X Progress vs Countdown Widget & Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X Progress
Visualize time's passage with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Track events, periods, and repeating moments with beautiful themes and live updates. Share progress with others and organize events with tags and secure hidden tabs.
- Count down to events or count up from memories
- Track daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom repeating events
- Visualize progress with percentage, days passed, or days left
- Customize events with themes, photos, and motion
- Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen
- Share events and collaborate with others
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Time passes quietly. X Progress makes it visible. Count down to a trip. Count up from a memory. Watch a semester, a project, a year, or any chapter of life fill in. X Progress turns the moments that matter into beautiful, living progress you can understand at a glance. SEE TIME YOUR WAY • Track one-day moments, longer periods, repeating events, and the built-in progress of the year, month, week, and day. • Repeat events daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, or set custom rules like every other week or the last day of the month. • Show days passed, days left, or a percentage. Count up, count down, or let Auto change direction as time moves. • Add all-day or timed dates, alerts, notes, and photos. • Organize with tags, search, pinned events, Archive, and a Hidden tab protected by Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. MAKE EVERY EVENT YOURS • Choose from 50+ designer themes, from quiet gradients and pixel art to cozy animal crowds and animated worlds. • Use Photo Theme Studio to turn a photo or Live Photo into your own theme. • Customize backgrounds, subject cutouts, colors, gradients, fonts, text layouts, and motion. ALWAYS IN VIEW • Follow a countdown live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with Live Activities, drawn in your event's own theme. • Keep important events on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets, or on your wrist with Apple Watch complications. JUST ASK SIRI • Tell Siri about an event in your own words, and it's created for you. • Ask Siri how far along an event is, or start a Live Activity without opening the app. • Find your events in Spotlight, each shown with its own theme. COUNT DOWN TOGETHER • Invite friends and family to view or edit an event. Changes stay synchronized through iCloud, with shared activity collected in one place. • Share any event as a photo, Live Photo, video, Instagram Story, or sticker. • Use ZEN with SharePlay to focus on a moment together over FaceTime. CREATE IN LESS TIME • Start from Ready to Go templates for working hours, paydays, trips, birthdays, and more. • With Smart Create, describe an event in a sentence, or share a photo to X Progress, and review the completed event before saving. ON EVERY SCREEN X Progress works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and it's ready for iPhone Duo: unfolded, folded, or half open, the layout adjusts automatically to fit the way you're using it. iCloud keeps your events, photo themes, and notes in sync across devices. You'll also find Date Gap for measuring the exact time between two dates, a calendar, public holiday events, reminders, search, and accessibility support for VoiceOver. Start free. X Progress Unlimited unlocks the complete designer theme gallery, Live Activities, and more. Smart Create, including creating events with Siri in your own words, requires a compatible device with Apple Intelligence. Availability may vary by language and region. Terms of Use: https://www.roczhang.com/x-progress/terms_and_conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.roczhang.com/x-progress/privacy_policy.html
Countdown Widget & Counter
Create customizable widgets to track upcoming events directly on your home screen. Visualize your countdowns with beautiful designs, icons, and color gradients. Receive real-time notifications for important dates.
- Live countdown widgets
- Customizable widget templates
- Event editor with live preview
- Color gradients
- Over 50 icons
- Real-time push notifications
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Keep an eye on your upcoming events - directly on your Home Screen! Create minimalistic widgets that countdown to the big day. The widgets in Widget Studio are highly customizable and clean-designed, so that nothing distracts your focus from the concert, your best friend‘s birthday or whatever you‘re currently looking forward to! It‘s quick, easy, and looks awesome. Welcome to Widget Studio. So, what do we have here? - Powerful event editor with live preview - Multiple customizable widget templates for iPhone & iPad - Beautiful color gradients for your Home Screen - Over 50 different icons to choose from - Real time push notifications for your events - Full support for Voice Over and Dynamic Type - Live countdown widgets Info: Most of the app's content is free. Some selected features require the purchase of a full version in the app (recurring annual subscription). We rely on your support to make development possible. Thank you for your understanding! :) Terms of Use (EULA) & Privacy Policy: https://cranberry.app/legal We have put a lot of love into the development of Widget Studio and hope you enjoy it. However, if you have something to complain about, or an exciting idea for future updates or additional apps of Widget Studio, please feel free to contact us at any time via support@cranberry.app. We are looking forward to your message. Take care!
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Verdict
X Progress and Countdown Widget & Counter both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 76% of Countdown Widget & Counter's written reviews are positive against 57% of X Progress's. Countdown Widget & Counter also leads on ratings volume (2.5K vs 87) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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. X Progress sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Countdown Widget & Counter sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for X Progress against 4.6 for Countdown Widget & Counter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget & Counter has 2.5K ratings behind it against 87, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of X Progress's written reviews are positive against 76% of Countdown Widget & Counter's.
X Progress ships an update every 2 months, Countdown Widget & Counter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X Progress | Countdown Widget & Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (87 ratings) — better | 4.6 (2.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.5% of reviews | 75.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 87 | 2.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鹏 张 | Sovereign Apps LLC |
Customer experience
X Progress
Countdown Widget & Counter
Bugs and requests
X Progress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown Widget & Counter
Reported bugs
7 issues- Time calculation isn't correct
- Widget and in-app display show different days remaining
- Widget goes blank after phone restart
- Countdowns freeze or count up unexpectedly
- Paid version still shows ads
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- Widgets disappear after iOS updates
- App loses all user data after updates
Requested features
11 requests- Better integration with calendar and reminder API
- Ability to rearrange events in the countdown list
- Option to default 'What's Next' to user's choice
- Larger photo frame in widget
- Ability to group events into categories
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- Option to change font
- Ability to select an emoji for icons
- Notification times for events
- Ability to select the countdown unit (weeks/months)
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
X Progress
- X Progress Unlimited Monthly3 Days trial$0.491 Month
- Turtle Theme$0.99
- WuFan Theme$0.99
- Snail Theme$0.99
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- The Color of Time Theme$0.99
- NUONUO Theme$0.99
- Full Moon Theme$0.99
- Expedition Theme$0.99
- Toby Likes Bone Theme$0.99
- X Progress Unlimited Lifetime$19.99
Countdown Widget & Counter
- Widget Studio PRO$1.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Widget Studio PRO$4.991 Year
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- Widget Studio PRO$5.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO$7.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO$8.991 Year
- Annual Subscription3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO$12.991 Year
- Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$9.99
- Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$14.99
Questions
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