Smart Countdown vs Pagecrisp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Countdown
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Entertainment event, meetings, chores. Set your smart reminders in 1 simple step. Smart Countdown will take care of the rest and remind you at smart intervals up until the start of the event. Never miss another online event, or a place to be or a person to see. Set it once, Smart Countdown will properly let you know. Don't know the exact date? Add them as To Be Determined and update them later once you do.
Pagecrisp
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Pagecrisp turns paper, PDFs and photos into clean, searchable PDFs on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no subscription, no watermark, no uploads. NEW IN 4.0 โข Import PDFs and photos from Files and Photos. Imported pages go through the same on-device text recognition (OCR), naming and image-mode steps as a camera scan. โข Real paper sizes. PDFs now use US Letter or A4 (chosen automatically by region), US Legal, or Fit to scan, with landscape pages for wide scans. Earlier versions sized each page from the scan's pixels, which made pages print far too large. โข Smaller files. Choose Best, Balanced (up to 200 dpi) or Small file (up to 120 dpi) for new scans, or export a copy of any document with a different paper size and quality. The export shows the real file size. โข Library backup. Save every document, page, recognized text and tag to one file and restore it later. Restoring adds documents and skips ones already in your library. โข Complete searchable text after page edits, merges and signatures. โข A new tab bar with Library, Search, Packets and Settings, and larger text support. SCAN AND RECOGNIZE Apple's document camera finds page edges and corrects perspective. Text recognition runs on the device with Apple Vision. Recognized text is embedded as an invisible layer, so you can search and copy it in PDF readers, and it powers full-text search inside the app. ORGANIZE AND EDIT Tags, sorting and merging. Reorder or delete pages, sign a page, and black out sensitive text. Capture both sides of an ID card on one page, or save a business card to Contacts (only when you tap Add). DOCUMENT PACKETS Combine saved PDFs into a separate packet with a cover, a linked contents page and a bookmark for each section. Up to 16 documents, 200 source pages and 100 MB combined. Image-only pages do not gain OCR from packet assembly. EXPORT AND READ Share a PDF named after your document, export recognized text as .txt, .md or .rtf, hear it read aloud with your device's voices, and see word counts and key sentences picked on the device. WHAT TO KNOW Recognition quality depends on the scan, so check important text. The document camera needs a device camera; importing works without one. Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked before import. Documents live in the app's private storage, so keep a backup file if you want a copy outside the app. One purchase. No account, no ads, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart Countdown at Free against Pagecrisp's $0.99. Pagecrisp's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Smart Countdown is free to download; Pagecrisp costs $0.99 up front. Smart Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pagecrisp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart Countdown ships an update every 5 months, Pagecrisp every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Countdown | Pagecrisp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free โ better | $0.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karim Azar | Robert Corbin |
In-app purchases
Smart Countdown
- Premium$2.99
Pagecrisp
No in-app purchases
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