Animal Countdown vs DateDiff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Animal Countdown
Set custom countdowns to any date with personalized colors and photos. Perfect for tracking upcoming events like vacations or birthdays in a visually engaging way.
- Countdown to any date
- Customizable colors
- Add personal photos
- Visually engaging interface
- Track vacations and birthdays
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Normal apps that countdown are boring, it's time to use an app that's both fun to open and use! Animal Countdown is the perfect solution, you can set a countdown to any date and customize it with colors and photos. Whether you're counting down toward your next vacation or maybe your birthday, Animal Countdown is the app for you.
DateDiff
Calculate the duration between two dates, with options to include or exclude weekends. It can also determine an end date based on a start date and a duration, or function as a countdown timer from today to a specific event.
- Calculate days between two dates
- Include or exclude weekends
- Calculate end date from start date and duration
- Countdown timer from today
- Pin start date as today
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An app for calculating the end of a license. It allows setting up the 2 dates and it will calculate how many days are in between, allowing ignore weekends or not. Also, it allows setting up a start date and a number of days and it will calculate the end date. Even more, it let you pin start date as always today to have a days countdown to a specific date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Animal Countdown at none against DateDiff's shown. DateDiff's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs paid) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Animal Countdown against 5.0 for DateDiff. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Animal Countdown ships an update every 2 months, DateDiff every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Animal Countdown | DateDiff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Rohrig | David Vives |
Customer experience
Animal Countdown
DateDiff
In-app purchases
Animal Countdown
No in-app purchases
DateDiff
No in-app purchases
