Countdown@ vs Vacation Countdown Widget
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
Vacation Countdown Widget
This app helps you keep track of important upcoming events like birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Create visually appealing countdowns with custom colors and images, and display them directly on your home screen using widgets. Never miss a special occasion again.
- Event countdown creation
- Customizable colors
- Premium stock images
- User-uploaded images
- iOS 14 Widgets support
- Dark mode support
- Unlimited event creation
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CountDown reminds you your most precious events. It is free, easy to use, and you really will not miss your anniversary, your loved one’s birthday and many more. Eager to know how much time do you have for preparations? Christmas, Thanksgiving, Vacation, Graduation, Concert, Wedding or a Trip will not arrive until you are not fully prepared! Create colorful CountDowns, pick the best color for the occasion. Add high quality premium stock image or you can also add your own too! Best thing is, all the images are free! Thanks to Widgets introduced in iOS 14, you can pin your most important events. CountDown supports Dark mode. With CountDown you can create as many events as you like, so you won’t forget anything ever again! I’d like to hear your voice, if you have any feedback, question or suggestion, please contact me at csab.huszar@gmail.com! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.icloud.com/pages/0RE52SLqpvNVdqwmqGEFwHkWA#countdown%5Fprivacy%5Fpolicy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Vacation Countdown Widget at none against Countdown@'s shown. Vacation Countdown Widget also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Countdown@'s advantage is ratings volume (39K vs 101) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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 Vacation Countdown Widget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown@ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 101, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Countdown@'s written reviews are positive against 30% of Vacation Countdown Widget's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown@ | Vacation Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (39K ratings) — better | 4.4 (101 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 101 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd | Csaba Huszar |
Customer experience
Countdown@
Vacation Countdown Widget
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
Vacation Countdown Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Vacation Countdown Widget
- CountDown Premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
Questions
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