Comparison

Countdown vs Today

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 upcoming events with a free countdown and reminder app. Customize each event with emojis and colors, and stay organized with tags and widgets. Syncs across devices and offers optional premium features for enhanced functionality.

Highlights
  • Unlimited event creation
  • Customizable event colors and emojis
  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
  • Customizable reminders and alarms
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Import events from calendars and contacts
  • Event grouping with tags
Features
Currently charting
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Countdown is a free, easy-to-use countdown and reminder app for all of life's big events. Your next vacation, birthday, wedding, concert, graduation or retirement is always one glance away. Create unlimited events and make each one your own. Downloaded over 20 million times. It's been a joy to shape Countdown with your feedback for more than eight years. We're looking forward to many more. ——— WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH ——— • See your next event with free circular and inline Lock Screen widgets • Show one event or a list of upcoming events in Home Screen widgets, and filter lists by tag or pinned events (Premium) • Show your event's emoji, title and time left in the rectangular Lock Screen widget, and keep countdowns visible in StandBy (Premium) • Check your countdowns on Apple Watch and add them to your watch face ——— REMINDERS & ALARMS ——— • Get a reminder on the big day and the day before, at a time you set • Add custom reminders minutes, hours, days, weeks or months in advance (Premium) • Set alarms that ring even when your iPhone is on silent (Premium; requires iOS 26.1 or later) ——— MAKE IT YOURS ——— • Pick an emoji and a color for every countdown, and add notes • Make events repeat every day, week, month or year, or on your own schedule, like every two weeks or the last Friday of the month • See the age someone turns on their birthday and the years celebrated on an anniversary • Add holidays and big events in one tap from suggestions for your country • Count only weekdays, or see the time since a past event • Choose how you see the time left, with units from years to seconds (Premium) ——— STAY ORGANIZED ——— • Group events with tags and pin your favorites to the top • Archive events once they pass, so your list shows what's next • Archive or delete past events automatically (Premium) • Sort by date or drag events into your own order • Search for events, duplicate them and edit several at once ——— SYNC, IMPORT & SHARE ——— • Your events stay up to date on your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud • Bring in events from your calendars and birthdays from your contacts • Automatically turn new calendar events into countdowns with Auto Import (Premium) • Add your countdowns to your calendar • Send a link so friends and family can count down with you • Check countdowns with Siri and create them with Shortcuts ——— YOUR PRIVACY ——— Your plans are personal. We never use your countdowns for advertising, and our analytics never see the titles, dates or notes you enter. ——— PREMIUM ——— One purchase. No subscriptions. Unlock all widgets, custom reminders, alarms, Auto Import, every countdown format and more. Premium also removes ads. ——— QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? ——— We love hearing from you and read every email. Get in touch at countdown@findappiness.co

About

Today

Easily track the days until or since any significant date. Display countdowns and count-ups directly on your home screen for quick reference. Perfect for remembering important events and milestones.

Highlights
  • Count days until events
  • Count days since events
  • Home screen widget display
  • Track anniversaries
  • Track holidays
Features
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Today - Day Counting Widget is the easiest way to count the days to and from any date. - DAYS UNTIL: Set the number of days remaining such as days until Christmas - DAY SINCE: Set the number of days since to keep ahead of anniversaries - WIDGET: Show the days right on your home screen

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Today4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Today at none against Countdown's 2. Today also leads on ads (none vs shown). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (191K vs 2) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment and iOS requirement 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 2 one-off in-app purchases. Today asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 191K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 67% of Today's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Countdown versus Today: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownToday
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (191K ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings191K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#43 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind Appiness LLCHayden Do

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings190,150 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews2,559 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.4%

Today

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Today

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Countdown

One-time2
  • Countdown Widget Offer$2.29
  • Countdown Widget$3.99
None

Today

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Today free?
Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Today?
Countdown is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 191K ratings, while Today averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Countdown or Today have ads?
Countdown shows ads; Today does not.

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