Countdown vs Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track upcoming events like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays with customizable countdowns. Personalize your events with photos and choose from stylish backgrounds. Receive timely reminders so you never miss a special occasion.
- Add favorite events easily
- Customize events with photos
- Display days, hours, minutes, seconds
- Stylish time clock and backgrounds
- Push notification reminders
- Repeatable anniversary countdowns
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Countdown is the best app to remind you of all your favorite events. Countdown for your next big event: a wedding anniversary, birthday of your baby, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Halloween, the New Year, and other holidays. With Countdown you can sort your events with beautiful background, stylish time clock. Features: ⁃ Add favorite events easily ⁃ Customize event with your own photos from phone album ⁃ Show days, hours, minutes and even seconds ⁃ Fancy wallpapers for any occasion ⁃ Flexible units: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds ⁃ Slide to browse events easily ⁃ Reminder for your events with push notification ⁃ Countdown to anniversary that repeat every year
Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch
Easily store significant dates and calculate the time elapsed since or until them. This utility helps you keep track of important events and milestones.
- Store important dates
- Calculate ages
- Long-term timers
- Event tracking
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Store important dates and calculate ages EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch at 5.0 against Countdown's 4.4. Countdown's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown ships an update weekly, Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 在海 刘 | Jin Yu |
Customer experience
Countdown
Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Unlock All Backgrounds & Themes and Remove Ads$1.99
Date Radar Countdown Stopwatch
- 3 month$0.293 Months
- 1 Year$0.991 Year
- Coffee sponsor$6.99
Questions
Is Countdown free?
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