Poll At Once vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poll At Once
Facilitate instant audience feedback and voting during live events. Share a code with attendees to participate anonymously in polls, with results displayed in real-time. The app offers core polling functionality for free, with an optional in-app purchase for poll organization.
- Live audience polling
- Instant feedback and voting
- Anonymous participation
- Real-time results display
- No registration required
- Event-specific polls
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Do polls at once with live audiences and use this simple app in academic lectures, industry workshops or other events for instant feedback, evaluations or votings. Just initiate a poll and share a code with the attendees who also need the app. There's no registration or login necessary. Voting is completely anonymous and people can just answer A, B, C or D. You see the results in realtime on your phone. Every poll will be closed after 30 minutes. This app is for free! Furthermore, it comes along with an in-app purchase that allows you to organize all polls that you have initiated, however, the free version works stand-alone already. I have developed it for personal use and it's very rudimental (or reduced to core features if you prefer this expression). Feel free to give suggestions for improvement.
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Poll At Once at none against Countdown@'s shown. Poll At Once also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 37%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). Countdown@'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (40K vs 63). On price, rating, 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. Poll At Once sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Poll At Once against 4.7 for Countdown@. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 40K ratings behind it against 63, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Poll At Once's written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s.
Poll At Once ships an update every 8 months, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poll At Once | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (63 ratings) | 4.7 (40K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 37.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 | 40K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Frank Zielen | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Poll At Once
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
Poll At Once
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
In-app purchases
Poll At Once
- My Polls$0.99
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
