Comparison

Day Countdown & Event Counter vs Shift Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Day Countdown & Event Counter

Track important upcoming events and plan ahead with a customizable countdown tool. Personalize your events with icons and backgrounds, and set reminders to stay on schedule. Share your countdowns with friends and protect your privacy with a password.

Highlights
  • Customizable event categories
  • Prioritize important events
  • Quickly add festivals
  • Password protection
  • Share events
  • Time reminders
  • Notification bar styles
Features
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Day Counter & Event Countdown is a useful tool for you to record the important events of schedule and draw up plans in advance. There are many event icons and background images to select according to different situation like parents birthday, final examination, etc. Day Counter & Event Countdown application has a lot of usages. Scenarios: 1.Date, love, marry countdown 2.Birthday, party, travel countdown 3.Examination countdown of final, college entrance, postgraduate 4.Days countdown of Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween 5.Event, task, project countdown ... Features: 1.Event category by yourself 2.Top an event which is most important 3.Quickly add usual festivals 4.Privacy protection by password 5.Share events with your friends Subscription : - After subscribing you will be able to use : Turn on time reminders and unlock all cover and category icon,notification bar style - The subscriptions provide three period:One Month,Three Months(trial period for three days in Three months) and One Year . - The subscriptions are $ 1.49 per month, $ 3.99 per quarter and $ 13.49 per year (US) - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews ,After the subscription expires, the payment account will be renewed automatically,unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication - You can read our privacy policy at(long press) https://www.camoryapps.com/netpower/privacy_policy/daycountdown_en.html - You can read our terms of services at(long press) https://www.camoryapps.com/netpower/service/daycountdown_en.html - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication Price are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD.

About

Shift Calendar

This app helps you organize your work schedule and track your pay across multiple jobs. It allows for detailed shift customization, overtime calculation, and leave credit tracking. Share your schedule with others or export reports for comprehensive time and earnings management.

Highlights
  • Customizable shift planning
  • Multi-job pay tracking
  • Overtime and premium calculation
  • Leave credit management
  • Schedule sharing and export
  • Apple Watch and widget support
Features
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A calmer way to see your work and your time. Shift Calendar brings shifts, days off and a personal pay diary together on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Your schedule stays on your device unless you turn on sync with your own private iCloud. No app account or ads. PLAN YOUR RHYTHM • Explore your month, browse an agenda or see the year. • Give shifts their own colors, symbols, short labels, notes and locations. • Reuse templates, add shifts to several dates and undo changes. • Build repeating rotations with any mix of work and rest days, including cycles without an end date. • Change one shift or adjust a rotation from a future date while keeping individual exceptions. • Plan overnight shifts and keep times in each workplace’s time zone when you travel. UNDERSTAND YOUR HOURS • Confirm work as planned or record actual times and paid or unpaid breaks. • Keep multiple jobs and currencies separate. • Set dated hourly rates, daily or weekly overtime and custom time-based or per-shift premiums. • See the calculation behind gross estimates, add explained manual adjustments and compare with a gross pay statement. • Keep a history of corrections and saved comparisons. • Track your own leave credits and time used. KEEP LIFE IN VIEW • Find shifts by title, notes, location or date. • Use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with an optional private display. • Set local reminders for shifts and breaks. • Optionally show Apple Calendar events and export shifts to a separate calendar. • Share PDF schedules, calendar files or read-only calendar snapshots. Export work reports as CSV. • Create password-protected backups and preview a backup before restoring it. LIVE SHARING AND HOLIDAY PAY • Share a live, read-only view of your shifts with family or coworkers through iCloud. They always see your latest schedule; pay, jobs, locations and notes are never shared. • Add the public holidays of your country or German state, with an extra rate for time worked on them. ALARMS, APPLE WATCH AND SYNC • Set real wake-up alarms that ring even on silent, once for each type of shift (iOS 26). • Watch your pay grow during a shift: the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left and what you have earned so far. • See your next shift, a countdown and this month's hours on Apple Watch, with complications for your watch face. • Glance at your next shift on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. • Ask Siri when your next shift is, or use it in Shortcuts and the Action button. • Optionally sync your iPhone and iPad through your own private iCloud. Sync stays off until you turn it on. Make room for your life. Choose annual access with a 7-day free trial if eligible, or purchase lifetime access once. Annual access renews automatically until cancelled with Apple. Existing lifetime purchases remain valid. Export, backup and deletion remain available when access ends. New customers need annual or lifetime access to use the calendar and pay tools. An eligible 7-day trial automatically becomes a paid annual subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. The App Store shows your regional price before confirmation. Original 14-day trials and existing lifetime purchases keep their rights. Pay figures are gross estimates based on your settings and recorded work, not tax or take-home pay calculations. Reminders follow your iOS notification settings. Shared files are snapshots. Live sharing is read-only. Payslips Keep your payslips here and compare them with your recorded work whenever you need. PDFs stay on your device, or in your private iCloud if you turn on sync. Saved payslip PDFs are included in your backup. Privacy: https://shiftcalendar.jelluna.com/privacy/ Terms: https://shiftcalendar.jelluna.com/terms/ Terms of use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Day Countdown & Event Counter4 screens
Shift Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Day Countdown & Event Counter at 4.7 against Shift Calendar's 2.0. Day Countdown & Event Counter also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 0%) and ratings volume (39 vs 1). Shift Calendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Day Countdown & Event Counter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Shift Calendar sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Day Countdown & Event Counter holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Day Countdown & Event Counter has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Day Countdown & Event Counter's written reviews are positive against 0% of Shift Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day Countdown & Event Counter ships an update weekly, Shift Calendar fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Day Countdown & Event Counter versus Shift Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay Countdown & Event CounterShift Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (39 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews30.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWuhan Net Power Technology Co., LtdJulian Sainz Martinez

Customer experience

Day Countdown & Event Counter

All ratings39 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive30.3%
Neutral15.7%
Negative53.9%

Shift Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Day Countdown & Event Counter

Subscriptions3
  • Unlock all materials$1.991 Month
  • Unlock all materials3 Days trial$3.993 Months
  • Unlock resource & reminder$15.991 Year
4 purchases

Shift Calendar

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Lifetime Access$9.99
  • Lifetime Access$39.99

Questions

Is Day Countdown & Event Counter free?
Day Countdown & Event Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shift Calendar free?
Shift Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Day Countdown & Event Counter or Shift Calendar?
Day Countdown & Event Counter is rated higher. Day Countdown & Event Counter averages 4.7 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Shift Calendar averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Day Countdown & Event Counter or Shift Calendar have ads?
Day Countdown & Event Counter shows ads; Shift Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Day Countdown & Event Counter or Shift Calendar?
Day Countdown & Event Counter ships an update weekly, and Shift Calendar fortnightly. Most recently, Day Countdown & Event Counter was updated on October 26, 2026 and Shift Calendar on October 26, 2026.

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