Countdown@ vs Ticking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
Ticking
This utility app helps you visualize the duration of important moments and upcoming events. Track time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years with customizable countdowns and reminders.
- Visualize time durations
- Countdown to events
- Set reminders
- Track in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years
- Customizable displays
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Ticking is a time counting tool. It helps you visualize the duration of your memorable moment, or important upcoming events, in terms of second, minute, hour, day, week and year.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown@ at every 5 days against Ticking's monthly. Countdown@ also leads on ratings volume (39K vs 12). Ticking's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 37%) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ticking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Countdown@ against 4.7 for Ticking. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of Countdown@'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Ticking's.
Countdown@ ships an update every 5 days, Ticking monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown@ | Ticking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (39K ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd | Qian Kun zhu |
Customer experience
Countdown@
Ticking
Bugs and requests
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
Ticking
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Ticking
- Remove Ads$0.99
