Comparison

Countdown vs Countdown! Reminders and Timer

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

Head to head
About

Countdown

Easily track important dates and events with a customizable countdown timer. Set reminders, organize events with tags, and view upcoming dates on your home screen or Apple Watch. Syncs across devices and offers various counting options.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown timer
  • Event reminders
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch support
  • Event sharing
  • iCloud sync
  • Repeatable countdowns
Features
Currently charting
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Countdown is a free, super easy to use countdown timer and reminder for the important events & dates in your life. Features: • Check your events on the Lock Screen with our widget (Premium feature) • Glance at your events on your Apple Watch • Glance at your events using our widget in StandBy (Premium feature) • Place our Widget anywhere on your Home Screen to view your most important events (Premium feature) • Share your countdowns with friends and family • Auto Import (Premium): Connect your calendars to Countdown and automatically add new events. • Pick any color you'd like for your countdown background • In addition to receiving a notification when it is time for your event, you can receive reminders 1 day before or 1 week before the event. • Choose the format in which you want to see your countdown (Premium feature) • Create as many events as you'd like • Count up from past events (available on each countdown page) • Sync your events across your devices with iCloud • Set your countdowns to repeat yearly, monthly, weekly or daily • Sort your events from the closest to the most distant • Dark Mode • Add notes to your events • Count only working days • Have many events? Organize them with tags Add as many events as you want: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Cruise, Valentines, Wedding, Anniversary, Birth, Baby, Graduation, Pregnancy, Trip, New Home, Retirement, Game, Goals, Concert and many more. ——— QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? ——— We love hearing from you and we read every single email you send us! Have suggestions? Feel free to contact us at countdown@findappiness.co

About

Countdown! Reminders and Timer

This app helps you manage your time with precise countdowns, event reminders, and a suite of utility tools. It offers extensive customization for widgets and notifications, ensuring you never miss an important moment. Features include lunar calendar support, age calculation, and QR code generation.

Highlights
  • Second-accurate countdowns
  • Customizable widgets (70+ lock screen, 100+ desktop)
  • Lunar calendar support
  • Built-in utility tools (Age Calculator, QR Generator, etc.)
  • Push notification reminders
  • Data backup to iCloud
Features
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Countdown is a reminder and time management app, it will remind you to cherish your time at all times, which can be accurate to the second. Support lunar calendar display, support classification management function, support custom widget background, support percentage form, change percentage accuracy, so that you can see the time change every minute and every second, remind you to cherish time. At the same time, it supports "CPU Panel", "Hourly Reporting", "Age Calculator", "Full Screen clock", "Date cCalculator", "QR Code Generation" and other tools. It can help you make project plans, set reminders for meetings, arrange your schedule, and keep you focused. It can also be used to record memo events and help you better manage your time. [Features] # 70+ Lock Screen Widgets and 100+ Desktop Widgets; # Full support for Apple Watch. Enjoy a clean‑looking interface with a rich selection of watch complications; # Can be accurate to the second, always remind you to cherish the time and see the time change; # Support reminders, remind you of upcoming events through push notifications; # Supports holiday and leave information; # Support dynamic wallpapers; # Support lunar calendar selection, do not miss every lunar festival; # Customizable widget backgrounds, custom widget colors, and custom widget definitions; # Support recalculation every day, every week, every month; # Built-in multiple tools, including "CPU Panel", "Dynamic Island", "Hourly Reporting", "Device Panel", "Age Calculator", "Full Screen clock", "Date cCalculator", "QR Code Generation" and other tools; # Desktop widgets can customize the background, font, font color, transparency and blur; # Support event pin; # Support automatic event sequencing; # Support classification management function, better help you manage all event reminders; # You can set the background for each event, small and beautiful time reminder application; # Support the function of backing up data to iCloud, no longer have to worry about data loss; # Provide a variety of cool animations to give you a different mood; # Customizable push notification ringtones to make you unique; # Support network search to provide you with richer content; # New and concise operation interface makes operation more concise; # Supports percentage form. VIP features include: All Widgets, all Tools, all Static wallpapers and Dynamic wallpapers, 100% pure ad-free and automatic data backup, and can enjoy all future VIP features. 【Monthly VIP Instructions】 1. Subscription period: 1 month 2. Subscription price: 3 yuan per month 3. Payment: After the user confirms the purchase and pays, it will be credited to the itunes account 4. Cancellation of payment: If you need to cancel the renewal, please manually turn off the automatic renewal function in the iTunes/Apple ID settings management 24 hours before the current subscription expires 5. Renewal: Apple iTunes account will be debited within 24 hours before expiration, and the subscription period will be extended by one month after the deduction is successful 【Yearly VIP Instructions】 1. Subscription period: 1 year 2. Subscription price: 24 yuan per year 3. Payment: After the user confirms the purchase and pays, it will be credited to the itunes account 4. Cancellation of payment: If you need to cancel the renewal, please manually turn off the automatic renewal function in the iTunes/Apple ID settings management 24 hours before the current subscription expires 5. Renewal: Apple iTunes account will be debited within 24 hours before expiration, and the subscription period will be extended by one year after the deduction is successful 【Permanent VIP】 Unlimited permanent use of VIP features, all Widgets, all Tools, all Static wallpapers and Dynamic wallpapers, 100% pure ad-free and automatic data backup, and can enjoy all future VIP features. Privacy Policy: https://shijianguihuaju.cn/2020/01/01/countdown-law/ User Agreement: https://shijianguihuaju.cn/2020/01/01/countdown-law/

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Countdown! Reminders and Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown at Free against Countdown! Reminders and Timer's $0.99. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (186K vs 74) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Countdown! Reminders and Timer's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ads, 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

Countdown is free to download; Countdown! Reminders and Timer costs $0.99 up front. Countdown sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Countdown! Reminders and Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 186K ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 86% of Countdown! Reminders and Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Countdown! Reminders and Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Countdown versus Countdown! Reminders and Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownCountdown! Reminders and Timer
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.8 (186K ratings) — better4.5 (74 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews86.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings186K — better74
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind Appiness LLC霞 王

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings186,316 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews2,474 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.3%

Countdown! Reminders and Timer

All ratings74 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral1.4%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.1%

Bugs and requests

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not updating automatically
  • Countdown display issues after iOS 14 update
  • Inability to delete archived events

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to count up from past events
  • Provide more date/time format options
  • Implement calendar view for all events
  • Allow custom backgrounds for widgets
  • Add support for weekly/monthly repeating events

Countdown! Reminders and Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown

One-time3
  • Start 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • Countdown Widget Offer$3.99
  • Countdown Widget$6.99
6 purchases

Countdown! Reminders and Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly VIP$0.491 Month
  • Yearly VIP1 Year trial$3.491 Year
One-time4
  • Transparent WidgetFree
  • Unlock all dynamic wallpapers$0.99
  • Unlock all Tools$0.99
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  • Permanent VIP$3.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown! Reminders and Timer free?
Countdown! Reminders and Timer costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Countdown! Reminders and Timer?
Countdown is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 186K ratings, while Countdown! Reminders and Timer averages 4.5 from 74 ratings.
Do Countdown or Countdown! Reminders and Timer have ads?
Both Countdown and Countdown! Reminders and Timer show ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Countdown! Reminders and Timer?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and Countdown! Reminders and Timer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Countdown was updated on September 24, 2026 and Countdown! Reminders and Timer on September 23, 2026.

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