Comparison

CountDown Message vs Clicks Keyboard

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

Head to head
About

CountDown Message

Easily share countdown timers for special events directly within iMessage. Keep friends and family updated on the remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds until your next big occasion.

Highlights
  • Share countdown timers in iMessage
  • Count down to specific dates and times
  • Display days, hours, minutes, and seconds
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Fun way to track events
Features
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Use the app to share your countdown timer in iMessage. This way you can count down to an upcoming event with your friends and family. Most countdown apps are too complex for a simple task like this. We want to keep it simple. It's as simple as sending a normal message. It's the most fun way to count down to a specific date. Getting married? Going on holiday? Special sport event coming up? Download the app and send your first countdown message! The live message shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds left until the event. You can enter a specific date and time to count down to.

About

Clicks Keyboard

Enhance your typing with advanced keyboard controls. Customize backlight, shift key behavior, and access to numbers and symbols. Optimize your typing experience with features like soft return, cursor mode, and firmware updates.

Highlights
  • Keyboard backlight control
  • Caps lock and shift lock customization
  • Alt lock for numbers and symbols
  • Soft return for line breaks
  • Cursor mode with WASD/IKJL
  • Customizable currency symbol
  • Over-the-air firmware updates
Features
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The Clicks app unlocks new features for your keyboard. Toggle your keyboard backlight between 'automatic' and off. Use this feature to check the status of your backlight and reset it to automatic mode if it's been accidentally disabled through the keyboard shortcut. Caps lock - Control the behaviour of the shift key. When turned on, pressing the shift key once makes the next charater a capital letter. Double clicking the shift key enables shift lock. When disabled, you must press and hold shift to get a captial letter. Alt lock - Control the behaviour of the '123' key. When turned on, pressing the '123' key once makes the next typed character a number of symbol. Double clicking the shift key enables number lock - (great for typing phone numbers of long number strings!). When disabled, you must press and hold '123' to get numbers and symbols. Soft return - Choose between using the return to add a carriage return (soft return) or send a message (hard return). Clicks key customization - Decide whether you want the Clicks key to function as Tab or Control Cursor mode - Enable cursor mode to use WASD and IJKL as directional cursor keys Currency symbol - Customize your currency symbol Create or log in to your Clicks Keyboard account to get updated about the latest features coming to your Clicks Keyboard Update your keyboard firmware over the air to optimize the typing experience. Learn and explore your Clicks keyboard with access to tips and how-to's. * Certain features and functionality are dependant on your Clicks model.

Screenshots

CountDown Message3 screens
Clicks Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clicks Keyboard at Free against CountDown Message's $0.99. Clicks Keyboard also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.1) and review sentiment (31% vs 3%). CountDown Message's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Clicks Keyboard is free to download; CountDown Message costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clicks Keyboard holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 56 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of CountDown Message's written reviews are positive against 31% of Clicks Keyboard's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CountDown Message versus Clicks Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountDown MessageClicks Keyboard
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating1.1 (30 ratings)3.0 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews3.4% of reviews31.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3056 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFanatic DevelopmentClicks Technology Ltd

Customer experience

CountDown Message

All ratings30 ratings
Positive3.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative96.7%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive3.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative96.6%

Clicks Keyboard

All ratings56 ratings
Positive44.6%
Neutral8.9%
Negative46.4%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive31.1%
Neutral12.2%
Negative56.8%

In-app purchases

None

CountDown Message

No in-app purchases

None

Clicks Keyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CountDown Message free?
CountDown Message costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clicks Keyboard free?
Clicks Keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CountDown Message or Clicks Keyboard?
Clicks Keyboard is rated higher. CountDown Message averages 1.1 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Clicks Keyboard averages 3.0 from 56 ratings.
Do CountDown Message or Clicks Keyboard have ads?
Neither CountDown Message nor Clicks Keyboard shows ads.

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