Giveffect vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Giveffect
This app helps nonprofits manage constituents, events, and volunteers. It allows for location-based contact searches and features tools for checking participants in and out, tracking hours, and validating event tickets.
- Constituent management
- Event management
- Volunteer check-in/out
- Location-based search
- Ticket validation (QR code/number)
- Driver's license scanning
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Giveffect is built for nonprofits. This app is designed as a Constituent Management, Events Management, and Volunteer/Participant check-in & check-out tool. Users must have an account with Giveffect to manage their nonprofit organization with this app. Simply login using your account credentials to access your organization's events, volunteers and contact database. Location based search: This app allows administrators to search for contacts in the database based on their location. With your location data, you can query your database for contact addresses within a set radius. If your location is not provided as search parameters, then the spatial query is ignored. Key features include: - Add constituents to your database. - Scan driver's license data via 2D barcode (PDF417) using the camera, or magnetic stripe. - Search constituent database by name or nearby location via GPS coordinates. - Check-in & Check-out Volunteers and Event Participants to track volunteer hours and attendance. - Validate Event tickets manually by ticket number, or automatically by scanning ticket QR codes using the device camera.
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 review sentiment: Countdown@ at 37% against Giveffect's 0%. Countdown@ also leads on ratings volume (40K vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Giveffect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). 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. Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Giveffect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Giveffect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 40K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Giveffect'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.
Giveffect ships an update fortnightly, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Giveffect | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (40K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 37.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 40K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 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, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Giveffect, Inc. | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Giveffect
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
Giveffect
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
Giveffect
No in-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
