Countdown vs Meal Planning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable countdown timer
- Event reminders
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch support
- Event sharing
- iCloud sync
- Repeatable countdowns
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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
Meal Planning
Track your daily food intake with detailed entries, including photos and reviews. Plan your meals up to four weeks in advance and access a year's worth of your eating history. Export your calendar easily.
- Daily food logging
- Add photos to entries
- Critical daily review
- Meal planning up to 4 weeks
- 1-year eating history
- Calendar export
- Offline functionality
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Every day, write down everything you eat, you can also add a photo, and do a little critical review of your day. It is composed of 5 parts: Breakfast Morning snack Lunch Afternoon snack Having dinner You can find the history of all your registration for 1 year and you can even plan your meals for the next 4 weeks. It is possible to export your calendar by photo gallery saving or email. No need for internet connection, no advertising, everything is saved on your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planning at none against Countdown's 3. Meal Planning also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (190K vs 7). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Meal Planning asks for nothing beyond the download.
Meal Planning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 190K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown ships an update every 2 days, Meal Planning every 15 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Countdown | Meal Planning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (190K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 190K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #51 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Find Appiness LLC | Julien Kermarec |
Customer experience
Countdown
Meal Planning
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
Meal Planning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Start 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Countdown Widget Offer$3.99
- Countdown Widget$6.99
Meal Planning
No in-app purchases
