Countdown@ vs Soldier's Countdown
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
Soldier's Countdown
This app helps military personnel track the time until they return home. It allows users to set their return date and see the countdown in months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Users can also add a photo and receive daily notification reminders.
- Countdown to return home
- Track months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds
- Calculate service completion percentage
- Add personal photo
- Daily notification reminders
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Countdown for Soldiers • Add a Photo • Notification reminders every day • Count the months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds to return home Set the date you're returning home and the app will immediately calculate the months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds until the big day Set the date you've started your service and the app immediately calculates the percentage left Select a photo of yours from the camera roll Enable Notifications and get alerts to check it out every day
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Soldier's Countdown at 100% against Countdown@'s 37%. Soldier's Countdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Countdown@'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (39K vs 57). 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. Soldier's Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Soldier's Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 57, 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 100% of Soldier's Countdown's.
Countdown@ ships an update every 5 days, Soldier's Countdown every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown@ | Soldier's Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (39K ratings) | 5.0 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 57 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 5 months |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd | Spyridon Bousios |
Customer experience
Countdown@
Soldier's Countdown
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
Soldier's Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Soldier's Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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