# Holiday and Vacation Countdown — user reviews > 227 indexed App Store user reviews of Holiday and Vacation Countdown by WW Productions BVBA, rated 4.70/5 from 21 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/holiday-and-vacation-countdown/id669398769/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/holiday-and-vacation-countdown/id669398769.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 18 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of Holiday and Vacation Countdown? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Customizable backgrounds - 🎨 Ability to add own photos - ⏱️ Accurate countdown - 🎉 Helps build excitement **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 💰 Paid features required - 🔀 Disorganized event order - 🔒 Sync issues across devices - 📢 Intrusive ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Dates disappearing after updates - Inability to edit or remove events - Compatibility issues with iOS 13 **Most requested features** - Multiple time zone support - Ability to position countdown on image - Customizable reminder notifications - Widget for home screen countdown ## Newest reviews (15 of 227) ### 2/5 — Could be better *2025-11-12, version 6.20* Nice App works quite well. Easy to use, easy to add photo etc. drawback is you can only see if you open app. Would be nice if able to open in locked screen as a screensaver to be seen on the locked screen. ### 3/5 — One BIG flaw! *2021-10-04* I like the app. But, when I set up an event and use my own picture, it would be nice if I could manipulate the timer to appear at a specific place on the screen. Why? Because the timer is at the bottom and it covers the most important focal point of almost every photo. Take a pic of the beach with a cute little sandpiper and you only get the sky!!!! It would be nice to be able to place the timer at the best place on each picture. I’m going to need to do some crops with a footer at the base to properly see the image I want to see and nobody’s got time for that!!! **Developer response:** Hi,Can you check again, it should work now! ### 4/5 — Schöne App *2020-09-13* Ich mag die App und man kann seine eigenen Bilder als Hintergrund hochladen ### 2/5 — Ok app *2020-03-09, version 6.9* Use to like this app as it DID allow more then ONE free version wivout having to buy the app very disappointed that it now only allows one free ### 2/5 — Not in order , 1st date can’t erease *2020-02-13, version 6.8* Events are not in order of time left and a bug where their ls always a date name Paris on 9999 days. To Fix . 13-02-2020 ### 4/5 — Enjoying it *2020-02-06, version 6.6* Would be 5 star if one could set a default reminder notification times. One has to go through the whole process every time, rather than just changing one from my preferred reminder timeline, if desired. ### 3/5 — Holiday Count Down *2020-01-18, version 6.5* I’ve had no problems at all. Been using for about 2 years. ### 4/5 — Get rid of Paris x 3 *2019-12-14, version 6.5* Does what I wanted basic app to do but this update includes 3 count downs for Paris that I can’t get rid of. My counters are below those 3. Should be able to remove them. Haven’t purchased upgrades as I don’t need them so no comment on their functionality. ### 2/5 — Not happy *2019-11-13, version 6.1* This ap worked great up until recent updates. Now it completely sucks. Every couple of days it won’t open so I have to delete and re-download. Also takes forever to get my own pics to work. It freezes when downloading them. Extremely frustrating ### 4/5 — App Crashing *2019-11-03, version 6.1* My app was crashing after updating to iOS 13 also. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it and it works fine now. I have been using this app for years and like it! ### 1/5 — Won’t open *2019-10-02, version 5.3* I bought the paid version so I could have lots of countdowns but now the app won’t open Not very happy at all I had about 7 ongoing countdowns 😔 ### 3/5 — Pretty good. *2019-08-03, version 5.2* Really needs options where you can choose from months, years, days, etc. :( I’ve already paid $15 to get this app & cant figure out how to access what I need. ### 2/5 — Does what it says... BUT *2019-08-01, version 5.2* This app does what it says... BUT there are 2 Apps. One is free and the other is paid for, both offer In-App purchases, HOWEVER if you make a purchase in one there doesn’t seem to be a way to restore purchase in the other although they are exactly the same The free one allows only 1 count down The paid one allows multiple count downs Both offer to allow background changes but at a cost. Make sure if you plan to change backgrounds you purchase in the correct app ### 2/5 — Purchases are a rip off! *2019-07-26, version 5.2* I paid to have all images released and it didn’t work. I sent feedback and haven’t heard a thing. I am able to get my own photos in but not from IPhoto. I have to save them differently. The countdown works but that’s it! ### 3/5 — Multiple time zones *2019-06-28, version 5.2* Needs to have multiple time zone so count down can be actual ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Looks good if it worked *2024-04-10, version 6.12* Can’t get date to change. ### 1/5 — Was working perfectly *2020-02-23, version 6.9* The app was great and working perfectly until the last update and it deleted all of my countdowns and now won’t let me add them again ### 1/5 — Awful app *2020-02-17, version 6.8* The concept is great but when you pay money you expect it to work. Dates vanish once created. Now says I need to pay, again? This is just a waste. ### 1/5 — What happened??? *2020-02-13, version 6.8* I have used and loved this app for a several years and all the sudden IF I can open it I can’t edit it. Well the only time I could open it is when I deleted it and reloaded it. But now can’t add a vaca or edit it. So very sad. Hope they fix it soon. I have the paid app not the free one. So mad!! ### 1/5 — Constant problems *2020-01-15, version 6.5* Updates always mess this app up. It’s annoying. ### 1/5 — Crashed on me *2020-01-08, version 6.5* Bought it and it crashed. Great way to get $3 from a lot of people. DONT BUY NOW IM WAITING ### 1/5 — Do not buy. *2019-12-30, version 6.5* As others have reported, this app does not work properly. I've sent in feedback multiple times and keep getting a stock answer from the programmers but nothing ever gets resolved. The app does not put events in chronological order and it adds or deletes "events" randomly. It's very frustrating and unreliable. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money *2019-12-26, version 6.5* Same issues as everyone else. Worked great at first. Now it doesn’t work properly. I sent the email to report the problem and they asked me a few questioned. I responded and never heard anything back. They are clearly aware of the issue and it still hasn’t been fixed. Don’t waste your money on this app. ### 1/5 — This app is stuck on one screen *2019-12-01, version 6.4* This is really bad, it’s frozen on one screen and stays there, really unreliable and not recommended ### 1/5 — After a year now stopped working! *2019-10-12, version 6.0* Was working perfectly fine now as soon as you open the app it closes again!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2025-10-06* I have tried other count down apps and I came back to this one. It is easy to use and customizable exactly as I want it. I use this app all the time ### 5/5 — Best Countdown app *2022-01-03* I love this app! Have tried several others and this is hands down the best! ### 5/5 — Count down *2020-11-08, version 6.10* Love having this to see how long we have to special events. ### 5/5 — It’s FIXED! App Crashes ever since iOS 13.1 update *2019-11-28* I really liked this app but ever since I updated my devices to iOS 13 it now just crashes when trying to open. I have sent 2 emails to the support team but have yet to get a reply on what needs to be done to fix. I noticed that others were having the same issue so you would think they would update the app with a fix. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling and it works for a day and then crashes again. Please contact me with a way to fix this! UPDATED: Looks like the last update has fixed the crashing issue I was having. App is working again. **Developer response:** There is a updated version 6.2 of our app now (my programmer saw the crash issue, and I hope your problem is hereby also solved) Can you update yours with this latest version and also be sure you have the latest iOS 13.2.3 installed? Please let me know if the error still exist? (you can reply on info@bigday-countdown.com) ### 5/5 — Already own app *2019-10-04* I already own the app lt keeps disappearing after I updated my ISO 13.1.1, today at 3:45pm ??? ( Holiday And Vacation APP ). I bought the app on September 8, 2014 please update for the updates. Thank you Your help team got me thru and doing another update on iso . All seems well .... thank you I absolutely love this app ❤️❤️❤️ **Developer response:** Can you tell me please what device you have, and tell me step by step what happened including screenshots? you can email it to info@bigday-countdown.com ### 5/5 — Really useful *2019-05-12, version 5.2* I’ve used it for all sorts of countdowns wedding holidays retirement it’s great plus you can use your own photos, I’ve found it very useful. ### 5/5 — Great App *2019-03-05, version 5.2* Great for keeping track of countdown until vacation. ### 5/5 — Latest update glitchy *2019-01-13, version 5.2* Worked great up until latest update in early January 2019. A number of glitches that need to be fixed. Update: reported glitches to developer and they were fixed very promptly 👍 ### 5/5 — Jp *2017-09-03, version 3.3* Brilliant little app ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2017-08-01, version 3.3* Works well..like that you can add your own personal photo.. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*