Comparison

MarkDays vs Countdown Cabinet

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
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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

Countdown Cabinet

Features
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Countdown Cabinet helps you keep important dates visible without creating an account. Create simple countdowns for birthdays, anniversaries, trips, exams, deadlines, paydays, payment milestones, retirement dates, document expirations, and custom events. Use date-only countdowns for long-term events, or turn on a target time when hours and minutes matter. Key features: - Countdown list for upcoming dates and deadlines - Categories with quick visual icons - Optional target time for same-day deadlines and appointments - Local reminders you choose per event - Home-screen widgets for selected events - Yearly repeat for birthdays and anniversaries - Search and category filters - JSON backup export/import - English and Korean language support Countdown Cabinet is local-first. Your event titles, notes, dates, and widget choices stay on your device. There is no account, no cloud sync, and no analytics. The free app may show a clearly labeled banner ad on the event list after you have events, but ads do not appear in event editing, settings, notifications, or widgets.

Screenshots

MarkDays3 screens
Countdown Cabinet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown Cabinet at none against MarkDays's 1. Countdown Cabinet also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 70 months). MarkDays's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price 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. Countdown Cabinet asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, Countdown Cabinet every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MarkDays versus Countdown Cabinet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkDaysCountdown Cabinet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 70 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer昊罡 姚HARRY KIM

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MarkDays

One-time1
  • Unlock MarkedDays Professional$4.99
None

Countdown Cabinet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MarkDays free?
MarkDays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Cabinet free?
Countdown Cabinet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MarkDays or Countdown Cabinet have ads?
Countdown Cabinet shows ads; MarkDays does not.
Which is updated more often, MarkDays or Countdown Cabinet?
MarkDays ships an update every 70 months, and Countdown Cabinet every 2 weeks. Most recently, MarkDays was updated on October 20, 2026 and Countdown Cabinet on October 9, 2026.

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