Countdown widget vs Day Counter Ⓞ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown widget
Easily track upcoming events with a customizable countdown timer. Never miss important dates like birthdays, holidays, or anniversaries again. Personalize your countdowns with unique styles, colors, and images, and view them directly on your home screen.
- Event countdowns
- Homescreen widgets
- Customizable styles
- Event notifications
- HD widget themes
- Shareable event updates
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----*** App is nominated as 'App of the day' by Design Nominee ***--- Are you often waiting for special events in your life, such as your first day at work, your wedding day, the day your baby was born, first salary, first bonus, summer holiday, Halloween, Christmas, Birthday, New Year’s Eve, camping trip...You write it on calendar, and count each day, each week... until that day. Then, are you manually calculating days left until these special dates? You want someone to remind it for you, because you might forget and feel bad about it. This app is exact what you are looking for : 'Countdown widget - unique styles countdown timer'. 'Countdown widget' is an easy-to-use, free app that reminds you about important events in your life. Never ever miss these events again. This countdown app displays exactly the number of days, hours... remaining for your event automatically, and notify you when the moment is near. Furthermore, you don't even need to open app, and can still keep track of your countdown by using widget. When using this app, what you need to do, is just sit back, and enjoy your life with a cup of coffee. Now, 'Countdown widget' is totally different from other countdown widgets. Unlike other apps which show only boring white text and numbers, this app focuses into personalizing your countdown event with templates, colors, font and images. You can design your own countdown, paste it on to the wall and share it to your friends. This app is also strongly designed for iOS 10, which comes with best widget design. Countdown Widget - Unique styles timer features summary: - Never miss another Christmas, Holiday, Halloween, Event, Birthday, Wedding or Anniversary with Countdown Timer Widget. - Birthday Countdown timer - Event Countdown widget - Day Countdown widget for homescreen - Customize your app with dozens of beautiful wallpapers. - All your events now stored in a single view. - Choose between dozens of beautiful application themes, coming with 2 sizes(half and full width of screen) - Event notification options. - Customize events with colors. - Stunning HD Widget themes. - Support any types of time: year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second Special events are meant for sharing. With new, beautiful HD themes, countdown widget app is not only useful, it looks stunning as well. We have ensured that you can share graphic-rich event updates on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or via email. Although most of the templates are free, some of them are locked and require payment to get unlocked. You can unlock these templates from within the app for only 0.99. This app is super easy to use, just choose a countdown template then type event name & date. BOOM, it's done, and already on your widget screen. Enjoy, we hope you will have many meaningful days and moments in your life. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at long-nguyen@activeuser.co
Day Counter Ⓞ
Easily track time until or since any event with customizable countdowns. Organize important dates, set reminders, and personalize your event trackers. Improve productivity and never forget special occasions.
- Customizable countdowns and count-ups
- Event reminders and alerts
- Notes for personalization
- Auto-import calendar events
- Backup and sync across devices
- Dark and light modes
- Widgets
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Keep a countdown clock that counts to or from any event, all with just a few taps! It’s the easiest way to track how much time until your birthday, see how long it’s been since a certain event, or find out how many hours or days have passed. One countdown app with endless counters, and it’s all for free! You can use Day Counter to track important dates, the time until office events, hours since an event, and so much more. You can even count down the days until your next anniversary, just so you don’t forget! It’s an easy way to keep track of time or look forward to something, and it’s very easy to use, too. This countdown timer and calendar is useful for students, professionals, retired people, and everyone in-between. You can also track distant events so you know exactly how long it will be until Christmas or your favorite movie or game’s release date. Organize your life or remind yourself of events long past, and do it the easy way! Features: - Multiple categories to easily sort and find events - See a list of events sorted by time - Write notes to personalize your event trackers - Set reminders and alerts for upcoming events - Auto-import calendar events to quickly set timers - Backup and sync events across devices - Dark mode and light mode - Customizable categories, event widgets, and much more! Day Counter is a fast and easy way to improve your productivity and boost your ability to remember important events. Need a sobriety day counter? A Christmas countdown clock? A way to count the number of days until your vacation? You can create events and customize counters in just a few seconds, then set reminders or widgets to help you remember! Make your life a little easier with this incredibly useful and fully customizable countdown timer, tracker, and clock. Download Day Counter today and see just how useful it can be! Premium Subscription: Day Counter premium subscription which is available on a weekly and yearly tier, auto-renewable. The yearly subscription is priced at 3.99 USD/week and 29.99 USD/year (or local equivalent). You will be able to use unlimited events, backup & sync events, multiple widgets sizes, no ads and much more. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. Unused portions of free trials, if offered, will be forfeited upon purchase of a subscription. Links to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: Privacy Policy: https://www.rvappstudios.com/privacypolicy.html#privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.rvappstudios.com/privacypolicy.html#terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Countdown widget at none against Day Counter Ⓞ's shown. Countdown widget also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (89% vs 75%). Day Counter Ⓞ's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3). 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 widget sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Day Counter Ⓞ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Day Counter Ⓞ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 73 and 32 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Countdown widget's written reviews are positive against 75% of Day Counter Ⓞ's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Countdown widget ships an update every 3 weeks, Day Counter Ⓞ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown widget | Day Counter Ⓞ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (73 ratings) | 4.6 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tien Long Nguyen | RV AppStudios LLC |
Customer experience
Countdown widget
Day Counter Ⓞ
In-app purchases
Countdown widget
- Remove ads$0.99
- Fun party template(both half and full width)$0.99
- Travel template(Full width)$0.99
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- Pink love style(both half and full width)$0.99
- Colored Flip clock template(both half and fullwidth)$0.99
- Circle-progress template(Full & Half width size)$0.99
- Basic package$0.99
- Saving package$1.99
- Best deal package$2.99
- Premium version(unlock all styles and remove ads)$4.99
Day Counter Ⓞ
- Premium Subscription3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- PRO Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year








