Meal Planning vs Countdown Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meal Planning
Track your daily food intake with detailed entries, including photos and reviews. Plan your meals up to four weeks in advance and access a year's worth of your eating history. Export your calendar easily.
- Daily food logging
- Add photos to entries
- Critical daily review
- Meal planning up to 4 weeks
- 1-year eating history
- Calendar export
- Offline functionality
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Every day, write down everything you eat, you can also add a photo, and do a little critical review of your day. It is composed of 5 parts: Breakfast Morning snack Lunch Afternoon snack Having dinner You can find the history of all your registration for 1 year and you can even plan your meals for the next 4 weeks. It is possible to export your calendar by photo gallery saving or email. No need for internet connection, no advertising, everything is saved on your phone.
Countdown Buddy
Create personalized countdown and count-up widgets for your home and lock screens. Visually track important dates like birthdays, vacations, or deadlines with custom designs, colors, and photos. Stay motivated and make waiting more exciting.
- Personalized countdown widgets
- Count-up widgets
- Home screen and lock screen support
- Customizable designs
- Background color options
- Photo integration
- Font selection
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EVERYTHING YOU ARE WAITING FOR - IN A WIDGET Design your own personalized countdown or count-up widgets for your home screen & lock screen. Countdown Widget is a super fun way to track the days until a momentous occasion such as: - Your birthday, or another special someone’s birthday - A long-awaited vacation - Back to school - Upcoming elections - A returning season of your favorite TV series - A favorite yearly tech event - A new video game is up for preorder Or any other future event! Countdown Widget makes waiting for something exciting even more thrilling by giving you a cool and colorful visual reminder on your home screen. Use it to count down to a big event, to mark the end of something less fun, or to keep track of work deadlines (weekend exclusion is now possible!) - it's a super fun way to stay on top of things! COUNT UP Create a count-up widget to mark a significant moment in time and track the duration since it occurred. CREATE A PERSONALIZED COUNTDOWN WIDGET Create a Widget with your custom design in a matter of seconds. You can choose from 11 Countdown styles (we are already working on more) and make them your own by adding your personal touch: - Change background colors. - Use photos from your phone Photo Library or from our preset gallery. - Choose from a curated list of fonts that go well with each specific style. - Each Widget you make will automatically be available in small or medium sizes. - Change the design anytime later. WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK As a small team, we are excited to have our first app on the App Store. We value your feedback and would love to hear from you if you have any questions, suggestions, or anything else you think we should know. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us at - hi@taptics.co. Note: The Free version of the app includes one countdown widget with the basic design.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planning at none against Countdown Buddy's 1. Meal Planning also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Countdown Buddy's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (25K vs 6). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meal Planning asks for nothing beyond the download.
Meal Planning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Buddy has 25K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Meal Planning's written reviews are positive against 68% of Countdown Buddy's.
Meal Planning ships an update every 15 months, Countdown Buddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meal Planning | Countdown Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.6 (25K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 67.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 25K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Kermarec | Taptics Ltd. |
Customer experience
Meal Planning
Countdown Buddy
Bugs and requests
Meal Planning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown Buddy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets disappearing or not working after updates
- Countdown timers not updating correctly
- Inability to add new widgets or countdowns
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to display multiple countdowns at once
- Implement automatic countdown reset/repeat functionality
- Allow custom countdown units (e.g., weeks, business days)
- Improve widget handling and update reliability
In-app purchases
Meal Planning
No in-app purchases
Countdown Buddy
- Countdown +$3.59
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