# Outside: Countdown for Couples — user reviews > 200 indexed App Store user reviews of Outside by Outside HQ LTD, rated 4.70/5 from 2,751 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/outside-countdown-for-couples/id1611434405/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/outside-countdown-for-couples/id1611434405.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,354 · 4★ 167 · 3★ 73 · 2★ 33 · 1★ 124 ## What do users think of Outside? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Free home/lock screen countdown widget - 👍 Simple and chic design - 👍 Highly customizable - 👍 Seamless calendar integration - 👍 Useful AI assistant - 👍 Great for organizing events and meetups **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy, crashes, and glitches - 💰 Subscription-based model, expensive pricing - 🔒 Limits free features, forces paid subscription - 🤔 Confusing and changing pricing structure - 🤔 Lack of transparency around free vs paid features **Commonly reported bugs** - Widget not working after iOS updates - Countdown events suddenly blocked by paywall - Paid subscription not working as expected **Most requested features** - More customization options for widgets - Ability to delete or edit events - Improved Android support - Memories/map feature to track past events ## Newest reviews (10 of 200) ### 4/5 — Great app with free widgets, but minor bug recently *2026-07-16* Outside has been a great app for countdowns, and since I started using it at the start of this summer it’s been great! Even with just the free features there is a great amount of customization, and it’s been a great app. However, a few days ago I started seeing a bug I’d never had before. I like to put my countdowns in days and turn on detailed units, which in the past has been great. However, recently my countdowns have all been a day off. I have one for tomorrow that should be less than 24h away, but it currently says 1 day 20 hours instead of just 20 hours. Similarly, for something I have two weeks from today, it says 14 days 15 hours etc instead of 13 days 15 hours. This does not completely break functionality, since if I turn off detailed units it still effectively counts the right number of days, just rounding up rather than down. Still, this was not something I experienced on countdowns even a week ago. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words and for such a clear, detailed report — you diagnosed it perfectly. That off-by-a-day rounding with detailed units was a timing bug on our end, and it's now fixed in the latest update (0.88.5). Please update and your countdowns should read correctly again. Really glad you've enjoyed Outside this summer, and thank you for helping us make it better. ### 3/5 — Was working until iOS update and all my countdowns are lost *2026-07-14* App asked to sign up thought it would remember / retain what I had on my other phone but it just deleted the data on that phone as well smh 🤦‍♀️ **Developer response:** Hey please can you email and we can see what happened and get them back ### 3/5 — Can’t add photos to more than one. *2026-07-08, version 0.88.1* I tried to do a lifetime subscription but couldn’t get more than one to add a photo. Not user friendly app at all. I deleted it. ### 2/5 — Cool concept *2026-06-12, version 0.87.7* It’s a cool concept but it wouldn’t let me share my countdown which was the whole point of downloading the app so I deleted it. ### 2/5 — Off By A Day *2026-06-09, version 0.87.7* Honestly the app is just what I needed. A bit glitchy, but overall easy to get set up. It is a bit unfortunate however that an app that’s sole purpose is to provide a countdown would be one day off. I just had to push back the date a day to get the correct number of days, but that probably shouldn’t be the case lol. ### 3/5 — Photos *2026-05-07, version 0.87.6* Photos doesn’t seem to be working ### 3/5 — Pictures Bugged *2026-04-12* Overall a good app, although we’ve been using the picture feature for the last month and as every day passes the pictures are far off right to the screen and makes it impossible to see what the other person posted, along with the camera button disappearing. **Developer response:** Thanks for sharing this, will investigate what's happening here and get a fix out. Please email us if you can a screenshot blake@outside.so. Will get this back to great for you! ### 2/5 — Events wiped *2026-03-24, version 0.87.0* I had lists of events set up on my account. They still showed in a widget. But when I went to update in the app itself, everything was gone and it was asking me to sign up. No way to get back the events that I had already entered ### 1/5 — Sad *2026-01-26* Another disappointment as I’m tricked into sneaky subscription based apps! **Developer response:** Hey there! The app is free to use for as many events and widgets as you want. The subscription is just for some extras but the free plan includes as much as we can. Our goal is the free plan has more than any other apps paid version. ### 1/5 — No longer free *2025-11-14, version 0.85.1* My widget quit working, so I go to the app. It says my free trial is over and now I have to pay the preferred $44.49/year?? I wasn’t on a free trial for the last year, I was on a lower tier free version where certain stuff was paywalled. No one does a year long free trial. $45 PER YEAR for a countdown app….😆 It’s not even worth 45 as a one time payment. Which interestingly is listed as an option as well at the bottom. And when I clicked out of this choose your payment plan, I got a popup that said “Too much? Here’s 40% off forever. $29.49/year. Free trial 7 days.” Like what in the grift? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Days are less than 24 hours! *2026-07-13, version 0.88.2* Why since yesterday has my countdown moved from 78 to last night 77 and now 76 days? Not a good countdown ### 1/5 — Scammed *2026-06-25, version 0.88.0* When I first got this app, I thought it was great, I could communicate, post and me and my significant other can easily navigate through the app. Now it wants us to pay to chat, makes the app hard to navigate due to them wanting us to pay for a subscription. What a huge downfall ### 1/5 — Annoying *2026-06-17, version 0.87.8* This app is the most annoying thing I have ever used. Someone tried to share an event with me and I tried to download it and the app made me jump through absolute hoops to do anything. Horribly annoying. Do not recommend unless you enjoy putting yourself through tedious tasks ### 1/5 — No opinion yet *2026-06-10* Haven’t had a chance to use it yet **Developer response:** Fair enough 😄 Hope Outside is useful once you’ve had a chance to try it. If anything feels confusing, email team@outside.so and we’ll help. ### 1/5 — Basic *2026-04-11* Only has option for days, not weeks months etc. **Developer response:** Hey in settings you can switch the way the countdowns look under "Personalization" - Please try and let me know if this matches what you expect! ### 1/5 — Scammed *2026-04-03, version 0.87.3* When I first got this app, I thought it was great, I could communicate, post and me and my significant other can easily navigate through the app. Now it wants us to pay to chat, makes the app hard to navigate due to them wanting us to pay for a subscription. What a huge downfall ### 1/5 — KEEP UPDATING AND FIXING THE ISSUES *2026-03-26, version 0.87.01* I deleted and redownloaded it off my phone so it would fix the lag and it did but it had the wrong times and I I couldn’t add anything to my calendar i would click on calendar and it would take me to the home screen and now I signed out and it won’t let me do anything now it keeps saying unable to create event if I could do no stars I would ### 1/5 — Won’t upload pics *2026-03-09, version 0.86.2* Works great now the pictures won’t upload and stay. ### 1/5 — Image Upload Fail *2026-02-18, version 0.85.9* Please fix this issue. ### 1/5 — Buggy App 👎 *2026-01-26, version 0.85.6* I purchased the Pro subscription to this app and it’s always logging me out and asking me to resubscribe when I’ve already paid. The other problem is my images won’t upload to my events. Every time I try to upload an image lately it tells me “Image upload failed. Please try again.” Why pay for something that doesn’t work? Ridiculous. 👎 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good to go *2026-07-31, version 0.88.7* Most recent update fixed my problem! Tbh this app fixes something I miss since transitioning to iOS from Samsung, days until / countdown ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-06-25, version 0.88.0* Been using this for over a year. Super simple, great UX. 9/10! ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-06-10, version 0.87.7* No hiding things behind paywalls, great and simple app. It would be good to countdown in weeks as well. ### 5/5 — Ignore the others - get this countdown app *2026-05-25* All the other apps that offer a countdown hide their widget behind a paywall, making it mostly pointless. I saw a Reddit post from the creator of Outside saying that the widget is FREE for this app. It’s true! It’s also a much prettier app. Deserves more recognition as the best app of its kind. **Developer response:** Thanks for such a nice review!! ### 5/5 — Great planner app *2026-05-24, version 0.87.6* I’ve tried other planner apps and this one covers everything I could want. Invite friends to view. Widget capable. Daily countdown. Different versions of widgets. ### 5/5 — So good! *2026-05-23, version 0.87.6* Works great for my needs and the widgets are actually free. The best app for tracking countdowns. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-05-12, version 0.87.6* It’s amazing I mean amazing now. I know when my birthday is I literally love this app. ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2026-04-16, version 0.87.4* Free and user friendly ### 5/5 — I literally love this app and I just got it *2026-04-06, version 0.87.3* 5 star ### 5/5 — The new update not good *2026-02-14, version 0.85.7* Please read this outside! It’s not the best update we need more like Ai with in it to ai generate ideas --- *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 2026-09-09.*