Comparison

Life Tally vs Counter #

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

Head to head
About

Life Tally

Discover fascinating life milestones and celebrate significant moments. Track birthdays, anniversaries, and even count down to future events. View fun estimates of your life's moments and share milestones with others.

Highlights
  • Track birthdays and anniversaries
  • Celebrate life milestones
  • Countdown to future events
  • View photo memories
  • Estimate life statistics
  • Share milestones
  • Compare time between events
Features
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Everyone knows when their birthday is, but do you know when your 10,000th day is? It happens in your 27th year. What about your one billionth second? That happens in your 31st year. Discover these and many more interesting life milestones with Life Tally. Birthdays and Anniversaries. Never forget your friends’ and family’s birthdays and anniversaries by creating simple profiles and turning on notification reminders. Celebrate Milestones. Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Celebrate milestones like the millionth second of a wedding anniversary, the 1,000th day since a pet adoption, or the 10,000th hour of a child’s life. Future Event Countdown. Add an event in the future, or the expected birthdate of a child, and countdown the days remaining. Photo Memories. Check each day to see photos from a year or two (or five or ten) ago. Fun Estimates. View estimates such as your total heartbeats, breaths, blinks, and more. Share Milestones. Easily share an upcoming milestone through Messages for a fun conversation starter. Compare and Contrast. Track the time between two people or events down to the second. Find your next reason to celebrate with Life Tally!

About

Counter #

Features
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Counter — Simple, Powerful & Personal Tally Counter Counter is a fast, elegant, and easy-to-use counting app designed to track anything in your daily life — clicks, habits, workouts, events, goals, study sessions, tasbeeh, or whatever you need. More than just counting, Counter helps you keep your progress safe and make every counter truly yours. Key Features Save progress Never lose your count. Continue exactly where you left off. Customize with your own photos Personalize each counter using images from your gallery. Fast and responsive counting Smooth tapping — perfect for frequent use. Multiple counters Create and manage different counters for different goals. Easy increment & decrement Adjust values however you need. Clean and customizable design A beautiful interface that keeps focus on what matters. Whether for productivity, organization, or personal goals, Counter is the easiest and most visual way to track your numbers. Count anything. Lose nothing. Make it yours.

Screenshots

Life Tally4 screens
Counter #4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Counter # at none against Life Tally's 2. Counter # also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Life Tally sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Counter # asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Tally ships an update every 2 months, Counter # every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Life Tally versus Counter #: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife TallyCounter #
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size233 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew ParrottYuri Costa Casadei

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Life Tally

One-time2
  • Starter Stats Add-on$0.99
  • Pro Version$4.99
None

Counter #

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life Tally free?
Life Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Counter # free?
Counter # is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Life Tally or Counter # have ads?
Neither Life Tally nor Counter # shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Tally or Counter #?
Life Tally ships an update every 2 months, and Counter # every 2 days. Most recently, Life Tally was updated on October 2, 2026 and Counter # on October 4, 2026.

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