CountDown Reminder vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CountDown Reminder
Create beautiful countdowns to important events and track days passed once they occur. Receive timely push notifications and personalize each event with custom backgrounds. Share your upcoming milestones with friends and enjoy seamless integration with your device.
- Countdown to events
- Count up after events
- Push notifications
- Customizable backgrounds
- Share events
- Today Widget support
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Countdown - the most beautiful countdown app for you. Main Functions : - Supports countdown to events and counting up once they arrive - Push notifications to remind you of an arriving event - Wonderful build-in background images - Customizable background for each event - Share your event with friends - Support Today Widget - Support force touch - Support iPhone X
Countdown
This app helps you keep track of important dates and events with a simple countdown timer. Stay organized by visualizing the time remaining until your next significant moment.
- Event countdown timer
- Date tracking
- Stay organized
- Simplistic design
- Functional timer
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Countdown: Moments Tracker is a simplistic yet functional countdown timer that helps you stay organized by keeping track of important events and dates in your life. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Countdown at 5.0 against CountDown Reminder's 4.4. Countdown also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). CountDown Reminder's advantage is ratings volume (119 vs 13) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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 Reminder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CountDown Reminder has 119 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of CountDown Reminder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countdown's.
CountDown Reminder ships an update monthly, Countdown weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountDown Reminder | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (119 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 红英 杨 | Vladislav Gershun |
Customer experience
CountDown Reminder
Countdown
Bugs and requests
CountDown Reminder
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unauthorized charges
- Text not readable on certain backgrounds
Requested features
5 requests- Add category function
- Display recent events at the top
- Outline for text for better readability
- Change units of time (weeks, months)
- Adapt to iPhone X and above screen sizes
Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CountDown Reminder
- Pro version$1.99
Countdown
- Premium$1.99
- Pro$4.99
Questions
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