# Widget Countdown — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Widget Countdown by Bradley Cable, rated 4.06/5 from 51 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/widget-countdown/id1532721548/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/widget-countdown/id1532721548.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 32 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Widget Countdown? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💰 Completely free with no subscription required - 🎨 Customizable widgets with background image support - 📱 Works seamlessly as home screen widgets - 🎯 Simple and intuitive user interface - 🖼️ Ability to use personal photos as backgrounds - ⚡ Lightweight and easy to use - 👨‍💻 Responsive developer who listens to feedback - 📊 Multiple countdown events supported - 🎭 Clean and attractive design - 🔄 Export/import and calendar integration features **Cons** - 🐛 Widget functionality inconsistent across devices - 🌍 Limited language support - ⚙️ Limited customization options for time format - ❌ No countdown repeat feature (weekly, monthly, yearly) - 🔧 Confusing setup process for new users - 📺 Unskippable ads in some versions - 🎨 Limited color and font customization - 📅 Cannot customize countdown display format (days/hours/minutes) - 🔄 No automatic sorting or reordering of events - ⏰ Only counts down to midnight, not specific times **Commonly reported bugs** - Widgets disappear after app update - Widget shows blank space or doesn't display - Cannot save new events or edits - Photo selection window closes unexpectedly - Primary and secondary color options don't work - Widget stuck in 'continue editing' mode - App crashes regularly requiring reinstall - Widget functionality broken on some iOS versions - App stops working after update - Cannot add events to widget **Most requested features** - Multi-language support - Customizable time format (days, hours, minutes combinations) - Count-up feature in addition to countdown - Recurring events (weekly, monthly, yearly) - Ability to rearrange events manually or by date - Countdown with time of day (not just midnight) - Font preview before selection - Ticking clock animation with hours, minutes, seconds - Medium widget size option - Automatic removal of past events from widget - Format with years, months, and days display - Date format customization (MM/DD/YYYY for US users) - Wide-format widget option - Ability to label countdowns separately from display text - Adjustable text position and styling on widgets ## Newest reviews (16 of 77) ### 4/5 — Very nice, but… *2025-01-29, version 4.5* 1. The app could be available in other languages 2. Some Widgets you can’t customize by for example saying: I want this timer in days, hours and minutes and not in hours, minutes and seconds. 3. You could add a count up. 4. Nothing! This is still the best countdown app I ever had! You can create widgets very easily and you can even use images as background! ### 3/5 — Amazing *2023-12-28, version 4.5* Great app! Widget works. Everything is free. Only thing is you can’t customize the time for the hours count down. It auto count downs until midnight, really wanted a count down until the flight leaves. ### 5/5 — I love it *2023-01-25, version 4.0* I finally found a free countdown that lets me use Lock Screen widgets and my own pictures!!!!! Yesss!!! I love it, and I love the fonts. I only wish a couple things. - I wish I could see an example of the font before selecting it so I don’t have to blindly click through till I find one I want. - I also wish that my widgets countdowns were more like a ticking clock? Does that make sense? I like knowing how many days are left, but I also want to know how many hours, minutes, and seconds. And I want to watch it tick down. Is there already a way to do that? Overall, lovely app and I’m very excited I finally found one I like! ### 5/5 — This the one *2022-09-24, version 3.60* I downloaded 5 stupid other apps before this one finally gave me what I was looking for at no cost and and it being aesthetically pleasing. & I don’t do reviews often ### 5/5 — Grateful! *2022-07-21, version 3.50* Thank you so much for making a free app that genuinely help its users. Also a bonus thanks for regular updates and very little ads! ### 5/5 — FREE WIDGETS!!! *2022-05-30, version 3.1* Thank you SO MUCH for creating a free, easy, customizable countdown app with widgets!! It’s everything it needs to be — awesome !! ### 5/5 — Super App *2022-05-03, version 3.1* Die App ist echt super! Besser als jede die ich je runtergeladen habe. Sie ist kostenlos, die Widgets funktionieren perfekt und man kann sehr einach Hintergrundbilder einfügen! ### 5/5 — I got what I was looking for *2022-05-03, version 3.1* I wanted a FREE Countdown Widget app. After looking through two many apps, this is one of the two free ones I found. Pretty sure there’s in app purchase, but I was able to do what I wanted to. THANKS to the app creators. Also it’s kind of simple, didn’t find font options, but again I used free version. ### 5/5 — Превосходно! *2022-04-25, version 3.1* Спасибо разработчику за такое приложение Можно добавить фон к счётчику дат, добавить этот виджет на рабочий стол, все что нужно ! 🔥🔥🔥 ### 5/5 — Simple and Effective with Ads *2022-02-17, version 3.1* This app has a lot less features than the more popular paid options, however if you just want a simple countdown widget with your own background then watch an ad and it's yours. ### 5/5 — Best countdown app! *2022-01-22, version 3.0* Simple, free and it actually works! I’ve downloaded a bunch of countdown apps trying to find one that actually works and doesn’t charge a subscription, this is by far the best. Thank you! You’re helping me to stay on track in preparing for our wedding day😁 ### 5/5 — Countdown format option? *2021-10-10, version 3.0* Very nice app. Is there a way to format the countdown to include years, months, and days, etc.? Like “3 years, 4 months, 12 days, 6 hours…” ### 5/5 — perfect *2021-09-30, version 3.0* no ads clean easy to use i love it ### 5/5 — Best app out there!! *2021-09-21, version 3.0* 😁 ### 5/5 — FINALLY *2021-09-06, version 3.0* A FREE WIDGET APP THAT IS SIMPLE AND AWESOME!! 🤩 Thank you so much for making this!!!! I spent the last 2+ hours looking for one without a subscription it was so annoying 😡 ### 5/5 — Tolle App *2021-07-25, version 3.0* Die App ist toll. Die negativen Bewertungen kommen vermutlich von der Konkurrenz denn da gibts einige, der Countdown Markt ist hart umkämpft :-) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Absoluter Müll! *2022-03-04, version 3.1* Die App ist so furchtbar programmiert, das würde ich selbst besser hinbekommen! Nichtmal ein Widget kann man sich vernünftig erstellen. Da gebe ich lieber Geld bei der Konkurrenz aus. ### 1/5 — Cant preview what it will look like *2022-02-20, version 3.1* Not many customization options at all ### 1/5 — Can’t edit or create events. *2021-08-26, version 3.0* It didn’t work. I tried to both create new events and edit the sample event, and can’t save anything. This looked like exactly what I needed. If it is fixed, I’ll return and change my review, but for now it’s broken. ### 1/5 — Widgets disappeared!!! *2021-04-23, version 2.9* I loved this app....then it updated and all my widgets disappeared. When I open the app they all say ‘continue editing’, so I finish and close - (even though I was never editing in the first place - but still no widgets. When I open the app again, all my apps still say ‘continue editing’. Shame - this WAS really useful ### 1/5 — Awful *2021-04-22, version 2.9* Just stopped working after the update. Deleting. ### 1/5 — Cannot put on Home Screen *2021-01-30, version 2.5* Does not actually work as a widget, only works in the app. Not what it is advertised for. ### 1/5 — Literally don’t work *2020-11-27, version 2.5* Widget doesn’t work. Just shows blank widget ### 1/5 — DO NOT HAVE WIDGETS *2020-10-05, version 2.0.1* Even though the description in app shows that there are widgets. There are no widgets whatsoever. Fake. ### 2/5 — Buggy, unskippable ads, “day of” countdown *2022-02-09, version 3.1* Tried searching for photos on my phone for a background, but the photo window closed itself every time I tried. Primary and secondary colors for choices didn’t affect anything. No in-app purchases, but banner ads on Home Screen and unskippable annoying ads after creating an event. Won’t count down to a specific time of day, just the day ### 2/5 — Worked at first *2021-04-22, version 2.9* When I first downloaded this app it worked well now the widget won’t let me add an event to it. It just goes into edit mode and never adds the even to the widget. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Countdown to adoption day! *2025-01-18, version 4.5* Found this very useful for counting down to the day I adopt a cat. ### 5/5 — Deleted Countdown on Accident !! *2025-01-08, version 4.5* Hello Bradley , I have been searching where I could contact you about this — I am in a long distance relationship and have been using this app , your app , to countdown every single visit between us :) it is so sweet being able to look back each one however , I had accidentally deleted one past countdown and I am so heartbroken over this.. I would really like to contact you else where , but I am wondering if there is a way to bend the rules as I can’t add a past date , to remake it? It would mean the absolute world to me. Thank you for the wonderful app ### 5/5 — Super & wirklich kostenlos *2024-04-16, version 4.5* Bei allen anderen Countdown Apps kann man die Widgets kostenlos erstellen, aber dann nur gegen ein Abo/Einmalzahlung auf dem Homescreen aktivieren. Endlich eine App die wirklich kostenlos ist. Zwar mit Werbung, aber das ist für mich ok! Bin sehr zufrieden :) ### 5/5 — Widget mit Anzeige der verbleibenden Tage kostenlos *2024-03-04, version 4.5* Im Gegensatz zu fast allen anderen Countdown-Apps ist hier das Widget mit Anzeige der verbleibenden Tage auch kostenlos. Absolut zu empfehlen. ### 5/5 — Finally found a good free countdown widget *2023-10-16, version 4.5* My god I'm so happy I found this one, theres so many countdown apps that you have to pay for in order to use the widget function. 10/10 and it looks very pretty on my phone while I dread each assignment coming up 😌 ### 5/5 — Amazing app (with responsive devs) *2023-10-08, version 4.5* In contrast to my older review, thank you for bringing back the automated sorting feature from the older version of the app! I’m glad to have found out that action has been taken to address the issue raised! ### 5/5 — Amazing countdown. And it’s free. *2023-09-30, version 4.5* I love this countdown. It’s also free. I don’t mind paying a little so I paid to remove ads. I wouldn’t mind to buy developer a coffee either. What I don’t like with other countdowns that you have to pay subscription (another one in your life). And I don’t want that especially that I need only 1 countdown at the moment. Anyway. This countdown is different and I love it. Hopefully more people will discover it. ### 5/5 — Geile App *2023-09-22, version 4.5* Super Genial, vielen Dank 🤩 ### 5/5 — Great widget! Clean and useful. *2023-09-09, version 4.5* I like the medium widget best. It shows the 4 next events I have set up in days to event. Very clean and attractive interface. Love that it’s free as there’s no need for subscriptions for a lot of apps. The only thing I’d wish is that past events would automatically drop off the widget and the next event in time would add on. I do this manually now. Other than that great widget! Highly recommend!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-05-11, version 4.5* I spent hours trying different apps but always ended up getting to a feature I wanted to use that was “premium” so ended up uninstalling. This is exactly what I was looking for, it allows multiple events and has good widget options. Displays nicely too. Happy to have ads so don’t have to pay for features. 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