Countdown@ vs TimeTime
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
TimeTime
This app helps visualize the passage of time with intuitive countdown timers. It's designed for simplicity, making it easy for children and adults to understand time progression for various activities, from meal times to workouts.
- Create, edit, and delete timers
- Customizable tile colors, icons, and names
- Multiple countdown face styles (cylinder, pie, ring)
- iCloud data synchronization across devices
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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# Motivation I was furious by my 3-year-old son's innocent look after my warning to take away his food if he can't finish it within 10 minutes, an hour and a half ago. There's gotta be a way to let him know that 10 minutes is not that long. TimeTime was born that night, out of a mixed feeling of anger and love. I use the app daily ever since because it is working like a charm. No yelling and screaming. He knows exactly what I am talking about. # Beyond Small Kids TimeTime is a simple countdown timer that tries to visualize time's elapsing in the most intuitive ways. Since its original target audience was a 3-year-old boy, simplicity is in the blood of the design. Over time, I found it is often useful to my older kids for various purposes where a clear grasp of the progression of time is needed. I used it in certain workout sessions. Seeing the progress straightaway really motivates me at tough times. # Features - Create, edit, delete timers, with customized tile colour, icon and name. - Customizable countdown faces (currently support 3 flavours: cylinder, pie and ring, more to come shortly, because it's fun). - all data are synced via iCloud, meaning all your personal preferences are synced across all your iOS devices. - we collect NOTHING. It's all yours. Hopefully, it can be helpful to you. Enjoy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TimeTime at 78% against Countdown@'s 37%. TimeTime also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Countdown@'s advantage is ratings volume (40K vs 5) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price 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@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TimeTime asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown@ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 40K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of Countdown@'s written reviews are positive against 78% of TimeTime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Countdown@ | TimeTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (40K ratings) — better | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd | Xiaoxing Hu |
Customer experience
Countdown@
TimeTime
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
TimeTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
TimeTime
No in-app purchases









