Countdown vs Flashlight Lightbeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track important dates and special moments with a redesigned, intuitive interface. Features include home screen widgets, customizable date formats, and per-event color selection for a personalized experience.
- Home screen widget
- Customizable date formats
- Dark mode support
- Per-event color selection
- Intuitive interface
- Event management
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Countdown helps you keep track of the dates that matter: birthdays, vacations, weddings, deadlines, anniversaries. Add an event and see at a glance how many days are left (or how many have passed). FOR EVERYONE • Add an event in a few taps: tap "+", enter a title and a date, done • 8 theme colors to tell your events apart • List, small grid or large grid view • Two Home Screen widgets: your upcoming events, or a single event of your choice • Your preferred date format, Dark Mode and a setting for long titles • Search by name • Your events are also saved to a file you can find in the Files app COUNTDOWN PRO An optional one-time purchase. No subscription. • Background images: pick one of 20 built-in backgrounds or use your own photos • 4 more fonts besides the system one: Rounded, Serif, Monospace and Condensed • Any color you like for each event, beyond the 8 presets • Unlimited events (without Pro you can create up to 3; sample events don't count) Already bought Countdown? Pro is yours, forever, and there's nothing you need to do: everything stays just as it was. If it doesn't show as active, open Settings → Countdown Pro in the app and tap "Restore purchases". NATIVE, OFFLINE, CLEAN Countdown is built in SwiftUI, native to iPhone and iPad: fast, light and right at home on iOS. It works entirely offline. No ads, no accounts, no tracking, no third-party SDKs: your events stay on your device. Available on iPhone and iPad, in more than 30 languages.
Flashlight Lightbeam
This utility app provides a powerful and user-friendly flashlight with customizable light patterns and adjustable color temperature. It prioritizes user privacy by not collecting any data. Access all functions quickly and easily whenever you need light.
- Customizable light patterns
- Adjustable color temperature
- Intuitive user interface
- Fast access to functions
- No data collection
- Powerful LED light
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- Customized light patterns: Create, save and play - perfect for any occasion. - Change color temperature: depending on the model, you can switch the LED to warm or cool white - User-friendly: Intuitive operation, lightning-fast access to all functions. - Maximum privacy: No data collection - your safety comes first. - Powerful flashlight: Always at hand when you need light.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flashlight Lightbeam at 100% against Countdown's 63%. Flashlight Lightbeam also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Countdown's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (212 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Flashlight Lightbeam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 212 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flashlight Lightbeam's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Countdown ships an update every 7 months, Flashlight Lightbeam every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Flashlight Lightbeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (212 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 212 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Tini | Leonhard Hundschell |
Customer experience
Countdown
Flashlight Lightbeam
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Pro$5.99
Flashlight Lightbeam
- Flashlight Lightbeam$1.99
Questions
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