Countdown Day · Widget & Timer vs Kounts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Day · Widget & Timer
Track important upcoming events with visually appealing countdowns. Customize your event cards with photos and icons, and share your progress on social media. Receive timely notifications to ensure you never miss a special date.
- Customizable countdown cards
- Gallery photo backgrounds
- Event categories with icons
- Social media sharing options
- D-Day notifications
- iCloud backup and sync
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Day is a countdown timer for the moments that matter — trips, birthdays, anniversaries, deadlines, launches, and the small dates you still care about. Set a date and Day counts down the days, hours, and minutes until it arrives. Once it passes, keep it on your Home as an ongoing count-up, or let it settle into your Memory Box to look back on. EVERY MOMENT, BEAUTIFUL - Photo or gradient backgrounds for every event - Choose from an online photo gallery or use your own - Clean, editorial typography that's a pleasure to open ALWAYS IN SIGHT - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets - A glance tells you how long is left — no need to open the app MADE YOURS - Warm, Light, and Dark themes - Show years, months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds - List, grid, and carousel layouts MORE WAYS TO COUNT - Count down to future dates, or count up from past ones - Ideas: start a countdown from a ready-made card - Reminders one week before, the day before and that morning - Count to the next one after a day has passed - Memory Snap: keep a photo with any countdown, saved on this device - Touch and hold a card to drag it where you want it - Import events straight from your calendar - Share a beautiful countdown card with the people in it - Custom reminder messages so you never miss the day - iCloud backup keeps your events safe across devices Day is free to use, widgets included. Premium adds photo widgets, themes, the online photo gallery, backup and restore, extra layouts, and removes ads. Essentials is a one-time option for photo widgets and no ads. Made with care for the days worth waiting for. Terms of Use: https://countdownday.com/app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://countdownday.com/app/privacy/
Kounts
Track upcoming events with visually appealing countdowns. Personalize your widgets with photos and choose from various styles. Share events with friends and family for collaborative countdowns.
- Customizable countdown widgets
- Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch support
- Dynamic Island and Live Activity integration
- Personalized photos and depth effects
- Birthday import from contacts
- Ready-made countdown packs
- Shared countdown spaces
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Kounts counts the days until whatever you're waiting for: a trip, a birthday, a wedding, a game release, Christmas. Every widget is free and there are no ads. You don't need an account. Add the date, pick how it looks, and the countdown sits where you'll see it: your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your Apple Watch, and the Dynamic Island on the day itself. COUNTDOWN WIDGETS, ALL FREE • Eight Home Screen widgets, and on iOS 27 four of them can fill a whole page • Lock Screen widgets, StandBy, Control Center and the Action Button • A Live Activity and a Dynamic Island countdown on the day • An Apple Watch app with complications • Kounts turns with your iPhone and spreads out on iPad, Mac and the iPhone Duo. One Premium purchase covers every device DAYS UNTIL, DAYS SINCE See how many days are left, or watch it run down live in days, hours, minutes and seconds. It counts up too: days since you quit smoking, years together. A birthday can repeat every year, and a trip can run for several days. YOUR PHOTOS, WITH DEPTH Put your own photo behind any countdown. When it shows people or pets, the count can sit behind them, like the clock on the Lock Screen. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, a photo of a poster or an invitation becomes a countdown: Kounts reads the name, the place and the date for you. BIRTHDAYS FROM YOUR CONTACTS Add the birthdays already saved in your contacts in one go, each with the person's photo and age. They stay up to date when a contact changes. READY-MADE COUNTDOWNS Follow a pack in Discover and its dates arrive as countdowns that stay right on their own: Video Games and Movies (release day), TV Shows (the next episode), Moon & Sky (moon phases, eclipses, meteor showers), Public Holidays (22 countries) and Faith & Traditions (Ramadan, Passover, Diwali and more). Browsing is free, each pack is a one-off purchase, and Premium includes them all. TEN CARD STYLES A full picture with a progress ring, a tear-off calendar page, a ticket stub, one giant number, your photo inside a ring, and five more. Pick from ten gradients, five fonts, accent colors and sixteen app icons. HOLIDAYS COME WITH THEIR OWN LOOK 25 holidays have their own colors and decorations, free for everyone: Halloween, Christmas, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year and more. The dates match where you live, like Mothering Sunday in the UK or Thanksgiving in October in Canada. COUNT DOWN TOGETHER • Create a Shared Space for up to 5 people and everyone sees the same countdowns. Anyone can add or edit, and joining is free • Or share a single event: friends follow it live and add their pictures to a shared album REMINDERS Up to five reminders per event, and an Important event rings a full screen alarm, even in a Focus. LOOK BACK, TOO Add photos to any event and they stay with it. On This Day brings back countdowns from earlier years, and in December your year turns into a recap. SIRI AND SPOTLIGHT Ask Siri "when is Mum's birthday" or find an event in Spotlight. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, describe an event in plain language and Kounts fills in the details. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Your events live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. There is nothing to sign up for, and Premium syncs them across your devices. Kounts is free, with room for 15 countdowns. Premium is one purchase, yearly or lifetime: unlimited countdowns, every card style, font, color and app icon, photo memories, iCloud sync, calendar sync, sharing, and the depth effect on widgets and share images. Pick a date you're looking forward to and start counting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kounts at 100% against Countdown Day · Widget & Timer's 9%. Kounts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Countdown Day · Widget & Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Day · Widget & Timer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Kounts sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kounts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Countdown Day · Widget & Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kounts's.
Countdown Day · Widget & Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, Kounts every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Day · Widget & Timer | Kounts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nattapon Kittisuphat | Daniel Caceiro Aversari |
Customer experience
Countdown Day · Widget & Timer
Kounts
In-app purchases
Countdown Day · Widget & Timer
- Day Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Day Pro1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- Day Pro Annual Trial3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Essentials$6.99
- Day Pro Lifetime$14.99
Kounts
- Kounts Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Moon & Sky pack$1.99
- Public Holidays pack$1.99
- TV Shows pack$1.99
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- Movies pack$1.99
- Faith & Traditions pack$1.99
- Video Games pack$1.99
- All Packs$3.99
- Kounts Lifetime Member$19.99
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