Comparison

Countdown vs Task Office lite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countdown

Manage events, recurring monthly expenses, and countdowns to important dates. Efficiently track multiple timers for various activities. Stay organized with timely notifications for upcoming events and financial obligations.

Highlights
  • Efficient event and expense management
  • Automatic repeating monthly expenses
  • Countdown to important dates
  • Multiple timer management
  • Timely notifications for events and expenses
  • List view of upcoming events and expenses
Features
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“Reminder++" is designed to notify your events, monthly expense, and countdown dates. Features : * You can have a whole list in one screen to have an efficient management * Monthly expenses are automatically repeating every month. (The same date will be repeated for next month if you missed the specified date. 1. The Latest List * Show the list of countdown the d-day and monthly expenses in nearest dates 2. Timer * Multiple Timers (Cooking, Meditation, Break, etc. number of timers can be managed in one screen) * Timer that is being used frequently can be arranged at the top of the list 3. Countdown D-days * Anniversary, Birthday, Children’s birthday, party, meeting, social event and concert, etc. All of your events are managed in one screen * Listed from the nearest date 4. Monthly Expenses (Notification for monthly fees) * Letting you know the list of monthly expenses on time * You can pre-set the details of expenses to let you know on time * Monthly expenses are automatically repeating every month

About

Task Office lite

Organize your daily tasks, projects, and contacts with this comprehensive GTD organizer. Plan your day, track project progress, and manage team collaborations. Syncs with your existing calendars for seamless scheduling.

Highlights
  • Daily task and project planning
  • Contact and relationship management
  • GTD methodology organization
  • Calendar synchronization (iCloud, Google, Exchange)
  • Team management and collaboration
  • Visualized daily, weekly, monthly calendar views
  • Progress tracking for projects
Features
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Task Office is the best of ever existing GTD, to do lists, projects and contacts management apps. Manage both simple and complex projects, to do lists without any difficulties and focus on the final result. Manage your contacts and relationships, schedule your time and succeed. Planning & Performing • Start scheduling each new day on Home screen. Here you will find your current projects and to dos: a timeline with tasks you have planned for today and outline of upcoming tasks. Home screen allows you to focus only on current tasks, planned for today, and not to get lost in plenty of other planned tasks. You can plan your day directly from Home screen creating new tasks, projects, contacts and companies Quick & Easy navigation • Reach any project, task, to do list or contact in seconds. Task Office is designed in a way that will allow you to navigate within app screens just in one tap • Organize your tasks by categories, projects or priorities and make a logic order of all your plans Detailed GTD • Add all important details to get things done: choose tasks category, status, priority and set dates • Assign tasks to people by choosing a person from all existing contacts • Add locations to each task and project • Make all your information categorized – assign special categories for easy filtering and browsing through tasks and projects Comprehensive GTD Tab • All tasks are organized according to GTD methodology (by D. Allen) • Add tasks of different types: - ToDo – tasks with duration of several days - Appointment – assign task duration accurate to minutes - Email/Call – short task for making calls or sending emails to any user Alerts • Use double alert and let the program remind you what is next to be done Tracking project progress • Track the progress of your projects and to do lists by viewing the pipeline: view the percentage of work performed and how many tasks still need to be done • Check out everyone who is involved in project: view the list of contacts involved in the project Managing your team • Create new contacts and companies; add all the important information about your contact or company. Either you can import existing contact from your iOS device Address Book • Send e-mails directly from Contacts Screen • Group your contacts creating your Private Lists, so that you can easily monitor their productivity and track task implementation. Save each Private list and refer back to easily Visualized Calendar • Task Office calendar allows you to focus on what is important in your timeline. See your planed To Dos, Appointments, Emails/Calls to get things done in time • View calendar by day, week or month • Add tasks directly to the Calendar by Tap&Hold • Change tasks duration or Start and Due Dates simply Drag&Drop Calendar Syncing • Task Office syncs with Calendars (iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook) and you will not miss anything checking out due dates iCloud Sync • Sync your information – tasks, projects, contacts, etc. – between your devices Repeating tasks • Add repeated tasks, choosing recurrences frequency Set goals and achieve them. Become a part of Task Office team today!

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Task Office lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown at 100% against Task Office lite's 53%. Countdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Task Office lite's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Task Office lite is free to download; Countdown costs $9.99 up front. Task Office lite sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 7 months, Task Office lite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Countdown versus Task Office lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownTask Office lite
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating—4.0 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better53.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjekyung sungDK CONSULTING, TOV

Customer experience

Countdown

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Task Office lite

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Countdown

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Task Office lite

One-time2
  • Start Trial periodFree
  • Task Office Premium version$19.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Task Office lite free?
Task Office lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown or Task Office lite have ads?
Neither Countdown nor Task Office lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Task Office lite?
Countdown ships an update every 7 months, and Task Office lite every 3 weeks. Most recently, Countdown was updated on October 8, 2026 and Task Office lite on October 14, 2026.

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