Comparison

Countdown vs Ducker Detective

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

Ducker Detective

Easily calculate anyone's age using their birth month and day. This tool can help you verify ages, play harmless pranks, or even predict baby birth dates based on due dates.

Highlights
  • Calculate age from birth month and day
  • Verify ages
  • Predict baby birth dates
  • Play age-related jokes
  • Age verification tool
Features
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Do you want to find out people’s age with just the month and day of birth or want to calculate someone’s age using the built-in Age Calculator.You can find out your favorite celebrity or friends’ age also. Check when people are lying about their age. Ducker Detective is a great tool to have. Play a joke on someone and ask them for their month and day of birth and surprise them with their age or with the year they were born. Even more, do you want to predict a baby’s birth based on the doctor's expected birth to get a more accurate prediction.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Ducker Detective4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ducker Detective at none against Countdown's shown. Ducker Detective also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (186K vs 24). On price, rating, 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 Ducker Detective sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Countdown against 4.8 for Ducker Detective. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 186K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ducker Detective's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Ducker Detective every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Countdown versus Ducker Detective: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownDucker Detective
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (186K ratings)4.8 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings186K — better24
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind Appiness LLCDucker Detective, LLC

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings186,316 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews2,484 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.3%

Ducker Detective

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews2 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

Ducker Detective

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
11 purchases

Ducker Detective

Subscriptions11
  • Ad-Free Subscription Monthly$0.991 Month
  • GIF subscription monthly$0.991 Month
  • Sticker subscription monthly$0.991 Month
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  • StickerGIF subscription montly$0.991 Month
  • GIF subscription six month$4.996 Months
  • Sticker subscription six month$4.996 Months
  • StickerGIF Six-Month Plan$4.996 Months
  • Ad-Free Subscription Yearly$9.991 Year
  • GIF subscription yearly$9.991 Year
  • Sticker subscription yearly$9.991 Year
  • StickerGIF subscription yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ducker Detective free?
Ducker Detective is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Ducker Detective?
Countdown and Ducker Detective are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 186K and 24 ratings respectively.
Do Countdown or Ducker Detective have ads?
Countdown shows ads; Ducker Detective does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Ducker Detective?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and Ducker Detective every 2 months. Most recently, Countdown was updated on September 28, 2026 and Ducker Detective on August 18, 2026.

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