Comparison

Countdown vs Altruize

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
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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

Altruize

Easily track, record, and verify volunteer activities to prove your impact with less paperwork. Set goals, get reminders, and see your skill development through journaling and career cluster analysis. Organizations can manage volunteer data and connections with various subscription options.

Highlights
  • Track volunteer activities
  • Verify volunteer hours
  • Generate impact reports
  • Journal volunteering experiences
  • See skill development
  • Set volunteering goals
  • Receive reminders
Features
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Download the Altruize App to prove your impact with less paperwork. Altruize means “to exercise your altruism” (AKA your goodness). Maintain and control your own volunteer data at your fingertips. Altruize enables volunteers and organizations to track, record, and verify volunteer activities easily to prove compliance through creating reports and managing volunteer activities and hours on a convenient and easy platform. Altruize can be accessed via this app or a browser at https://altruizeapp.com Ability to share your activities for college/university admissions, potential employers, probation/parole officers, and another entity that you’d like through reports you create or through permission that you’ve granted the entity requesting the data. Set Altruizing goals; get reminders and see your impact. Free for verifiers to use; invite the nonprofit, corporation, or individual to verify your volunteer efforts. Journal; maintain a journal of your volunteering experiences to help you identify any passions and skillsets See your skill development; we use career clusters to help you see patterns of different skills that you’re acquiring/enhancing through your volunteer efforts. Thank you for all you do in your community! Subscription information Organizations have a few subscription options all of which are recurring monthly. Organizations can choose from 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 links that will allow additional volunteer data and connection to their members. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Subscription automatically renews 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, and identify the cost of the renewal. 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, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Altruize3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown at every 4 days against Altruize's every 2 months. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (188K vs 12) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Altruize's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Altruize sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 188K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Altruize'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, Altruize every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Countdown versus Altruize: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownAltruize
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (188K ratings) — better4.6 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings188K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#47 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind Appiness LLCAltruize, Inc

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings188,334 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews2,538 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.3%

Altruize

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Altruize

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
8 purchases

Altruize

Subscriptions6
  • 25 Member Links$9.991 Month
  • 50 Members Links$17.991 Month
  • 100 Members Links$25.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • 200 Member Links$33.991 Month
  • 500 Member Links$69.991 Month
  • 1000 Member Links$99.991 Month
One-time2
  • One Report Token$14.99
  • 10 Token Pack$99.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Altruize free?
Altruize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Altruize?
Countdown is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 188K ratings, while Altruize averages 4.6 from 12 ratings.
Do Countdown or Altruize have ads?
Both Countdown and Altruize show ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Altruize?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and Altruize every 2 months. Most recently, Countdown was updated on October 13, 2026 and Altruize on September 24, 2026.

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