X Progress vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X Progress
Track progress for any event, from daily to custom intervals. Set reminders, add notes, and utilize auto-repeat. View progress on your Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Apple Watch with customizable themes and widgets. Share progress with friends using Zen Mode and SharePlay.
- Customizable event tracking (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Zen Mode with SharePlay integration
- Multiple designer themes
- iCloud syncing across devices
- iPad optimized with Split View
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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. • 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 40+ designer themes, from quiet gradients and pixel art to 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. • Keep important events visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets or Apple Watch complications. 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 • With Smart Create, describe an event in a sentence, or share a photo to X Progress, and review the completed event before saving. • Ask Siri to create an event or check its progress. ON EVERY SCREEN X Progress works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. 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. Smart Create 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
Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Count up and down timers
- Recurrent event tracking
- Calendar and Reminders synchronization
- Customizable designs and templates
- iCloud synchronization
- Notifications for key dates
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown at every 9 days against X Progress's every 2 months. Countdown also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 59%) and ratings volume (3K vs 87). 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 sells 14 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 4.7 for Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3K ratings behind it against 87, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of X Progress's written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.
X Progress ships an update every 2 months, Countdown every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X Progress | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (87 ratings) | 4.7 (3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 81.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 87 | 3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鹏 张 | keinois OU |
Customer experience
X Progress
Countdown
Bugs and requests
X Progress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes on launch for some users
- Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
- Countdown data resetting unexpectedly
Requested features
5 requests- More customization options for widgets
- Ability to track non-time-based progress
- Improved recurring event management
- Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
- Wider range of color and font options
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
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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- Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
- Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
- Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99









