Comparison

Piggy Goals vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Piggy Goals

This app helps you save money through a virtual piggy bank or by setting custom savings goals. Track your progress with visual aids and receive helpful reminders to stay on track with your financial objectives.

Highlights
  • Virtual piggy bank for deposits and withdrawals
  • Set daily, weekly, or monthly savings goals
  • Progress visualization with graphs and animations
  • Push notifications and reminders
  • Offline functionality
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Piggy Goals: Money Saving is an app designed to motivate you and help you save money, by either having a piggy bank where you can save cash any time you want, or create daily, weekly, or monthly goals. The app will track your progress and remind you with push notifications about your money saving objectives, and the coolest feature is that the app is completely FREE! The app includes two different modes that will help you save some cash: 1. Piggy Bank Mode: Deposit or withdraw money from your piggy bank any time you’d like and keep a history of all your transactions. 2. Piggy Goal Mode: Planning on buying something? Create a goal and set the amount you want to raise with the time frame you decide: daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Then just let our app track and help you reach your target budget. Full Feature List: • Visualize your progress with graphs and animations • Notifications and reminders are included so you never forget to save up money • Create as many goals as you need • The app is multi-language • No internet connection is required to use the app, and it’s designed to work for every device with any software version • We made it so fast and simple to use that you’ll be able to start saving money in a matter of seconds! • We will constantly update our App to support a wider range of features Download Now! Piggy Goals: Money Savings App for FREE in App Store!

About

Countdown

Visually track personal goals, habits, and important dates with customizable widgets. Supports counting up and down, recurring events, and synchronization across Apple devices. Offers detailed progress visualization and notifications to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Apple Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Detailed progress visualization dashboard
  • Customizable colors, icons, and fonts
  • Notifications for key dates and streaks
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Piggy Goals4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against Piggy Goals's shown. Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). Piggy Goals's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Piggy Goals sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Piggy Goals against 4.7 for Countdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.9K and 3.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Piggy Goals's written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piggy Goals ships an update every 5 months, Countdown every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Piggy Goals versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiggy GoalsCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.9K ratings)4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.7% of reviews82.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.9K3.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRome Rock LLCkeinois OU

Customer experience

Piggy Goals

All ratings2,901 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews166 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral6.6%
Negative18.7%

Countdown

All ratings3,140 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews635 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.3%

User reviews

Piggy Goals

From 2.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🐷 Cute pig animation
  • 💰 Helpful for saving money
  • 🆓 Free app with optional donation
  • 📈 Tracks savings progress

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs with date/time settings
  • 💸 Ads and premium features
  • 🔢 Can't withdraw in cents
  • 🔄 Can't edit existing savings goals

Countdown

From 3.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Handy and useful app
  • 🚀 Helpful for tracking goals and projects
  • 💡 Great customization options
  • 👍 Sleek and visually appealing design
  • 👍 Seamless integration with Apple ecosystem

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited functionality in free version
  • 💰 Paid features can be expensive for some users
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches reported
  • 🔒 Restricted customization options without paying

Bugs and requests

Piggy Goals

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Glitchy date/time picker
  • Savings data loss when switching devices
  • Ads not removed despite premium purchase

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add multiple currencies
  • Ability to edit/delete savings entries
  • Sync data across devices
  • Customizable pig outfits
  • Notifications for savings goals

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Piggy Goals

One-time3
  • Pro Features By Tip 1$2.99
  • Pro Features By Tip 2$4.99
  • Pro Features By Tip 3$6.99
14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Piggy Goals free?
Piggy Goals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Piggy Goals or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. Piggy Goals averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.9K ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Piggy Goals or Countdown have ads?
Piggy Goals shows ads; Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Piggy Goals or Countdown?
Piggy Goals ships an update every 5 months, and Countdown every 4 days. Most recently, Piggy Goals was updated on October 29, 2026 and Countdown on October 30, 2026.

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