Comparison

Deadlines vs Countdown

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

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About

Deadlines

Organize your daily tasks with this modern to-do list manager. Create custom groups, assign priorities, and visualize deadlines. Upgrade for unlimited tasks, alerts, subtasks, and calendar integration.

Highlights
  • Custom task groups
  • Priority assignment
  • Deadline visualization
  • Incomplete task widgets
  • iCloud storage
  • Light and dark modes
  • Subtasks and alerts (Pro)
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Deadlines is a modern, productive task manager tool to help organize your daily list of jobs. You can create custom groups to separate your tasks however you like, such as by classes and projects. Boost your productivity with the following features: • Create custom groups for different types of tasks • Assign higher priorities to more important tasks • Visualize deadlines by day, priority, or group • See incomplete deadlines using widgets • Search for specific deadlines • Keyboard shortcuts for faster additions • Store deadlines in iCloud • No external login required Deadline has a modern and minimalistic interface with emphasis put on smooth animations that makes it enjoyable to use: • Light and dark mode support • Minimize deadline groups you don't need to see • Filter out completed tasks to see remaining tasks • See tasks grouped by week • Color code your groups for visual distinction Everyone can initially create three custom groups and ten different deadlines. Upgrading to Pro Mode unlocks several benefits: • Unlimited deadlines and groups • Set alerts for each deadline • Access to subtasks for each deadline • Push deadlines to calendar • Create repeatable deadlines Deadlines that are pushed to the calendar are automatically updated when you change the deadline. New deadlines can be automatically pushed to Calendar from Settings, as well as setting default alerts for all deadlines.

About

Countdown

Never miss an important date again. This app helps you track upcoming events like birthdays, anniversaries, and launches. Become a master of time with this simple yet powerful tool for managing your schedule.

Highlights
  • Event tracking
  • Deadline management
  • Schedule organization
  • Upcoming event reminders
  • Time management tool
Features
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Never again be unprepared for upcoming events. Be it birthdays, marathons, anniversaries, sports events, launches, parties etc. With this simple yet powerful app you will become the master of time. 1. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest humanist, put these words in General Kutuzov’s mouth. And, actually, it is a combination of two quotes. In book ten, the General says: But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all. Later, he repeats this idea in his thought: They must understand that we can only lose by taking the offensive. Patience and time are my warriors, my champions. By the way, check out more Leo Tolstoy’s quotes in Twitter @TolstoySays and find humanistic wisdom and daily insights. 2. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin. Probably, the most famous quote about time by Benjamin Franklin, a person known by his productivity and various talents. In his 84 years, he became not only a prominent politician and diplomat, but also an actor, musician, inventor, and satirist. As for his famous saying, it refers to the concept of opportunity cost. This means, each choice you make has its cost, and delays (as a choice to not take action) usually lead to decrease in output. actiTIME Track hours and analyze productivity trends with actiTIME to increase work efficiency and attain excellent results Try Free Time tracking 3. Time waits for no one. – Folklore. The earliest record of this phrase is dated 1225 – before English was shaped in the modern form. The origin is uncertain, so it’s considered to be a proverbial wisdom. It means that no man has enough power to stop time or to change its course. 4. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare. Better spend time waiting for the opportunity to take an action than miss the chance. In Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, the phrase is said by a character who suspects his wife’s infidelity, but in fact, it can be applied to any situation when you need to take a chance to change things. 5. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin. You can’t keep today’s hour for tomorrow – we all know that, but still tend to procrastinate. Benjamin Franklin warns that time is a scarce resource, and if it’s wasted, it cannot be recovered later. This is why mindful planning and work on productivity are so important. 6. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus. Ancient Greek philosophy is known by its combination of merely theoretical thoughts and practical approach. Theophrastus understood time as an accident of motion that cannot be stopped or reversed, and he said that waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. 7. Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles. Pericles, the influential ancient Greek statesman and general, was a rationalist and knew the value of time. His famous phrase was said as a warning for Tolmides, the young Athenian general who intended to invade Boeotia. Eventually Tolmides failed to listen to Pericles’ words, his army suffered a heavy defeat and he died in the battle. This quote is a warning against premature decisions and poor judgement caused by the lack of time. 8. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey. A quote by Stephen R. Covey, the author of the famous time management matrix. You can spend time on useful and useless things, but if you call it “investing”, you’ll definitely invest it in something that has value and importance for you. So choose your goals wisely so that time you spend on them becomes an investment, not an expense. 9. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince. 10. Punctuality is the thief of time. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Screenshots

Deadlines4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown at every 6 days against Deadlines's every 2 months. Countdown also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Deadlines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Deadlines's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deadlines ships an update every 2 months, Countdown every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Deadlines versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeadlinesCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrady SimonCreative Greenlight LLC

Customer experience

Deadlines

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Countdown

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Deadlines

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$1.99
1 purchases

Countdown

One-time1
  • Countdown Unlocked$1.99

Questions

Is Deadlines free?
Deadlines 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, Deadlines or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. Deadlines averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Countdown averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Deadlines or Countdown have ads?
Neither Deadlines nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deadlines or Countdown?
Deadlines ships an update every 2 months, and Countdown every 6 days. Most recently, Deadlines was updated on October 13, 2026 and Countdown on October 24, 2026.

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