Countdown Timer vs Habit Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Countdown timer
- Count-up timer
- Event tracking
- Time remaining
- Time elapsed
- Event notifications
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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.
Habit Tracker
This app helps users build positive routines and break bad habits. It allows for tracking goals and achievements with customizable daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly notifications. A widget is available for quick habit tracking, and users can share progress on social media.
- Create routines for habits and events
- Track goals and achievements
- Set daily, weekly, monthly, yearly notifications
- Habit Tracker widget
- Share goals on social media
- Break bad habits
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Habit Tracker - Day Counter helps you to create routines for your habits and / or events. Habit Tracker is a habit counter, a free application where you can track your habits. User-friendly design allows you to easy usage. - Keep the date of your happy days - Get rid of your bad habits - Track your goals and achievements. Set your personal goals and receive daily, weekly, monthly, yearly notifications as desired. Motivate yourself with periodic notifications that you receive reminders. Keep track of your habits with the Habit Tracker widget. You can share your goals with your friends on social media.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown Timer at 85% against Habit Tracker's 0%. Countdown Timer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Habit Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). On price 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. Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Timer has 1.2K ratings behind it against 4, 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 0% of Habit Tracker's.
Countdown Timer ships an update every 7 months, Habit Tracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Timer | Habit Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gregory Strigunov | Mustafa Yuksel |
Customer experience
Countdown Timer
Habit Tracker
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
Habit Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Timer
No in-app purchases
Habit Tracker
- Remove advertisements$1.99
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