LIFT Messaging vs CountedDays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LIFT Messaging
This secure messaging app combines traditional paging with advanced smartphone technology for critical alerts and sensitive data transmission. It ensures HIPAA and HITECH compliance through encryption and secure access, offering reliable delivery and rich message content.
- HIPAA and HITECH compliant
- Encrypted data at rest and in transit
- Passcode or biometric access
- Persistent alerting
- Device-to-device secure messaging
- Audit trail for messages
- High-resolution image and audio attachments
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LIFT® is a secure critical messaging application that combines the simplicity of traditional paging with the advanced technology of your iPhone. Whether it is critical messages or automated system alerts, LIFT® has you covered. You can increase your organization's efficiency while complying with HIPAA and HITECH. LIFT® secures sensitive data, including PHI, by encrypting the data at rest as well as in transit. Access to LIFT® is restricted via a passcode or your iPhones biometric features. If a phone is lost or stolen, the account is easily disabled, there is no need for remote wipe since sensitive data is already secure; it is not stored on the device. Messages can be originated from your existing infrastructure or using our secure standards based API. Secure messages can also be sent between devices. LIFT's® persistent alerting ensures you get the attention of the user. LIFT® utilizes persistent notification and reliable messaging methods to deliver time sensitive critical messages. LIFT® can send and receive high resolution images, and audio to provide richer message content. Using LIFT® enables HIPAA and HITECH compliant critical messaging. Features include: - Secure: HIPAA and HITECH standards. - Global Coverage using WiFi and Cellular networks. - Failover reliability with an additional messaging layer - Does not store data on the device. - Unlock LIFT® using a passcode or phones biometrics. - Allows secure messaging device to device. - Open Standards based API. - Configurable persistent alert. - Audit Trail; View when a message was sent, delivered and read. - Forward or Reply to messages you receive. - Availability of canned, or free-form responses. - Attach high-resolution photos, and audio. - Contact Sync discovers which Contacts are already LIFT® users. LIFT® provides you features of the pager you've reliably used for years, brought to your phone. Requires a LIFT® secure messaging enabled account to use this application.
CountedDays
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Count down to the dates you care about, your way. CountedDays shows how long until a vacation, wedding, birthday, exam, move, or milestone, right on your Home Screen and Apple Watch. Choose a target date, add a photo, and start counting down. Use every calendar day for a classic countdown, or make it fit real life: count workdays, selected weekdays, whole weeks, training days, class sessions, and more. WHY COUNTEDDAYS • Count down to any future date • Count in days, whole weeks, or your own custom unit • Count only the weekdays you choose • Include or skip individual dates • Add photos and preview your widgets • Show one countdown or a list on your Home Screen • See countdowns on Apple Watch and watch-face complications • Organize everything with tags • Share a countdown as an image or CountedDays file • Works offline. No account, ads, tracking, or analytics CountedDays is free for up to four countdowns at a time, including photo backgrounds and widgets. Archive one when its date has passed and start a new one, as often as you like. The optional Supporter Pack is a one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited countdowns and alternate app icons. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LIFT Messaging at none against CountedDays's 1. LIFT Messaging also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). CountedDays's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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. CountedDays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LIFT Messaging asks for nothing beyond the download.
LIFT Messaging ships an update every 3 months, CountedDays every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LIFT Messaging | CountedDays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Indiana Paging Network, Inc. | Elpax AB |
In-app purchases
LIFT Messaging
No in-app purchases
CountedDays
- CountedDays Supporter Pack$0.99









