Comparison

Countdown vs Finger Chooser

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

Finger Chooser

This app offers a simple and engaging way for groups to make random selections. Participants place their fingers on the screen, and the app randomly chooses one, perfect for deciding turns, settling debates, or making quick group choices.

Highlights
  • Random finger selection
  • Group decision making
  • Fair and quick choices
  • Intuitive interface
  • Settles debates
Features
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The easiest way to make group decisions — with just your fingers! Everyone places a finger on the screen, and after a few suspenseful seconds… one lucky finger is chosen at random. Perfect for: - Picking who goes first - Deciding who buys the next round - Settling debates - Quick and fair group decisions Just tap and let fate decide.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Finger Chooser2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Finger Chooser at none against Countdown's 2. Finger Chooser also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (190K vs 10) and chart position (#64 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Finger Chooser asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Finger Chooser 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 10, 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 100% of Finger Chooser's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Countdown versus Finger Chooser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownFinger Chooser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (190K ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings190K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#64 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind Appiness LLCThomas Whittle

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings190,150 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews2,557 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative22.4%

Finger Chooser

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 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

Finger Chooser

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

Finger Chooser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Finger Chooser free?
Finger Chooser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Finger Chooser?
Finger Chooser is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 190K ratings, while Finger Chooser averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Countdown or Finger Chooser have ads?
Countdown shows ads; Finger Chooser does not.

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