Neat Countdowns vs Countdown ∙
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 ∙
This app helps you remember and track important life events. It allows for unlimited event creation, custom themes, and detailed countdowns. Receive timely notifications to stay organized and focused on what matters.
- Unlimited event creation
- Customizable themes
- Detailed countdowns (years to seconds)
- Event tracking (past and future)
- Scheduled notifications
- Intuitive interface
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The Best Countdown App! Countdown ∙ app is used to remind the important events that means a lot in your life. Countdown ∙ app can remember all your events, notify you when you want to be reminded and track your time in a very intuitive manner. So, you can focus on what’s important to you and plan accordingly. # Key Features ◆ Create an infinite number of events. ◆ Customise with unlimited themes. ◆ Countdown the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds until your events. ◆ Keep track of the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds since your events. ◆ Schedule notifications to alert you hours, days, weeks, months or years before or after your events.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Neat Countdowns at none against Countdown ∙'s 1. Neat Countdowns also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 29 months). Countdown ∙'s advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neat Countdowns asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Neat Countdowns against 4.7 for Countdown ∙. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 84 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Neat Countdowns's written reviews are positive against 50% of Countdown ∙'s.
Neat Countdowns ships an update every 3 months, Countdown ∙ every 29 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Neat Countdowns | Countdown ∙ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (61 ratings) — better | 4.7 (84 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 29 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emilio Pelaez | Nilu Technologies |
Customer experience
Neat Countdowns
Countdown ∙
In-app purchases
Neat Countdowns
No in-app purchases
Countdown ∙
- Remove Ads$3.99
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