Neat Countdowns vs Countdown Days
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Neat Countdowns
Create beautiful, simple countdowns for all your important life events. Share your countdowns with friends via a unique URL without requiring them to install the app. Customize your home screen widgets with multiple color and icon options.
- Create event countdowns
- Shareable countdown URLs
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Multiple widget color options
- Fun widget icon patterns
- Ad-free experience
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Neat Countdowns let's you keep track of all the important events in your life, a birthday, an upcoming trip, a movie release. Sharing is easier than ever, Neat Countdowns will generate a URL that your friends can use to see your countdown without needing to install the app! For widget lovers, Neat Countdowns lets you display your widgets on your home screen, with multiple color options, and fun icon patterns. Neat Countdowns is totally free to use forever. It has no ads, requires no subscriptions and has no limits or In App Purchases.
Countdown Days
Track important upcoming events and past anniversaries with this straightforward countdown application. It helps you visualize the time remaining until significant dates or the duration since memorable occasions.
- Event countdowns
- Past event tracking
- Beautifully simple interface
- Free to use
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Day Count is a free, beautifully simple event countdown app for the important days, dates, and events in your life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown Days at every 2 days against Neat Countdowns's every 3 months. Countdown Days also leads on ratings volume (347 vs 61) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Neat Countdowns against 4.8 for Countdown Days. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Days has 347 ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Neat Countdowns's written reviews are positive against 79% of Countdown Days's.
Neat Countdowns ships an update every 3 months, Countdown Days every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Neat Countdowns | Countdown Days |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (61 ratings) | 4.8 (347 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 79.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 347 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emilio Pelaez | Plutonium Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Neat Countdowns
Countdown Days
Bugs and requests
Neat Countdowns
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown Days
Reported bugs
2 issues- Date selection reverts to today's date
- App incorrectly calculates number of days remaining
Requested features
9 requests- Create widgets
- More emojis/icons
- Option to pick specific days (e.g., work week)
- Reoccurring events (biweekly, monthly, yearly)
- Notifications for event dates
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- Slightly larger digits for day count
- Password protection/Touch ID
- iCloud backup and sync
- Option to show weeks, months, and years in countdown
In-app purchases
Neat Countdowns
No in-app purchases
Countdown Days
No in-app purchases
Questions
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