Countdown Widget with Emoji vs Pinning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Widget with Emoji
Track upcoming events with a personalized countdown. Choose a date, assign a representative emoji, and see how much time remains until your special occasion. Features include customizable widgets and calendar integration.
- Event countdowns
- Emoji representation
- Customizable widgets
- Calendar import
- Dark Mode support
- Apple Watch app
- iCloud sync
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Count down to the moments that matter, with the emoji that captures them perfectly. Pick a date. Set an emoji. Watch your countdown on your iPhone Duo, Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy display, and Apple Watch. No other countdown app lets you express every event with emoji. From birthdays to vacations to weddings, every countdown looks like the moment it represents. A COUNTDOWN FOR EVERY OCCASION Events & Birthdays Track days until birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, baby showers, and the personal milestones that matter most. Set a birthday once and it reschedules automatically every year. Holidays & Seasons Count down to Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, New Year’s, and every seasonal moment in between. Holiday countdowns roll over automatically year after year. Weddings & Anniversaries From save the date to the big day, watch your wedding countdown tick down day by day. Couples use Emoji Countdown to share progress, plan ahead, and savor the anticipation. Vacations & Trips Counting days until your next holiday, whether it’s a beach trip, a summer break, or a long weekend? Pair the trip with an emoji and feel the excitement build every time you glance at your phone. Retirement & Life Milestones Counting down to retirement, your last day of work, a house move, or a new chapter? Big life changes deserve their own widget. Pin them to your Home Screen and reclaim a little anticipation. Daily Reminders Use Emoji Countdown as a visual reminder for deadlines, fitness goals, exam dates, and weekly recurring events. Your countdown list works like a calendar, only easier to glance at and harder to forget. FEATURES • Free Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets so you can see every countdown at a glance, no subscription required • Apple Watch app for checking countdowns from your wrist • Calendar import: one tap pulls birthdays, holidays, and deadlines straight from your iOS Calendar • Any emoji, any color, so every countdown matches the moment it represents • Widget customization with colors, gradients, blur effects, borders, and themes so every widget looks exactly the way you want • Repeating events: set a birthday or holiday once and it rolls over automatically each year • Dark Mode support • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch • No ads, no clutter, just your countdowns FAQ Is Emoji Countdown free? Yes. Free to download, and the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets are included. Can I make a wedding, birthday, or holiday countdown? Yes. Emoji Countdown works for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, Christmas, Halloween, vacations, retirement, and anything else worth waiting for. Does it work on Apple Watch? Yes. The native Apple Watch app lets you check every countdown from your wrist. Can I add countdowns to my Home Screen and Lock Screen? Yes. Add a widget to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or StandBy display and your countdown stays visible at a glance. Can I import events from my calendar? Yes. One tap pulls birthdays, holidays, and deadlines straight from your iOS Calendar. Will my countdowns sync across my devices? Yes. iCloud keeps everything in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Can I customize how the widget looks? Yes. Pick any emoji and any color, then choose from gradients, blur effects, borders, and themes to make every widget look exactly the way you want. Do birthdays and holidays repeat every year? Yes. Set a recurring event once and Emoji Countdown rolls it over automatically each year. Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/42970297
Pinning
Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.
- Event countdown and count-up
- Calendar event syncing
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Event organization with notebooks
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- iCloud collaboration
- Recurring event notifications
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Pinning keeps the days that matter in view. Count down to trips, birthdays, deadlines and anniversaries, or count up from the moments you want to remember, all in one beautiful timeline. COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • See how long until any date, or how long it’s been • Show time in days, weeks, months or years, the way you think about it • Multi-day events, like trips and conferences, show while they’re happening • Repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on a schedule of your own BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES • See the age someone turns and the years you’re celebrating • Import birthdays from Contacts, with their photos • Supports the Chinese lunar calendar ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Group events into notebooks, add tags, and star the ones that matter most • Give every event a symbol, an emoji or your own image • Find anything in a moment with Quick Find SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE • Share a notebook with family and friends over iCloud and plan together • Share any event as a beautiful image NEVER MISS A DAY • Get reminded on the day, or days, weeks or a month before, at the time you choose • See your calendar events and reminders with due dates next to your countdowns • Rewind brings back what happened a month or a year ago today ALWAYS AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Add an event right from Control Center • Siri and Shortcuts support • Apple Watch app with complications • A native Mac app EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your events sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. There’s no account to create, and your events stay in your iCloud. PINNING PRO Try everything free for 7 days. After that, the free plan keeps 7 events. Pinning Pro unlocks: • Unlimited events • Calendars in your timeline • Scheduled reminders • Importing birthdays from Contacts One purchase works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life, each with or without Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://pinning.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pinning at 75% against Countdown Widget with Emoji's 59%. Pinning also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and device support (5 vs 3). Countdown Widget with Emoji's advantage is ratings volume (341 vs 51). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Widget with Emoji sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pinning holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget with Emoji has 341 ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Countdown Widget with Emoji's written reviews are positive against 75% of Pinning's.
Countdown Widget with Emoji ships an update every 6 weeks, Pinning every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget with Emoji | Pinning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (341 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 341 — better | 51 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lasmit TLB Ltd | Anybox LTD |
Customer experience
Countdown Widget with Emoji
Pinning
Bugs and requests
Countdown Widget with Emoji
Reported bugs
25 issues- Glitchy emoji selection
- Contact form not sending
- Doesn't work on Apple Watch SE 2
- Icon selection not appearing until re-opened
- Widgets not supported (claimed)
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- All dates disappeared
- Error messages with calendar sync
- Bug fix for iOS 17 calendar permission API changes
- Adding dates is difficult, keeps popping back
- Crashes when adding new entry
- Emojis not being transferred
- Widget data incorrect
- Cannot open on Apple Watch
- New dates not showing on Apple Watch app
- Cannot add new reminder
- Cannot add event from calendar
- Widget doesn't always update with system settings
- Widget stopped showing anything after countdown ended
- Widget is a blank box
- App not working anymore since update
- Edger not complying with dark/light mode switch
- Cannot remove added dates once they have passed
- Title not showing on widget
- Cannot set time for events
- App persists in flipping to September when trying to select January
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to hide menu bar
- Menu bar visually aligns with events
- Insert own photos instead of Apple icons
- Section for past events
- Make more features free
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- Add Russian language support
- Ability to add recurring dates
- Notifications when countdown is completed
- Allow choosing past dates to show days since
- Type emoji directly to choose
- Option to add a title to events
- Ability to pay for pro once instead of subscription
- Create a small widget for a specific countdown
Pinning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget with Emoji
- Pro Club - Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Club - Annual7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Lifetime - No subscription$14.99
Pinning
- Monthly$1.491 Month
- Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
Questions
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