Countdown Collection vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Collection
Track upcoming releases for movies, TV shows, games, and more. Automatically updates release dates and provides access to trailers and social media buzz. Share your excitement with friends and stay informed about your favorite events.
- Countdown tracking for various events
- Automatic release date updates
- Today widget and Apple Watch app integration
- Siri integration
- Access to movie trailers
- Shareable countdowns
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The most complete countdown app available! Countdown and keep track of all the special events you're excited for. Add release dates for upcoming movies, video games, sports, or anything else you can think of! It's easy to keep track of your countdowns from anywhere using the Today widget, Apple Watch app, and Siri. Countdowns to games, movies, and TV shows will keep themselves updated automatically! Always countdown to the next episode of a TV show, and don't worry about having to change anything if a release date changes.* Countdown Collection keeps you up to date on all your events by automatically checking the latest news, plus what people are saying on Twitter. Want to show a movie trailer to a friend? Pull it up right from the countdown. You can also share your excitement with others by sharing the countdown with them! If they have the app, they can add it right from the link. *This feature requires pro upgrade.
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Countdown@ at 4.7 against Countdown Collection's 4.2. Countdown@ also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (40K vs 39). Countdown Collection's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (57% vs 37%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Countdown Collection sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown@ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 40K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Countdown Collection's written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Countdown Collection ships an update every 5 months, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Collection | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (39 ratings) | 4.7 (40K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 37.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 40K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Joshua Birnholz | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Countdown Collection
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
Countdown Collection
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
In-app purchases
Countdown Collection
- Pro Upgrade$1.99
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Questions
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