# Phantom Countdown — user reviews > 174 indexed App Store user reviews of Phantom Countdown by Matthew Sinex, rated 4.60/5 from 276 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phantom-countdown/id1549294840/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phantom-countdown/id1549294840.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 208 · 4★ 38 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 8 ## What do users think of Phantom Countdown? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Persona-themed countdown - 👍 Customizable themes and colors - 🎨 Stylish and visually appealing - 📆 Helpful for tracking deadlines and events - 🎮 Captures the Persona aesthetic **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs with widget functionality - 🔧 Issues with changing themes and colors - 🔒 Lack of transparency in background - 📊 Limited customization options **Commonly reported bugs** - Countdowns disappearing or not saving - Widgets not displaying properly - App freezing when changing notification settings - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Add countdown to lock screen - Integrate with calendar app - Ability to set custom countdown sounds - Automatic countdown rotation - More detailed Persona-themed design ## Newest reviews (17 of 174) ### 3/5 — Countdown disappear randomly *2026-08-09, version 4.0.1* Worked great for two or so years, then within the past year it kept deleting all the countdowns I made randomly. If I put if into a widget it stayed, but if I interacted with it after a while it too would disappear. Overall, does as advertised, don’t get attached to your countdowns until they fix it (if they have I’ll retract this) ### 3/5 — Cool Concept *2026-07-24, version 4.0.1* I wish the Names for your activities weren’t so restrictive. Also Widgets have got to update automatically. Having to manually change them each day is a huge hassle. ### 4/5 — Good but.. *2026-05-11, version 4.0.1* It is a great app overall and having the countdowns as a widget is a great feature but the character limit is very annoying please remove it Edit: it no longer works I try to add a countdown as a widget but none of them show up on the list ### 4/5 — Issue *2026-05-01, version 4.0.1* Currently doesn’t seem to be a way to add/create new countdowns. If I have zero, I can make one, but then no more. ### 4/5 — Good, but glitched *2026-04-08, version 4.0.1* It used to be awesome, but there’s a bug that makes it so you can’t edit the widget ### 4/5 — It’s cool but I don’t understand… *2025-12-22, version 3.5.0* I love the fact that I can make persona themed reminders but when I add a widget I don’t know how to add a count down to it. Sadly the app won’t tell me how too. Can anybody help? ### 4/5 — Broken *2025-12-17, version 3.5.0* Love the app and all the features but it won’t save any of my countdowns and has deleted my old ones. Been happening for about two months now ### 3/5 — Great but no longer works *2025-12-01, version 3.5.0* App is fantastic, utilising the countdown from the franchise into my day to day life makes goals worth doing. However it has been broken for a while and no longer works ### 5/5 — Quite possibly the best app I’ve ever discovered *2025-11-08, version 3.5.0* Fun fact… I actually just came on the App Store originally to check out the new mobile PS5 game that came out a year ago, but also found this app while scrolling. And it’s honestly changed my entire routinely ways since then. Not only do the deadlines look super cool & nearly identical from the original game, but it really has changed how my mind thinks about what needs to get done. Which may sound super crazy, but it’s because your life feels like an actual video game from that point forward. Where it’s addictive to succeed, triumph, and getting your foot in the door. None of that would have happened if it weren’t for me discovering your app, so I just wanted to say thank you very much. ### 4/5 — Awesome but I want one thing *2025-10-30, version 3.5.0* App is super cool but for the persona 5 theme could you add more detail like in the games?? That would make the app 10 times better ### 5/5 — This is a good app in general *2025-10-13, version 3.5.0* I love the persona series especially persona 5 royal and when i saw this app i got it right away cause its about persona obviously and i really like this app cus i can put dates and time and i like the way u can customize as well and thank God its all free😚 🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭 ### 5/5 — PERSONA!!! *2025-10-11, version 3.5.0* I love that this app is both helpful and fun at the same time, anytime I open up my phone and see this, I always get happy. I love that it reminds me of persona five and also at the same time reminds of my personal things I need to remember. Not only that, but it’s indie which I personally love !! <3 I RECOMMEND PHANTOM COUNTDOWNN ### 5/5 — Shortcut Support? *2025-10-11, version 3.5.0* I love this app for my Persona-themed lock & home screens. Only suggestion I have is enabling further shortcut support to set up countdowns and the ability to have a widget that rotates between a selection of countdowns. 10/10 app! ### 5/5 — Honestly Great *2025-09-26, version 3.5.0* Functional timer with panache, quite nice for customizability, having themes for 2, 3, 4, and the Velvet Room, as well as being able to make your own color pallet. The only thing I’d say could be improved is being able to set what time you get reminded to the minute rather than the day. From my experience it sends the showtime notification at 9am every time. I had a reminder set for a video from my namesake premiering at 8 and got the notification an hour later (don’t worry I still caught the premiere I had like 7 alarms set across 5 different apps :3) Aside from that, it’s amazing for all the die-hard-phans out there ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-09-11, version 3.5.0* How is this the only functional countdown app with a widget that doesn’t cost $30 a month?? Will be tipping! Feature request: could we please have 5 digit countdowns? ### 5/5 — Awesome app, but I got an issue *2025-08-19, version 3.5.0* I absolutely love this app. Persona 5 is my favorite game of all time and it’s awesome to see the countdown on my Home Screen, but it’s been giving me issues lately. I tried to set a countdown for the last day of school, but it won’t show up no matter what I try. Other than that, great app ### 4/5 — Very cool, one thing tho *2025-08-03, version 3.5.0* I’m not sure if it’s my phone or just how it works, but the opacity of the background doesn’t seem to work correctly. Instead of becoming transparent, it just changes the shade of whatever colour it’s on. Aside from that, it looks amazing :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken *2025-12-14, version 3.4.1* It was fine before, but the new update came and deleted all of my countdowns. I stuck with it and redid them all, only to find they delete every time i open the app 🙃 ### 1/5 — Great (when it’s working). *2025-08-27, version 3.5.0* It’s not working again. Almost pointless to have this app if the widget can’t display my countdowns and thus don’t get countdown notifications as well. ### 1/5 — background isn't transparent *2025-07-17, version 3.5.0* i've set background color opacity to 0% and it looks transparent (no color) in the app, but on my homescreen it still has black background color. please fix this!! ### 1/5 — background *2024-10-15, version 3.1.1* the transparent widget doesnt really look good againy black wallpapers, bothers me. ### 1/5 — Timers getting deleted *2024-07-14, version 3.1.1* I made 2 timers 2 days ago, I checked today and they were both gone, what happened? ### 1/5 — My timers keep getting deleted *2024-06-11, version 3.1.1* As the title says, the app is constantly clearing the countdowns I set, I’ve tried restarting, I’ve tried remaking them, I’ve tried redownloading the app, but my countdowns keep disappearing long before they are supposed to ### 1/5 — No way of knowing how to use for widgets *2023-06-21, version 2.0* there is no tutorial on how to create a widget for the reminders and it’s quite disappointing as most people do not know how to do it ### 1/5 — Not working :( *2022-03-10, version 2.0* The app doesn’t appear on the widgets list at all. Also there is no guide showing how to add the widget. This means I can’t add any widgets. ### 2/5 — Made the countdowns look worse *2026-08-20, version 4.1.0* Latest update changed the appearance of the countdowns significantly. ### 2/5 — Loved it but… *2024-11-23, version 3.3.0* It worked wonderfully for a few days, but then- whenever I wanted to change the objective or delete a reminder, it crashed (as in the app went unresponsive) and I couldn’t. Can’t change the objective for it either, if I wanted. Would love if it were fixed! (On iOS 18.0.1 btw) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Countdown App *2026-08-01, version 4.0.1* This countdown app and the features it offers are all great! ### 5/5 — Great App, Sometimes Glitches *2026-07-23, version 4.0.1* I much enjoy and appreciate what this app has done for me. My only current issue is that it’s glitched and the option to make a new countdown disappears unless I delete and redownload the app, and then it disappears again as soon as I do one action. ### 5/5 — holy peak ‼️🔥💯 *2026-07-19, version 4.0.1* This app is genuinely one of the best things I’ve ever downloaded. As a persona fan this helps my motivation by at least 50%. Even better if you set a custom notification to the P5 notif sound. Rarely had issues with this besides the list of countdowns not loading sometimes. Looking cool joker! ### 5/5 — True to the games *2026-07-17, version 3.5.0* I’ve just beat persona 5 royal and persona 3 portable recently and the calendar helped me firstly because I’m not really the type of person to keep track of things but it also made my Home Screen look WAY better. It’s perfect for any fan of the series who wants to keep track of their events ### 5/5 — Actually fantastic for time blindness! *2026-07-02, version 4.0.1* I installed this as a fun Persona themed novelty, but now that I’ve used it for two countdowns (~20 days each), this has actually been so great for helping me frame long term time spans and planning out my days. I suffer from time blindness and the days can fly by without me noticing, but this has been so helpful for grounding me in the passage of time. Thank you so much for making this app, it’s wonderful! ### 5/5 — No gimmicks *2026-04-11, version 4.0.1* Nothing shady everything’s free, no ads, can add to lock screen what more do u need ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-02-10, version 3.5.0* Love persona and it’s an amazing countdown app and no ads and free! Highly recommend!! ### 5/5 — awesome *2026-02-02, version 3.5.0* i've been using this for like a year or two just for fun. Its cool ### 5/5 — Just as intended *2025-12-18, version 3.5.0* I can now set myself reminders and think to myself “This is just like Persona 5” I also pay attention to it the most out of any reminder app I’ve ever used ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2025-11-24, version 3.5.0* It works as intended and has a decent amount of customizability! It's a really great app and I would recommend it to any Persona fan. --- *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 2026-08-30.*