days before your birthday, "1" on the day before your birthday and "0" on your birthday itself. That makes sense and matches how people talk about the concept of "how many days until".
This app is different: "2" in this app is *three* days before your birthday, "1" is two days before your birthday, and "0" is the day before your birthday. On your birthday itself, the counter reads "364" days, using the logic that it's now 364 days until your *next* birthday. I think I understand why the app was written this way: strictly speaking, on the day before your birthday, it's less than 24 hours to go, so it's not one full "day", and so this app shows it as "0" days to go. The problem is that this is not how people think of and speak about countdowns (or how other countdown apps work). To humans, the rocket launches at zero, not at negative 1.
I love the rest of the features, but this sort of breaks it for me.
This app is different: "2" in this app is *three* days before your birthday, "1" is two days before your birthday, and "0" is the day before your birthday. On your birthday itself, the counter reads "364" days, using the logic that it's now 364 days until your *next* birthday. I think I understand why the app was written this way: strictly speaking, on the day before your birthday, it's less than 24 hours to go, so it's not one full "day", and so this app shows it as "0" days to go. The problem is that this is not how people think of and speak about countdowns (or how other countdown apps work). To humans, the rocket launches at zero, not at negative 1.
I love the rest of the features, but this sort of breaks it for me.
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Response from developer
Version 4.2.1 is out now with support for this. Each countdown now has a setting for "Round up smallest unit"
Really Wish it Supported More Complications
Nice app, my main use use though is Apple Watch complications. It seems like on the new Info watch face it only shows a clock icon instead of the actual days remaining like on the old info face. Please add support for more complication styles.
Will there be a Web app that syncs with the phone?
Great app. Thank you 🙏 for all the hard work 😓. Use it daily. Simple & effective. Hope you’ll b able to create a web app that syncs with the phone.
Thank you to u and your team
Thank you to u and your team
Best of the bunch
Most of these countdown apps are ugly, lack important features like cloud sync and widgets, or both. This one has a clean interface, decent customization options, cloud sync (paid version) and a widget, which is the most important 90% of what I want.
Wish list: dark mode and the ability to assign solid color backgrounds to events and/or the event icon. Also would prefer a couple-bucks/year subscription model to the one-off purchase because then I have more confidence that the app will continue to be updated. Maybe add a premium level with addtl features for subscribers?
Wish list: dark mode and the ability to assign solid color backgrounds to events and/or the event icon. Also would prefer a couple-bucks/year subscription model to the one-off purchase because then I have more confidence that the app will continue to be updated. Maybe add a premium level with addtl features for subscribers?
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Response from developer
Not very often we get a request for a subscription model! Thanks for the kind words, don’t worry we’re not going anywhere 🙂
Best countdown app and support
This is the best countdown app that I have ever used. The only reason that I tried them out is because I was formerly using another app that disappeared from the app store but I am glad they did because this is so much more useful.
The iPhone app is great but I mostly set up the countdowns for my apple watch. The countdowns stay in sequence and they automatically update on the complication as one ends and another begins or is already in progress. Notifications are customizable and you can set up a countdown to the second. They have also already updated their app to work with the new watch OS5 infograph face only a few days after the OS5 release, which is impressive.
If you are looking for a reliable timer, especially for the apple watch, this is it.
The iPhone app is great but I mostly set up the countdowns for my apple watch. The countdowns stay in sequence and they automatically update on the complication as one ends and another begins or is already in progress. Notifications are customizable and you can set up a countdown to the second. They have also already updated their app to work with the new watch OS5 infograph face only a few days after the OS5 release, which is impressive.
If you are looking for a reliable timer, especially for the apple watch, this is it.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the very kind review! Glad to have a happy Apple Watch customer!
Best countdown app
It has no frills, bells, or whistles. It offers you EXACTLY what your looking without a complicated system to enter what you want. They honestly couldnt have made it simpler or cleaner than this.
My only gripe is you cant enter the date using the keypad. You have to scroll to get a date which is annoying. But compared to all other apps out there, thats barely even worth mention when you see how awful their system is.
My only gripe is you cant enter the date using the keypad. You have to scroll to get a date which is annoying. But compared to all other apps out there, thats barely even worth mention when you see how awful their system is.
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A very nice app!
I really like the features in this app and appreciate the fact that dates are brought to me rather than having to find the "To Do's" or appointments on a calendar. I would like to see more "images" pertaining to church, household activities and doctors or medicine. My tip for adding some color to the screen is to paste in (one or more) emoji from the keyboard anywhere in the "Title" text. The B&W "image" on the other hand is always on the left of the Title and centered between the lines of,say a 3 line Title.
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Elegant Simplicity
Perfect app, does exactly what it says without all the nonsense that comes with other apps! Would definitely recommend as it looks lovely on the Iphone Widget!
