Comparison

Contract Countdown vs Camper

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

Head to head
About

Contract Countdown

Track your progress through sea contracts with detailed calculations. Log past contracts to see total days onboard and completed contracts. Calculate days within specific tax years and share your progress.

Highlights
  • Calculate contract days
  • Track total days onboard
  • View days remaining
  • See percentage complete
  • Count completed contracts
  • Calculate tax year days
  • Share progress via screenshot
Features
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Contract Countdown counts down the days of your contract at sea, from joining day to sign-off. Your contracts, safe in iCloud Everything you add is backed up to your own iCloud account. Change phone, reinstall the app or add an iPad, and your contracts come straight back. When you update from an earlier version, your existing contracts are moved across automatically. The gauge you know • The original 0–100 gauge, with a white needle for days completed and a red needle for days remaining • The red zone for the last stretch of your contract, set as a percentage or a number of days • Days completed, total days and days remaining, counting both joining day and sign-off day Your career at sea • Every contract in one history, grouped by year and searchable by ship, cruise line or position • Add your position to each contract and see your career progress • Career stats: days at sea each year, a career timeline, the ships and cruise lines you've worked on, your longest contract and your average time home • Lifetime days at sea across all your contracts Tax days Set the start of your tax year and see how many days you've spent at sea so far, plus the days already scheduled. Browse earlier and later years. A guide to help with your records. On your Home Screen, Lock Screen and wrist • Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen • An Apple Watch app with complications • Ask Siri: "How many days left in Contract Countdown?" Made for crew • Reminders at halfway, when the red zone starts, with 7 days to go, the day before sign-off and the day before joining • Add joining and sign-off days to your calendar • A badge for each cruise line, or add your own logo from Photos • Share a countdown card with friends and family • Export a backup file whenever you like • For iPhone and iPad, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino, Indonesian and Hindi Private by design No account, no ads, no tracking. Your contracts stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. We never see them.

About

Camper

Features
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Camper App isn’t just another camping app… it’s built for the entire camping lifestyle. Camping needs to be safe, and you need to know that you and your family are safe, this leads to more enjoyment and less stress when you get out camping, no matter how you are travelling. Camper App helps bring everything together in one place, members, subscribers get to enjoy the following: Trip Planning – List your stops, status of bookings, list items to purchase / pack etc and share your trip with other users. Enter monthly competitions and win amazing prizes, we are campers, and we all know that if we can get something for free let’s get it. camping equipment is expensive, we run competitions giving away fuel vouchers to camping equipment or even a weekend camping on us. All About food: In here we have camping recipes perfect for anybody to cook and the ability to plan, from here we can generate a shopping list… it’s up to you the amount of detail and meals you plan, this plan is then turned into a shopping list. Join our camping community forum, In here you can chat with people around you, in the UK, start 1-2-1 conversations, share images and advice for all, and if something goes wrong get Help… this is monitored and if warranted a push notification will be sent out to all. Track habitation checks, gas safety & vehicle maintenance: There is so much more to owning a van, Caravan or Motorhome, more than just the MOT, we have a complete section to help you manage and control all this in one place. Classified adds, we all have some gear which we never use, or something we have been given that we already had. We have created classified adds whereby you can advertise these items for free, all included in your monthly subscription. And of course Discover campsites, hidden gems & local services, you can give updates to site, reviews on site and submit sites you want added to the database. Whether you’re a weekend explorer, full-time van lifer, caravan owner, tent camper or family adventurer, Camper App is designed to make camping easier, more organised, more social and far more fun. This isn’t just about finding somewhere to stay.

Screenshots

Contract Countdown4 screens
Camper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Camper at Free against Contract Countdown's $0.99. Camper also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Contract Countdown's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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

Camper is free to download; Contract Countdown costs $0.99 up front. Camper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Contract Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contract Countdown ships an update every 7 months, Camper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Contract Countdown versus Camper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContract CountdownCamper
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB131 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJohn PhillipsThe Cafe App Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Contract Countdown

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Camper

Subscriptions3
  • Members Access$4.991 Month
  • Premium Access$12.993 Months
  • Premium Access$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Contract Countdown free?
Contract Countdown costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Camper free?
Camper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Contract Countdown or Camper have ads?
Neither Contract Countdown nor Camper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contract Countdown or Camper?
Contract Countdown ships an update every 7 months, and Camper fortnightly. Most recently, Contract Countdown was updated on November 1, 2026 and Camper on October 30, 2026.

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