Comparison

Countdown Timer vs Yonks

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Timer

Track time remaining until important events or time elapsed since a past event. Receive notifications when a countdown expires. This app offers a simple, ad-free experience for managing your time.

Highlights
  • Countdown timer
  • Count-up timer
  • Event tracking
  • Time remaining
  • Time elapsed
  • Event notifications
Features
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The simplest countdown timer (and regular countdown). Without advertising. The timer works in two modes: 1. How much time left to the event 2. How much time has passed after the event When the timer expires, you will receive a notification.

About

Yonks

Track past and future events with customizable day counters. Set reminders for important milestones, add notes, and organize your events by various criteria. Discover popular event suggestions to get started.

Highlights
  • Customizable counters (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years)
  • Milestone tracking and calendar integration
  • Sortable event lists
  • Add custom notes to counters
  • Pre-made event suggestions
  • Customizable date and time formats
Features
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Yonks is a day counter app for past and future events, you would like to remember. Ever wondered how many days have been passed since you were born or since you've been married? How many weeks are left until your next vacation starts or a project must be finished? Are you counting the days since you've started your diet, daily workout or quit smoking? How many hours until a highly anticipated movie opens or the new awesome video game will be released? Yonks (British slang for "a long time") helps you to keep track of all of these dates and their notable milestones. :) KEY FEATURES - Fully customizable counters: Choose between counting minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years and select a custom emoji and color for every counter. - Milestones: See when a notable milestone occurs (e.g. "When is your 1000 day anniversary?") and add it to your calendar. - Sortable lists: Order your counters manually, alphabetically, increasing or decreasing by date or by color. - Notes: Need to remember more than just a date? No problem, just add a custom note to your counter. - Suggestions: No idea what to add? Yonks has a growing list of popular counters from a variety of categories (holidays, history, sports, movies, games, ...) for you to add with one tap. - Customizable date and time formats: Just change the date, time and number formats according to your personal preferences.

Screenshots

Countdown Timer3 screens
Yonks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown Timer at Free against Yonks's $1.99. Countdown Timer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 19). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Countdown Timer is free to download; Yonks costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Timer has 1.2K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Countdown Timer's written reviews are positive against 69% of Yonks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Timer ships an update every 7 months, Yonks every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Countdown Timer versus Yonks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown TimerYonks
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.4 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews84.8% of reviews — better69.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better19
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGregory StrigunovStefan Grund

Customer experience

Countdown Timer

All ratings1,208 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative13.6%

Yonks

All ratings19 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral21.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral30.8%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Countdown Timer

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Timer not always accurate
  • Countdown not working as expected in some cases

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add widget support
  • Allow multiple timers/countdowns
  • Provide more customization options

Yonks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Countdown Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Yonks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown Timer free?
Countdown Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yonks free?
Yonks costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Timer or Yonks?
Countdown Timer is rated higher. Countdown Timer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Yonks averages 4.4 from 19 ratings.
Do Countdown Timer or Yonks have ads?
Neither Countdown Timer nor Yonks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Timer or Yonks?
Countdown Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Yonks every 5 months. Most recently, Countdown Timer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Yonks on October 24, 2026.

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