Comparison

MarkDays vs Christmas Countdown VIP

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

Head to head
About

MarkDays

This tool helps you remember and count down to significant life events like anniversaries, birthdays, and important schedules. Receive timely reminders so you never miss a special occasion. Track both past and future important dates.

Highlights
  • Mark important life days
  • Count down to events
  • Track past events
  • Timely reminders
  • Anniversary tracking
  • Birthday reminders
Features
Read full description

Markdays is a small, focused tool for remembering the days that matter. Mark a birthday, an anniversary, an exam, a first meeting, or any date you do not want to lose. When the day comes, a timely reminder helps you notice it—not after it has already passed. For example: How many days until a birthday? How many days until the exam? How many days until the next wedding anniversary? How many days has the baby been in the world? How many days have we known each other? Every important day is worth keeping. DAYS REMAINING AND DAYS PASSED See how many days remain until the next marked day, or how many days have already passed. The list is sorted by closeness, so today, upcoming, and past events are easy to tell apart. GREGORIAN AND LUNAR CALENDARS Create an event on the Gregorian calendar or the Chinese lunar calendar. Lunar birthdays and traditional festivals can repeat on the calendar you actually use. In non-Chinese languages you can also choose a second calendar, such as Buddhist, Islamic, Hebrew, or Japanese. REPEAT AND ALERTS Repeat never, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Alerts can fire at the event time, or 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 1 day, 2 days, or 1 week before. Add a second alert, and snooze for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour. COLOR AND ORDER Give each day a color so the important, the gentle, and the urgent are easy to spot. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small, medium, and large widgets can show the nearest event, the next upcoming event, the newest event, or one event you choose. Pin a favorite day to the widget and see the countdown whenever you glance at the Home Screen. APPLE WATCH Check your marked days, remaining or elapsed days, and dates from your wrist. ICLOUD SYNC The main app stores your events with iCloud, so they stay in sync across your devices. Widgets read the same shared data. Change phones or use more than one device—the days you marked are still there. TIME ZONE Follow the system time zone, or pick one yourself, so the day count stays accurate when you travel. The trial version can create 5 events. Upgrade to Professional to add more. We would love for you to try Markdays, and we welcome your feedback. Your support is what keeps us improving.

About

Christmas Countdown VIP

Features
Read full description

With this application you can see the time until Christmas in days, hours, minutes and seconds.

Screenshots

MarkDays3 screens
Christmas Countdown VIP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Christmas Countdown VIP at none against MarkDays's 1. Christmas Countdown VIP also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 70 months). MarkDays's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. MarkDays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Christmas Countdown VIP asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, Christmas Countdown VIP daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MarkDays versus Christmas Countdown VIP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkDaysChristmas Countdown VIP
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 70 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer昊罡 姚Edwin Mejia

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MarkDays

One-time1
  • Unlock MarkedDays Professional$4.99
None

Christmas Countdown VIP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MarkDays free?
MarkDays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Christmas Countdown VIP free?
Christmas Countdown VIP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MarkDays or Christmas Countdown VIP have ads?
Neither MarkDays nor Christmas Countdown VIP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MarkDays or Christmas Countdown VIP?
MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, and Christmas Countdown VIP daily. Most recently, MarkDays was updated on November 3, 2026 and Christmas Countdown VIP on November 4, 2026.

Other comparisons