Countdown Timer vs Countdown Days
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.
Countdown Days
Easily track important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. Get timely reminders and count down the time remaining until your events. Organize events with notes and custom categories.
- Countdown time in years, months, weeks, and days
- Event notification scheduling
- Track time since past events
- Add notes to events
- Categorize events
- Customize themes
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Countdown Days is an App that can help you remember events, anniversaries, and big days and send alerts or reminders according to your time setting. You can effortlessly track your time and this App can count down the years, months, weeks, and days for you. Current features: Countdown time (including years, months, weeks, and days) until your events. Schedule notification to remind you days before your events. Track years, months, weeks, and days since the events you created, Write notes on your events. Categorize your events based on your needs. Customize your themes.
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Verdict
Countdown Timer and Countdown Days both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Countdown Timer's written reviews are positive against 25% of Countdown Days's. Countdown Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Countdown Days's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 7 months). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. Countdown Days sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Countdown Timer against 4.8 for Countdown Days. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Timer has 1.2K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Countdown Timer's written reviews are positive against 25% of Countdown Days's.
Countdown Timer ships an update every 7 months, Countdown Days every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Timer | Countdown Days |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 8 days — 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, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gregory Strigunov | Banghua Zhao |
Customer experience
Countdown Timer
Countdown Days
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
Countdown Days
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Timer
No in-app purchases
Countdown Days
- Remove Ads forever$0.99
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