Comparison

Time Arrow vs Time to event

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Time Arrow

Track important dates with a countdown and count-up tool. Never forget anniversaries, birthdays, or payment deadlines again. Offers quick recording, sharing, and customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Countdown and count-up modes
  • Quick event recording
  • Card sharing
  • Multiple widget options
  • Annual/monthly anniversary display
  • Cloud backup (Premium)
  • Daily reminders (Premium)
Features
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■ Apple Today Recommendation ■ App Introduction Time Arrow is a count down day recording tool to help you manage important days such as anniversaries, birthdays, repayment days and so on. There are always days in life that you want to record: - Do you remember your mom's and dad's birthday? - How many days have you been born? - What's the date do you have to pay back your credit card every month? - How many days to get paid? - Will the rent be paid next month? - Do you need a physical examination once a year? - Don't forget to take medicine at night? - Did you walk the dog today? Did you shovel shit? - Don't forget to punch in at night? - Did you pay the tuition fee? - What's the date of this month? You must have more important days to record... ■ Function Introduction - Cycle design: a more intuitive display of the annual monthly anniversary. - Count down & Count up: one mode supporting two counting ways. - Quick Recording: No tedious steps, quick preset 1 step to complete. - Card Sharing: One-click Sharing Exquisite Countdown Days Cards to Friends. - Widget: multiple widgets for your choice, quick Preview. - Back up: Keep important information in the cloud without fear of loss (Premium) - Daily Reminder: Date approaching, timely reminder (Premium) - Add to Calendar: Export to system calendar and reminder (Premium) - Secure Access: Password needed when open app each time (Premium) - Hidden Page: flexible display, minimalism to the end (Premium) ■ About Me - Personal Works Apple Recommend App: Time Arrow, Flaaash, Easy Period, Lover List, Sun & Moon - Contact Information My Email: hanchongzan@icloud.com If you have any suggestions and ideas, you can send messages me at any time. I will continue to develop more good applications. Thanks for aurwiz's support to Russian Thanks for Nantadech's support for Thai ■ Terms of Use Time Arrow Premium Subscription is a subscription-based paid-up service, which means that you will pay in advance for future use of the service. You can currently choose to pay the service on an annual basis. At the end of each subscription cycle, your subscription is automatically renewed by default unless you explicitly cancel the automatic renewal or cancelled by Time Arrow. - Fees: Now Premium is set a standard fee as $0.99 per year. This price may be changed during promotion period. If the price is adjusted, the new price will take effect for the next subscription cycle. - Refund: After the trial period, you shall never be refunded the fee. Please voluntarily cancel your payment of service. - Unsubscribe: If you want to unsubscribe, please cancel it at least 24 hours in advance. You can cancel it as follow steps: Enter Into The System Settings - Click Apple ID - Click Subscription - Select Time Arrow Premium - unsubscribe. Terms of Use: https://shimo.im/docs/tGwwvxCvj8KxjyvX Privacy Policy: https://shimo.im/docs/CCDjcWytvwWRvxkt

About

Time to event

Easily track upcoming events and count down the days until important dates like vacations or holidays. Input your event details and manage them with options to edit or remove entries.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • Date input
  • Event description
  • Edit events
  • Remove events
Features
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Now you can count your meetings and events easily. ‘Time to event’ gives you the opportunity to count up how many days remaining before your vacation or holiday. Just input date and description of event. Have your plans changed? Do not worry. You can always remove or change your event right away in detailed view of event.

Screenshots

Time Arrow4 screens
Time to event4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Time to event at none against Time Arrow's shown. Time to event also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Time Arrow's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 10) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time Arrow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Time to event sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Time Arrow against 4.6 for Time to event. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Arrow has 88 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Time Arrow's written reviews are positive against 72% of Time to event's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Arrow ships an update every 5 weeks, Time to event every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Time Arrow versus Time to event: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime ArrowTime to event
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (88 ratings) — better4.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews76.8% of reviews — better72.2% of reviews
Number of ratings88 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer重赞 韩Nikita Marchenko

Customer experience

Time Arrow

All ratings88 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive76.8%
Neutral10.7%
Negative12.5%

Time to event

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Time Arrow

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - Yearly Subscription$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Time to event

One-time1
  • Upgrade to PRO$0.99

Questions

Is Time Arrow free?
Time Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time to event free?
Time to event is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Time Arrow or Time to event?
Time Arrow is rated higher. Time Arrow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 88 ratings, while Time to event averages 4.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Time Arrow or Time to event have ads?
Time Arrow shows ads; Time to event does not.
Which is updated more often, Time Arrow or Time to event?
Time Arrow ships an update every 5 weeks, and Time to event every 2 weeks. Most recently, Time Arrow was updated on October 6, 2026 and Time to event on October 2, 2026.

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