Countdown@ vs School Days Counter & 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
School Days Counter & Widget
Track days until important school events like vacations, assignment deadlines, and holidays. Offers customizable countdowns, widgets for quick viewing, and Apple Watch support. Premium features include exclusion lists and calendar import.
- Customizable countdowns/count-ups
- Home & Lock Screen Widgets
- Apple Watch App & Complications
- iCloud Sync
- Sharing Options
- Exclusion Lists (Premium)
- Calendar Import (Premium)
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Get a clear view of the days ticking down to your next big assignment, vacation, or project deadline with School Days! This sleek app is tailored for students who anticipate their free time or count days until important school-related events. Key Features: ◆ Customizable Countdowns Create multiple countdowns (or count-ups!) for vacations, assignment deadlines, or public holidays ◆ School Schedules Customize to your school schedule ◆ Exclusion Lists Filtering out off days and holidays for a precise countdown (requires premium) ◆ Calendar Import Import holidays from your existing calendars (requires premium) ◆ Home & Lock Screen Widgets Stay updated with a quick glance, no need to open the app ◆ Apple Watch App & Complications Quickly check School Days right on your wrist ◆ iCloud Sync Seamlessly sync countdowns across your devices ◆ Sharing Options Share your countdowns with classmates or on social media with a tap Perfect for anyone needing a visual reminder and tracker for the school days left until their well-deserved break or important school events.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: School Days Counter & Widget at none against Countdown@'s shown. Countdown@'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (39K vs 113). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 School Days Counter & Widget 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 4.8 for School Days Counter & Widget. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 113, 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 43% of School Days Counter & Widget's.
Countdown@ ships an update every 5 days, School Days Counter & Widget monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown@ | School Days Counter & Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (39K ratings) | 4.8 (113 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 113 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| 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 | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd | Shayes Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Countdown@
School Days Counter & 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
School Days Counter & Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
School Days Counter & Widget
- Premium$1.99
Questions
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