Comparison

Countdown@ vs Dayseek

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countdown@

Easily track important upcoming events with customizable countdowns. View key dates with a widget and add notes or a diary to each event. The app also supports counting up from past events.

Highlights
  • Customizable event countdowns
  • Widget for important events
  • Count up from past events
  • Timeline with diary and notes
  • Multiple event types
Features
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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

About

Dayseek

Features
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Counting the Days? Watch Them Fill Instead! A number can count the days. It can't tell you how the waiting feels. The days ahead take on a shape that fills, warms, and closes in as they pass. No math. Just the day, getting closer. Dayseek turns every date you're waiting for into something worth looking at. Keep them together in one place, and give each one a face of its own. Some days call for quiet. Others call for loud. Find the one that fits, then make it a little more yours. However you dress it, every glance says the same thing. You're closer than you were. KEY FEATURES - Beautiful Designs: Pick the one that suits the day, then live with it - Visual Progress: It doesn't just change the number, it fills - Personalization: Adjust it to your taste - Repeating Events: Anniversaries return on their own, and the days since keep counting - Widgets: On the Home Screen, on the Lock Screen, or in StandBy through the night - iCloud Sync: Kept safe, and already there when you switch phones PERFECT FOR Anyone with a day they can't stop thinking about. Stop counting the days in your head. With Dayseek, the date you're waiting for becomes something you look forward to seeing, the time keeps itself while you get on with everything else, and none of it ever passes through a server of ours. Your Date. Your Design. Your Countdown.

Screenshots

Countdown@4 screens
Dayseek4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dayseek at none against Countdown@'s shown. Countdown@'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dayseek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown@ ships an update every 5 days, Dayseek every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdown@ versus Dayseek: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown@Dayseek
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (41K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings41K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB30 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperWuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltdyoungsoo jin

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

Dayseek

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown@

One-time1
  • Countdown Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Dayseek

One-time1
  • Dayseek Pro - Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Countdown@ free?
Countdown@ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dayseek free?
Dayseek is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown@ or Dayseek have ads?
Countdown@ shows ads; Dayseek does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown@ or Dayseek?
Countdown@ ships an update every 5 days, and Dayseek every 3 weeks. Most recently, Countdown@ was updated on November 4, 2026 and Dayseek on October 31, 2026.

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