Comparison

Countdown to Anything! vs pDoom

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

Head to head
About

Countdown to Anything!

Easily track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Choose from a vast library of icons or create your own to personalize your countdowns for any occasion, from birthdays to holidays. Get notifications and share your progress with friends.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns to any date/time
  • Customizable with hundreds of icons
  • Repeating countdowns (yearly, weekly)
  • Tagging for organization
  • End countdown notifications
  • Shareable countdowns
  • Add notes to countdowns
Features
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Count down to anything - birthdays, vacations, weddings, baby due dates and more - with no ads! FEATURES • Create countdowns to any future date and time, or even countups from a past event • Customise your countdowns with hundreds of cute icons for birthdays, vacations, weddings, baby due dates and lots more • Add a widget to your home screen showing your favourite countdown • Get notifications when your countdowns end • Share your countdowns privately with your friends, even if they don't have the app • Create repeating countdowns, such as yearly countdowns for a birthday, or even a weekly countdown to Friday evening! • Got lots of countdowns? Add custom tags to them so you can see similar countdowns at once. Try creating a "Birthdays" tag! • Add notes to your countdowns, like birthday present ideas, or travel details • No ads! I really don't like ads in apps, so there are no ads and no data sharing at all in Countdown to Anything PREMIUM FEATURES • More widgets - add as many as you want, plus a widget showing a list of your next countdowns • 240+ extra icons for every occasion • Unlimited colours, plus a hex picker for when you need it to be just right • Get reminder notifications before a countdown ends, not just when it ends • Extra layout options, custom time units, and more Premium is available as a one-time lifetime purchase or a yearly subscription. You can try Premium free for 7 days to see if you like it. BUILT-IN COUNTDOWNS Countdown to Anything also has a huge selection of built-in countdowns so you can easily count down to major events. Built-in events include holidays like New Year's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Easter Sunday, Halloween, St Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, and Chuseok, as well as sporting events including the World Cup and Olympics. ICONS There are icons for every occasion: vacations (including holidays, flights and cruises), concerts and festivals, movie and game releases, exams, anniversaries, parties, retirement, moving house, and hundreds more. In the unlikely event you can't find what you're looking for, contact me from the Settings screen in the app and I'll do my best to add a new icon for you! ABOUT ME Hi! I'm Gary, the developer behind Countdown to Anything. I handle the whole app myself, from development and design to support, bug fixes, and updates. I've built Countdown to Anything to be the kind of app I'd want to use: simple, useful and private. I hope you like it! ABOUT PURCHASES Premium is an optional upgrade, available as an annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Annual subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is tuned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. You can manage your subscription on the Premium screen in the app, or in your iPhone's Settings app. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

pDoom

This app offers a daily AI-generated thought experiment based on news headlines. It provides both pessimistic and optimistic readings of the day's events, presented with percentages, commentary, and pixel art. Users can explore past readings and track trends.

Highlights
  • Daily AI-generated pessimistic and optimistic news readings
  • Original pixel art accompanying daily readings
  • Historical view of past readings
  • Trend charts to track AI interpretation shifts
  • Shareable daily summary cards
  • Minimalist dark interface
Features
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What if an AI read today's headlines and told you how the world is doing? pDoom is a daily AI-generated thought experiment. Each morning, an automated system scans headlines from major news outlets and generates two readings: pDoom (a pessimistic lens on the day's events) and pDawn (an optimistic lens). The result is a unique daily snapshot expressed through percentages, commentary, and original pixel art. Browse today's reading, explore past days, and track how the AI's interpretation shifts over time with built-in trend charts. FEATURES Daily doom and dawn readings with AI-generated pixel art History view to browse past readings Trend charts showing how readings shift over time Shareable daily cards Dark, minimal interface IMPORTANT: The readings are AI-generated interpretations of news headline sentiment. They are not predictions, scientific measurements, or risk assessments. pDoom is designed to spark conversation and reflection, not to provide factual analysis. No accounts. No tracking. Just a daily thought experiment.

Screenshots

Countdown to Anything!4 screens
pDoom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: pDoom at none against Countdown to Anything!'s 2. pDoom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and device support (3 vs 1). Countdown to Anything!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (571 vs 1). On price 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. Countdown to Anything! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. pDoom asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

pDoom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown to Anything! has 571 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Countdown to Anything! versus pDoom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown to Anything!pDoom
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (571 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings571 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJupliDAMON ELI DEWAIDE

Customer experience

Countdown to Anything!

All ratings571 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews376 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%

pDoom

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Countdown to Anything!

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Countdowns randomly disappearing
  • App crashing on launch for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to subtract weekends from countdowns
  • Allow customizing countdown format (days vs weeks)
  • Provide more free icons and color options
  • Make widgets available in free version
  • Add ability to set reminders for countdowns

pDoom

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Countdown to Anything!

Subscriptions1
  • Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$9.99
None

pDoom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown to Anything! free?
Countdown to Anything! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is pDoom free?
pDoom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown to Anything! or pDoom?
pDoom is rated higher. Countdown to Anything! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 571 ratings, while pDoom averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown to Anything! or pDoom have ads?
pDoom shows ads; Countdown to Anything! does not.

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