Countdowns ※ vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdowns ※
Create stylish countdowns to important events like vacations, birthdays, or concerts. Customize units from years to seconds and use your own photos as backgrounds. Receive notifications and share your countdowns easily.
- Customizable countdown units (years to seconds)
- Personalized photo backgrounds
- Event notifications
- Screenshot sharing
- Multiple sharing platforms
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Countdown to your next event - your up coming vacation, your spouse's birthday, your favorite band’s concert, the next movie premiere, your child's graduation, your anniversary, and more - with style! FEATURES • Customizable Unit for Countdowns: Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. • Use your own photo as the background. • Notification for your events. • Share screenshots of your countdown with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email, Whatsapp and ohters.
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
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Verdict
Countdowns ※ and Countdown@ both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Countdowns ※'s written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s. Countdowns ※ also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Countdown@'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (39K vs 23). On price, rating, 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. Countdowns ※ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Countdowns ※ against 4.7 for Countdown@. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Countdowns ※'s written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s.
Countdowns ※ ships an update every 27 months, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdowns ※ | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23 ratings) | 4.7 (39K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 37.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 39K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | iReka Soft | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Countdowns ※
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
Countdowns ※
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
In-app purchases
Countdowns ※
- Extras Awesomeness$1.99
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Questions
Is Countdowns ※ free?
Is Countdown@ free?
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