Countdown vs Eventime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track important dates with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Set reminders, personalize themes and backgrounds, and share your progress with friends. Never miss a special occasion again.
- Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
- Customizable themes and backgrounds
- Event reminders and notifications
- Drag-and-drop timer placement
- Save and share countdowns
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Count down the days to upcoming events! Create beautiful countdowns, customize the theme and background, and share with your friends on social media. The app is completely free and offers unlimited countdowns and count-ups! Countdown makes it easy to track the dates that matter to you – whether it be your birthday, graduation, anniversary, wedding, retirement, or something entirely else. At any point in time, you can open the app to see the number of days that are left until (or have passed since) your event. You can also turn on notifications, so that when the end date is approaching you get reminders sent to your device. The app lets you personalize each countdown with custom themes and backgrounds. You may also move the countdown timer around the screen. If you are particularly excited about a countdown, you can easily save it to your Photo Library and share it with your friends. We are continuously working to add new exciting functionality to the app. At the moment, the key features of the app are the following. • Create an unlimited number of countdowns and count-ups. • Choose between light or dark theme for each countdown timer. • Pick background images from your Photo Library. • Drag the countdown timer to place it wherever you want on the screen. • Hide the toolbar to leave more space to your countdown. • Count down to a specific time of the target date. • Receive reminders when upcoming events are approaching. • Save countdowns to your Photo Library without any UI or watermarks. We would love to hear what you think of the app. Please take a moment and write us a review!
Eventime
Easily track all your important events, from parties and concerts to movie releases and holidays. Never miss an upcoming event you're looking forward to with this intuitive countdown tracker.
- Event countdown tracking
- Explore upcoming events
- Categorized event browsing
- Popular event discovery
- Customizable event types
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Never miss what you're waiting for. Eventime puts every upcoming release and event in one timeline: movies, TV shows, albums, video games, concerts, sports and holidays. Save the ones you care about and watch the countdown tick down. Explore • Discover what's coming next, by category and by your region • Save any event with one tap Your own events • Add birthdays, trips, parties or anything else, with your own photo and colours Stay in the loop • Reminders before the big day • Live countdowns • Home Screen widgets for a single event or your favourites Make it yours • Six colour themes with matching app icons • Available in 12 languages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown at none against Eventime's 1. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (4.1K vs 267) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Eventime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 4.1K ratings behind it against 267, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 46% of Eventime's.
Countdown ships an update every 3 weeks, Eventime every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Eventime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4.1K ratings) — better | 4.4 (267 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K — better | 267 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SCRL AB | Daniel Cruanes Gonzalez |
Customer experience
Countdown
Eventime
User reviews
Countdown
From 4.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Simple and intuitive
- 💡 Customizable backgrounds
- 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🐛 Countdown not always accurate
- 🔍 Limited functionality
- 🔢 Maximum 999 days countdown
- 🔄 Need to manually refresh to update countdown
Eventime
From 267 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Customizable widget with personal photos
- ⭐ Simple and intuitive user interface
- 🔄 Automatic event renewal feature
- 🎯 Multiple event tracking capability
- 🌈 Color customization options
Room to improve
- 🐛 Date picker broken/non-functional
- 🐛 Widget displays blank or blue screen
- 🐛 Widget fails after iOS updates
- 🐛 Difficulty editing existing events
- 🐛 Widget freezes and doesn't update
Bugs and requests
Countdown
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown shows wrong number of days
- App crashes on some devices
- Countdown not syncing across devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add widget support
- Provide countdown in years, months, days format
- Allow countdown over 999 days
- Add automatic countdown updates
Eventime
Reported bugs
15 issues- Date picker unresponsive when creating/editing events
- Widget displays blank or blue screen after iOS updates
- Widget fails to update after event passes
- Widget shows incorrect countdown numbers
- Widget freezes intermittently
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- App freezes when opening
- Save button requires clicking event name field first
- Picture flashing between blue screen and actual image
- Widget doesn't load on large widget size
- Unable to add widget to home screen
- Widget not clickable/unresponsive to taps
- App crashes with 5+ events tracked
- Image background doesn't update on home screen
- Font color requires setting twice to apply
- App logo change option non-functional
Requested features
16 requests- Display countdown in days only (no months/years)
- iCloud synchronization across devices
- Bi-weekly and custom recurring intervals
- Widget cycling through multiple events
- Days since event tracking
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- Ability to hide event title on widget
- Automatic light/dark mode for widgets
- Auto-advance to next event after countdown ends
- Calendar integration for importing events
- Event date display in app
- Alternative font options
- Event grouping and tagging by category
- Widget sharing with friends
- Customizable countdown format options
- Image crop positioning control
- Digital clock design option
In-app purchases
Countdown
No in-app purchases
Eventime
- Eventime Pro$4.99
Questions
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