Comparison

Countdowns ※ vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown units (years to seconds)
  • Personalized photo backgrounds
  • Event notifications
  • Screenshot sharing
  • Multiple sharing platforms
Features
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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.

About

Countdown

Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurrent event tracking
  • Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Customizable designs and templates
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Notifications for key dates
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Countdowns ※4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown at every 10 days against Countdowns ※'s every 27 months. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (3K vs 23). Countdowns ※'s advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Countdowns ※ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 3K 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 82% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdowns ※ ships an update every 27 months, Countdown every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdowns ※ versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdowns ※Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (23 ratings)4.7 (3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better81.6% of reviews
Number of ratings233K — better
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB183 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiReka Softkeinois OU

Customer experience

Countdowns ※

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Countdown

All ratings3,031 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews602 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative12.8%

Bugs and requests

Countdowns ※

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdowns ※

One-time1
  • Extras Awesomeness$1.99
14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Countdowns ※ free?
Countdowns ※ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdowns ※ or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. Countdowns ※ averages 4.6 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3K ratings.
Do Countdowns ※ or Countdown have ads?
Neither Countdowns ※ nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdowns ※ or Countdown?
Countdowns ※ ships an update every 27 months, and Countdown every 10 days. Most recently, Countdowns ※ was updated on September 12, 2026 and Countdown on September 25, 2026.

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